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Today, Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) received the Agent Skills open standard from its creators. More than 70 agent platforms have integrated Agent Skills since its December 2025 release, and nearly 280 million installations and 1 million published skills have accumulated. The standard’s hosting and governance move under AAIF at the Linux Foundation, while the GitHub organization, name, logo, and agentskills.io stay usable by the community without joining AAIF.
Solidigm’s planned U.S. IPO review was abandoned by SK Hynix, and a planned pre-IPO funding round was also dropped. The canceled Nasdaq IPO was reported to have been able to raise $10 billion to $15 billion with a valuation up to $150 billion. Solidigm will pursue other financing options instead, while AI-chip stocks and IPO activity continue to fall amid investor doubts about AI infrastructure returns.
inDrive signed an MoU with Pony.ai and Nvidia to test robotaxis on its platform in Kazakhstan. Testing is set to start in Astana in the first half of 2027, beginning with a safety operator and moving toward fully driverless rides. The plan introduces Pony.ai Gen-7 robotaxis and Nvidia Hyperion plus Halos technology into inDrive’s app while expanding robotaxi experimentation beyond the U.S. and China.
Zoom presented its Unified Context Layer at Zoomtopia 2026, positioning the company as an artificial intelligence data platform built from conversational data rather than a video provider. Zoom said Cricut cut customer wait times by 89% using the context-layer approach. Zoom’s focus shifts to capturing and understanding conversations across revenue, HR, and customer experience, changing its go-to-market from selling UC seats to selling to line-of-business buyers like RevOps and talent leaders.
OpenAI is negotiating an additional $30 billion bridge funding round with investors from the United Arab Emirates, with Coatue expected to participate, to support operations while it finalizes plans for an IPO. The round would raise OpenAI’s valuation to $1.25 trillion and is reportedly hoped to be signed by the end of next week. This would extend OpenAI’s private funding runway and potentially push its IPO timeline further out amid softer plans for going public in 2026.
Machine Gods, an AI podcast made with NPR, was launched with episodes discussing misbehaving AI agents, a government response, and a dispute involving OpenAI safety researchers who were fired.
MIT researchers left 13 AI agents (Eko) to explore a simulated desert island without a goal and found the agents invented their own challenges in a way they liken to play. They ran the agents on Claude Opus 4.7 for 30 hours and, afterward, the Eko agents generally outperformed identical agents that had never explored the island. The approach changes AI training by shifting from predefined practice and success metrics to goal-free exploration that can accumulate useful world knowledge for later tasks and robotics-related skills.
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partnered to advance AI safety, security, and technical research. The article gives no specific date, funding figure, or measurable target. As a result, they plan to work together on stronger safeguards for a more resilient digital ecosystem.
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