Palo Alto Networks said it has added Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 to its Unit 42 frontier AI defense system, which is billed as "an agentic offensive security service."
Unit 42 has a multi-model harness for cybersecurity and includes continuous testing, multiple models, adversary simulation and accelerated remediation.
Manhattan Associates launched Editions for the Manhattan Active supply chain management portfolio. Editions are designed for multiple company sizes as well as industries.
The Editions are Essentials, Enterprise and Enterprise Premier and available for or ActiveWarehouse, ActiveTransportation, ActiveStore and ActiveOrder on Manhattan's award-winning ActivePlatform.
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.7, which is the company's most capable model and can check its own work more carefully.
Grok 4.7 lands in a week that's expected to feature a host of LLM launches. SpaceXAI continues to leverage price and said it has better performance and half the price of similar models. Remember that the key feature for LLMs is price and that reality may not be great for the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs.
Google launched Googlebook, a set of laptops starting at $899 designed for the Android stack and integrated with Gemini. Googlebook is the successor to Chromebooks.
According to Google, Googlebook will seamlessly integrate with your Android phone. Customers can easily use apps, move files and cast across Googlebook and an Android device.
Alibaba's Qwen released Qwen-Image-2.1 with open weights. The model combines text-to-image generation and image editing in one model. Qwen-Image-2.1 has 7B parameters in its visual generation component and is designed to be lightweight for inference optimizations. The model is in the ballpark of closed models and on par to slightly ahead of Google Nano Banana 2.0.
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Google's Gemini models reportedly hacked three companies in a test, but the incident wasn't disclosed since the LLMs stopped when they were hacking real companies. Here's The Wall Street Journal story.
CoreWeave said it has established an at-the-market (ATM) offering program that'll enable it to sell up to 35 million shares to raise money. The ATM program "is being established to provide ongoing financing flexibility and to support CoreWeave’s objective of migrating its enterprise credit profile toward investment grade."
In addition, CoreWeave said it will seek to raise $3 billion in convertible bonds due 2033.
Along with the fundraising, CoreWeave said compute capacity prices are moving higher. The company said it has signed short-term customer contracts ranging from three to six months at a price of $40 million per megawatt.
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Generac said it has inked a deal with Amazon for backup power at its data centers. Under the deal, Amazon will have the option to acquire nearly 1.7 million shares of Generac at $200.9266. Generac will provide up to $8 billion in backup power generators. Initial deliveries of backup generators are expected to total $2.4 billion in 2027 and 2028.
Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork and added new tools for making presentations and documents. The company rolled out Claude Docs and Claude Slides and Claude Design now works inside conversations. The company said it will roll the updates to Pro and Max plans first and then other accounts.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed their merger agreement officially and said they will remain deeply rooted in Canada and Germany. The new company is focused on sovereign AI and being a transatlantic counterweight to US frontier AI labs. The company will operate globally as Cohere.
According to The Information, Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia. The move makes some sense given Apple's popularity with AI developers.
