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Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and ‘resistance to censorship’

Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual private clouds have a strong new contender to consider. Today, Thinking Machines—the highly capitalized American AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati—released Inkling, its first major language model under…

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Amazon AGI director says AI agent reliability, not capability, is blocking enterprise deployment at VB Transform 2026

The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap persists — and why the answer isn’t better benchmarks. Silverthorn, who…

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Cohere VP says enterprise AI sovereignty requires control of the full agent stack at VB Transform 2026

Hundreds of enterprise leaders and technical experts packed the main ballroom of the luxurious Hotel Nia in Menlo Park this week for VB Transform 2026, the year’s preeminent conference on using generative AI agents to drive business outcomes. Rachad Alao, vice president of product engineering at the rising Canadian enterprise AI startup Cohere, joined VentureBeat…

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‘We have maybe 20 months’ to rebuild for AI agents, Meta’s infrastructure VP tells VB Transform 2026

Organizations need to transform to meet the needs of agentic AI. Meta VP of Engineering Barak Yagour opened his talk at VB Transform 2026 wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, a small sign of how far AI has already worked its way into physical life. His argument went further: enterprise infrastructure was built…

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1Password moves into AI cost management, betting that token spend is the next enterprise budget crisis

1Password on Tuesday launched AI Spend and Consumption Management, a new capability embedded in its SaaS Manager platform that gives IT and finance teams a unified, real-time view of how their organizations consume and spend on AI services from vendors including Anthropic, Cursor, and OpenAI. The move marks the latest strategic expansion for a company…

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Canva launches Code 2.0, offering AI website building to every user — including free accounts

Canva on Tuesday launched Canva Code 2.0, a major upgrade to its AI-powered coding tool that lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences using plain-language prompts — and then edit the results as easily as tweaking a Canva presentation. The feature is now available to all of the company’s more than 265 million monthly…

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ACRouter picks the smartest AI model per task, beating Opus-only setups by 2.6x on cost

Model routing is becoming a key component of the enterprise AI stack, dynamically sending prompts to the right AI model to optimize speed and costs. However, current frameworks mostly treat routing as a static classification problem, which severely limits their potential. A new open-source framework called Agent-as-a-Router tackles this bottleneck, treating the router as a…

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The desktop infrastructure problem that Kubernetes finally solves

Presented by Kasm Technologies Enterprise infrastructure teams have spent the better part of a decade pushing workloads into Kubernetes. Applications, APIs, batch jobs, data pipelines — if it runs in a container, it belongs in the cluster. The operational benefits are well-established: declarative configuration, horizontal scaling, self-healing, native integration with CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling….

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DeepSeek cut prices 75%. The 100x problem remains

DeepSeek’s recent decision to drastically cut pricing on its V4-Pro model by 75% should have been unequivocally good news for enterprise AI vendors and developers. Instead, many are discovering that cheaper models don’t automatically translate into healthier margins. The reason is simple: While inference costs plummet, agent systems are voraciously consuming tokens faster than prices are…

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Forget typosquatting; slopsquatting is the software supply chain threat created by AI coding tools

Slopsquatting represents an emerging supply chain threat made possible by AI hallucinations. As developers increasingly rely on AI coding assistants, they unknowingly grant cybercriminals access to their software from day one.  Understanding what slopsquatting is Slopsquatting is a new type of supply chain attack that uses large language model (LLM) hallucinations to inject malicious code…

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