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The U.S. Department of Defense has signed an agreement with Anduril for the mass production of Barracuda-500M cruise missiles, marking a significant new defense contract for the company.

Source: Defence Industry Europe

Notion has launched a developer platform focused on AI agents and workflow automation, positioning itself as infrastructure for developers building AI-powered tools and integrations.

Source: InfoWorld

Glean has introduced the Enterprise Agent Development Lifecycle, a framework designed to help enterprises systematically build, govern, and measure AI agents rather than deploying them in an ad hoc manner.

Source: No Jitter

Revolut is preparing to launch a private banking service aimed at high-net-worth individuals in the UK and Europe, marking a significant push into the wealth management segment.

Source: Financial Times

The Department of War has selected Applied Intuition to develop an enterprise autonomy pipeline, marking a significant government defense contract win for the company.

Source: Bolsamania

Elon Musk's xAI has unveiled Grok Build, its first AI coding agent, positioning it as a direct competitor to Anthropic's Claude Code.

Source: bloomberg-tech

Onebrief has named Second Front as its preferred deployment partner following a rapid DAF CLOUDworks deployment, signaling a key strategic partnership for government cloud distribution.

Source: Business Wire

Anthropic introduced Claude Managed Agents, a service to run AI agents on behalf of enterprise customers, alongside new enterprise features for Claude Cowork, scaling up its B2B AI offerings.

Source: 9to5Mac

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has expressed confidence that the CLARITY Act will pass by the end of May, which would provide regulatory clarity for the crypto industry. His comments have fueled speculation about XRP's short-term price potential.

Source: Binance

Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital and Altimeter Capital have agreed to co-lead a $30 billion round of funding into Anthropic at a $900 billion valuation before the money, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. The investment nearly triples its last valuation of $350 billion fetched in a fundraising in early February.

Source: TheInformation

Varda Space Industries today announced a collaboration with United Therapeutics Corporation (Nasdaq: UTHR) to explore the use of microgravity to develop improved formulations of treatments for rare pulmonary disease.Through the collaboration, Varda and United Therapeutics will conduct pharmaceutical processing of small molecule medicines for pulmonary disease aboard Varda's orbital manufacturing and reentry platform during multiple missions to low Earth orbit.

Source: PRnewsWire

ByteDance's Volcano Engine cloud unit holds close to half of China's Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) market, underscoring the company's dominant position in AI infrastructure. The data highlights ByteDance's rapid growth in enterprise AI services.

Source: KrASIA