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Anthropic has made Claude for Teachers available as a free Enterprise offering for eligible US schools and districts. The rollout adds centrally managed accounts, single sign-on, role controls, district privacy terms and new teaching resources, shifting the service from individual educator access toward organisation-wide deployment.
Google Cloud has previewed Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, combining purpose-built agent skills, secure data connectors and a Financial Research agent. The platform is designed for regulated workflows, but its useful deployment will depend on each institution’s data entitlements, governance and review processes, including human validation of consequential outputs.
Google Cloud has previewed Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a governed agent platform for law firms and legal departments. It combines legal skills, permission-aware connectors and partner agents for research, contract and compliance workflows, while keeping human legal judgment and existing data controls central across confidential, matter-specific work.
xAI has made Grok 4.6 available through Google Enterprise Agent Platform’s Model Garden, giving enterprise developers another route to use the model for long-running agent and interactive workloads. The announcement sets out a 500,000-token context window, configurable reasoning effort and listed token pricing.
ThoughtSpot has launched AgentSpot for creating agents and workflows from plain-language instructions while keeping them connected to governed business data. It combines model routing, identity controls and activity logs in one environment. Organisations can start with three custom agents at no charge, although broader pricing has not been disclosed.
Databricks has made Unity AI Gateway generally available, bringing access control, observability, cost attribution and runtime policy enforcement to agents, models, tools, skills and MCP servers. Smart Routing is also entering beta, with routing decisions based on quality, cost, performance, availability and budget.
Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise can now connect natively to ZoomInfo’s account, contact and buyer-intent data. The public-preview connector lets authorised agents query the GTM Context Graph in natural language, with access controls and audit information tied to customers’ existing Gemini Enterprise and ZoomInfo permissions.
Scale AI has appointed Francis deSouza as chief executive, effective 10 August 2026. The former Illumina CEO and Google Cloud executive succeeds interim chief Jason Droege, giving Scale a permanent leader as it expands its work with model developers, enterprises and governments.
CrewAI has released a new Crew Studio experience that turns plain-language workflow descriptions into testable agent flows. It combines deterministic steps with agent judgement, more than 1,000 connectors, reusable agents, code export, tracing and deployment through CrewAI's governed enterprise runtime.
Notion has acquired AI infrastructure company ZeroEntropy and is bringing its full team into the business. The deal creates a new Model Research group and builds on reranking technology that Notion says has already made its unified search substantially faster.
Workday Learning powered by Sana is now generally available worldwide for Workday HCM customers. The integrated service adds an AI tutor, course generation, personalised learning paths and automated administration, while standalone Sana Learn remains available to organisations outside Workday's HR and finance ecosystem.
OpenAI has introduced Presence, a managed product for deploying voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, approved actions and human escalation. Limited general availability targets eligible enterprises, with deployments led by OpenAI engineers and selected systems integrators rather than a self-service console.
DataRobot has released an OpenCode integration that lets developers use closed, open-weight or bring-your-own models through its governed LLM Gateway. The coding agent is available from the DataRobot CLI and browser interface, with DataRobot skills and Agent Assist included.
Intel and Google Cloud have expanded their multi-year collaboration to deploy Gemini Enterprise across Intel and add agentic workflows to engineering and business operations. The agreement also extends Google Cloud infrastructure into silicon-development simulations, though financial terms, rollout dates and measured productivity gains remain undisclosed.
OpenAI has published a five-step framework to help organisations understand AI usage, control expenditure and identify agentic workflows worth scaling. Its central message is that AI investments should be measured by accepted business outcomes—not simply token prices or adoption numbers.
Mistral Studio now gives organisations a central system for managing, testing and governing AI prompts and skills. New features include immutable versions, ownership records, rollback, classification labels, audit logs and production traceability.