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Palantir Continues Using Anthropic Claude Despite Pentagon Ban
Palantir confirms continued use of Anthropic’s Claude AI despite Pentagon plans to phase out the company after a supply-chain risk designation.
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Palantir confirms continued use of Anthropic’s Claude AI despite Pentagon plans to phase out the company after a supply-chain risk designation.
Gumloop secured $50 million in Series B funding to expand its AI agent platform that allows non-technical employees to automate complex workflows.
Elon Musk revealed Macrohard, a joint Tesla and xAI project combining Grok and autonomous agents designed to emulate the functions of software companies.
Anthropic introduced the Claude Marketplace, allowing enterprises to purchase partner-built AI applications powered by Claude through a centralized procurement platform.
OpenAI’s annualized revenue has surpassed $25 billion, driven by rapid enterprise adoption and partnerships with consulting firms to expand large-scale AI deployments.
Sentient introduced Arena, a production-style testing environment for AI agents, with backing from Pantera Capital and Franklin Templeton to measure reasoning reliability under complex conditions.
MiniMax posts strong 2025 growth, with AI subscription and enterprise sales surging. The company plans global expansion and a broader product lineup.
Atlassian introduced “Agents in Jira,” allowing enterprises to assign and manage AI agents alongside human employees within its project management platform. The feature is now available in open beta.
Guide Labs launched Steerling-8B, an 8-billion parameter LLM with interpretable architecture that allows every token to be traced back to its training data.
Anthropic reports rapid growth in India, with Claude Code adoption driving a doubling of revenue run-rate and enterprise partnerships across multiple sectors.
Spotify says its top engineers are relying on generative AI tools instead of writing code, as the company accelerates product development using internal systems and large language models.
Heineken announces up to 7% workforce reduction, citing AI and digitization as key tools to achieve productivity savings and support growth in premium brands.