The secondary market for AI company shares has never been more active, with Anthropic now the hottest trade around while OpenAI loses ground. SpaceX's looming IPO is poised to reshape the private markets landscape for everyone. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/03/anthropic-is-having-a-moment-in-the-private-markets-spacex-could-spoil-the-party/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #Anthropic

Salesforce rebuilt Slackbot into an AI agent that searches enterprise data, drafts documents, and acts for employees. Built on Anthropic's Claude model, available to Business+ customers directly within Slack where they already work. https://venturebeat.com/technology/salesforce-rolls-out-new-slackbot-ai-agent-as-it-battles-microsoft-and #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #Salesforce

Anthropic acquires biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a 400M USD stock deal. The purchase marks Anthropic's entry into the biotechnology sector as the AI company expands beyond language models into AI-powered drug discovery. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/03/anthropic-buys-biotech-startup-coefficient-bio-in-400m-deal-reports/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #Anthropic

IBM has released Granite 4.0 3B Vision, a vision-language model designed specifically for enterprise document data extraction. The model uses a modular LoRA adapter architecture that runs on top of the Granite 4.0 Micro language backbone, allowing enterprises to activate vision capabilities only when needed for tasks like converting charts to code or tables to HTML. The model ranks 3rd among 2-4B parameter models on the VAREX leaderboard for key-value pair extraction. Apache 2.0 licensed with support for vLLM and IBM's Docling tool. https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/01/ibm-releases-granite-4-0-3b-vision-a-new-vision-language-model-for-enterprise-grade-document-data-extraction/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #IBM

Intuit's AI agents achieved 85% repeat usage among 3M customers by keeping humans in the loop. The company's EVP says AI + human expertise delivers better results. Customers report invoices paid 90% in full, five days faster, with manual work reduced by 30%. https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/intuits-ai-agents-hit-85-repeat-usage-the-secret-was-keeping-humans-involved #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #Intuit

OpenAI has closed a 122B USD funding round at an 852B USD valuation, its largest to date. Co-led by SoftBank and Andreessen Horowitz, with 3B USD from retail investors. The company claims 2B USD monthly revenue and over 900M weekly active users. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/openai-not-yet-public-raises-3b-from-retail-investors-in-monster-122b-fund-raise/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #OpenAI

SoftBank has taken out a new $40B loan tied to its $30B commitment in OpenAI, with the 12-month term suggesting lenders expect an IPO later this year. The loan is backed by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and four Japanese banks. https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/why-softbanks-new-40b-loan-points-to-a-2026-openai-ipo/ #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #SoftBank

Intercom has launched Fin Apex 1.0, a purpose-built AI model that achieves a 73.1% customer resolution rate, outperforming GPT-5.4 and Claude Sonnet 4.6. The model runs at one-fifth the cost of frontier models and is already handling two million weekly customer conversations. https://venturebeat.com/technology/intercoms-new-post-trained-fin-apex-1-0-beats-gpt-5-4-and-claude-sonnet-4-6 #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #Intercom

Oracle has unveiled a converged AI data stack that processes vector, JSON, graph, relational and spatial data in a single ACID-transactional engine. The Unified Memory Core eliminates sync pipelines that cause context staleness in production agents. https://venturebeat.com/data/oracle-converges-the-ai-data-stack-to-give-enterprise-agents-a-single | #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #Oracle

Oracle introduces a unified data engine for enterprise AI agents, combining vector, relational, JSON, graph and spatial data in one ACID-transactional system. The approach eliminates the sync pipelines that cause stale context in production agent deployments. https://venturebeat.com/data/oracle-converges-the-ai-data-stack-to-give-enterprise-agents-a-single #AIagent #AI #GenAI #AIEnterpriseBackbone #Oracle