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Salesforce and Anthropic unveiled Claudeforce, a plugin with 37 pre-built sales skills that lets Claude access Salesforce data and take actions like composing emails and updating records. The move comes as Salesforce shares have fallen 22% in 2026 amid investor concerns that AI could replace SaaS platforms.

OpenAI has released the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex, letting workspace administrators manage users, permissions, and usage limits through conversational commands. The plugin is available now in the ChatGPT Work Plugins directory.

Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a preview product that connects its Gemini models to legal software like iManage, DocuSign, Everlaw, RelativityOne, and Harvey via MCP connectors. The tool automates contract review, legal research, and regulatory tracking while respecting existing permission structures.

Anthropic has moved its Claude Security vulnerability scanner onto Claude Mythos 5, its most capable model, in a public beta for Enterprise customers. The company is also integrating Mythos 5 into partner security products for hospitals, utilities, and banks, without exposing the model directly to end users.

Anthropic is revising its 30-day data retention policy after enterprise pushback, allowing regulated-industry customers to store the required data on their own cloud infrastructure instead of Anthropic's servers. The changes, built with more than 100 customers, are set to roll out this fall.

Mistral has released Agentic Search, a retrieval layer that lets AI models navigate, read, and verify information across complex documents instead of relying on single-pass chunk retrieval. The company claims accuracy improvements from 26.7% to 86% on FinanceBench and up to 39.6% lower p90 latency.

OpenAI has built a system called Private Safety Processing that detects misuse patterns across multiple interactions without storing customer inputs or outputs. The company says it only receives narrow safety signals—type and severity of activity—while data stays encrypted on customer infrastructure.

OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing to select customers, an automated system that monitors for misuse across multiple sessions without retaining any customer data. The move directly contrasts with Anthropic's July policy allowing 30-day data retention for 'covered models' like Fable.

OpenAI has reaffirmed its Zero Data Retention (ZDR) policy for eligible API customers using frontier models and previewed a new feature called Private Safety Processing, which the company claims allows safety monitoring without retaining customer data.

OpenAI has reaffirmed its Zero Data Retention (ZDR) policy for eligible API customers using frontier models and previewed a new capability called Private Safety Processing. The company says the new approach aims to preserve safety monitoring capabilities without requiring data storage.

Google Workspace ships with Gemini's access to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chat, Drive, and Meet turned on by default, using real-time retrieval-augmented generation rather than stored training data. Admins can disable these 'Workspace Intelligence Sources' organization-wide through the admin.google.com console, though per-user controls remain limited.

Writer released Palmyra X6, a post-trained variant of Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2 model, alongside an upgraded agentic harness. The company claims the combination can cut customer token costs by as much as 50% for basic tasks.

OpenAI has introduced 'Ultrafast,' a preview mode that it claims accelerates GPT 5.6 Sol to 14 times standard speed, hitting up to 750 output tokens per second. The feature runs on OpenAI's partnership with chipmaker Cerebras and is currently limited to a small group of customers.

Microsoft has begun rolling out a unified Copilot experience for a subset of users, merging consumer and enterprise apps as a first step toward a planned super app with chat, coding, and agentic features. Several consumer Copilot features, including Podcasts, Group Chat, and Deep Research, will be removed starting Aug. 18.

Amazon has released Microsoft 365 extensions for its Quick AI assistant, embedding agentic capabilities directly into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The extensions run entirely in the cloud, require no client-side installation, and connect to existing Quick data sources like Salesforce, Jira, Slack, and SharePoint.

New Ramp spending data shows Anthropic's flagship Fable 5 model, priced at $10/$50 per million tokens, is seeing weak corporate adoption compared to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. Analysts suggest frontier AI pricing may have hit a ceiling.

Mistral has made regional inference generally available, letting customers route requests through EU or US servers for a 10 percent surcharge, while also launching a paid Priority Tier that charges 1.75x standard pricing for faster processing during peak traffic. Both offerings carry significant limitations on what data and features they actually cover.

OpenAI is introducing Premium Seats for ChatGPT Business at $125 per user per month ($100 with annual billing), offering five times the usage capacity of standard seats and removing the five-hour usage limit. Standard seats remain unchanged at $25 per month.

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Business Premium seats, a new tier priced at $125/month ($100 if billed annually) that offers five times the usage of Standard Business seats and removes the five-hour-per-day limit on advanced features. The move comes as Chinese open-weight models increasingly rival closed-source frontier AI on capability.

Anthropic will make Claude Code's auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts starting August 14, reducing step-by-step approval prompts. The company cites a study of 1,053 testers showing auto mode caught 89% of harmful actions versus 13.6% for manual review.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports temporal policies—stateful authorization rules that evaluate an AI agent's entire session history, not just individual tool calls. The feature runs at the AgentCore Gateway, outside agent code, so it cannot be bypassed by prompt manipulation or agent bugs.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports temporal policies that evaluate sequences of agent actions, not just single calls, powered by a new open-source policy language called Dogwood. AWS also added rate limiting at the gateway layer to cap token, request, and connection consumption per user.

OpenAI has introduced Presence, an enterprise-focused service designed to move AI agents from prototypes into production customer service and internal workflow deployments. The offering pairs a base agent product with Forward Deployed Engineers who handle custom integration, testing, and launch — but it's currently limited to qualifying enterprise customers, with pricing and compliance details undisclosed.

Oracle is embedding Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and Gemini 3.5 Flash models into its Fusion Applications and NetSuite software, expanding a partnership with its cloud rival. Oracle shares rose as much as 8.4% to $127.64 on the news.

OpenAI is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20%, just three weeks after launching the models. The move comes as enterprises grow more cost-conscious and rivals including Anthropic, Google, and Moonshot AI push cheaper alternatives.

Perplexity has launched Personal Computer for Windows, extending its agentic AI tool beyond Mac to work directly across local files, Microsoft Office 365, and the web. The tool is rolling out now to Max and Enterprise Max subscribers on plans starting at $200 per month.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, marking the first release in the company's fifth-generation Opus line. Anthropic claims the model matches its top-tier Claude Fable 5 intelligence at Opus-tier pricing, though specific pricing and benchmark figures remain undisclosed.

xAI has made Grok 4.3 generally available on Amazon Bedrock, marking xAI's debut as a Bedrock model provider. The multimodal model offers a 1 million token context window, configurable reasoning effort (none/low/medium/high), and runs on Bedrock's Mantle inference engine using OpenAI-compatible APIs.

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that uses 41 billion active parameters per task. The open-weight model was trained on 45 trillion tokens across text, image, audio, and video, marking the first public release from Mira Murati's AI startup.

China's Cyberspace Administration approved Apple Intelligence for launch in the country, backed by integration of Alibaba's Qwen AI model across Apple's operating systems. The deal ends a two-year delay that began when Apple Intelligence debuted in 2024.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, introducing a three-tier system: Sol (flagship reasoning), Terra (balanced production), and Luna (fast inference). According to OpenAI, Sol scores 80 points on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index and 73.5% on ExploitBench, establishing new benchmarks while using less than half the output tokens of competing models.

OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in three variants: Sol ($5 input/$30 output per 1M tokens), Terra ($2.50/$15), and Luna ($1/$6). According to OpenAI, Sol achieves an 80-point score on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, 2.8 points above Anthropic's Fable 5, while using less than half the output tokens and costing one-third less.

Meta publicly released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding workflows. The model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning it slightly above Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna.

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The model, trained alongside recently-acquired Cursor, is positioned as a coding and enterprise tool that claims to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 on several benchmarks while undercutting it on price by 60-76%.

AWS has released infrastructure for deploying multi-turn reinforcement learning to train Amazon Nova models on SageMaker HyperPod. The system requires a minimum of 10 ml.p5.48xlarge instances and costs approximately $786-$1,180 per hour when running.

Amazon has added metadata filtering to its AgentCore Memory service for AI agents. In AWS evaluations across 151 questions, the feature improved overall question-answering accuracy from 40% to 64%, with context-dependent questions jumping from 16% to 69% accuracy. The update allows agents to filter memory retrieval by attributes like priority, department, or time range before semantic search runs.

Google is rolling out Ask Gemini and AI Overviews to Google Drive's Android and iOS apps. The features enable multi-turn conversations across Drive, Gmail, Chat, Calendar, and web search, available to AI Pro, Ultra, Business Standard/Plus, and Enterprise Standard/Plus subscribers in English plus 28 additional languages.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees the company will release GPT-5.6 in limited preview form only, with the Trump administration approving customer access on a case-by-case basis. The move follows stricter export controls imposed on Anthropic earlier this month.

Amazon Web Services launched Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed web search capability that gives AI agents access to tens of billions of documents without requiring external search APIs. The service, now generally available, runs entirely within AWS infrastructure and refreshes its index within minutes of new content appearing online.

Mistral released 20+ MCP-powered connectors for Le Chat, integrating tools like Databricks, Snowflake, GitHub, Stripe, and Asana. The update includes a memory feature that saves user preferences across conversations, with one-click import from ChatGPT. All features are available on the free plan.

Mistral AI has launched Le Chat Enterprise, powered by its new Mistral Medium 3 model. The platform includes enterprise search, agent builders, custom data connectors, document libraries, and hybrid deployment options, with all features rolling out over the next two weeks.

Amazon Web Services has released new capabilities for Bedrock AgentCore, its platform for building AI agents. The update includes a managed knowledge base that handles vector storage and retrieval across enterprise data sources, native web search using Amazon's Alexa infrastructure, and a payment system enabling agents to access paid content and APIs.

Microsoft is evaluating a self-hosted version of DeepSeek V3 to power Copilot Cowork as agent costs spiral. The company plans to launch a lower-cost tier within weeks while moving to usage-based pricing, charging enterprises for actual compute consumed rather than flat fees.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with pricing matching OpenAI's first-party rates. Codex, OpenAI's coding agent used by 5 million developers weekly, is also available with pay-per-token pricing and no seat licenses.

Mistral AI has launched Forge, a platform for enterprises to train custom AI models on proprietary data including codebases, compliance policies, and operational records. Early partners include ASML, DSO National Laboratories Singapore, Ericsson, European Space Agency, and HTX Singapore.

Amazon Web Services released Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA), a foundation model-powered service designed to extract and validate structured data from financial documents. The service uses custom blueprints to process bank statements, W-2 tax forms, 1099-B forms, and vendor contracts, offering what AWS claims is industry-leading accuracy at lower cost than using foundation models directly.

IBM has released Granite 4.1 8B, an 8-billion-parameter decoder-only language model with a 131,072-token context window. The model supports 12 languages and costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.10 per million output tokens, available under the Apache 2.0 license.

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, a 31B parameter (30B active, 3B per token) multimodal model supporting video, audio, image, and text inputs. The model features a 256K token context window, reasoning mode with chain-of-thought, and tool calling capabilities.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, positioning it as a step toward agentic computing and a unified 'superapp' combining ChatGPT, Codex, and browser capabilities. The company claims the model outperforms GPT-5.4, Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 across multiple benchmarks.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, one month after GPT-5.4, claiming improved performance on coding tasks and reduced token usage in its Codex platform. The model rolls out April 24 to paid ChatGPT tiers.