Week of August 24, 2026 Weekly
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- Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard signals AI labs are now building for physical-world control, not just software automation.
- Okta Agent SSO reaching general availability makes AI agents first-class enterprise identities, replacing static API keys.
- OpenAI's custom Jalapeño inference chip posted results this week, threatening the economics of every third-party inference provider.
- Salesforce and Anthropic deepened their partnership into a named product called Claudeforce, raising the stakes for every CRM-adjacent AI vendor.
- Linear reports 50% of work is now agent-created, up from 3% a year ago, the sharpest enterprise adoption signal of the week.