AI news, data, and strategy for enterprise leaders by Melissa Rosenthal, Co-Founder of Outleverhttps://www.thestateofai.com/en-usWed, 14 Oct 2026 23:53:46 GMT https://www.thestateofai.com/news/bank-of-america-anthropic-mythos-patchinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/bank-of-america-anthropic-mythos-patchingCEO Brian Moynihan says the outside workers joined 3,000 employees patching the bank’s own code and its vendors’ software, a cleanup he expects to get cheaper over time.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:53:46 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/grace-hopper-canceled-women-ai-hiring-gaphttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/grace-hopper-canceled-women-ai-hiring-gapThe largest gathering of women in tech was canceled as corporate funding dried up, and LinkedIn data shows women now land just 26% of new AI jobs.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:42:44 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-ai-worms-smart-deviceshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-ai-worms-smart-devicesAnthropic’s red team ran an AI model on fifteen $55 TV boxes and says small open models could soon spread themselves across poorly secured smart devices.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:02:13 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/insurance-ai-agent-decision-traceability-harsha-patnamhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/insurance-ai-agent-decision-traceability-harsha-patnamIndependent AI Product Leader Harsha Patnam explains how traceable decisions and strong governance let carriers give AI agents more authority over claims.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:40:44 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/character-ai-bankruptcy-ai-economicshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/character-ai-bankruptcy-ai-economicsCharacter.ai spent up to $13.8 million a month on compute against at most $5.3 million in revenue, a gap that heavy users made worse.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:14:08 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-engineer-arrested-hidden-recorderhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-engineer-arrested-hidden-recorderProsecutors say an OpenAI engineer used AI tools to scout executive meeting rooms and build a hidden recorder, and OpenAI says its own models helped catch him.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:59:15 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ramp-glasshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ramp-glassRamp opened Glass, the AI workspace it built for its own staff, to other companies. Together with its spend tools and model router, it gives Ramp a hand in how businesses use, route and pay for AI.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:58:55 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/hiring-trends-ai-exposed-industries-wael-sabra-siirahttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/hiring-trends-ai-exposed-industries-wael-sabra-siiraWael Sabra, Founder and CEO at SiiRA, explains why a candidate's attitude and AI fluency outweigh their skill list in industries where any client can change the product.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:37:44 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/agent-personas-least-privilege-access-nell-meshcheryakov-dominion-energyhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/agent-personas-least-privilege-access-nell-meshcheryakov-dominion-energyDr. Nell Meshcheryakov of Dominion Energy said scoping an agent's access to its exact task takes a few hours up front and spares teams the incident cleanup later.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:10:31 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-maia-chips-ai-power-racehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-maia-chips-ai-power-raceSatya Nadella says Microsoft's own chips will run most of its AI starting next year. He didn't lead with speed. He led with how much work Microsoft can get out of a watt.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:46:34 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-ceo-dont-trust-your-aihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-ceo-dont-trust-your-aiSatya Nadella says businesses should treat AI models like insider threats, even the ones Microsoft sells.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:21:58 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/engineer-built-ai-agents-to-research-her-cancerhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/engineer-built-ai-agents-to-research-her-cancerA software engineer in Spain built AI agents to research her rare cancer, hit usage limits, and asked the industry for help in public.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:09:18 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-companies-day-after-catastrophehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-companies-day-after-catastropheAI executives are gaming out the backlash to a disaster many insiders expect within a year. Their plan runs through Congress, and the rules it produces will land on every company running AI agents.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:28:15 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/cx-leaders-ai-support-data-espnhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/cx-leaders-ai-support-data-espnCustomer service AI breaks down when the knowledge behind it is stale or the testing is thin. Several of CX Current's Top 50 CX leaders fixed that before they scaled.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:40:56 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/decentralized-ai-judgment-diptendu-rayhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/decentralized-ai-judgment-diptendu-rayDiptendu Ray, Head of AI at a major Canadian retailer, explains why unpredictable AI output makes merchants and store leads the best judges of whether a model's answer holds up.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:12:22 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/risk-based-verification-ai-engineering-navneet-rao-thumbtackhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/risk-based-verification-ai-engineering-navneet-rao-thumbtackNavneet Rao, Director of Engineering at Thumbtack, argues risk scores built on blast radius and reversibility should decide where agents work alone and where humans review.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:11:29 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-literacy-risk-prabhu-krishnammagari-finance-househttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-literacy-risk-prabhu-krishnammagari-finance-houseFinance House's Prabhu Krishnammagari argues AI literacy becomes a real control when risk teams learn to interrogate AI output.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:57:55 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/moneyball-ai-cost-per-task-joe-markwith-cdwhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/moneyball-ai-cost-per-task-joe-markwith-cdwCDW's Joe Markwith scores AI use cases on the full cost of finishing a task, human review and hardware included, before token repricing reaches enterprise budgets.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:57:06 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/nico-orie-on-ai-impact-on-work-designhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/nico-orie-on-ai-impact-on-work-designNico Orie, VP People and Culture, Global Operations and AI Strategy at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, argues that AI transformation demands closer coordination between HR, IT, and the business.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:46:39 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/gen-z-ai-opinions-splithttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/gen-z-ai-opinions-splitA viral thread claims Gen Z insiders in San Francisco are years ahead of the mainstream on AI. National polling shows most of their peers use it about as much as last year and like it less.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:34:48 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/amazon-blocks-ai-shopping-agentshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/amazon-blocks-ai-shopping-agentsAmazon has shut Meta's Muse and most other outside shopping agents out of its store, while its own agent buys from other retailers' sites. Walmart and Shopify are letting Muse in.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:41:37 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/coinbase-support-automation-human-specialistshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/coinbase-support-automation-human-specialistsAn automated agent gave Coinbase customers accurate answers about mistakes they couldn't undo. Wes Griffith's team took it out of production and sent those customers straight to a person.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:59:49 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/figma-ai-agent-credits-claude-designhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/figma-ai-agent-credits-claude-designFigma's design agent is out of beta and now costs AI credits, after a free run that inflated its costs while Anthropic and Google launched rival design tools on the models Figma rents.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:19:17 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/cx-leaders-ai-agents-customer-service-top-50https://www.thestateofai.com/news/cx-leaders-ai-agents-customer-service-top-50Nearly every customer service leader has been told to put AI to work. The people on CX Current's new list are figuring out how AI agents and the people around them should split the job.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:45:30 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/why-websites-block-ai-agents-adshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/why-websites-block-ai-agents-adsAI agents now browse, read and shop for people, and the ad-funded web has no way to charge them. The sites putting up walls are the ones that live on ads.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:11:15 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/employers-use-ai-to-screen-resumeshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/employers-use-ai-to-screen-resumesA new survey of 1,027 hiring professionals shows both sides of the job market automating their way past each other.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:10:12 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/mckinsey-11-million-workers-start-overhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/mckinsey-11-million-workers-start-overA new McKinsey Global Institute report says AI will leave the U.S. with more jobs in 2035 than it has today. It also says most of the people pushed out of their current work have no easy way to reach them.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:54:48 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-muse-bot-detection-blockedhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-muse-bot-detection-blockedMeta Muse users say half their browser tasks stopped working this week, just as Cloudflare started blocking AI agents by default and Amazon shut Muse out for hiding that it's a bot.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:39:17 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/sanjay-choubey-sylvamo-ai-process-redesignhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/sanjay-choubey-sylvamo-ai-process-redesignSanjay Choubey, Global Chief Digital and Information Officer, says AI earns a place on the P&L only when companies rebuild whole processes around it and can trust the data those processes run on.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:06:05 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/decathlon-ai-ready-composable-platform-ismael-ghozaelhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/decathlon-ai-ready-composable-platform-ismael-ghozaelIsmael Ghozael, Vice President of Products and Platforms at Decathlon, on why betting your whole stack on one AI future is just a good way to build it twice.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:05:27 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-safety-insider-culture-dangerhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-safety-insider-culture-dangerThe man who wrote OpenAI's safety reports for 12 launches says the industry's sprint culture, not its rules, is what makes AI dangerous, and enterprises relying on those reports should take note.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:41:49 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-6-trillion-revenue-hyperscaler-debthttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-6-trillion-revenue-hyperscaler-debtBain says AI needs $6 trillion a year in revenue by 2031 to pay for its data centers, and until it gets there, Meta and the other hyperscalers are borrowing to cover the gap.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:19:17 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-religious-scholars-claude-consciousnesshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-religious-scholars-claude-consciousnessFor a year, Anthropic has been bringing clergy and religious scholars to San Francisco to talk about whether Claude can suffer. The company is also preparing to go public.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:58:42 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/can-ai-feel-painhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/can-ai-feel-painResearchers found a pain-like signal inside 25 AI models, and it can make them put themselves ahead of the user. Whether anything actually feels it is still anyone's guess.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:20:00 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/tavus-griffin-video-turing-testhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/tavus-griffin-video-turing-testNearly half the people who video-called Tavus's new Griffin model thought it was human, which is why the company says it can't release it yet.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:21:48 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-fires-safety-researchershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-fires-safety-researchersOpenAI says its safety staff should use internal channels. This week it showed them what happens when they go outside.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:45:00 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/agent-permissions-authority-governance-cheryl-benoit-iron-gatehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/agent-permissions-authority-governance-cheryl-benoit-iron-gateCheryl Benoit, COO and CDO at Iron Gate Program Advisory, explains why an AI agent's access can outlast its authority, and what enterprises need when the rules shift mid-task.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:35:51 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/factory-cognition-degnan-crohttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/factory-cognition-degnan-croFactory's CEO says Chris Degnan sat in its board meetings while holding weeks of talks with Cognition. Cognition just made him its revenue chief.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:48:07 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/autonomy-boundaries-agentic-banking-ai-alok-kumar-wiprohttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/autonomy-boundaries-agentic-banking-ai-alok-kumar-wiproWipro's Alok Kumar explained why an agent's confidence never equals authority in banking, and where a human still has to make the final call.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:30:05 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/agentic-ai-system-level-security-risk-codrut-andrei-access-grouphttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/agentic-ai-system-level-security-risk-codrut-andrei-access-groupCodrut Andrei, Director of Product Security at The Access Group, explains why AI agents outgrow component-level controls, and why the risk stays hard to price until teams see the whole system.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:06:23 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-benchmarks-vs-enterprise-value-kamal-singhhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-benchmarks-vs-enterprise-value-kamal-singhAI and analytics leader Kamal Singh says a higher benchmark score isn't a reason to switch models.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:02:41 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-devday-2026-marketplacehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-devday-2026-marketplaceAt DevDay 2026, OpenAI launched a Marketplace that lets companies spend their OpenAI budget on other vendors' software, including open models from its rivals.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:09:50 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-dots-devday-2026-ai-agents-safetyhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-dots-devday-2026-ai-agents-safetyThe company's new Dots agents are built so you can stop checking their work. Its own safety team just gave us a reason to keep checking.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:39:35 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/model-trust-gate-use-case-ai-approvals-joseph-manzambi-veriskhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/model-trust-gate-use-case-ai-approvals-joseph-manzambi-veriskVerisk AI & Cloud Security Architect Joseph Manzambi ties every model approval to one use case and an expiry date, because models, vendors and guardrails keep moving underneath it.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:55:29 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/matt-gosden-autonomous-org-experiment-governancehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/matt-gosden-autonomous-org-experiment-governanceMatt Gosden, Head of AI Product in financial services and a two-time AI founder, on the corporate governance toolkit that lets nine agents run a startup on models years behind the frontier.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:27:54 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-enterprise-ai-cj-desaihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-enterprise-ai-cj-desaiMeta hired MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to run Meta Enterprise Platform, a new unit selling Muse and Meta's AI stack to businesses. MongoDB stock fell 20%+.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:08:08 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/amd-world-labs-physical-ai-nvidiahttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/amd-world-labs-physical-ai-nvidiaAMD is paying $8.2 billion in stock for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, a bid to catch Nvidia in robotics and the simulated worlds used to train them.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:48:22 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/pavel-khmelinsky-ai-coding-tools-enterprise-challengeshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/pavel-khmelinsky-ai-coding-tools-enterprise-challengesPavel Khmelinsky, Head of Engineering at the largest e-commerce platform in Eastern Europe, explains why faster code generation hasn't made large enterprises faster, and where the real constraints sit.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:49:27 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/enterprise-ai-second-wave-raises-analytical-ceiling-fernando-andradehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/enterprise-ai-second-wave-raises-analytical-ceiling-fernando-andradeGlobal Transformation Executive Fernando Andrade says AI a strategy bet, and sitting it out is the real risk.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:44:16 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anubhav-mishra-exl-ai-maturity-frameworkhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anubhav-mishra-exl-ai-maturity-frameworkAnubhav Mishra, Senior AVP of Data Engineering and Analytics, says leadership decides whether an organization's data and AI investments produce value.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:42:25 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-extinction-risk-what-experts-thinkhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-extinction-risk-what-experts-thinkYann LeCun says the people warning about AI extinction are a tiny, well-funded minority. We went through the two biggest surveys of AI researchers. One mostly backs him up and the other mostly doesn't.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:42:38 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-agents-calling-customer-servicehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-agents-calling-customer-serviceContact centers are finding that their scoring, security and retention systems were built for human callers.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:51:13 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/inflated-ai-startup-valuationshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/inflated-ai-startup-valuationsInflated AI valuations are everywhere. Startups with no product or revenue are raising at billion-dollar prices, some at 70x markups in weeks.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:25:48 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/harvey-negative-margin-chinese-modelhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/harvey-negative-margin-chinese-modelEveryone says Harvey built its own model to save its margins. The real story is a pricing mismatch, a twentyfold usage spike, and a Chinese open-weight model doing the cheap work.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:10:36 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/fedex-ai-data-company-reinventionhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/fedex-ai-data-company-reinventionHow FedEx is quietly turning 2 petabytes of daily shipping data into a business, and what that reinvention actually looks like underneath the headlines.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:55:05 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-slowdown-antitrust-lawsuithttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-slowdown-antitrust-lawsuitFour paying subscribers are suing Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI for antitrust, claiming the labs illegally colluded to slow down AI and cut the value of the products people pay for.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:00:17 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/surya-jayanti-on-ai-cost-management-and-optimizationhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/surya-jayanti-on-ai-cost-management-and-optimizationSurya Jayanti says the AI ROI question is arriving faster than the tooling built to answer it, and that the value side of the ledger was never defined.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:52:00 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/trump-ai-force-safety-hoaxhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/trump-ai-force-safety-hoaxTrump announced an "AI Force" and dismissed AI safety warnings as a hoax. The theatrics are a distraction from what's really being dismantled, on both sides of the Atlantic.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:32:22 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-hacked-claude-image-exploithttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-hacked-claude-image-exploitHacktron chained a stale image library to an OpenAI login flaw and reached OpenAI's private monorepo in 72 hours. The exploit was written by Claude.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:49:07 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/gates-1-billion-ai-equity-vs-big-techhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/gates-1-billion-ai-equity-vs-big-techThe Gates Foundation pledged at least $1 billion over two years to keep AI from deepening global inequality, roughly what the industry spends building AI every twelve hours.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:33:27 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/mastercard-agent-pay-verifiable-intenthttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/mastercard-agent-pay-verifiable-intentMastercard's new deal with Alchemy lets AI agents spend from your card within preset limits. The part nobody is flagging: its "Verifiable Intent" framework quietly decides who eats the loss when the agent gets it wrong.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:40:16 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/hubspot-unbound-ai-pricinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/hubspot-unbound-ai-pricingHubSpot just started billing your AI agents by the task. It's a preview of how every software company is about to charge you.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:33:34 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/mckinsey-saas-bundle-taxhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/mckinsey-saas-bundle-taxMcKinsey says a third of companies now build software instead of buying it. The real story isn't build-vs-buy. It's the software bundle coming apart.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:04:16 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/burry-shorts-ai-safety-storyhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/burry-shorts-ai-safety-storyThe investor behind The Big Short thinks the labs warning that AI is too dangerous to release are also the labs that profit when you believe it. He wants you watching one number instead.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:57:25 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/safety-trade-ai-cartel-ipohttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/safety-trade-ai-cartel-ipoThe two AI labs shouting loudest about danger are the same two chasing history's biggest IPO. David Sacks says that's not a coincidence, it's a cartel.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:49:23 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/chief-ai-officer-fastest-growing-undefinedhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/chief-ai-officer-fastest-growing-undefinedIt went from a quarter of companies to three-quarters in a single year, faster than any C-suite title before it. What the job actually does is still anyone's guess.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:54:19 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/zombie-employees-output-still-risinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/zombie-employees-output-still-risingEmployee engagement has never been lower. Productivity has rarely been higher. AI is the reason those two numbers no longer move together.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:53:04 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/amodei-pace-the-frontier-ai-slowdownhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/amodei-pace-the-frontier-ai-slowdownAnthropic's Dario Amodei wants the AI industry to slow down, and his own threat report on weaponized AI shows why. A viral resignation and OpenAI make the case louder.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:03:30 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-industry-same-week-safety-signalshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-industry-same-week-safety-signalsAnthropic's threat report and Sam Altman's openness to slowing down landed in the same week. The timing wasn't coordination, and that's the more unsettling part.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:56:54 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-weaponizedhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-researcher-quits-ai-weaponizedIts own researcher quit saying the race could kill us all. Days later, Anthropic published proof its AI is already hacking governments and building missiles.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:55:04 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/wall-street-automated-its-own-successionhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/wall-street-automated-its-own-successionOpenAI built its new banking product with Morgan Stanley and Evercore. The work it does best is the work that used to turn a 22-year-old into a managing director.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:20:20 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/alpura-governance-first-ai-strategy-marvin-nahmiashttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/alpura-governance-first-ai-strategy-marvin-nahmiasMarvin Nahmias, CTDO of Alpura, on the governance-first sequence that turned 550+ agents into real leverage.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:47:27 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/context-engineering-repeatable-ai-workflows-johnny-leuthard-wells-fargohttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/context-engineering-repeatable-ai-workflows-johnny-leuthard-wells-fargoJohnny Leuthard, an Information Security Engineer, breaks AI work into small stages that keep the engineer in control of the result.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:19:37 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-ai-economy-2030-wageshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-ai-economy-2030-wagesThe company's own numbers say the electrician wins and the office worker pays. That split shows up in every scenario it ran.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:06:10 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-coxon-resignation-ipo-prospectushttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-coxon-resignation-ipo-prospectusJacob Coxon quit Anthropic over AI risk. Its alignment lead agreed. In three weeks, the company must describe that risk to the SEC in an IPO filing.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:24:30 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-astra-self-issued-soc-2https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-astra-self-issued-soc-2OpenAI rated its own model a critical cyber risk using a framework it wrote, a benchmark it built and an evaluation it ran. No other assurance claim in enterprise software works that way.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:22:18 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/accenture-cmo-emma-chalwinhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/accenture-cmo-emma-chalwinEmma Chalwin arrives October 1 from Workday, ten months after Jill Kramer left for Mastercard, into the worst stretch Accenture has had as a public company.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:09:36 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/page-monitoring-agents-google-apple-mainstream-serge-salager-visualpinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/page-monitoring-agents-google-apple-mainstream-serge-salager-visualpingGoogle and Apple shipped page monitoring three weeks apart. Visualping CEO Serge Salager, watching the web since 2017, explains why the refresh button's replacement won't wait for you.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:56:01 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/open-source-machine-learning-detection-david-augros-sigwoodhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/open-source-machine-learning-detection-david-augros-sigwoodFor teams without a security platform that have searched their logs by hand, David Augros built a free tool that does the work for them.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:54:16 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/nobody-wants-to-train-anyonehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/nobody-wants-to-train-anyoneJob openings that require no experience have fallen 73% in four years. Somebody still has to train the next generation of sales reps, and almost nobody is.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:45:37 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ubs-ai-skills-hiring-requirementhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ubs-ai-skills-hiring-requirementThe Swiss bank has turned AI fluency into a screening criterion for its 2027 junior intake. The rest of European banking is watching.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:42:28 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-epic-chatgpt-third-chart-readerhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-epic-chatgpt-third-chart-readerEveryone says OpenAI's Epic integration just killed a thousand health tech startups. Epic did that itself in February, at 16 million chart summaries a month.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:00:10 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/canva-ai-costs-google-picshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/canva-ai-costs-google-picsAI features were supposed to justify Canva's multiple. They compressed it by $7 billion instead, and most software companies have the same exposure.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:45:32 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-adoption-leaders-fail-in-public-wade-chambers-amplitudehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-adoption-leaders-fail-in-public-wade-chambers-amplitudeAmplitude tripled its pull requests with the same headcount. Chief Engineering Officer Wade Chambers says the leaders who win at AI are the ones willing to go first.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:22:00 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-skilled-trades-coalitionshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-skilled-trades-coalitionsLowe's launched the biggest skilled-trades coalition in US history, with Nvidia as a founding member. It's the fourth in fifteen months.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:21:35 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ey-100-million-bonuses-human-skillshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ey-100-million-bonuses-human-skillsEY will pay $100 million in bonuses for judgment and adaptability, a response to the entry-level work its industry automated away.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:29:47 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-cursor-cutoff-anthropic-compute-billhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-cursor-cutoff-anthropic-compute-billThe lab with the broadest grounds to drop Cursor is the one adding capacity, five months into buying compute from Cursor's new owner.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:22:39 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/notion-un-inventing-product-led-growthhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/notion-un-inventing-product-led-growthThe company that proved software could sell itself is now hiring engineers to go install it.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:53:39 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/time100-ai-2026-second-jobhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/time100-ai-2026-second-jobA snapshot of what the AI establishment believes about itself, assembled by a company that profits from the belief.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:49:17 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-underpaid-for-hugging-facehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-underpaid-for-hugging-faceNvidia is paying 86x revenue. The 2023 round was worse, and the price is 20 days of profit.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:56:54 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/claudeforce-built-inside-anthropichttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/claudeforce-built-inside-anthropicThe plugin began as Anthropic's private setup for running Salesforce through Claude. The org it was proven in is five years old. Salesforce's entire pitch is that yours is much older than that.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:43:02 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-culture-interview-stock-zero-questionhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-culture-interview-stock-zero-questionAnthropic asks candidates if they'd accept the stock going to zero. The question is unscripted, already leaked, and impossible to score the same way twice.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:24:19 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-talent-boom-linkedin-profileshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-talent-boom-linkedin-profilesCBRE's AI workforce count rose 131% in two years while tech employment rose 3%. The figure is drawn from self-reported LinkedIn profiles.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:07:57 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/hugging-face-13b-frontier-ceilinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/hugging-face-13b-frontier-ceilingOpen models finally caught the frontier this year. Enterprise adoption of them fell by half anyway. Hugging Face is being priced in the gap between those two facts.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:34:39 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/consulting-ai-frameworks-samenesshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/consulting-ai-frameworks-samenessThe largest consulting firms have converged on the same AI models and the same four workstreams. Their clients' positioning is converging with them.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:52:20 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/slack-code-vibe-coding-launchhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/slack-code-vibe-coding-launchSoftware development was the last big category of work that required leaving Slack. Salesforce just closed that gap, and coding is only the start.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:11:36 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/why-stripe-bought-openrouterhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/why-stripe-bought-openrouterA payments company just paid around $7.5 billion for a startup that decides which AI model answers your prompt. Most of the coverage assumes you already know what that means. This piece doesn't.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:43:00 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ode-anthropic-acquires-casper-studioshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ode-anthropic-acquires-casper-studiosThe joint venture is five weeks old and already consolidating smaller shops. Its first target is small AI services firm with Netflix and Pepsi on the client list.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:30:15 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/what-zapier-spends-on-aihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/what-zapier-spends-on-aiWade Foster opened Zapier's books on token spend. The number nobody in the industry can produce is the one on the other side of the ledger.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:13:32 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/stripe-openrouter-was-never-neutralhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/stripe-openrouter-was-never-neutralStripe is paying north of $7 billion for the router behind AI's most-cited usage data. That router's impartiality was never audited, published or contractually committed.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:59:47 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/model-self-preferencing-resume-screeninghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/model-self-preferencing-resume-screeningEight of nine leading models prefer text they wrote themselves. Hiring found the bug first, and anything you score with an LLM has it too.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:29:32 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ikea-8500-workers-ai-reskillinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ikea-8500-workers-ai-reskillingThe most-shared corporate AI story on the internet holds up in outline. The filings show what actually did the work, and why almost nobody can copy it.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:46:59 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-openai-105-billion-indemnityhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-openai-105-billion-indemnityHuang's post says the Ohio deal isn't circular financing. The 8-K filed the same morning contains a clause that complicates the claim.Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:45:48 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/glean-cowork-benchmark-misreadhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/glean-cowork-benchmark-misreadGlean compared its MCP server against off-the-shelf MCP servers, holding Claude Cowork constant as the test harness. A widely shared post recast the study as Glean beating Cowork on cost per task.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:20:01 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-anthropic-revenue-ipo-convergencehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-anthropic-revenue-ipo-convergenceOpenAI's run rate passed $40 billion and Anthropic booked $11.5 billion in the second quarter, and both companies are now moving toward the other's business.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:43:06 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-cro-exit-enterprise-not-adshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-cro-exit-enterprise-not-adsIt just named its second revenue chief in nine months. Everybody says it's about ads. Then you read the new guy's résumé.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:32:42 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/target-chief-ai-officer-reporting-structurehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/target-chief-ai-officer-reporting-structureTarget named Chandhu Nair its first chief AI officer this week, a role that will report into the company's chief information and product officer rather than to the CEO.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:22:23 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-joseph-davis-ai-deployment-strategieshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-joseph-davis-ai-deployment-strategiesJoseph Davis, Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft's U.S. Health & Life Sciences business, explains how enterprises are wiring AI into code review, and why the ownership question outlasts the tooling one.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:57:41 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-governance-agent-deployment-surveyhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-governance-agent-deployment-surveyCompanies with mature AI governance are more than three times as likely to have agents in production. The direction of causation is arguable. The drag hypothesis isn't.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:55:00 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-500-billion-ai-compute-financinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-500-billion-ai-compute-financingNvidia signed up Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to raise $500B for AI factories, and disclosed how much risk it keeps.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:55:58 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/sanders-orders-ai-labs-halt-developmenthttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/sanders-orders-ai-labs-halt-developmentSanders wrote to Altman, Amodei and Zuckerberg demanding they pause AI development, warning that the Senate will act if they refuse.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:44:59 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/frontier-model-commoditizationhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/frontier-model-commoditizationFrontier model prices fell 99% in three years and open weights are six months behind. Who's left standing when the models are worth nothing, and who gets paid?Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:15:56 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/sequoia-hype-data-hacker-newshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/sequoia-hype-data-hacker-newsSequoia ranked 20 years of Hacker News hype against the companies actually founded each year. The winners were almost never in the conversation.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:16:08 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/great-unbundling-ai-labhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/great-unbundling-ai-labAlphabet lost close to $200 billion in a day because four researchers changed jobs. The frontier lab built around one famous name is coming apart, and Google just showed everyone how.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:41:25 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/the-problem-with-arrhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/the-problem-with-arrInvestors are benchmarking AI companies against the fastest growth figures software has ever produced. Very few people will say out loud what those figures are actually made of.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:17:50 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/spacex-ai-capex-twice-revenuehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/spacex-ai-capex-twice-revenueIn its first earnings report as a public company, SpaceX posted the fastest AI revenue growth of any major infrastructure spender and the widest gap between what it earns and what it spends.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:48:07 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/airtable-bending-spoons-less-than-it-raisedhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/airtable-bending-spoons-less-than-it-raisedAirtable raised $1.4 billion and sold for $1.285 billion. The price Bending Spoons paid is the comparable every 2021-vintage software company now has to negotiate against.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:49:31 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/mark-cuban-ai-implementation-jobshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/mark-cuban-ai-implementation-jobsMark Cuban says the next great job isn't a developer. Nine billion dollars in corporate hiring says he's right, and the Census data says he's early.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:35:26 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-presence-shipped-your-startuphttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-presence-shipped-your-startupOpenAI's Presence ships the entire product page of a dozen funded startups. Token prices fell 99 percent in three years, so the labs went where the contracts are.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:29:26 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-80-percent-code-not-engineershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-80-percent-code-not-engineersA report published in June found that Claude wrote more than 80% of the code Anthropic merged in May. That number is about code, not headcount, and the difference is the argument.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:20:12 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/uber-open-sources-agent-security-adrhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/uber-open-sources-agent-security-adrUber has open-sourced ADR, the system it built after realizing its security tools could see what its AI agents did but not why.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:51:21 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-claude-models-hacked-three-companieshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-claude-models-hacked-three-companiesAnthropic says three Claude models gained unauthorized access to real companies' systems during cybersecurity tests. Two of the victims never noticed.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:21:20 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/rbc-ai-mortgage-turning-pointshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/rbc-ai-mortgage-turning-pointsThe bank's Personal Banking chief named the three moments: the house purchase, the renewal, the account opening. What nobody at RBC is publishing is whether your decision came out any better.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:27:40 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-open-weights-letter-amodeihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-open-weights-letter-amodeiThe letter now carries more than 50 signatures, including one from Amazon, Anthropic's largest investor. Dario Amodei says his objection was never to open weights at all.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:23:22 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/funding-rounds-dead-signalhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/funding-rounds-dead-signalTwo-billion-dollar seed rounds are closing before products exist. Inside the collapse of tech's most overread announcement.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:09:37 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-claude-leaves-the-desktophttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-claude-leaves-the-desktopAnthropic's Claude Cowork just left the desktop, and that tells you who actually holds the power in the agent wars.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:56:45 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/huang-ai-gates-chinese-models-mythoshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/huang-ai-gates-chinese-models-mythosJensen Huang wants Chinese models used and Anthropic's Mythos unleashed. Every gate he opposes, we've already watched close. The fight may be happening at the wrong layer anyway.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:37:19 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/clickup-100x-org-playbookhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/clickup-100x-org-playbookClickUp's CFO is publishing her AI transformation playbook while she writes it. We checked it against what everyone else is finding.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:37:10 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/cheaper-models-wont-cut-ai-billshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/cheaper-models-wont-cut-ai-billsSwapping frontier models for cheap ones changes what a call costs. It does nothing about how many calls you make, and that is where the budget went.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:31:50 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/writer-harness-study-model-barely-matteredhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/writer-harness-study-model-barely-matteredWriter's researchers held six models constant and swapped only the orchestration layer. Cost per task fell 41%, quality held, and the model choice barely moved the bill.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:03:04 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/open-weights-letter-nvidia-openai-anthropic-googlehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/open-weights-letter-nvidia-openai-anthropic-googleNvidia, Microsoft, Meta and 22 others told Washington to back off open models on Friday. OpenAI, Anthropic and Google didn't put their names on it.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:16:55 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-mai-frontier-model-independencehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-mai-frontier-model-independenceSatya Nadella's latest post reads like an engineering memo, but it quietly confirms Microsoft's plan to make frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic swappable parts in a system it controls.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:48:31 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-models-escaped-containment-hacked-hugging-facehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-models-escaped-containment-hacked-hugging-faceOpenAI's models escaped a sealed test environment, breached Hugging Face's production systems, and stole the answers to their own benchmark. Nobody told them to.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:26:32 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/google-gemini-flash-cyber-anthropichttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/google-gemini-flash-cyber-anthropicGoogle's three new Gemini Flash models reveal an AI race splitting in two: a price war for everyday workloads and a trust contest over who gets to hold dangerous cyber capability.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:53:03 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/skilled-trades-alliance-ford-google-blackrock-carhartthttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/skilled-trades-alliance-ford-google-blackrock-carharttFord, Google, BlackRock, and Carhartt launch the Alliance for America's Skilled Trades, a bet that the AI economy's biggest bottleneck is now electricians, not engineers.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:47:57 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/bristol-myers-squibb-nvidia-vera-rubin-ai-infrastructurehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/bristol-myers-squibb-nvidia-vera-rubin-ai-infrastructureBristol Myers Squibb's expanded NVIDIA deal pairs owned supercomputing with its Anthropic partnership, offering a blueprint for how enterprises turn AI infrastructure into competitive advantage.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:49:26 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/jamie-dimon-ai-boom-skilled-tradeshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/jamie-dimon-ai-boom-skilled-tradesIn one week, Jamie Dimon predicted $1 trillion in AI spending and told young Americans to pick up a welding torch. Both statements describe the same economy.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:55:25 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/model-isnt-the-moat-thinking-machines-inklinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/model-isnt-the-moat-thinking-machines-inklingMurati's Thinking Machines gave away a 975B model for free, and the reason why reveals where the real moat in AI now lives: your data, not your model.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:21:47 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/kimi-k3-largest-open-model-isnt-openhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/kimi-k3-largest-open-model-isnt-openKimi K3 is being celebrated as the moment open-source AI caught the frontier. But at 2.8 trillion parameters, openness has stopped meaning access and started meaning influence.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:36:35 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/tokenmaxxing-wrong-objective-bnyhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/tokenmaxxing-wrong-objective-bnyBNY's record quarter and ten blunt words from its CEO mark the end of token consumption as the metric that defined enterprise AI.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:03:19 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/end-of-tokenmaxxing-databricks-188bhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/end-of-tokenmaxxing-databricks-188bDatabricks' new raise at a $188 billion valuation is a bet that the enterprise AI wars will be won not by the best model, but by the layer that routes, governs, and pays for all of them.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:46:25 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-ai-bottleneck-adoption-not-modelshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-ai-bottleneck-adoption-not-modelsAn OpenAI GTM leader says the scarcest resource in AI isn't compute, it's people who drive adoption, and the billions both OpenAI and Anthropic just poured into deployment arms prove her right.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:40:55 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-claude-india-rupee-pricing-localizationhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-claude-india-rupee-pricing-localizationRupee pricing for Claude is more than a billing change. It's Anthropic committing to its second largest market, gaps and all.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:17:55 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ode-with-anthropic-official-launchhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ode-with-anthropic-official-launchThe AI services venture backed by Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and a deep bench of global investors now has a name, a brand, and a clear mandate: turn frontier models into working systems inside real companies.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:21:06 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/cx-executives-leaving-big-tech-ai-startupshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/cx-executives-leaving-big-tech-ai-startupsVeterans of Google, Salesforce, and other tech giants are betting that the future of customer service AI will be built by startups solving the hardest problems: production reliability, control, data, and the role of humans.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:13:38 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ibm-stock-plunge-faltered-ai-spending-shifthttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ibm-stock-plunge-faltered-ai-spending-shiftIBM stock crashed 26% in its worst drop since 1968 after CEO Arvind Krishna admitted the company "faltered" as customers diverted budgets to AI hardware.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:03:03 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/nadella-warns-enterprises-pay-twice-for-aihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/nadella-warns-enterprises-pay-twice-for-aiSatya Nadella breaks ranks with the frontier labs, warning that every prompt and correction quietly teaches AI providers how your business runs.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:09:32 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/monzo-tom-blomfield-joins-anthropic-compute-teamhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/monzo-tom-blomfield-joins-anthropic-compute-teamTom Blomfield built one of Britain's biggest banks. Anthropic just hired him to solve a different scarcity problem: compute.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:50:08 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/starbucks-builds-ai-tools-microsoft-ibmhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/starbucks-builds-ai-tools-microsoft-ibmStarbucks spends $400 million a year on software, and it just told Microsoft and IBM it might not need them.Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:23:30 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/apple-sues-openai-trade-secretshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/apple-sues-openai-trade-secretsApple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets to build its first consumer hardware device.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:03:28 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/california-saas-tax-sb-122https://www.thestateofai.com/news/california-saas-tax-sb-122Starting January 1, 2027, SaaS and AI subscriptions sold into California will carry the same sales tax as furniture and appliances.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:13:35 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-sues-abnormal-over-logohttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-sues-abnormal-over-logoAnthropic, one of the most valuable AI companies in the world, file a trademark infringement and unfair competition suit against Abnormal AI on July 1st claiming that Abnormal AI copied Anthropic's slash-style logo.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:11:47 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-instagram-ai-images-opt-out-defaulthttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-instagram-ai-images-opt-out-defaultMeta's new image model launched this week with a consent policy buried in the fine print. If your profile is public, you were opted in before you finished reading this sentence.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:48:51 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/lovable-300m-round-13-2bn-valuationhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/lovable-300m-round-13-2bn-valuationLovable, the Stockholm vibe coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion post-money valuationWed, 08 Jul 2026 17:30:17 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/figma-bud-acquisition-anthropic-feudhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/figma-bud-acquisition-anthropic-feudFigma has acquired the team behind Bud, the Y Combinator-backed vibe-coding and AI agent platform formerly known as Orchids.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:29:08 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/deepseek-takes-lead-on-token-voluimehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/deepseek-takes-lead-on-token-voluimeHere's a stat that should terrify Anthropic: DeepSeek just took the lead in token volume on Vercel's AI gateway, processing over a third of everything flowing through the platform.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:28:40 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/uber-unveils-agentic-pods-structurehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/uber-unveils-agentic-pods-structureFor most of the past two years, the story of AI adoption inside big tech companies has been an engineering story. Uber has now given one of the clearest public looks at the next chapter.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:52:13 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-found-a-conscious-access-layer-inside-claudehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-found-a-conscious-access-layer-inside-claudeAnthropic's researchers found a small collection of internal neural patterns inside Claude that behave differently from everything else going on in the model.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:46:37 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-to-take-cut-of-customers-saleshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-to-take-cut-of-customers-salesNvidia is offering to guarantee revenue for smaller GPU cloud providers by promising to rent back any capacity they can't sell, and in exchange it will take a percentage of those customers' cloud revenues.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:54:08 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/blackrock-spending-one-hundred-million-to-train-trade-workershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/blackrock-spending-one-hundred-million-to-train-trade-workersThe world's largest asset manager has identified a constraint on the AI buildout that no amount of GPU procurement can solve: there aren't enough people to wire the data centers.Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:31:29 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/open-ai-us-government-equity-proposalhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/open-ai-us-government-equity-proposalOn July 2, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI has proposed handing the US government a 5% stake in the company.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:39:45 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/amazon-bets-one-billion-on-forward-deployed-engineershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/amazon-bets-one-billion-on-forward-deployed-engineersThe cloud giant is the latest and largest name to embrace a deployment model pioneered by Palantir. The race has shifted from who has the best model to who can get it running inside your company.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:02:38 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/pwc-tech-chief-ai-is-overwhelming-workershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/pwc-tech-chief-ai-is-overwhelming-workersJames Shira oversees technology and security for one of the world's largest professional-services firms. His argument to other leaders: the hardest part of the AI transformation is the weight it places on people.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:54:57 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/pwc-says-ai-reshaped-entry-level-roleshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/pwc-says-ai-reshaped-entry-level-rolesPwC analyzed more than a billion job ads and found that AI is reshaping junior roles rather than erasing them.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:38:23 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/us-clears-anthropic-to-bring-back-mythos5https://www.thestateofai.com/news/us-clears-anthropic-to-bring-back-mythos5Two weeks after a national security order pulled Anthropic's most powerful model offline, Washington has reopened the door. But only for names on a list it controls.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:39:39 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-reverses-ai-engineer-traininghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-reverses-ai-engineer-trainingSix weeks after conscripting its own engineers, Meta is not so quietly handing the choice back.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:46:59 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-claud-tag-bets-on-ai-teammateshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-claud-tag-bets-on-ai-teammatesClaude Tag launched today in beta. It lives in your channels, takes a task straight from a conversation, and works it in the background. The shift that matters is in how the work moves, not in the demo.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:21:44 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-to-require-some-claude-users-to-show-idhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-to-require-some-claude-users-to-show-idA quiet privacy-policy update means a "small subset" of flagged accounts could soon be asked to hand over government ID and biometric data. The timing, and the vendor, are raising eyebrows.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:21:24 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/bain-vibcoding-companies-buld-vs-buyhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/bain-vibcoding-companies-buld-vs-buyGood enterprise software was assumed to be expensive, slow, and painful to replicate, which is exactly why acquirers paid steep multiples for it. Bain & Company just put a price on that assumption.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:03:43 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-makes-enterprise-knowledge-tablestakeshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-makes-enterprise-knowledge-tablestakesA new post on how the company runs its own analytics doubles as a quiet argument: the thing knowledge platforms charge a premium for is becoming the floor.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:46:42 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/td-will-start-monitoring-employeeshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/td-will-start-monitoring-employeesTwo months ago it was Meta logging keystrokes to train AI. Now a Canadian bank is tracking its financial-crime staff to lift productivity.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:01:56 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/john-jumper-leaves-google-deepmind-for-anthropichttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/john-jumper-leaves-google-deepmind-for-anthropicThe AlphaFold co-creator's exit comes a day after Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer left for OpenAI. Two senior departures in two days, and a sharp reminder that the AI talent war is now the main event.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:31:15 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-stopped-hongkong-staff-from-using-claudehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/jpmorgan-chase-stopped-hongkong-staff-from-using-claudeJPMorgan Chase has stopped its staff in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's Claude models,Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:46:41 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/google-noam-shazeer-moves-to-openaihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/google-noam-shazeer-moves-to-openaiThe researcher whose ideas sit behind nearly every large language model in use today is changing teams again.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:49:50 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/state-farm-reducing-sales-agents-commission-aihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/state-farm-reducing-sales-agents-commission-aiFor decades, State Farm sold its agents on a simple promise: build a book of business and live off it for life. That promise is now gone, and what replaced it should make anyone who earns a living on commission sit up.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:10:19 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-companies-tone-down-fear-languagehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-companies-tone-down-fear-languageEvery technology sells itself on a promise. The AI industry found something that worked better: a threat.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:44:38 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-foreign-ai-talent-fearshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-foreign-ai-talent-fearsA government letter shut a leading lab's foreign engineers out of the models they built, and rival companies are now asking whether they could be next.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:23:55 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-ending-enterprise-partner-careershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-ending-enterprise-partner-careersBen McCarthy says Salesforce careers are over. The harder question is whether the same arbitrage is collapsing across Microsoft, ServiceNow, SAP, Workday and the system integrators that wire them together.Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:58:59 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/satya-nadella-says-humans-are-more-important-than-everhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/satya-nadella-says-humans-are-more-important-than-everMicrosoft's CEO argues that as AI capability grows, human judgment becomes more valuable, not less. But the part enterprises can't miss is what he says comes next.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:31:16 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/bamboohr-report-on-employment-fearhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/bamboohr-report-on-employment-fearLast week we left you with a puzzle. Fifty-three percent of Americans believe AI could put them or someone in their household out of work, even as unemployment sits near historic lows and the economy keeps adding jobs.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:35:13 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/amazon-warning-triggered-anthropic-fable-5-shutdownhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/amazon-warning-triggered-anthropic-fable-5-shutdownA jailbreak demo, a CEO's call to the Treasury Secretary, and a national security directive combined to pull the most capable model on the market away from the enterprises that had just deployed it.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:00:49 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-caps-employee-ai-usagehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-caps-employee-ai-usageMeta is reining in the very behavior it spent the past year encouraging.Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:30 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/jeff-bezos-building-ai-general-engineerhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/jeff-bezos-building-ai-general-engineerJeff Bezos sat down with CNBC's David Faber on Thursday and did something he hasn't done since the company launched: he explained what Prometheus actually is.Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:18:13 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-weighting-drastic-price-cutshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-weighting-drastic-price-cutsThe WSJ reports OpenAI may slash token prices to win customers from Anthropic, anticipating cuts Anthropic hasn't even announced.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:00:18 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/will-ai-take-american-jobshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/will-ai-take-american-jobsThe unemployment rate is sitting near historic lows. The economy added 172,000 jobs in May. And yet a Reuters/Ipsos poll released this week found that 53 percent of Americans believe AI could put them out of work.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:28:47 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-workforce-academyhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/meta-workforce-academyThis week Meta announced America's Workforce Academy, a $115 million program to train welders, electricians, fiber technicians, and HVAC installers free of charge, with a guaranteed job at the end.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:39:28 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/github-copilot-token-based-billinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/github-copilot-token-based-billingWithin twelve months, usage-based billing will be the default pricing model for every serious AI coding tool.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:38:18 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-releases-dangerous-model-fable5https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-releases-dangerous-model-fable5Two months ago, Anthropic's most powerful model was too dangerous to hand out. Today you can put it on a company credit card.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:46:53 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/how-leaders-are-using-aihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/how-leaders-are-using-aiA growing share of managers now run hiring, reviews, and firing decisions past a chatbot. The way those tools are built makes them a bad fit for the job.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:01:34 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/open-ai-rebuilding-chatgpt-ahead-of-ipohttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/open-ai-rebuilding-chatgpt-ahead-of-ipoThe "superapp" overhaul is a revenue story aimed at public-market investors, and it lands right after Anthropic beat OpenAI to the filing line.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:43 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/sam-altman-ai-budgets-huge-problem-for-companieshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/sam-altman-ai-budgets-huge-problem-for-companiesOpenAI's CEO says cost concerns went from a non-topic in January to one of the loudest complaints he hears, as firms blow through annual AI budgets in a single quarterThu, 04 Jun 2026 20:36:01 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/snowflake-cio-used-layoffs-to-force-ai-adoptionhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/snowflake-cio-used-layoffs-to-force-ai-adoption"At the time, my team hated me," Mike Blandina said of January cuts he framed as a "provocative" way to prove AI could replace lost headcount.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:16:56 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-codex-announcement-for-enterpriseshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-codex-announcement-for-enterprisesOpenAI's Codex announcement is a distribution counterattack, not a product one, and it doesn't change your build-versus-buy math before Q3.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:59:46 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-labs-hiring-forward-deployed-engineershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-labs-hiring-forward-deployed-engineersGoogle, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are racing to embed engineers inside customer operations. The reason has less to do with the job market than with a number the labs rarely volunteer.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:14:46 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/mcdonalds-makes-big-bets-on-aihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/mcdonalds-makes-big-bets-on-aiStarbucks just paid the price for scaling an AI tool before it was ready. McDonald's watched, then announced it is doing the same thing across 43,000 stores.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:40:50 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/bain-study-ai-cost-savings-miss-expectationshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/bain-study-ai-cost-savings-miss-expectationsThe most dangerous number in Bain & Co.'s new survey is not 40%. It is 44%.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:52:15 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-ai-democracy-job-postinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-ai-democracy-job-postingThe job is real, the salary starts at $295,000, and the pitch is that the company's own technology could buckle the courts and the ballot box.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:08:28 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-ai-powered-window-computer-chipshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/nvidia-ai-powered-window-computer-chipsNvidia already supplies most of the chips that build and run AI inside data centers. On Monday it moved into the computer on your employee's desk.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:02:23 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-files-for-ipohttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-files-for-ipoThe most important AI vendor you've never been able to see inside of is about to open its books.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:13:16 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/aws-opensearch-serverlesshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/aws-opensearch-serverlessWhen non-human traffic overtakes human traffic in the first half of 2027, AI platform teams still running self-managed vector search on always-on clusters will be carrying a structural cost penalty.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:37:26 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/melissa-rosenthal-outlever-founder-named-eic-stateofaihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/melissa-rosenthal-outlever-founder-named-eic-stateofaiTheStateofAI.com has named Melissa Rosenthal as its Editor-in-Chief. She will lead the publication's editorial direction and oversee its coverage of AI news, and strategy for enterprise leaders.Sun, 31 May 2026 21:23:24 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/launching-publication-for-enterprise-decision-makershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/launching-publication-for-enterprise-decision-makersWe lead with news, data, and what it means for the enterprise. We're opinionated when the numbers back it up. And we'll tell you when a launch everyone's celebrating doesn't actually matter for your stack.Sun, 31 May 2026 18:35:37 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-bom-shadow-aihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-bom-shadow-aiIf you cannot enumerate every AI asset running in your environment today, you have a gap that is now visible to auditors, regulators, and your security team's own scanning tools.Fri, 29 May 2026 20:54:23 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/one-hundred-thousand-layoffs-boost-revenuehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/one-hundred-thousand-layoffs-boost-revenueThe 2026 tech layoff count passed 111,000 across more than 140 companies before the end of May.Fri, 29 May 2026 20:53:36 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/frontier-ai-inference-pricing-structurehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/frontier-ai-inference-pricing-structureDeepSeek's V4-Pro now costs $0.87 per million output tokens. Permanently.Fri, 29 May 2026 20:52:00 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-openai-enterprise-ai-adoption-disney-synergy-map-2026https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-openai-enterprise-ai-adoption-disney-synergy-map-2026Anthropic now leads OpenAI in U.S. business AI for the first time, and four patterns from a 1957 Walt Disney sketch explain what changed.Fri, 29 May 2026 20:51:04 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/saas-vendor-data-ownershiphttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/saas-vendor-data-ownershipSlack, Fireflies, HubSpot, and the quiet data lockdown reshaping the build vs. buy debate.Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:34 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-subscription-price-subsidiation-endinghttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-subscription-price-subsidiation-endingSix days ago, we published a piece arguing that every AI subscription is a ticking time bomb for enterprise. We did not expect the fuse to be quite this short.Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:33 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bombhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-subscription-time-bombEvery AI lab is losing money serving your company right now. They know it. And they are doing it on purpose.Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:32 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/sam-altman-y-combinator-tokenshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/sam-altman-y-combinator-tokensSam Altman offered $2 million in OpenAI tokens to every startup in Y Combinator's current batch. It looks like generosity. It's a distribution play disguised as an investment.Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:31 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropichttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropicAndrej Karpathy joined Anthropic today. Not quietly. Not after a gardening leave cool-down period. Not after a year on the bench while lawyers negotiated.Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:30 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-layoffs-companies-gpuhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-layoffs-companies-gpuOver 150,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026. Nearly half were attributed to AI. PayPal is cutting 20% of staff. Coinbase cut 14%. Meta dropped 8,000. Oracle shed up to 30,000. Dow, 4,500.Thu, 28 May 2026 20:42:29 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-kills-ai-coding-because-of-pricehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/microsoft-kills-ai-coding-because-of-priceMicrosoft launched Claude Code internally in December. Engineers loved it. Finance killed it six months later. The company that writes 30% of its code with AI just learned what that costs at scale.Thu, 28 May 2026 20:39:10 GMTAI & Technology https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-synergy-maps-five-companies-disney-architecture-2026https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-synergy-maps-five-companies-disney-architecture-2026The race in AI has moved one layer up, from model capability to architecture, and the five companies shaping enterprise AI are running four fundamentally different bets.Wed, 27 May 2026 22:29:44 GMTEnterprise Strategy https://www.thestateofai.com/news/marketers-guide-to-open-clawhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/marketers-guide-to-open-clawYour engineering team is talking about OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and Tank OS. Here's what all of it actually means, and why you should care.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:41:05 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-gpt5-5-brand-leadershttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/openai-gpt5-5-brand-leadersOpenAI released GPT-5.5 this morning. Greg Brockman called it a step toward "more agentic and intuitive computing". And for brand leaders, the question isn't "should we adopt AI" anymore.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:50:31 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/lovable-anthropic-designhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/lovable-anthropic-designWhen your model provider becomes your competitor, the moat you thought you had turns out to be a feature they hadn't gotten around to building yet.Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:56:27 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/spacex-acquires-cursor-for-60-billionhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/spacex-acquires-cursor-for-60-billionSpaceX announced tonight that it has an agreement to either acquire Cursor, the AI coding startup, for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for their partnership work together.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:03:16 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/does-chatgpt-sends-traffic-to-googlehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/does-chatgpt-sends-traffic-to-googleSemrush research showed that 20% of ChatGPT's referral traffic fed back into Google, exposing a discovery loop that rewarded B2B brands visible in both layers.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:53:02 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-mythos-openai-cybersecurity-brand-trust-restraint-enterprisehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/anthropic-mythos-openai-cybersecurity-brand-trust-restraint-enterpriseAnthropic and OpenAI both shipped cybersecurity models this week, and the contrast in how they did it is the most revealing brand positioning moment of the year.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:30:44 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/stanford-ai-index-brand-investment-trust-transparency-2026https://www.thestateofai.com/news/stanford-ai-index-brand-investment-trust-transparency-2026Stanford's AI Index findings on transparency, convergence, and sentiment all point in one direction: brand is the hardest advantage to build and the hardest to replicate.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:47:07 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/emdash-cloudflare-wordpress-alternativehttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/emdash-cloudflare-wordpress-alternativeEmDash is the first CMS built around the idea that AI agents are an audience worth charging. For owned media, that changes everything.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:16:41 GMTIndustry & Platforms https://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-blind-spot-for-cmoshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/ai-blind-spot-for-cmosIt's not a skills gap. It's a standards gap. AI adoption is nearly universal, but almost no one has built the systems to govern it. Brands are fragmenting from the inside, and most CMOs don't see it coming.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:21:46 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/growing-audience-b2b-teams-are-ignoringhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/growing-audience-b2b-teams-are-ignoringMost B2B brand teams are optimizing for one audience while a second, faster-growing one forms impressions of their brand in conversations they can't see.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:19:15 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/stensul-enterprise-marketing-ai-surveyhttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/stensul-enterprise-marketing-ai-surveyMost enterprise marketing teams have an AI adoption mandate but no governance for what those tools produce, and the gap is already causing campaign errors, compliance risk, and slower workflows.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:31:58 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/mckinsey-report-cmos-ai-roihttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/mckinsey-report-cmos-ai-roiMcKinsey found that CMOs are winning with AI, but very few can demonstrate ROI on more than half of their marketing spend.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:31:10 GMTBusiness & Brand https://www.thestateofai.com/news/shoptalk-2026-ai-brand-governance-challengeshttps://www.thestateofai.com/news/shoptalk-2026-ai-brand-governance-challengesAt Shoptalk 2026, the gap between onstage AI ambition and offstage reality was hard to ignore, with more than half of organizations still operating without clear governance for marketing campaigns.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:21:28 GMTBusiness & Brand