Anthropic’s Claude for Startups program page says approved founders get a free year of Claude Team, $1,000 in Claude API credits and up to $45K in offers from partner companies. Anthropic announced ...

Figma moved the agent in Figma Design and its Weave tools from open beta to general availability on 6 October 2026, and both now consume Figma AI credits, according to Figma’s own AI credit FAQ. Usage ...

The World Bank’s Africa Economic Update, published October 6, 2026 under the subtitle “Building AI Readiness”, comes with a release saying Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth is “projected to rise from 4.1% ...

Anthropic announced on 6 October 2026 that Claude for Google Workspace is in public beta on all paid Claude plans. The add-on opens a Claude sidebar in Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Anthropic also ...

A five-day jury trial in Qualcomm’s suit against Arm Holdings is due to open in Delaware federal court on Monday 5 October 2026. Reuters reports that Qualcomm accuses Arm of withholding chip testing ...

Valon Technologies said on 5 October 2026 that it raised a $150 million Series D at a $2.3 billion valuation, which it says doubles its last valuation, with Ribbit Capital joining as a new investor ...

The World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, published October 6, 2026 under the title “Riding the AI Wave”, says the region is expected to grow by 4.5 percent in 2026. It says the 0.3 ...

Atlassian and OpenAI each published a post on 6 October 2026 about an expanded partnership that, OpenAI says, builds on a collaboration that began in 2023. OpenAI’s post says: “Under a new agreement, ...

Boost Run Inc. (Nasdaq: BRUN) said in an 8-K filed on 6 October 2026 that on 30 September its subsidiary Boost Run LLC signed a Service Agreement with Cohere Inc to provide Cohere with “access to ...

Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT) said in a release on 6 October 2026 that it is working with Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) to speed up development of chipmaking technology for ...

Mistral AI said on 6 October 2026 that it is launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4, which its announcement calls “a 1 trillion-parameter natively multimodal model with 49 billion active ...

On 6 October 2026 Sierra published a blog post by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor announcing Personal Agent Protocol. The post calls it “an open standard Meta and Sierra are developing along with industry ...