Enterprise security teams are drowning in alerts and fragmented tools. Surf AI launched today with a $57 million answer to that problem — and some serious institutional backing behind the thesis. The agentic operations startup emerged from stealth with a round led by Accel, with participation from Cyberstarts and Boldstart. Founded in 2024, Surf AI’s platform uses AI agents to automate security hygiene tasks across the complex, multi-system environments that modern enterprises operate. The company already counts Fortune 500 firms among its customers — this isn’t pre-product fundraising. ...

Students using GitHub Copilot’s free student plan woke up this week to a familiar and frustrating experience in the AI industry: their tools quietly got worse without any warning. GitHub has removed GPT-5.4, Claude Opus, and Claude Sonnet from its free Student plan — discovered not through an announcement, but by students mid-session finding their model selections grayed out or unavailable. What Changed The GitHub free Student Copilot plan previously offered access to premium models including GPT-5.4 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus and Sonnet alongside the standard model options. Those models have now been removed. ...

If you’ve used GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenAI Codex and wondered what’s actually happening under the hood when the agent “thinks,” plans a multi-step fix, and edits three files at once — Simon Willison just published the definitive practitioner answer. Willison’s new chapter of Agentic Engineering Patterns — titled “How Coding Agents Work” — is the clearest technical breakdown yet of what separates a coding agent from a coding assistant, and why that distinction matters enormously for how you use and build with these tools. ...

The moment the agentic AI industry has been building toward arrived at GTC 2026 today: NVIDIA officially launched NemoClaw, an enterprise-grade stack for the OpenClaw agent platform that adds security, privacy controls, and a single-command NVIDIA model installer to the world’s fastest-growing open source project. What Is NemoClaw? NemoClaw is NVIDIA’s purpose-built software stack that plugs directly into OpenClaw — adding what the platform has been missing for enterprise adoption: a security and privacy infrastructure layer beneath every claw (agent). ...

General-purpose CPUs were designed for a world where software executed deterministic instructions in predictable sequences. Agentic AI — where models plan, call tools, run code, validate results, and loop — doesn’t work that way. NVIDIA recognized that gap and, at GTC 2026 today, launched something genuinely new: the Vera CPU, the world’s first processor purpose-built for the age of agentic AI. What Makes Vera Different The Vera CPU isn’t a traditional server processor wearing an AI marketing hat. It’s architected specifically for the workloads that agentic AI actually runs: ...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was supposed to be the universal connector for agentic AI — a standard way for agents to call tools without custom glue code. But at Ask 2026, Perplexity CTO Denis Yarats dropped a significant signal: Perplexity is moving away from MCP internally, and the reason has major implications for anyone building production agentic systems. The Problem: 55,000 Tokens Before Your Agent Does Anything Yarats was direct about the technical issue. MCP tool definitions — the schema declarations that tell an agent what tools are available and how to call them — were consuming 55,000+ tokens before a single user message was processed. ...

If you had any doubts that the age of agentic AI has officially arrived, Jensen Huang just removed them. Speaking today at the SAP Center in San Jose before a packed crowd of more than 30,000 attendees, the NVIDIA founder and CEO declared GTC 2026 the moment the industry crossed an irreversible threshold — from AI as a tool to AI as an autonomous agent. What Is GTC 2026? NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference is the company’s flagship annual event, bringing together researchers, engineers, and enterprise leaders to see where AI infrastructure is heading next. This year, the event has taken over downtown San Jose entirely, with workshops, hands-on labs, and what NVIDIA is calling “the largest AI infrastructure gathering in history.” ...

In a striking coincidence — or coordinated market response — two of enterprise security’s biggest names announced AI agent identity frameworks on the same day. Okta unveiled its “Blueprint for the Secure Agentic Enterprise” on Monday, while SailPoint announced a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to deliver unified identity governance for agentic AI deployments. Together, the announcements signal that AI agent identity has become the defining security battleground of 2026. ...

Alibaba Group is set to launch a new enterprise AI agent service powered by its flagship Qwen model this week, according to a Bloomberg exclusive published March 16, 2026. The announcement marks one of China’s most significant moves into enterprise agentic AI infrastructure — and positions Alibaba as a direct competitor to the Western enterprise agent platforms that have been dominating headlines. What Alibaba Is Building The service, developed under CEO Eddie Wu’s leadership through the newly formed Alibaba Token Hub business group, is built around Qwen — Alibaba’s most capable large language model — and integrates directly with Taobao, Alipay, and a range of enterprise cloud tools. ...

Atlassian has confirmed it is laying off approximately 1,600 employees — roughly 10% of its global workforce — in what the company explicitly frames as a pivot to AI-first product development. The announcement, confirmed by Reuters and Bloomberg on March 11 and followed by additional reporting through mid-March, represents one of the largest AI-driven restructurings in enterprise software so far. The company also replaced its Chief Technology Officer as part of the restructuring. ...