Trump kneecaps Anthropic, SpaceX bags Cursor and Databricks debuts AI agent coworker

Databricks may keep refusing to go public, but this week it wasn’t shy about proclaiming its intentions to be a central player in artificial intelligence.

At its annual Data + AI conference in San Francisco this week, it made the case that AI agents can become the next-generation system of record for enterprises, which software-as-a-service applications serve as now, but only if there’s a solid data platform to provide useful context for enterprise work. “What does future SaaS stack look like? An agent system of record that taps into all the apps,” said Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. “So what does the agent system of record look like? It’s actually the data and AI platform.”

Part of Databricks’ bid for dominance, especially vs. rival Snowflake, which held its conference two weeks ago, is, naturally, a new set of agents, called Genie One, that it styles as an “agentic coworker.” There’s a lot more, so check out our stories below.

Anthropic ran into a Trump administration buzzsaw as its latest models were banned for foreign use, forcing the AI model maker to shut down access entirely. No telling what happens next — it’s the Trump administration, after all — but it’s a sudden reversal of Anthropic’s recent good fortune.

No surprise, but SpaceX moved quickly this week to use some of its IPO haul to bag the AI vibe coding creation phenom Cursor.

You know spending on AI infrastructure is getting a little stretched when even Nvidia feels the need to raise $20 billion in debt.

It looks like Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff is back on the acquisition hunt, this week buying customer service automation startup Fin for $3.6 billion.

Quantum computing continues to heat up, as EigenQ went public through a SPAC, Atom Computing raised $300 million and Amazon Web Services and QuEra issued a roadmap to fault-tolerant quantum computing in next two years.

Here’s all the enterprise and emerging tech news and analysis this week from SiliconANGLE and beyond:

AI and data: Databricks’ new agent

Analysis and food for thought

SpaceX is worth more than Amazon now As Cautious Optimism’s Alex Wilhelm succinctly puts it: “One of the prices is wrong.”

PWC: AI reshapes global labor market into two distinct paths, rewarding human skills Let’s hope so.

Hell freezes over: Microsoft forced to turn to AWS to boost GitHub cloud capacity following AI demand surge

Perhaps self-serving, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella suggests that a world run by a few AI model overlords would not be good: A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable “Think about what happened in the first phase of globalization where entire industrial economies were hollowed out by outsourcing. The GDP numbers looked fine on the surface, but the displacement was real and the consequences are still being felt. Let us not bring that dynamic into the AI era, with a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns, while entire industries find their knowledge commoditized right out from underneath them.”

Gartner has timely advice: 10 best practices for optimizing generative and agentic AI costs

Policy

White House forces Anthropic to disable new frontier models following abrupt export ban

New models and services

Coverage from Databricks’ Data + AI conference:

Databricks declares the end of pipelines with a unified platform for operational and analytical data

The AGI moment? Databricks’ new releases zero in on support and deployment of AI agents

Databricks’ new agentic coworker Genie One brings AI automation to every part of the business

Databricks acquires cyberattack detection startup Panther

Key takeaways from day two of the Databricks Data + AI Summit

9 themes defining the unified data and AI platform: theCUBE insights from the Databricks Data + AI Summit

And from Pure Accelerate:

Everpure accelerates AI workloads with Data Stream and unveils data-primacy architectural vision

Data primacy puts Everpure at the center of enterprise AI: theCUBE’s Pure Accelerate 2026 keynote analysis

And elsewhere:

Startup pioneers early-stage ticker reservation model aimed at reviving the public-company mindset

Exclusive: Mindbeam touts dramatic performance improvements in CPU-based AI inference

Mozilla Data Collective seeks to build AI’s data economy around trust

Fabrix.ai demonstrates production-grade agentic operations at Cisco Live

Vercel launches a new framework and enterprise controls for agentic AI infrastructure

SiMa.ai cuts physical AI deployment from months to days with agentic developer tooling

CYGNVS launches command center for crises caused by a company’s own AI

From postponed tour to platform: Nkenne’s Zoom-fueled mission to preserve African languages

Okta expands Google Cloud partnership to secure AI agents and the browser

Money matters

SpaceX to acquire vibe coding startup Cursor for $60B

China’s DeepSeek reportedly raises $7.4B in funding at $50B+ valuation

AI inference provider Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B in funding

AI material discovery startup CuspAI reportedly raising $400M round

Odyssey raises $310M at $1.45B valuation to transform AI model simulationAI agent authorization startup Arcade nabs $60M investment

Game-clip AI startup General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at $2B valuation

Prem seeks $100M Series A as export bans boost sovereign AI demand

Robotic teleoperation data startup XDOF launches with $70M in funding

Agentic marketing AI startup Gradial grabs $65M in fresh funding

Conduct raises $60M to speed up software modernization projects

Radical Numerics launches with $50M to build general biological intelligence

Bland raises $50M to automate complex, high-stakes phone calls

Convey closes on $38M round to help companies automate repetitive work with AI teammates

Undo lands $37M to give AI agents the runtime context to fix bugs

Pramaana Labs raises $27M to make AI prove its answers

Architect Labs nabs $24M to speed up chip design projects with AI

Limitless Labs lands $20M to build AI agents for precision manufacturing

Devplan raises $2.5M to build an intelligence coordination layer for product development

Around the enterprise: Mark Benioff’s on the acquisition hunt again

Money matters

Salesforce to acquire customer service automation startup Fin for $3.6B

GPU infrastructure management startup Hydra Host raises $100M

AMD buys data center memory optimization startup Mext

Commerce Department awards SandboxAQ $500M for R&D

BoolSi raises $6M to compile ordinary code into custom chips

New products and services

Coverage from HPE Discover: 

HPE expands self-driving networking strategy as AI moves into production

HPE expands Private Cloud AI factory portfolio to support next-gen autonomous agents

Architecting for AI: Five things Antonio Neri told the enterprise at HPE Discover

And elsewhere:

Qualcomm takes spatial computing into the AI era with Snapdragon Reality Elite

Sweeping Android 17 update brings new AI capabilities and features to Pixel smartphones

HP debuts AI-powered collaboration lineup at InfoComm 2026

Policy

US energy regulator moves to speed up data center projects

Cyber beat: Locking down rogue agents

New services

Ex-Cisco researchers launch Tenet Security to lock down rogue AI agents

Beyond Identity launches Ceros AI agent security platform

AppViewX targets ungoverned AI agents with new identity security product

AWS launches Continuum to find and fix code vulnerabilities at machine speed

Exclusive: Daylight gives managed detection and response customers searchable telemetry without a SIEM

SentinelOne turns Purple AI loose to investigate threats on its own

Gigamon-Zscaler integration adds application visibility to zero-trust access

1Password debuts Credential Broker to release secrets only when needed

BlackFog launches ADX Vision for macOS to curb shadow AI leaks

Money matters

Elsewhere in tech: Quantum heats up

Atom Computing raises $300M to build world’s first fault-tolerant, commercially viable quantum computer

AWS and QuEra lay out roadmap to fault-tolerant quantum computing in next two years

EigenQ to go public through SPAC merger in $3B deal

Xreal unveils Aura, its lightweight smart glasses powered by Android XR

NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Comings and goings

Google DeepMind researcher and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research. Also reportedly joining OpenAI: former Trump AI official Dean Ball. And finally (per The Verge), Barret Zoph, OpenAI’s head of enterprise AI sales has departed five months after returning to the company from Thinking Machines.

John Jumper, who won the Nobel Prize “for protein structure prediction,” said he’s leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join Anthropic.

Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.

Intel appointed Seok-Hee Lee EVP of Intel Foundry, cementing its intention to be a bigger contract manufacturer.

Software delivery provider CloudBees named former Immuta Chief Product Officer Moritz Plassnig CEO, succeeding Anuj Kapur.

Axonius, an asset intelligence platform for unified security operations and exposure management, appointed former Fortinet exec Moshe Ben Simon chief product officer.

Enterprise data automation platform Adeptia named Tim Bond CPO, Jill Ransome VP of marketing, and John Moore VP of revenue operations.

What’s next

Earnings

Wednesday, June 24: Micron

Thursday, June 25: Blackberry

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