Salesforce just yoinked a baby agentic AI startup to keep pace, Google ninja-dropped a THREE-IN-ONE media creation powerhouse that nobody saw coming and the UAE is casually tossing $1.4 TRILLION at U.S. AI infrastructure.

Oh…. and the AI conference royal rumble is HERE this week with Microsoft, Google, Claude, and maybe even OpenAI all throwing down some major AI updates. 

Let's get into this week's AI feast, shorties. Here’s the AI news that matters.

Salesforce just scooped up London-based Convergence AI—a startup barely ONE YEAR OLD created by ex-Shopify and Cohere engineers.

Their autonomous agents go toe-to-toe with OpenAI's Operator. Salesforce CEO Marc Marc Benioff is betting BIG, forecasting 1 billion AI agents deployed by 2025.

The acquisition creates a fresh AI research hub in London with Convergence as the core team. Balderton Capital, who led their $12M funding round alongside Salesforce and Shopify Ventures, admitted they didn't see this coming.

What it means:

Seems like Salesforce might be PANICKING about their AgentForce capabilities.

Their homegrown solution clearly couldn't cut it against OpenAI and the legion of whack-a-mole agentic startups popping up every week. 

Is this a well-thought out move by Salesforce or a desperation move to stay relevant in the agentic AI race? 

The timing speaks volumes—they couldn't wait for Convergence to mature because they're already behind. Over the past 6 months, Salesforce’s stock has not kept pace in Big Tech. 

Expect a feeding frenzy of agentic startups getting gobbled up by EOY as every major player scrambles for talent and tech.

Google AI Studio V quietly merged three media powerhouses: Veo 2 video generator, Gemini 2.0 image generation, and Imagen 3—all accessible for FREE.

Their Veo 2 tool straight-up EMBARRASSES both OpenAI's Sora and Runway's Gen 4. The slick new interface gives you slider controls for everything imaginable.

Google's Logan Kilpatrick dropped this news on Twitter Friday while everyone was looking elsewhere. Users report the AI Studio now outperforms their consumer-facing Gemini chatbot by a mile.

(We agree.) 

What it means:

Google just pulled one of the sneakiest AI power moves over the past few months. 

They've built a creator's DREAM SUITE while nobody was watching.

Their strategy is crystal clear: let others in Big Tech chase viral moments while they build the infrastructure serious creators actually need.

Two months ago Veo 2 dominated the video space.

Buuuuuut competition's catching up FAST.

This free access strategy is brilliant—hook creators on tools in one space they'll eventually have to pay for when building commercial applications.

Microsoft Build launched TODAY in Seattle with Copilot enhancements, AI avatars, and Windows 11 updates featuring the long-awaited Recall feature.

Google I/O kicks off TOMORROW showcasing their world-beating Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O model and likely Project Astra updates—their agent combining AI with voice and visual perception.

Code with Claude hits Thursday with hands-on Anthropic API workshops and potential new model drops.

OpenAI might crash the party with surprise announcements despite JUST releasing Codex last week.

What it means:

This isn't just conference week—it's ALL-OUT WAR for AI mindshare.

Microsoft is weaponizing Windows to make AI inescapable at the OS level.

Google DESPERATELY needs Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O to deliver real value, not just yummy benchmarks. 

Anthropic brilliantly positioned their event between the giants to maximize attention. (Lolz.) 

By Friday, Monday's announcements will look like ancient history.

This compressed innovation cycle is BRUTAL for developers but a gift for users getting quarterly updates instead of annual refreshes.

Anthropic just face planted HARD, admitting to an "honest citation mistake" in their legal defense against Universal Music Group, ABKCO, and Concord.

Their AI chatbot Claude generated FAKE citation details in their own copyright dispute filing. Universal's attorney called it a "complete fabrication"—hallucinated by the very AI being sued!

This adds to mounting legal AI disasters, including a California court recently reprimanding law firms for submitting AI-fabricated materials.

What it means:

Misusing YOUR OWN AI for legal citations IN A LAWSUIT ABOUT YOUR AI is beyond embarrassing.

The irony is DELICIOUS. Anthropic is fighting accusations about AI training while simultaneously proving why people don't trust AI outputs.

This will be Exhibit A in every AI hallucination case for the next decade.

If Anthropic's legal team can't use Claude properly, what hope do regular users have?

The "human in the loop" concept just got a very public demonstration of why it actually matters.

Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaEvolve—an AI that AUTOMATICALLY creates better algorithms than human experts. It optimized Google's data centers and can free up 0.7% of THE ENTIRE WORLD'S computing power.

AlphaEvolve discovered a new matrix multiplication method that demolished a 50-YEAR-OLD human solution. It rediscovered known math solutions 75% of the time and improved 20% of them beyond what humans achieved.

This evolution-inspired system tests and improves solutions step by step, learning and innovating simultaneously.

What it means:

AlphaEvolve just made computer science textbooks obsolete OVERNIGHT.

This isn't incremental. It’s legit revolutionary.

The 0.7% global computing savings translates to BILLIONS when scaled across all data centers worldwide.

We're witnessing algorithms that create better algorithms than their human creators ever could. (Yeah, think about that one.) 

Google now possesses computational efficiency that NO competitor can match, giving them a massive edge in every AI race requiring processing power.

This is just the FIRST iteration. Imagine what version 2.0 will accomplish.

Speaking of Google, they’re reportedly unveiling a new AI agent that helps engineers throughout the ENTIRE development process—from planning to documentation, according to The Information.

This tool aims to streamline software creation, making coding more efficient and accessible for developers by handling routine tasks.

The announcement comes alongside Gemini integration with Android XR glasses and a possible Samsung/Qualcomm XR headset reveal at tomorrow's Google I/O.

What it means:

When fully deployed, this agent could all but erase junior coding work while making senior developers 10x more productive.

Engineering teams will need complete restructuring when one dev with this AI can replace entire departments.

This directly challenges GitHub Copilot right as OpenAI dropped $3B on Windsurf and announced Codex, cranking the coding assistant arms race to fever pitch.

The UAE and U.S. tech giants are constructing a MASSIVE AI data center called "UAE Stargate" in Abu Dhabi spanning 26 square kilometers with 5 gigawatts of energy capacity.

Tech royalty—Jensen Huang (NVIDIA), Sam Altman (OpenAI), and Jeetu Patel (Cisco)—personally attended the signing. Phase one features a 1 gigawatt computing cluster using NVIDIA's Blackwell GB 300 chips.

The UAE committed a mind-boggling $1.4 TRILLION over ten years to the US economy, focusing on AI and US-made semiconductors.

What it means:

The UAE just bought their seat at the AI superpower table with RAW COMPUTING MUSCLE.

This isn't a data center. Naaaah. This UAE power play is a geopolitical chess move packing more AI capacity than entire continents combined.

The $1.4T UAE investment creates a power alliance that could dominate global AI development for a decade.

Oil wealth is transforming into digital infrastructure at UNPRECEDENTED scale.

Sovereign wealth funds are creating entirely new digital superpowers while traditional tech funding struggles with high interest rates.

OpenAI just pushed GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 Mini to ChatGPT after previously restricting them to API access. Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers get the full GPT-4.1, while Mini is available to EVERYONE.

These models deliver faster responses and better coding assistance. OpenAI clarified GPT-4.1 isn't a "Frontier model," dodging the extensive safety reporting requirements.

They've also launched a safety evaluations hub for more transparent communication about AI risks.

What it means:

OpenAI is evolving from chaotic surprise drops to predictable upgrade paths.

And GPT-4.1’s prowess as a coding model sends even stronger signals as to where OpenAI is focusing on. 

The timing of thither 4.1 drops, alongside their rumored $3B Windsurf acquisition and Codex release, signals an ALL-OUT ASSAULT on the coding assistant market.

OpenAI dropped Codex for Pro, Enterprise, and Team users—a specialized agentic coder and fine-tuned model from their ultra-powerful o3 architecture specifically for better code.

Codex shows its reasoning during coding tasks that take 1-30 minutes in dedicated sandboxes. Each task gets its own space to work while you wait.

The system tackles problems that plagued earlier AI coding tools: substandard code, debugging nightmares, and security holes.

What it means:

OpenAI just weaponized their o3 model SPECIFICALLY for code with the Codex release. 

This isn't just competing with GitHub Copilot. OpenAI is aiming to replace entire development workflows with Codex.

The sandbox approach brilliantly solves the waiting problem that kills productivity in complex AI coding projects.

Enterprise teams will stop seeing AI as a suggestion tool and start treating it as a full collaborator handling entire components.