enterprise software

OpenAI pledges zero data retention to win clients from Anthropic

OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it will not store data from companies using its artificial intelligence models, unveiling new safety technology designed to detect misuse patterns without retaining customer information. The move comes as the ChatGPT maker seeks to lure…

Google Gemini can access all Workspace data by default

Google's Alphabet Inc. Gemini AI assistant has default access to business data across the entire Google Workspace ecosystem — including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Calendar, and Chat — unless administrators actively navigate to the admin console and disable it. The configuration,…

OpenAI says enterprise now tops consumer revenue

OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $40 billion, roughly doubling from the end of 2025, as the company's enterprise business has overtaken its consumer segment months ahead of schedule. CFO Sarah Friar disclosed the crossover during a shareholder meeting…

OpenAI’s revenue run rate tops $40B ahead of IPO

OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $40 billion, roughly doubling from the end of 2025, according to Bloomberg. The milestone strengthens the company's case for a highly anticipated initial public offering as it battles rival Anthropic for dominance in…

OpenAI replaces revenue chief amid leadership churn

OpenAI announced Thursday that Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company less than a year after joining in December, marking the second high-profile executive departure from the AI startup in a matter of days.

Cloudflare open-sources its AI agent workspace for any organization to deploy

Cloudflare on Wednesday released Cloudflare OS, an open-source AI workspace designed to give every enterprise employee access to AI agents, internal company tools, and custom micro-applications through a browser — without requiring developer expertise.

EY finds 4 in 5 firms alarmed by AI token costs

Enterprises are confronting a new financial reality as AI systems consume tokens at rates that have blown past forecasts, forcing companies to rethink deployment strategies and adopt cost-optimization measures even as per-token prices continue to fall.

OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise AI agent platform

OpenAI on Tuesday introduced Presence, an enterprise platform designed to help organizations deploy, manage, and improve AI agents across customer support, sales, IT, and other business operations. The launch marks OpenAI's deepest push yet into corporate software, moving the company…

Murati’s Thinking Machines launches Inkling, its first open-weight AI model

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, released its first AI model on Wednesday. Named Inkling, the open-weight model marks a milestone for a company that has raised $2 billion and attracted…

Microsoft coaches sales team to undercut OpenAI, Anthropic

Microsoft is coaching its sales force on how to aggressively compete against Anthropic and OpenAI, highlighting weaknesses in their rival products, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The internal guidance marks a sharpening of the rivalry between Microsoft and the AI companies…

Anthropic and Blackstone officially launch Ode AI venture

The enterprise AI services venture backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman has officially launched under the name Ode with Anthropic, giving a formal identity to the $1.5 billion joint venture first announced in May, according to PE Hub…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, its AI agent for enterprise task automation

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled ChatGPT Work, an AI agent embedded in its flagship chatbot that can autonomously execute workplace tasks across corporate applications, files, and workflows — the company's most ambitious move yet into enterprise automation.

Nvidia says its open-source AI model matches closed rivals at lower cost

Nvidia on Tuesday announced that its open-source Nemotron 3 Ultra AI model has achieved performance parity with leading closed AI systems on enterprise benchmarks — at one-tenth the inference cost — sending shares up roughly 4% on Wednesday as investors…

EU accepts binding commitments from SAP over ERP support practices

The European Commission on Wednesday accepted binding commitments from SAP to address competition concerns over its on-premises ERP maintenance and support services, concluding a formal antitrust investigation that began in September 2025. SAP welcomed the decision, framing it as an…

Meta shifts WhatsApp Business AI agent to token-based pricing starting Aug. 1

Meta is shifting how it charges businesses for AI-powered customer interactions on WhatsApp, moving from a per-message billing model to a token-based pricing structure that will take effect on August 1, 2026.

Microsoft launches $2.5B subsidiary to help firms deploy AI

Microsoft announced on Thursday the creation of a new operating entity called Microsoft Frontier Company, backed by $2.5 billion in funding and staffed by 6,000 employees, aimed at helping enterprises select, integrate, and generate returns from artificial intelligence technologies.

Nadella says every company should build its own AI model

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called on every company to develop its own AI model, arguing that firms that outsource their machine learning capabilities risk losing their reason to exist. In an interview with Yash Patil, cofounder of Applied Compute,…

Tencent shares surge as WeCom rolls out DeepSeek-powered AI agent

Tencent shares rose as much as 6% in Hong Kong on Wednesday, marking their largest intraday gain in three weeks, after the company began a limited rollout of Dayuan — a new AI agent for its enterprise communication platform WeCom,…

Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an always-on AI teammate inside Slack

Anthropic on Tuesday unveiled Claude Tag, a new AI agent that lives inside Slack Salesforce, Inc. as a persistent, always-on teammate for enterprise workers, marking the company's most ambitious push yet into workplace collaboration software.

Nadella warns AI industry against power concentration

Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, is pushing for a fundamental reset of the artificial intelligence industry, warning that the public will not accept a future in which a handful of companies dominate the world's most powerful AI systems.

Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise in one of OpenAI’s largest deals

Samsung Electronics has rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across its global workforce, marking one of the largest enterprise AI deployments OpenAI has signed with any company worldwide. The announcement, made on June 22, covers all Samsung Electronics employees in…

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, weighs DeepSeek V4 as cheaper engine

Microsoft is considering a fine-tuned version of DeepSeek V4 to power a cheaper tier of its Copilot Cowork enterprise agent, according to a report published Tuesday by Axios. The move comes as the company shifts Copilot Cowork to usage-based pricing…

OpenAI launches partner network with $150M investment

OpenAI is making its biggest play for the enterprise channel yet, unveiling the OpenAI Partner Network — its first formal partner program — backed by $150 million in funding and an ambitious goal of certifying 300,000 consultants by the end…

Nadella warns AI dominated by few models is unsustainable

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a lengthy essay on X on Saturday warning that a world in which a handful of dominant AI models capture all economic value would be "politically and economically unsustainable," calling instead for a distributed "frontier…

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 requires 30-day data retention, overriding enterprise deals

Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Fable 5, its most powerful AI model available to the general public, but the release came with a notable policy shift: a mandatory 30-day data retention requirement for all Mythos-class model traffic that overrides existing…