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AI & Technology

The shift from model capabilities to the economics of compute is accelerating with massive capital commitments.

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AI & Technology

AI & Technology
Anthropic signs $19 billion data center lease as AI infrastructure becomes a traded asset class
The shift from model capabilities to the economics of compute is accelerating with massive capital commitments.
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AI & Technology
OpenAI's GPT 5.6 is blocked for public release by the US Government, available only to vetted partners
Access to the most powerful model ever created is now restricted, widening the gap between those inside and outside the room.
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AI & Technology
Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs as it revamps Xbox, part of a wave of layoffs with AI cited as the primary reason
Major tech firms are reshaping workforces as AI tools take more tasks, with roughly 120,000 tech jobs cut in 2026 so far.
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ServiceNow & ITSM

ServiceNow & ITSM
ServiceNow shifts from AI hype to execution with new Otto interface and Control Tower governance
At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow rebranded Now Assist as Otto and expanded its AI Control Tower into a full enterprise command center to govern autonomous agents across the organization.
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ServiceNow & ITSM
July 2026 store release brings web access and playbook generation to Now Assist for Creator
The latest update for ServiceNow developers adds web fetch and search capabilities to Build Agent, enabling it to pull context from public URLs and generate multi-step playbooks from descriptions or BPMN files.
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ServiceNow & ITSM
ServiceNow schedules Q2 2026 financial results for July 22 as it continues to expand AI partnerships
The company announced it will release second quarter earnings following market close on July 22, with a conference call and live webcast to discuss performance and strategy.
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AI & Technology

Anthropic signs $19 billion data center lease as AI infrastructure becomes a traded asset class

The shift from model capabilities to the economics of compute is accelerating with massive capital commitments.

The shift from model capabilities to the economics of compute is accelerating with massive capital commitments.

TeraWulf signed a landmark $19 billion lease with Anthropic for a new data center campus in Kentucky, expected to reach 400 megawatts of capacity. This deal underscores how AI infrastructure is evolving from a utility cost into a financial asset class that Wall Street now trades, hedges, and insures. Alongside this, SK Hynix listed a $28 billion U.S. operation amid a memory chip frenzy, with DRAM and NAND benchmark prices rising roughly 660% over the past year. The narrative of the AI boom is moving outward: the model still matters, but the real action is in the power, chips, and financing that make models deployable.

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The Neuron
AI & Technology

OpenAI's GPT 5.6 is blocked for public release by the US Government, available only to vetted partners

Access to the most powerful model ever created is now restricted, widening the gap between those inside and outside the room.

Access to the most powerful model ever created is now restricted, widening the gap between those inside and outside the room.

OpenAI released GPT 5.6, the most powerful model to date with three tiers: Soul, Terra, and Luna. However, the US Government has blocked its public release due to cybersecurity strength, making it available only to vetted partners. This decision highlights a growing "access gap" in the AI landscape, where the gap between those with access to top-tier models and those waiting outside is widening fast. Meanwhile, AI inflation is transferring wealth from consumers to chip manufacturers, with Micron becoming the single most-traded stock in America as data center memory demand drives up hardware costs.

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IMFounder
AI & Technology

Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs as it revamps Xbox, part of a wave of layoffs with AI cited as the primary reason

Major tech firms are reshaping workforces as AI tools take more tasks, with roughly 120,000 tech jobs cut in 2026 so far.

Major tech firms are reshaping workforces as AI tools take more tasks, with roughly 120,000 tech jobs cut in 2026 so far.

Microsoft announced it is cutting about 4,800 roles, contributing to a total of roughly 120,000 tech jobs cut in 2026, with AI being the most-cited reason in May. This comes as coding agents now trigger half of Vercel's deployments, totaling 6 million per day. The labor math around who gets replaced, retrained, or handed a better agent is becoming a central theme of the industry. While tools like GenSpark and Gemini Notebooks empower individuals with capabilities that previously required entire teams, the overall shift in workforce structure continues to accelerate.

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The Neuron
The Guardian
ServiceNow & ITSM

ServiceNow shifts from AI hype to execution with new Otto interface and Control Tower governance

At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow rebranded Now Assist as Otto and expanded its AI Control Tower into a full enterprise command center to govern autonomous agents across the organization.

At Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow rebranded Now Assist as Otto and expanded its AI Control Tower into a full enterprise command center to govern autonomous agents across the organization.

ServiceNow has moved beyond proving its AI strategy to demonstrating how it executes across the enterprise. The new Otto interface serves as the unified front door for all AI interactions, routing work to specialized agents while the AI Control Tower provides five dimensions of governance: Discover, Observe, Govern, Secure, and Measure. This shift addresses the growing need for control as organizations deploy multi-agent systems, with the Control Tower now capable of actively intervening to shut down agents operating outside defined permissions. The platform also introduced the Action Fabric, allowing AI agents from any provider to trigger governed enterprise workflows headlessly, competing directly with similar initiatives from other major vendors.

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CX Foundation
Teiva Systems
ServiceNow & ITSM

July 2026 store release brings web access and playbook generation to Now Assist for Creator

The latest update for ServiceNow developers adds web fetch and search capabilities to Build Agent, enabling it to pull context from public URLs and generate multi-step playbooks from descriptions or BPMN files.

The latest update for ServiceNow developers adds web fetch and search capabilities to Build Agent, enabling it to pull context from public URLs and generate multi-step playbooks from descriptions or BPMN files.

Developers building on the ServiceNow platform now have enhanced tools for the Australia GA release. Build Agent can interact with the public web through two distinct capabilities: web fetch reads content from a specific URL up to 2 MB, while web search synthesizes answers to questions using public content. Additionally, the agent can now generate playbooks—human-facing guided processes with forms and approvals—from natural language descriptions or BPMN XML files. The update also introduces four new metadata types and improved update set management with human-readable names based on change summaries. These enhancements build on the June update, further streamlining the development experience for creators.

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ServiceNow Community
ServiceNow & ITSM

ServiceNow schedules Q2 2026 financial results for July 22 as it continues to expand AI partnerships

The company announced it will release second quarter earnings following market close on July 22, with a conference call and live webcast to discuss performance and strategy.

The company announced it will release second quarter earnings following market close on July 22, with a conference call and live webcast to discuss performance and strategy.

ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) confirmed it will report financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, on July 22, 2026. The earnings call will begin at 2 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, with dial-in and webcast options available for interested parties. This announcement comes as the company continues to expand its AI ecosystem, including its significant partnership with NVIDIA on Project Arc for autonomous desktop agents and an extended collaboration with Microsoft to integrate ServiceNow's AI Control Tower with Microsoft Agent 365. The platform now runs over 100 billion workflows annually, positioning itself as the AI control tower for business reinvention.

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