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Scale AI has appointed Francis deSouza as chief executive, effective 10 August 2026. The former Illumina CEO and Google Cloud executive succeeds interim chief Jason Droege, giving Scale a permanent leader as it expands its work with model developers, enterprises and governments.
CrewAI has released a new Crew Studio experience that turns plain-language workflow descriptions into testable agent flows. It combines deterministic steps with agent judgement, more than 1,000 connectors, reusable agents, code export, tracing and deployment through CrewAI's governed enterprise runtime.
Notion has acquired AI infrastructure company ZeroEntropy and is bringing its full team into the business. The deal creates a new Model Research group and builds on reranking technology that Notion says has already made its unified search substantially faster.
Workday Learning powered by Sana is now generally available worldwide for Workday HCM customers. The integrated service adds an AI tutor, course generation, personalised learning paths and automated administration, while standalone Sana Learn remains available to organisations outside Workday's HR and finance ecosystem.
OpenAI has introduced Presence, a managed product for deploying voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, approved actions and human escalation. Limited general availability targets eligible enterprises, with deployments led by OpenAI engineers and selected systems integrators rather than a self-service console.
DataRobot has released an OpenCode integration that lets developers use closed, open-weight or bring-your-own models through its governed LLM Gateway. The coding agent is available from the DataRobot CLI and browser interface, with DataRobot skills and Agent Assist included.
Intel and Google Cloud have expanded their multi-year collaboration to deploy Gemini Enterprise across Intel and add agentic workflows to engineering and business operations. The agreement also extends Google Cloud infrastructure into silicon-development simulations, though financial terms, rollout dates and measured productivity gains remain undisclosed.
OpenAI has published a five-step framework to help organisations understand AI usage, control expenditure and identify agentic workflows worth scaling. Its central message is that AI investments should be measured by accepted business outcomes—not simply token prices or adoption numbers.
Mistral Studio now gives organisations a central system for managing, testing and governing AI prompts and skills. New features include immutable versions, ownership records, rollback, classification labels, audit logs and production traceability.