AWS Web Answer Keeps Searches Inside Amazon
Amazon's new AgentCore tool returns cited answers in one call, drawing only on its own web index and knowledge graph rather than outside search engines.
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Short reports on the people and companies shaping AI.
Perplexity Already Has 20 Agents per Employee
Perplexity's new Teammates agents run ongoing jobs for Max users, and Aravind Srinivas says its own workspace holds 10,000, about 1,000 active in a day.
Anthropic's IPO Odds Fall With Its Price
Kalshi odds of a 2026 Anthropic listing briefly fell below 60% as major investors doubted even a $1.5 trillion valuation after a tech rout.
Traders Wiped $700 Billion Off OpenAI, Anthropic
Pre-IPO futures cut OpenAI and Anthropic 18% in a month, yet still value OpenAI above its own round and Anthropic above what IPO buyers want.
GPT-6 Cyber's Exam Recreates OpenAI's Own Breach
OpenAI rates GPT-6 Cyber Critical and tests its restraint with a honeypot modeled on its own models' July break-in at Hugging Face.
Cursor Now Deploys the Apps It Writes
Cursor's agents can now build, check and host internal apps behind a link, a week after its own marketplace served a poisoned extension.
Huang Loses $15 Billion as Nvidia Sinks
Nvidia's 9.3% drop, its worst since January 2025, cost Jensen Huang $15.1 billion as investors bet the midterms will slow the AI buildout.
Apple Rations Its Staff's AI Spending
Apple has lowered some engineers' daily AI caps and may cut some teams to $25, while planning to charge customers for extra Siri AI.
Apple Drops the Siri AI Waitlist, Mostly
Siri AI no longer makes most users wait in a queue, but Apple's daily usage caps remain and a paid tier for more is coming.
Mistral Studio Adds Managed Agents and Apps
Mistral added managed agents, workflows and apps to Studio, pitching enterprises on running Large 4 and the platform in their own cloud or on premises.