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OpenAI unveils Workspace Agents, a successor to custom GPTs for enterprises that can plug directly into Slack, Salesforce and more

OpenAI introduced a new paradigm and product today that is likely to have huge implications for enterprises seeking to adopt and control fleets of AI agent workers.Called "Workspace Agents," OpenAI's new offering essentially allows users on its ChatGPT Business ($20 per user per month) and variably priced Enterprise, Edu and Teachers subscription plans to design or select from pre-existing agent templates that can take on work tasks across third-party apps and data sources includi

LinkedIn’s CEO is moving on; please hold your tearful video tributes

Ryan Roslansky has stepped down as LinkedIn's CEO after six years running the world's largest professional network. Dan Shapero, the company's COO, takes over immediately.

Google and AWS split the AI agent stack between control and execution

The era of enterprises stitching together prompt chains and shadow agents is nearing its end as more options for orchestrating complex multi-agent systems emerge. As organizations move AI agents into production, the question remains: "how will we manage them?"Google and Amazon Web Services offer fundamentally different answers, illustrating a split in the AI stack. Google’s approach is to run agentic management on the system layer, while AWS’s harness method sets up in the execution la

Are you paying an AI ‘swarm tax’? Why single agents often beat complex systems

Enterprise teams building multi-agent AI systems may be paying a compute premium for gains that don't hold up under equal-budget conditions. New Stanford University research finds that single-agent systems match or outperform multi-agent architectures on complex reasoning tasks when both are given the same thinking token budget.However, multi-agent systems come with the added baggage of computational overhead. Because they typically use longer reasoning traces and multiple interactions, it

Tesla Q1 revenue rises, driven by EV sales and FSD subscriptions

Sales rebounded a bit from the first quarter of 2025, as Tesla throws a ton of money at massive bets like robotics, AI, and its own chip fab.

SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.

Summary: SpaceX’s confidential S-1 pre-IPO filing warns that its orbital AI data centre plans “involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability,” contradicting Elon Musk’s January claim at Davos that space-based AI was a “no-brainer” achievable within two to three years. The filing comes as SpaceX targets a $1.75 trillion […]This story continues at The Next Web

NASA’s Artemis II moon mission shows space-to-Earth laser comms can scale

Observable Space and Quantum Opus teamed up to capture data beamed back from space.

VAST Data’s $30 billion valuation is a bet that the data layer is the real bottleneck in AI

Summary: VAST Data raised $1 billion in a Series F at a $30 billion valuation, more than tripling from $9.1 billion, with Drive Capital and Access Industries co-leading and Nvidia, Fidelity, and NEA participating. More than $500 million is secondary capital. The company reports $4 billion in cumulative bookings, $500 million-plus in committed ARR, and […]This story continues at The Next Web

How SpaceX preempted a $2B fundraise with a $60B buyout offer

Cursor was on track to close a $2 billion funding round this week but chose to halt discussions after SpaceX offered a $10 billion "collaboration fee" and a path to a $60 billion acquisition.

France confirms data breach at government agency that manages citizens’ IDs

The French government agency that issues and manages national IDs, passports, and other documents announced that hackers stole the personal information of an unspecified number of citizens.

Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree

Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a persistent Gemini side panel integrated with Workspace, and on-device AI APIs via Gemini Nano. Chrome Enterprise Premium at $6/user/month adds real-time DLP, data masking, and AI governance […]This story continues at The Next Web

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the Signal app.

BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving

Summary:BMW revealed the facelifted 2027 i7 simultaneously at Grand Central Terminal and Auto China with Gen6 cylindrical cells from Rimac, rare-earth-free motors with SiC inverters, and 250 kW charging. The i7 60 xDrive targets 350-plus miles EPA and 728 km WLTP; the i7 50 reaches 611 km and the M70 targets 686 km. BMW dropped […]This story continues at The Next Web

From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?

We wanted to show you what happens after the confetti falls. We checked in with some of our recent alumni, many of whom have sat down with us on Build Mode: The Founder Survival Guide, TechCrunch's podcast for founders at every stage.

Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia

Google's newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its cloud — for now.

Mozilla patched 271 Firefox bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos, and says the zero-day era has an expiration date

Summary: Mozilla released Firefox 150 with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier AI model distributed under the restricted Project Glasswing programme. The collaboration began with Claude Opus 4.6 finding 22 bugs in Firefox 148 earlier this year; Mythos produced more than twelve times as many. Firefox CTO […]This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI launches Privacy Filter, an open source, on-device data sanitization model that removes personal information from enterprise datasets

In a significant shift toward local-first privacy infrastructure, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, a specialized open-source model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) before it ever reaches a cloud-based server. Launched today on AI code sharing community Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, the tool addresses a growing industry bottleneck: the risk of sensitive data "leaking" into training sets or being exposed during high-throughp

Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager

Summary: Sundar Pichai opened Cloud Next 2026 with Google Cloud at $70 billion in annual revenue, 48% growth, a $240 billion backlog that doubled in a year, and $175-185 billion in planned capital expenditure. The Gemini app has 750 million monthly users, AI Overviews reach two billion, and the Gemini API processed 85 billion requests […]This story continues at The Next Web

Google turns Chrome into an AI co-worker for the workplace

Google brings Gemini-powered "auto browse" capabilities to Chrome for enterprise users, letting workers automate tasks like research, data entry, and more.

Fusion power may not be sci-fi. Just ask the people who sunk $5B into it.

Fusion energy has been “20 years away” for decades, but has the science finally caught up? Private investment in fusion companies surged from $10 billion to $15 billion in just months, and the money is coming from places you wouldn’t expect.  Watch as Rebecca Bellan and guest host Tim De Chant sit down with Rachel Slaybaugh, general partner at DCVC on this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast. The trio bre