Upwork is buying its way into corporate staffing beyond freelancers
The company will merge Bubty and Ascen with its existing enterprise business to form a separate entity later this year.
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Cohere’s new AI agent platform, North, promises to keep enterprise data secure
Canadian AI firm Cohere is taking aim at alleviating data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that enterprises and governments can keep their, and customers’, data safe behind their own firewalls.
Two arrested for smuggling AI chips to China; Nvidia says no to kill switches
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Tuesday that two Chinese nationals have been arrested for their alleged involvement in illegally shipping “tens of millions of dollars” worth of high-performance AI chips to China.
For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS
This is a juicy competitive move for both companies after AWS faced an onslaught of criticism over its progress with AI.
Trump says he’ll announce semiconductor and chip tariffs
This announcement comes as the Trump administration is also mulling over its approach to AI chip export restrictions.
SAP is acquiring SmartRecruiters
SAP has reached an agreement to acquire SmartRecruiters, with SmartRecruiters’ software complementing SAP’s existing HR tools.
A backlog at the Commerce Department is reportedly stalling Nvidia’s H20 chip licenses
News of a backlog at the U.S. federal department comes less than a week after national security experts urged the Trump administration to reverse its decision that allows Nvidia to export H20 chips to China.
Enterprises prefer Anthropic’s AI models over anyone else’s, including OpenAI’s
Anthropic holds 32% of enterprise LLM market share by usage. This is a sharp reversal from just two years ago when OpenAI held 50%.
Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25 billion
The cybersecurity giant is getting into identity security with its acquisition of CyberArk, which is one of the biggest cybersecurity deals of the year so far.
Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability
Observe just raised a $156 million Series C round as the company looks to offer support for Apache Iceberg by the end of the year.