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BCG generated US$ 3.6 billion from AI work by 2025; McKinsey plans to cut 10% of its staff. The firms that sell automation to the world have begun applying the tool against their own profit pyramid.
The Vatican launched the *Magnifica Humanitas* on Monday, the first papal encyclical dedicated exclusively to AI. Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, was the only technology executive on the presentation panel.
Socket raised US$ 60 million in a Series C round led by Thrive Capital on the day GitHub confirmed a breach via compromised npm packages, becoming the first unicorn specialised in software dependency security.
Model presented by Sundar Pichai at I/O 2026 surpasses Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 in agentic benchmarks, is 50% cheaper in input than the previous generation, and opens beta for the autonomous agent Spark for AI Ultra subscribers.
With Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, and AirAsia Next as declared adopters, Google packages agent orchestration in a Google Cloud governed layer and challenges a market exceeding $5.5 billion in annualised revenue consolidated among Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
In Las Vegas, the manufacturer announced the rack-scale PowerRack platform and expanded support for models from Google, OpenAI, Palantir, and SpaceX running locally. AI Factory with NVIDIA reaches 5,000 clients.
Initiative brings together AWS, Apple, Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks in a coalition that uses the Claude Mythos Preview model to map flaws in critical software.
The German consultancy reversed a loss of €7.3 million to a profit of €2.7 million in one year, with EBITDA growing by 58% in the first quarter. The results surpassed analyst projections even as the German economy remains under pressure.
Announced on 14 May, the collaboration enables 15,000 Accenture Federal professionals to access OpenAI models and creates a simulation lab for government agencies to test agentic flows hours before going into production.
The French group recorded €5.9 billion in revenue during the first quarter, exceeding expectations. North America and the UK advanced by over 20%, while France, the domestic market, was the only negative performer.
The Brazilian consultancy listed on the NYSE reported revenue of $136.6 million in the first quarter of 2026. Twenty percent of new sales for the period have already adopted outcome-based pricing models, and 100% of the pipeline is related to AI projects.
The French consultancy concluded the purchase of Starion and Nexova on 1 May, bringing together 700 engineers across 9 countries and forming a hub of over 200 million euros in critical services for European space agencies and ministries of defence.