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Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world
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Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year
Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span "both consumer and commercial experiences" when it launches this year. "Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots," Nadella said. "This quarter, we are bringing these Copilot experiences together, including code, in one super app… This is a major step forward, and I look forward to sharing more soon." Nadella's confirmation comes months after a report from Fortune revealed that Microsoft is working on a super app that blends its … Read the full story at The Verge.
Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents
Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do to make them viable for users - and how it will convince less technical people to give them a shot: Soon we will have agents that can work 24/7 on your behalf to help you achieve your goals and improve your life, your health, your relationships, your finances, whatever you want. The first domain that agents have really taken off in is coding. … Read the full story at The Verge.
Qualcomm is raising phone chip prices starting September 1st
RAMageddon won't be the only reason your next phone costs more - Qualcomm is about to raise prices on all its processors, as well. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on Wednesday that "prices are going to go up" on the company's products starting on September 1st, CNBC reports. The price hikes were rumored last week to be "a percentage in the double digits." Qualcomm announced the planned price increases while reporting a 20 percent year-over-year drop in revenue from its handset business, the lowest it's reported since 2021. In its quarterly earnings presentation, Qualcomm said this drop is due to "unprecedented increases in memory pricing … Read the full story at The Verge.
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
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Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.
At Waymo, an AI project isn't ready until its evals are — not when the model performs well
Few companies face higher stakes when deploying AI than Waymo, the self-driving car company under Alphabet that spun out of Google. Its models do not merely generate text or automate back-office tasks: They help vehicles navigate unpredictable streets, respond to human drivers and make split-second decisions in the physical world.But the methods Waymo uses to manage those risks — continuous evaluation, carefully curated data, human oversight and clearly defined business outcomes — offer a broader playbook for enterprises deploying AI agents in nearly any industry.Manasi Joshi, Waymo’s director of engineering for systems intelligence and machine learning, explained at VB Transform 2026 how the autonomous vehicle company trains, tests and deploys AI at scale. To date, Waymo has driven more than 220 million fully autonomous, or rider-only, miles, with 17 times fewer serious crash injuries than human drivers over the same distance, according to the company. To achieve these impressive resu
Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built.Here s a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observability, connectivity, and security — as shown at VB Transform 2026.BAND is orchestrating all the agents you have running in the backgroundIn the very near future, agents will be deployed everywhere, and they will do work on our behalf, noted Vlad Luzin, CTO and co-founder of BAND. As he describes it: They will receive tasks, visit registries, recruit other agents to help them, delegate subtasks to AI peers in a “conversational space,” gather and share results, then return a summary to the human user. BAND is building a coordination infrastructure layer for multi-agent AI systems to make this a reality. Why don’t Telegram, Slack, or Discord solve the problem? These platforms were built for humans, Luzin noted. Agents
Claude: Elevated errors across all models
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