How companies and professionals are adopting AI, and what it means for work.
xAI has added a $10-a-month SuperGrok Lite tier with basic image and video generation and longer chats, filling a gap left when Grok Imagine was restricted for free users.
Workplace analytics data cited by Forbes shows Claude usage up nearly 15-fold in enterprises in March 2026, as a user backlash against OpenAI sends people to rival assistants.
Meta says Horizon Worlds will stop working on Quest headsets after June 15, 2026, marking a retreat from the metaverse vision that cost Reality Labs tens of billions of dollars.
Meta is buying Moltbook, a Reddit-style forum where AI agents post and argue with each other, and folding its founders into Meta Superintelligence Labs; terms were not disclosed.
Microsoft announced Copilot Cowork, an agent that carries out multi-step tasks across Microsoft 365 using Anthropic's Claude, alongside a new E7 enterprise tier priced at $99 per user per month.
Elon Musk continues to argue that AI and Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots will make jobs optional and money less relevant, while economists see little sign of that shift in current labor data.
Anthropic has opened a marketplace where business customers can buy third-party tools built on Claude from partners such as Snowflake, Harvey and Replit, without the company taking a commission.
Anthropic's new AI Exposure Index estimates which white-collar occupations are most open to automation by language models, with programming at the top, while its economists see no clear rise in unemployment so far.
OpenAI is developing its own code repository platform that would compete with GitHub, The Information reported, as tensions with Microsoft persist and Codex passes a million developers.
Coinbase's Agentic Wallets drew thousands of AI agent registrations in a day, and bots have pulled about $40 million from Polymarket. A second, machine-run layer of the web is forming.
Anthropic revised its terms to make clear that Pro and Max subscription tokens may be used only in Claude Code and Claude.ai, shutting out independent agent harnesses.
Nick Evans, who runs Polar Capital's $12 billion global technology fund, says he has sold nearly all application software holdings, including SAP, ServiceNow, Adobe and HubSpot, and shifted toward chipmakers.
Even if AI valuations are inflated, the cost of using the technology is collapsing while its capability rises. For working professionals, that makes waiting the riskier bet.
The Remote Labor Index, built from real Upwork projects by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety, finds today's best AI agents complete only a small fraction of paid work to a professional standard.
Matt Shumer's essay 'Something Big Is Happening' compares AI in 2026 to the weeks before Covid changed everything. Here is what the argument gets right, where it overreaches, and what professionals should do.
Chief product officer Mike Krieger says Anthropic engineers routinely ship pull requests of 2,000 to 3,000 lines generated entirely by Claude, validating a prediction by CEO Dario Amodei.
On its fourth-quarter earnings call, Alphabet said roughly 50 percent of its code is now initially generated by AI coding agents and reviewed by engineers, up from 25 percent in late 2024.
A site launched by crypto engineer Alexander Liteplo lets AI agents post and pay for physical tasks; tens of thousands of people signed up while only a few dozen agents did.
