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The maker of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, closed a Series D round led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, more than doubling its valuation from $10.2 billion eight months earlier.

KPMG embedded Claude into its Digital Gateway platform, giving all 276,000 employees access to Anthropic's AI across tax, legal, private equity, and cybersecurity work in 138 countries.

Voice AI infrastructure startup Vapi closes a $50M Series B led by Peak XV at a ~$500M valuation after surpassing 1 billion calls, with Amazon Ring routing 100% of its inbound volume through the platform.

A majority-owned joint venture led by TPG embeds OpenAI engineers inside enterprises to convert frontier model access into measurable business outcomes.

Microsoft's enterprise agent control plane went GA on May 1, 2026, adding local Windows agent discovery, Windows 365 for Agents, and public-preview registry sync to AWS Bedrock and Google Gemini Enterprise.

The AI customer-service agent startup co-founded by OpenAI chair Bret Taylor closed a Tiger Global and GV-led round on May 4, lifting its valuation from $10 billion in September.

The four-way joint venture, announced May 4, 2026, will deploy Anthropic engineers inside mid-size companies and PE-backed firms, opening a new front against the major management consultancies.

AWS launched OpenAI's frontier models, Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents in limited preview on April 28, 2026, one day after Microsoft's seven-year exclusivity over OpenAI's IP was rewritten to a non-exclusive license through 2032.

At Cloud Next 2026, Google overhauled its AI cloud stack: Vertex AI becomes the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a new Agentic Data Cloud offers cross-cloud data access via Apache Iceberg, and the Virgo Network delivers 47 Pb/s to connect 134,000-chip training clusters.

UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley told investors the insurer will spend roughly $1.5 billion on AI in 2026, with a target of 2:1 returns, even as the STAT+ investigation puts the total bet at $3 billion and questions what the shift means for patients.

OpenAI unveiled workspace agents on April 22 — shared, always-on Codex-powered agents that operate inside ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans, with native integrations for Slack, Salesforce, Google Drive, and SharePoint.

Anthropic's new cloud service handles sandboxing, state, and permissions so companies can ship production agents in weeks instead of months.