AI companies

Announced June 25, GA July 2026: Agentforce Help Agent bills $2 per autonomous resolution; no charge on human escalation or negative feedback; resolution blocks sold from 1,000 units; Data 360 and Agentforce unmetered during interactions. S

DeepSeek emailed API subscribers June 29–30 announcing an "official V4 version" for mid-July plus the first time-based pricing from a major LLM API: 2x peak rates during Beijing business hours (9–12, 14–18). deepseek-chat / deepseek-reasone

Bloomberg (Julia Love, Davey Alba), citing 10 current/former employees, reported July 16 that Gemini 3.5 Pro — promised by Pichai at I/O in May for June — is months behind internal targets on coding performance; a late-June training-data up

July 15: China's CAC registered Apple Intelligence for launch in mainland China; Alibaba confirmed Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence across iOS/iPadOS/macOS/visionOS (text + image understanding/generation); Baidu confirmed sup

A July re-verification confirms OpenAI's May-launched educator plan is still no-cost with a FERPA-aligned workspace — a settled landscape item, not a new launch.

On July 13, 2026, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake, and ServiceNow agreed to back a shared agent-connectivity standard built on Google's Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol — explicitly positioned as an alternative to Anthropic's MCP, the

Reuters interview (~July 12) with CEO K Krithivasan: TCS will convert 1–1.5% of associates (~5,900–8,900 people) into forward-deployed AI engineers and is evaluating acquisitions in AI, data security, and cybersecurity — a break from its or

July 10: Apple filed a 41-page complaint in N.D. Cal.

Anthropic shares trade on secondary markets at an implied ~$1.2T (+550% YoY), above OpenAI's ~$908B secondary mark; Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO in June after a $65B raise at $965B (May). Fortune reports ~$47B annualized revenu

July 9: Fidji Simo announced she is leaving her full-time role (CEO of AGI deployment / Applications; Altman's de facto No. 2) to become a part-time advisor, after three months of medical leave for a severe exacerbation of a chronic neuroim

On July 6, 2026, xAI rebranded as SpaceXAI (X handle @xai → @SpaceXAI), formalizing the Feb 2, 2026 all-stock SpaceX–xAI merger (~$1.25T combined) after SpaceX's record ~$75B June IPO (SPCX, $135/share, +19% day one). Grok products, SuperGr

Under a January 2026 Master Relationship Agreement (> $20B, 750MW of Cerebras wafer-scale capacity 2026–2028, expandable to 2GW by 2030), OpenAI serves GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras at up to 750 tokens/second (vs ~40–120 on GPU clusters; Cerebras