AI Agent Failures Need Escrow, Not Just Safety Training
Researchers from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Columbia propose financial guardrails for AI agents, with simulations showing up to 61% reduction in user losses.
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Perplexity Hits $450M ARR After Agents Pivot
Perplexity's annual recurring revenue crossed $450M in March after a 50% single-month jump driven by its Computer agent platform - not search.
Microsoft Commits $10B to Japan AI Infrastructure
Microsoft pledges $10B to Japan for AI data centers, cybersecurity cooperation, and workforce training from 2026 to 2029, partnering with SoftBank and Sakura Internet.
The Priest Who Helped Write Claude's Conscience
Father Brendan McGuire, a 60-year-old Silicon Valley priest and former tech executive, helped Anthropic rewrite the Claude Constitution after the company asked the Vatican for help because AI was moving too fast.
Anthropic Launches Managed Agents - Runs Your AI for You
Anthropic released Claude Managed Agents in public beta today, a fully managed platform that handles sandboxing, state, and tool execution so developers can skip building agent infrastructure from scratch.
Databricks CTO Wins ACM Prize, Says AGI Is Already Here
Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and claims AGI has arrived, but his own argument - and a $134B company's incentives - complicate the picture.
Meta Muse Spark Launches, Ranks 4th Among Frontier Models
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark, its first AI model built from scratch in nine months, landing 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
Eclipse Raises $1.3B to Back and Build Physical AI
Eclipse Ventures closed two funds totaling $1.3B to build and back physical AI companies in robotics, defense, and manufacturing as investor conviction shifts from software to machines.
GLM-5.1 Tops SWE-Bench Pro With Zero NVIDIA Hardware
Z.ai's GLM-5.1 scores 58.4 on SWE-bench Pro, edging out GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6, after being trained on 100,000 Huawei Ascend chips with no US silicon.
Utah Clears AI to Renew Psychiatric Meds Autonomously
Utah becomes the first government in the world to approve an AI system to autonomously renew psychiatric medication prescriptions, limiting it to 15 lower-risk drugs under a tightly supervised pilot.
Claude Mythos Preview Finds Thousands of Zero-Days
Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos Preview model autonomously discovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across every major OS and browser, including bugs hiding in plain sight for 27 years.
Anthropic Ships $100M AI Cyber Defense to 12 Rivals
Project Glasswing unites AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and seven other organizations with $100M in credits for Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model to patch critical infrastructure before attackers catch up.
