Latest Artificial Intelligence Updates and Stories
Respond.io, which uses AI agents to handle high-volume customer inquiries with per-conversation pricing, has raised $62.5M and is targeting acquisitions in North America and Europe.
Startup NewCore has raised $66M to tackle the next enterprise security challenge: managing AI agents as employees, not just people, with verifiable digital identities.
TechCrunch analysis finds the Trump administration's decision to force Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models may be retaliatory rather than security-driven.
The Trump administration's export control order on Anthropic's advanced AI models is alarming foreign governments and pushing them to seek non-US AI alternatives.
The US datacenter law will sunset on September 30, 2026, with neither Congress nor the Trump administration moving to replace it.
A court found Google liable for misleading AI Overview results in its search engine, raising accountability questions for AI-generated content.
US government AI use cases have grown 70% since Biden left office, with many plans to hand sensitive governmental functions to AI amid lack of transparency.
Meta introduced AI Mode on Facebook, a new search experience powered by Meta AI that surfaces answers from public posts across its platforms.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that frontier AI models risk absorbing the expertise of entire industries, stripping businesses of competitive moats.
Salesforce announced it will acquire Fin, formerly Intercom, an AI agent-based customer service platform, for $3.6 billion.
