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Every software company is racing to bolt an AI agent onto its own product. Gradial is betting the real money is in the gaps between them. The Seattle startup has raised $65mn in Series C funding to build what it calls an operating system for marketing: a layer of AI agents that execute work across […]
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It takes a particular kind of dysfunction for an employee to hijack a company-wide livestream and demand the hosts pass a message to a senior executive: that he is, in not so many words, garbage. That happened inside Meta this month. According to a recording heard by WIRED, the outburst, on a call open to […]
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Adobe has spent two years bolting AI onto its software. This week it tried to become the AI layer underneath everything creative and marketing, in five announcements stretched across three days. The headline is an agent inside the apps. The rest of the week shows what Adobe is really building: a single creative and marketing […]
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Accenture had the worst day in its history on the stock market on Thursday, and the reason cuts to the heart of the AI era: investors increasingly fear that AI will hollow out the consulting business itself. Shares fell as much as 20 per cent, the company’s worst one-day drop on record, after it forecast […]
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Yann LeCun has never been quiet about his doubts, and his latest target is one of the most valuable companies on earth. Elon Musk’s xAI is “kind of a failure” that will not be able to compete on the frontier with OpenAI and Anthropic, LeCun, the founder of AMI Labs and a former chief AI […]
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The defence-tech land grab has a new front, and it sits above the drones and sensors that get the headlines. Comand AI, a Paris startup building AI software for military command, has raised a €32mn Series A led by Blossom Capital, with a strategic investment from Sweden’s Saab and renewed backing from Expeditions. The round […]
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ByteDance has generally been Microsoft’s single biggest AI customer in recent years, and it is on track to spend more than $1bn a year on Microsoft’s AI and cloud services, Bloomberg reports. The striking part is what the TikTok owner is mostly buying: OpenAI models, sold through Microsoft’s Azure cloud, in a market that OpenAI […]
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As companies struggle to turn AI pilots into things they can actually rely on, a new startup is betting the fix looks less like a better chatbot and more like a mathematical proof. Pramaana Labs announced $27mn in seed funding on Wednesday, led by Khosla Ventures, with Accel, BoldCap, Nexus Venture Partners, Premji Invest, and […]
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Epic will let studios plug Claude, Gemini, or any model they like into the next Unreal Engine to do the ‘tedious work’ of building games. More than half of developers think that is a bad idea. Epic Games has laid out its plans for Unreal Engine 6, and generative AI sits right at the centre […]
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NeuralTrust, a Barcelona startup, has raised $20mn to secure the AI agents that big companies are now deploying faster than they can keep track of. The seed round, worth €17.2mn, was led by Munich’s Alstin Capital, with VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, the EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund and Finaves, plus public money […]
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