Meta fires undisclosed numbers of risk organization employees while replacing human privacy compliance reviewers with AI automation, marking the latest cuts following 600 layoffs from its Superintelligence Labs this week as the tech giant restructures operations around artificial intelligence.
Google and Anthropic forge a massive tens-of-billions cloud partnership granting access to one million TPUs and over a gigawatt of compute capacity by 2026, fueling Anthropic's explosive growth toward $7 billion annual revenue as Claude AI serves 300,000+ businesses.
Waymo expands its self-driving car service to 8 major U.S. cities after completing 10 million autonomous trips and 100 million miles, with Miami, Washington D.C., and Dallas joining Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, and Atlanta as the company demonstrates improved safety data and faster deployment capabilities.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff unveils 'Agentic Enterprises' transformation requiring 11-layer architecture and collaborative AI implementation, as PepsiCo achieves 30% efficiency gains across 1.5 million stores using the new Agentforce 360 platform that integrates AI agents with unified data systems.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser featuring integrated chatbot capabilities and task completion agents, sending Alphabet shares down 2% as the company directly challenges Google's Chrome browser dominance with its new macOS application.
Veeam acquires data security firm Securiti AI for $1.725 billion in cash and stock, with founder Rehan Jalil joining as president of security and AI to help enterprises better control and secure their data for AI applications as the deal closes in early December.
Elon Musk challenges former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy to a public coding contest between xAI's Grok 5 and Karpathy, likening it to the historic Deep Blue vs Kasparov chess match, but Karpathy declines, preferring collaboration over competition with AI models.
Anthropic unleashes Claude Code web app generating $500 million in annualized revenue with 10x user growth since May, escalating the fierce battle against Microsoft's GitHub Copilot and rivals as AI coding agents move toward full automation.
Apple secures a groundbreaking $700 million, five-year deal to exclusively stream all Formula 1 races on Apple TV starting in 2026, paying $140 million annually—65% more than ESPN's previous contract—while including all racing events in its existing $12.99 monthly subscription.
Stellantis teams up with Chinese AI firm Pony to bring self-driving robotaxis to European cities by 2026, starting with Luxembourg testing using Peugeot e-Traveller vans equipped with autonomous driving technology.