According to Deloitte, enterprise AI is entering a new phase as organizations move beyond experimentation and begin deploying the technology at scale. But while AI adoption is accelerating, many companies are still trying to work out how to turn early successes into lasting business value.
Microsoft and 3M have formed a strategic partnership that combines next-generation AI data center infrastructure with enterprise-wide AI adoption, highlighting a broader industry shift toward integrating both the physical and operational foundations of AI.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/15/2026
The race to build the most capable artificial intelligence models is increasingly expanding into a second front: hardware.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/13/2026
Apple has sued OpenAI in federal court, alleging that former employees misappropriated confidential hardware designs and manufacturing information to support OpenAI's push into consumer devices.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/13/2026
Cloud security firm Sysdig has disclosed what its Threat Research Team describes as the first documented ransomware operation carried out end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent, with no human typing commands or directing individual steps once the attack was underway. The firm named the threat actor JADEPUFFER.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/10/2026
OpenAI and xAI both released major new AI models on July 9, a coincidence of timing that several industry outlets called one of the most competitive single days in the sector's history. OpenAI brought its GPT-5.6 family, consisting of three tiers named Sol, Terra and Luna, to general availability, while xAI launched Grok 4.5. Independent benchmarking conducted in the days since has told a more complicated story than either company's launch materials suggested.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/10/2026
Meta is stepping up its enterprise AI ambitions with the launch of Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model designed for agentic AI, alongside a new Meta Model API that gives developers access to the model for the first time.
As the artificial intelligence industry has spent the past several years racing to build ever more capable foundation models, Microsoft is increasingly focusing on another challenge: reducing the cost of deploying AI at scale.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/08/2026
Microsoft is making a $2.5 billion bet that the next competitive battleground in artificial intelligence will not be foundation models, but helping enterprises put those models to work.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/06/2026
Claude Sonnet 5 became the default model for Anthropic's Free and Pro plans on July 1 and is also available to Max, Team, and Enterprise users, as well as through Claude Code, the Claude Platform, and the Claude API under the model identifier claude-sonnet-5.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/03/2026
The AI industry's biggest names are investing in more than just models and infrastructure.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are backing Raise US, a new nonprofit that aims to raise $1 billion to help American workers prepare for an AI-driven economy.
Anthropic is moving further into scientific research with Claude Science, a new AI workbench for scientists that integrates research tools, produces auditable artifacts, and connects to specialized life sciences models and workflows from NVIDIA.
- By John K. Waters
- 07/01/2026
Anthropic’s Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, giving enterprise customers another frontier AI option inside Microsoft’s cloud development environment.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/30/2026