Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic’s white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
Month: August 2026
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read the full conversation — and jump in unprompted
Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn't model intelligence — it's the fact that most people still use AI alone.In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic's head of product for enterprise, laid out the company's thesis for what it calls "multiplayer AI": a shift away from…
Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs
Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic "Computer" platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines equipped with Nvidia RTX GPUs.The launch, developed in close partnership with Nvidia, is one of the most aggressive attempts yet to move serious…
Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.
A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639 labeled real-world incidents, it came back at No.…
Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversational AI to legacy systems never built for it, says Gaurav Anand, global head of the Customer Interaction Suite at Tata…
The fix for the AI agent that hijacked a company's DNS: it can propose the change, but it can't approve it
A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker’s prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the company’s DNS. The firewall had already blocked that payload, and blocking it is what wrote it into the log.That chain is GhostJacking, which Tenet Security demonstrated on the DEF CON 34 main stage on August 9. A…
Salesforce just put its entire CRM inside Claude — and says you’ll never need its app again
Salesforce and Anthropic announced Tuesday a sweeping expansion of their partnership, called Claudeforce, that pushes the world's largest customer relationship management platform directly inside Claude — a tacit acknowledgment that the future of enterprise software may not involve enterprise software's own screens at all.The centerpiece of the announcement is Salesforce in Claude, a plugin for…