Global Enterprise (10000+ employees)

AI did not just dominate the product headlines in the first half of 2026. It became the defining force in global stock issuance, and one banker is already invoking the crashes of 2000 and 2021.

An 18-day blackout of Anthropic's most advanced models just ended. The lesson for anyone building on frontier AI is that access is now a policy decision, not only a technical one.

Together AI just raised one of 2026's largest AI infrastructure rounds, and the lead investor is a Saudi oil giant betting that open models, not closed APIs, will run enterprise AI.

The first global, fully independent scientific body on AI has one blunt message for governments. The world cannot govern what it cannot understand, and the evidence often arrives too late to act on.

Microsoft's June 30 deadline to end Claude Code access across its Experiences and Devices division has arrived, forcing thousands of engineers onto GitHub Copilot CLI.

Gartner forecasts that AI coding token costs will overtake the average developer's salary by 2028, and the evidence is already arriving from Slash, Uber, and Microsoft.

Samsung and SK Hynix will invest 800 trillion won alongside the South Korean government to build four new chip fabs, expand high-bandwidth memory production, and create a nationwide semiconductor ecosystem for the AI era.

A US export order pulled Anthropic's top models offline worldwide. Austria's answer: invite the company to set up shop inside the European Union.

Six senior Google DeepMind researchers have left for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta in five months, wiping roughly $270 billion from Alphabet's market value.

Most enterprise AI dies in pilot purgatory. HP says it found enough wins to scale its OpenAI Frontier partnership across the whole company, security team first.

OpenAI's strongest model yet is here, but you probably cannot use it. The US government asked OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6 to about 20 vetted partners first.

Former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb launched RAISE US, a bipartisan nonprofit backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon seeking $1 billion to retrain American workers displaced by AI.