- Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.
- Orbio announces $21 million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.
- Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again being put on notice.
- Salesforce lets its customers lead its product roadmap with the thinking that if one enterprise customer has a problem, the others likely do too.
- Anthropic bulked up its compute deal with Google and Broadcom as the company has seen its run-rate revenue surge to $30 billion.
- Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.
- AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
- CollectivIQ looks to give users more accurate answers to their AI queries by showing them responses that pull information from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok — and up to 10 other models — all at the same time.
- Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira," which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans.
- IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.


