After meeting in graduate school at MIT, Michael Manapat and Yibo Ling embarked on different career paths. Manapat held chief technical roles at Stripe and Notion, while Ling…
Read more Exclusive: AI financial platform Rowspace raises $50 million round led by Sequoia to help investment firms take on messy data | FortuneIn the last year, AI agents have become all the rage. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic all launched public-facing agents designed to take on multi-step tasks handed to them…
Read more New Research Shows AI Agents Are Running Wild Online, With Few Guardrails in PlaceFrontline workers are the foundation of every industry—from retail and healthcare to hospitality and field services. Yet for years, they’ve been asked to increase productivity and deliver more…
Read more Frontline AI in action: How AI-powered tools are reshaping work where it matters most – Microsoft in Business BlogsOpenAI has launched a new product to help enterprises navigate the world of AI agents, focusing on agent management as critical infrastructure for enterprise AI adoption. On Thursday,…
Read more OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents | TechCrunchBritish startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4…
Read more Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out | TechCrunchWhat happens when an AI agent decides the best way to complete a task is to blackmail you? That’s not a hypothetical. According to Barmak Meftah, a partner…
Read more Rogue agents and shadow AI: Why VCs are betting big on AI security | TechCrunchIf 2025 was the year AI got a vibe check, 2026 will be the year the tech gets practical. The focus is already shifting away from building ever-larger…
Read more In 2026, AI will move from hype to pragmatism | TechCrunchWhat does it take to reimagine government for millions of citizens? The Ontario Public Service (OPS), an organization that serves 16 million Canadian citizens across Ontario, is answering…
Read more Reimagining public service: OPS’s digital transformation journey – Microsoft in Business BlogsFinance teams operate in a high-stakes environment, with competing priorities, limited hours, and unforgiving risk. Transcard’s answer wasn’t another dashboard. It was a Virtual CFO: AI agents that…
Read more The actionable AI playbook: 5 lessons leaders can learn from Transcard’s Virtual CFO – Microsoft in Business BlogsAmid a flurry of tech industry layoffs, Amazon’s recent culling of some 14,000 staff stands out for one dramatic reason: it was blamed, for the most part, on…
Read more Experts Worry AI is Driving Layoffs, Even if It’s Not Delivering on its PromisesMedal, a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips, has spun out a new frontier AI research lab that’s using its trove of gaming videos to train…
Read more General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips | TechCrunchSalesforce announced Monday the latest version of its AI agent platform as the company looks to lure enterprises to its AI software in an increasingly crowded market. The…
Read more Salesforce announces Agentforce 360 as enterprise AI competition heats up | TechCrunchWorkplace software services giant Salesforce just revealed its Agentforce IT Service product — an AI agents-based system that offers always on, always available IT support and helplines for…
Read more This New Salesforce AI Service Could Cut IT Helpdesk Calls at Your CompanyIf you’re tracking tech news headlines, it may seem like AI is being used everywhere, from the workplace to the classroom and even kids’ entertainment. A new report…
Read more Why Some Companies Adopting AI May Be Running Before They Can WalkOpenAI just made it possible to buy things directly from ChatGPT. Starting today, all ChatGPT users in the U.S. can use a new feature called Instant Checkout to…
Read more OpenAI Rolls Out ChatGPT’s Ability to Buy Stuff for YouManny Medina, previously best-known as the founder of sales automation startup Outreach ($4.4 billion valuation), has wowed investors with his young startup, Paid. Paid just closed an oversubscribed…
Read more Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed | TechCrunchOn Tuesday, Google announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), which it described as an “open protocol developed with leading payments and technology companies.” The protocol is designed to…
Read more Google Becomes Latest in Agentic AI Stablecoin Payments RaceEthereum developer Davide Crapis announced on Monday that the Ethereum Foundation was starting a new AI team called the dAI Team. The team’s mission is to “make Ethereum…
Read more Ethereum Foundation Starts New AI Team to Foster Agentic PaymentsIn 2022, Rewind had just raised $10 million from a16z and was building a personal data recording service that promised to privately record your activity and let you…
Read more a16z-backed Rewind pivots to build AI-powered pendant to record your conversations | TechCrunch
