
Salesforce Buys Fin for $3.6B to Boost Agentforce
Salesforce agrees to pay $3.6 billion for Fin, the AI customer service agent formerly known as Intercom, adding a proprietary model and 30,000 customers to Agentforce.
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Salesforce agrees to pay $3.6 billion for Fin, the AI customer service agent formerly known as Intercom, adding a proprietary model and 30,000 customers to Agentforce.

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 ships with 1M token context, 744B MoE parameters, and MIT license the day after Fable 5 goes offline - but no benchmark numbers at launch.

xAI ships an open plugin marketplace for Grok Build with six launch partners including MongoDB, Vercel, and Sentry, backed by SHA-pinned supply chain security and an open GitHub catalog.

The EU Commission has warned that Washington's Anthropic export ban is discriminatory against allies, as European politicians demand AI sovereignty and Dario Amodei heads to the G7 in France.

Microsoft's Experiences and Devices division is pulling Claude Code from thousands of engineers by June 30, a move driven by token costs that already burned through Uber's entire 2026 AI budget.

Artificial Analysis released AgentPerf, the first agentic AI infrastructure benchmark, measuring concurrent agents per megawatt. NVIDIA Blackwell leads with 20x gains over Hopper.

A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, served via subpoena just five days after the company filed confidentially for a $1 trillion IPO.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick ordered Anthropic to disable its two most powerful models worldwide - the first US export control directive ever issued against a commercial LLM.

Moonshot AI ships Kimi K2.7-Code with 30% fewer reasoning tokens and a 21.8% gain on its own coding benchmarks, but the model still trails Claude Opus 4.8 on most tests in the same table.

Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI team, created in March with a join-or-quit mandate, is in revolt: 1,600+ employees signed a petition against keystroke surveillance, bathroom-stall flyers appeared across US campuses, and UK workers began organizing with UTAW.

KPMG retracted its agentic AI report after GPTZero found that 40 of 45 citations were fabricated and case studies about UBS, the NHS, and Transport for London were invented.

Mistral AI is in talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its September 2025 price tag in under a year and cementing its status as Europe's most valuable AI company.