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Sanofi Deepens Owkin Partnership With Five-Year Deal to Build Agentic 'Biopharma Agents' for Drug Development
Sanofi will license Owkin's K Pro platform for five years and co-develop autonomous AI agents for drug R&D, extending a partnership that began in 2021 and made Owkin a unicorn.
MIT and Harvard Teach Language Models to Ask Better Questions, Lifting a Small Model's Battleship Win Rate From 8% to 82%
An ICLR paper from MIT CSAIL and Harvard shows Monte Carlo inference helps Llama 4 Scout outpace GPT-5 at a Battleship test bed for around 1% of its cost.
OpenAI Pushes Codex Beyond Code Into Finance and Legal, Squaring Off Against Anthropic's Claude for Legal
OpenAI is extending Codex into finance and legal work, weeks after Anthropic expanded Claude for Legal with 12 plugins and 20-plus integrations.
Microsoft Unveils Project Solara, an Android-Based Platform for 'Agent-First' Devices, With a Wearable AI Badge
At Build 2026, Microsoft revealed Project Solara, a chip-to-cloud platform built on AOSP for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, including a reference-design wearable badge.
Raindrop Open-Sources Workshop, a Local MIT-Licensed Debugger That Lets Coding Agents Write and Run Their Own Agent Evals
Raindrop released Workshop, a free local debugger that streams an AI agent's tokens, tool calls, and spans to a browser and lets Claude Code write and fix evals against the trace.
Microsoft Build 2026 Bets on Windows as an Agent Platform, Unveils Project Polaris and Azure Agent Mesh
At Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot, open-sourced the Windows Agent Framework, and previewed the Windows Agent Runtime and Azure Agent Mesh.
Cognition Raises $1 Billion at $26 Billion Valuation as Devin AI Engineer Hits $492 Million in Annualized Revenue
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 Deploys Claude Across 276,000-Person Workforce in Global Anthropic Alliance
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.
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.7-Max at Cloud Summit, a Long-Horizon Agent Model That Ran Autonomously for 35 Hours
Qwen3.7-Max debuts at Alibaba's Cloud Summit in Hangzhou as the company's most capable agent model, sustaining continuous autonomous execution for 35 hours in internal testing.
Three-Quarters of Enterprise AI Customer Service Deployments Are Rolled Back, New Study Finds
A Sinch survey of 2,527 AI decision-makers finds 74% have shut down live AI customer communications agents, with rollback rates rising to 81% among the most governance-mature organizations.
OpenAI Details Codex Windows Sandbox Redesign With Two Local Accounts, DPAPI Credentials, and a Four-Layer Execution Path
After a March 2026 launch that left users contending with broad ACL changes and stale sandbox profiles, OpenAI published a stricter design splitting Codex into offline and online local users with DPAPI-protected credentials and a command-runner handoff.
Google Unveils Googlebook Laptop Line and Gemini Intelligence at the Android Show, Setting Up an Android Push Across Phones, Cars and Laptops
At its May 12 Android Show, Google introduced Gemini Intelligence and a new Googlebook laptop category built with Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo, with Chromebooks able to move to Googlebook-style software via firmware update.