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.
TCS expects AI agents to reduce future hiring as enterprise automation reshapes India’s $315 billion IT services sector.
A Ford executive built a Claude-powered family assistant that scans calendars and email to generate daily household briefings.
TechCrunch reports Apple is expected to spotlight a conversational Siri overhaul, Apple Intelligence updates, and AI agent integrations.
Business Insider reports Satya Nadella wants AI agents managed with identities, permissions, and audits.
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says automated and agentic traffic has surpassed human web traffic, intensifying AI web concerns.
Supabase raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation as demand grows for back-end tools powering AI apps and agents.
OpenAI added Codex plugins, Sites, and annotations, positioning Codex as a broader productivity tool for enterprise teams.
OpenAI released a report showing Codex is expanding from coding into knowledge work, with more than 5 million weekly active users.
Geordie AI raised a $30M Series A for its security and governance platform designed for enterprise AI agents.
Asana acquired no-code agent builder StackAI for $75 million to strengthen its human-agent workplace platform strategy.
Robinhood is letting customers connect AI agents to dedicated accounts for autonomous stock trading and card purchases.
WIRED traces how agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and OpenClaw accelerated a major shift in software and tech work.
Mashable reports Google Shopping is adding Universal Cart, agent commerce tools and AP2 limits for AI-driven purchases.
VentureBeat covers direct corpus interaction, a method that lets AI agents search raw corpora with command-line tools.
Spotify Labs introduced Studio, a desktop app that uses AI agents to create private personalized podcasts in research preview.
Google introduced Gemini Spark, a cloud agent for long-running tasks across Gmail, Docs, Slides and web workflows.
OpenAI is consolidating ChatGPT, Codex and API product work under Greg Brockman as it pushes toward agentic products.
Anthropic's Cat Wu told TechCrunch that Claude's next step is proactivity, with AI automations that anticipate user workflows.
