Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks  —  Agentic AI is the tech industry's newest success story, and companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are racing to give enterprises the tools they need to create these automated little helpers.

Jo Constantz / Bloomberg:
Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight  —  The promises and perils of the ChatGPT generation.  —  As soon as he got a company email address for his summer internship …

Gené Teare / Crunchbase News:
European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY  —  European venture funding reached $17.6 billion in Q1 2026, Crunchbase data shows.  That's up nearly 30% year over year and marks the second consecutive quarter of growth.

Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities”  —  Anthropic quietly published identity verification requirements for Claude this week, asking certain users to hand …

Bloomberg:
A TTP analysis finds dozens of nudify apps in Apple and Google app stores via search, despite company policy prohibiting them; the apps earned $122M+ in revenue  —  Apple Inc. and Google have continued to offer mobile apps that let users make nonconsensual sexualized images of people despite …