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SAP announced a €1 billion ($1.16 billion) four‑year investment in Prior Labs, an 18‑month‑old German AI firm specializing in tabular foundation models. The deal, pending regulatory clearance, includes a cash‑heavy upfront payment to the founders and will keep Prior Labs’ open‑source tools publicly available. SAP plans to fold the startup into an independent AI lab focused on structured‑data applications across its ERP portfolio, while tightening its API policy to allow only SAP‑endorsed agents such as its own Joule platform and Nvidia’s NemoClaw. Read more

GitHub announced that its AI‑assisted coding tool, Copilot, will move to a usage‑based pricing model on June 1. The change follows a surge in token consumption driven by new agentic AI assistants and a pause on new plan sign‑ups. Users can preview potential charges with a new “preview bill” feature before the transition. GitHub says the shift aims to align costs with actual usage and preserve a reliable experience for all subscribers. Read more

At the Google Cloud Next conference, the company unveiled a suite of AI-driven tools for its Workspace productivity platform. Named Workspace Intelligence, the new features let users tap Gemini to draft emails, generate documents, and auto‑populate spreadsheets. Administrators retain control over data access, and Google promises up to nine‑times faster data entry in Sheets. The rollout marks Google’s push to embed generative AI deeper into everyday office workflows, positioning its entrenched suite against rivals from Microsoft to emerging startups. Read more

Palo Alto‑based NeoCognition, a spin‑out from Ohio State University, announced a $40 million seed round led by Cambium Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures. The startup aims to close the reliability gap in current AI agents by giving them the ability to build domain‑specific world models through on‑the‑job learning. Backed by investors such as Vista Equity Partners, Intel CEO Lip‑Bu Tan and Databricks co‑founder Ion Stoica, NeoCognition plans to target enterprise SaaS vendors with agents that improve performance within each software’s unique environment. Read more

Factory, a San Francisco‑based startup that builds AI agents for enterprise engineering teams, announced a $150 million Series B round that values the company at $1.5 billion. The financing was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners and Blackstone, and brought Keith Rabois onto the board. Founder Matan Grinberg said the firm’s edge lies in its ability to toggle between foundation models such as Anthropic’s Claude and DeepSeek. Customers already include Morgan Stanley, Ernst & Young and Palo Alto Networks. Read more

Anthropic has added its Claude AI assistant to Microsoft Word, rolling it out in beta for Teams and Enterprise customers. The integration promises document‑level assistance such as instant citations, formatting‑preserving edits, and a tracked‑changes mode that fits naturally into review workflows. Claude can also pull data from open Excel files and respond to comment threads, aiming to streamline work for lawyers, finance teams and other document‑heavy users. The move follows Anthropic's recent expansions into Excel and PowerPoint, signaling a broader push to embed its AI across the Microsoft Office suite. Read more

Microsoft is testing a new AI agent that mimics the open‑source OpenClaw tool but runs within its Microsoft 365 Copilot suite. The company says the feature, aimed at enterprise customers, will offer tighter security controls and operate continuously to handle multistep tasks. While the agent could run on local hardware, Microsoft has not confirmed its deployment model. The firm plans to showcase the technology at its Build conference in June, following a series of recent Copilot‑related launches. Read more

Anthropic released a public‑beta add‑in that embeds its Claude AI directly into Microsoft Word on both Mac and Windows. The tool, available through Microsoft AppSource, automatically generates tracked changes as it reviews contracts, summarizes key terms and flags unusual provisions. Access is limited to Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers, with pricing at $25 per seat per month. The move follows Anthropic’s earlier legal‑plugin launch that rattled the legal‑tech market in February and marks the company’s push to embed generative AI across the entire Microsoft Office suite. Read more

Peter Bailis, who joined Workday as chief technology officer in May 2025, departed the enterprise‑software firm last month to become a member of technical staff at AI startup Anthropic. The move trades a C‑suite title for a hands‑on role focused on reinforcement learning engineering, giving Bailis direct access to cutting‑edge model training while placing him inside a company that is now building the kind of HR software Workday sells. Anthropic’s rapid push into enterprise markets and its $30 billion revenue run rate make the hire a strategic signal for both firms. Read more

Enterprises are rapidly embedding autonomous coding assistants and AI‑driven DevOps tools into their software pipelines, but experts say the speed of adoption is outpacing oversight. Citing a recent AWS outage caused by a misconfigured AI agent, analysts stress that least‑privilege access, sandboxed environments, and rigorous human review are essential to prevent small errors from becoming major incidents. Governance, they argue, should be built into the deployment pipeline, not tacked on after a breach. The consensus: AI agents can boost productivity, but only when managed like fast‑acting junior engineers. Read more

ScaleOps, a startup that automates the management of cloud and AI infrastructure, announced a $130 million Series C financing round led by Insight Partners. The company’s software claims to cut cloud and AI costs by up to 80% by dynamically reallocating compute resources in real time. Founded in 2022 by former Run:ai engineer Yodar Shafrir, ScaleOps targets enterprises running Kubernetes‑based workloads and counts Adobe, Wiz, DocuSign, Salesforce and Coupa among its customers. With the new capital, the firm plans to expand its product suite and accelerate global growth. Read more

Qodo, a New York‑based startup that builds AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, announced a $70 million Series B round led by Qumra Capital. The funding brings the company’s total capital to $120 million and positions it to address the growing need for verification of AI‑generated code. Qodo’s platform evaluates how code changes affect entire systems, incorporates organizational standards, and learns each company’s definition of quality. The startup already works with major enterprises and has topped a leading code‑review benchmark, highlighting its ability to catch complex bugs without overwhelming developers. Read more

Anthropic announced a $100 million investment in the Claude Partner Network, a program that offers training, technical support, joint go‑to‑market initiatives and certification to consulting firms such as Accenture, Deloitte, Cognizant and Infosys. The network, launched in March 2026, aims to embed Claude, Anthropic’s flagship AI model, across large enterprises while the company fights a Pentagon‑led legal dispute over national‑security designations. Cloud providers including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft will continue to host Claude for non‑defense workloads, positioning the partner program as the core of Anthropic’s commercial strategy. Read more

Rox, a sales‑automation startup that builds autonomous AI agents to boost revenue productivity, has closed a new funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion. The round was led by returning backer General Catalyst and follows earlier seed and Series A investments that together total $50 million. Founded in 2024 by former New Relic chief growth officer Ishan Mukherjee, Rox positions its platform as an intelligent revenue operating system that plugs into existing software stacks and automates tasks such as account monitoring, prospect research, and CRM updates. Customers include Ramp, MongoDB, and New Relic, and the company competes with established revenue‑intelligence firms and emerging AI‑native CRM solutions. Read more

Perplexity announced Personal Computer, software that turns a Mac mini into an always‑on AI agent that links local files, apps and cloud services. The product is limited to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month with 10,000 compute credits and includes audit trails and a kill switch. At the same event the company unveiled an enterprise version with SOC 2 Type II compliance, SAML single sign‑on, audit logs and sandboxing, and native integrations with Snowflake, Salesforce, HubSpot and other platforms. Finance data tools were expanded, and new developer APIs were introduced, underscoring Perplexity’s push to sell AI orchestration rather than a single model. Read more

Anthropic announced new updates that tightly link its Claude AI assistant with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. The enhancements let users maintain a single, continuous conversation across both applications, eliminating repetitive copy‑and‑paste. Claude can read spreadsheet data and insert it directly into presentations, while reusable "Skills" let organizations save and share automated workflows with a single click. A preloaded set of starter Skills for common tasks is also included. The features are available to paid‑plan users on both Mac and Windows platforms. Read more

NVIDIA is preparing an open-source AI agent platform named NemoClaw, aimed at enterprise software users. The chipmaker is reaching out to companies such as Salesforce, Cisco and Google to explore partnerships before its upcoming developer conference. NemoClaw will let users dispatch autonomous AI agents for a range of tasks, even on systems that do not run NVIDIA hardware. To address security concerns, NVIDIA plans to add extra safeguards for enterprise customers. The move signals NVIDIA’s push to broaden AI capabilities beyond its traditional chip business. Read more

Legora, the Stockholm‑born AI platform for legal work (formerly Leya), announced a $550 million Series D round led by Accel that lifts its valuation to $5.55 billion. The round brings a mix of new and existing investors, including Alkeon Capital, Bain Capital, Firstmark Capital, Menlo Ventures, Sands Capital, Starwood Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Benchmark, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, ICONIQ, Redpoint Ventures and Y Combinator. Proceeds will fund rapid U.S. expansion, new offices and scaling of its document‑review, research and contract‑drafting tools, which already serve 800 customers across more than 50 markets. Read more

Google has added new Gemini‑driven artificial‑intelligence tools to its core Workspace suite, including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The features let users generate full drafts, pull information from email, files, and the web, and search with natural language. In testing, the assistant quickly assembled an itinerary by scanning the writer's inbox and online sources, but the resulting prose was described as bland and corporate‑sounding. While the tools show promise for internal communications and marketing tasks, the author notes they are less suited for personal or creative writing and advises treating Gemini as a research assistant rather than a search engine. Read more

Anthropic has launched Code Review, an AI-driven reviewer built into its Claude Code platform. Designed for enterprise customers, the tool automatically scans pull requests, highlights logical errors, and offers actionable fixes directly in GitHub. By focusing on high‑priority bugs rather than style issues, Code Review aims to reduce the bottleneck caused by the surge of AI‑generated code, helping large development teams ship faster and with fewer defects. Read more