Quantum computing company Infleqtion said it will post 2026 revenue of $40 billion. For 2025, the company reported a loss from operations of $35.3 million on revenue of $32.5 million. Infleqtion specializes in neutral atom quantum computing. The company recently announced a deployment in the UK and went public.

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents, a suite of APIs for building AI agents and deploying them at scale. Claude Managed Agents is in public beta.

Claude Managed Agents include production grade agents with a secure sandbox, authentication and tool execution, long-running sessions and multi-agent coordination as well as governance.

Hitachi Solutions named Roger Lvin CEO effective immediately. Lvin had been founding CEO of Hitachi Digital Services.

According to Hitachi, Lvin will strengthen Hitachi Solutions, build on its global partnership with Microsoft and pursue the True One Hitachi initiative.

Also see: Hitachi Digital Services CEO Lvin on AI transformation, operations technology and use cases

Sigma, a company focused on AI-driven analytics, said it has hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue, double from a year ago. Sigma said it has added 1.1 million new active users in the last year.

Sigma's mission is to replace legacy business intelligence with tools such as Sigma Agents, which run directly in the data warehouse, Sigma Assistant, connectors and API actions that enable workbooks to trigger workflows.

SambaNova and Intel outlined an inference system that will combine GPUs, SambaNova RDUs for decode and Intel Xeon 6 CPUs for agentic tools and system orchestration. The system will be available to enterprises and cloud platforms in the second half.

As part of the partnership, SambaNova said it will standardize on Xeon 6 to go with its RDUs on the inference system. The system is part of SambaNova's blueprint for inference.

SambaNova recently launched its SN50 AI inference chip that runs agentic AI 3x cheaper than GPUs and said SoftBank will be the first to deploy the chip in its AI data center in Japan. The company also said it raised $350 million in Series E funding.

Anthropic's development of its Claude frontier models has spooked the cybersecurity industry (or at least investors) much in the same way the LLM player has freaked out the SaaS industry. Now with the launch of Project Glasswing and the Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic is securely entrenched in the cybersecurity value chain. As a result, its total addressable market just went up. So will Anthropic's $30 billion annual revenue run rate.

Meta rewards you to consume tokens. This is the same as IBM way back when rewarding you for lines of code. and bloat. Outcomes not tokens.

Also see: Where’s tokenomics for the rest of us?

Coupa and AWS said they have signed a 5-year deal to partner on spend management data and apps. Under the partnership, the two companies will combine Coupa's business intelligence network with AWS AI tools. The goal is to deliver autonomous direct and indirect spend data across sourcing, payment to supply chain.

The two companies said AWS customers will be able to deploy Coupa Navi AI agents, which are built on Amazon Bedrock, to automate procurement workflows.

Wipro announced an 8-year deal with Olam Group, a food and agri-business company, worth at least $800 million. The total deal is expected to top $1 billion in contract value. As part of the deal, Wipro will take over Olam's Mindsprint unit, which will combine domain expertise with the Indian services company's AI services.

Oracle appointed Hilary Maxson CFO. Maxon was previously CFO at Schneider Electric. She will report to CEO Clay Magouyrk.

The big takeaway from this announcement is that Maxson's previous role was at a data center and utility electrification provider. The hiring of Maxson highlights that Oracle is more about AI infrastructure over applications.

Today’s reading list has a common theme: Turmoil in the land of AI infrastructure. Here’s a trio of links:

The Information: OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing: The gist is this: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to go public ASAP to fund his GPU promises. CFO Sarah Friar has argued that the company isn’t ready.

WSJ: An Inside Look at OpenAI and Anthropic’s Finances Ahead of Their IPOs: The money paragraph: The costs are set to be so mind-bogglingly high that both companies report two different measures of profitability—one that includes training costs, and one that leaves them out.

In other words, all you have to do is strip out the compute costs and these companies look pretty good. I just spit out my coffee writing that.

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars: A Substack from former Microsoft engineer on Azure’s architecture and scaling problems.

Here's an interesting post on org charts in the agentic AI age from Block's Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha. A few observations after a lot of long talking:

• Block sees three roles in the org chart. Individual contributors, directly responsible individuals on the hook for outcomes and player coaches.
• "There is no need for a permanent middle management layer. Everything else the old hierarchy did, the system coordinates, and everyone is empowered, with a role that's much closer to the work and the customer."
• "At Block, we're questioning the underlying assumption: that organizations have to be hierarchically organized with humans as the coordination mechanism. Instead, we intend to replace what the hierarchy does. Most companies using AI today are giving everyone a copilot, which makes the existing structure work slightly better without changing it. We're after something different: a company built as an intelligence (or mini-AGI)."