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Tesla Reportedly Considers Separating Its China Business Before SpaceX Deal
A sale, spinoff or closure could reduce national-security conflicts, but would remove one of Tesla's most important markets and production centers.
Dili Raises $21.7 Million for AI Compliance in Infrastructure Projects
The startup is applying automated document review to the permitting and regulatory work behind data centers and other large developments.
Inforcer Raises $50 Million to Bring Enterprise Security to Smaller Businesses
The company is building managed tools for service providers that protect customers facing more sophisticated AI-enabled threats.
Freehand Raises $75 Million for AI Agents Managing Supply Chain Spend
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
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Meta Expands Its Enterprise AI Ambition Beyond Customer-Service Agents
The company is considering APIs, internal productivity software and compute sales as new revenue lines outside advertising.
Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Train Agents From Real Customer Conversations
The platform analyzes calls, messages and CRM outcomes to turn effective human techniques into reusable sales and support playbooks.
X Money Begins U.S. Rollout With Debit Card and Peer Payments
The financial app is opening to paid X subscribers with instant transfers, a Visa card and incentives tied to Premium membership.
Glow Emerges From Stealth With $180 Million for Endpoint Security
The Palo Alto and Tel Aviv company reached a $1.2 billion valuation with a prevention-focused approach to securing devices used for AI work.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Natural Raises $30 Million to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
Rime Raises $24 Million to Improve Voice AI for Complex Calls
The M13-led Series A backs a speech company betting that how a machine sounds decides whether a caller stays on the line.
Oak Launches With $60 Million for an AI-Native Identity Operating System
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
Spectro Cloud Raises More Than $100 Million for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
Flex Raises $70 Million to Expand AI-Native Financial Services
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Visa Introduces AI Financial Assistant for Banking Apps
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
Anthropic Launches Free Claude Plan for Teachers
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
Ollama Raises $65 Million to Expand Its Open-Model Developer Platform
The company behind a widely used local AI tool is adding resources for enterprise adoption while keeping its open-source distribution engine.
OpenAI Introduces GPT-Live for More Natural Voice Conversations
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Super.com Raises $65 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
8090 Raises $135 Million as Chamath Palihapitiya Takes the CEO Role
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
Quantifind Raises $200 Million for AI-Powered Risk Intelligence
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
Salesforce Launches a Prepackaged Help Agent
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
Caplight Raises $16 Million for Private-Market Data and Trading Tools
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
Coval Raises $28 Million to Stress-Test Voice and Chat Agents
The former Waymo engineer behind the startup is applying simulation and observability techniques to customer-facing AI systems.
AppsFlyer Secures More Than $1 Billion From Digital Advertising Partners
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
Probably Raises $9 Million to Make AI Outputs More Verifiable
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
Magnitude Raises $10 Million for Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
Databricks Expands Unity AI Gateway for Enterprise Agent Control
The governance layer adds cross-provider cost controls, runtime policies and monitoring for models, agents, tools and MCP services.
Databricks Genie One Turns Company Data Into an AI Coworker
The agentic system is designed to help business teams analyze information and automate recurring work.
Databricks CustomerLake Brings Customer Data Tools to the Lakehouse
The native platform combines identity resolution, audience building, activation and AI agents.
Databricks LTAP Combines Transactions and Analytics on One Data Layer
The new architecture aims to reduce the copies and pipelines separating operational applications from analysis.
Pi Raises $25 Million for Agentic Product Security
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
Campground Raises More Than $2.2 Million for Social Impact Operations
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
OpenAI Extends Codex With Tools for More Professional Roles
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
ZoomMate Launches as an Agentic Assistant for Workplace Tasks
The product combines enterprise search, generated deliverables and actions across connected applications.
Cognition Raises More Than $1 Billion at a $26 Billion Valuation
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Human Archive Raises $8.2 Million to Collect Training Data for Physical AI
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
Mercury Raises $200 Million at a $5.2 Billion Valuation
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
Google Tests Gemini-Built Ads Inside AI Search
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
Commure Raises $70 Million at a $7 Billion Valuation
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
Exaforce Raises $125 Million for Real-Time AI Security Operations
The Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
Roadrunner Raises $27 Million to Rebuild Quote-to-Cash Software
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
Fazeshift Raises $17 Million for Autonomous Accounts Receivable
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
Corgi Raises $160 Million at a $1.3 Billion Valuation for Business Insurance
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
Intuit Unveils QuickBooks Workforce for End-to-End HR Management
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
Sierra Raises $950 Million as Enterprise AI Competition Intensifies
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
Netomi Raises $110 Million as Accenture and Adobe Back Agentic Customer Service
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
Google Expands AI Max to Shopping and Travel Ads
The update adds campaign automation, an AI Brief for advertiser guidance and new controls for regulated messaging.
Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations for Back-Office Work
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
Stripe Gives AI Agents a Link Wallet for Controlled Purchases
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
Omni Raises $120 Million as AI Reshapes Business Analytics
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
Era Computer Raises $11 Million to Build a Software Layer for AI Gadgets
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
Anthropic Launches Claude Design for Prototypes, Slides and Visual Work
The research-preview product turns a conversation with Claude into editable designs and can apply a company's existing visual system.
Loop Raises $95 Million to Expand Predictive AI Across Supply Chains
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
TextQL Raises $17 Million as Blackstone Backs Enterprise Data Agents
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
Gitar Emerges From Stealth With $9 Million to Check AI-Generated Code
The startup is using AI agents for reviews, security checks and continuous-integration failures as software teams struggle with a growing volume of generated code.
Phonely Raises $16 Million as Customers Back Its Business Voice AI
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
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Slash Raises $100 Million and Reaches a $1.4 Billion Valuation
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
Salesforce Launches Headless 360 for AI Agent Development
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
Instacart Acquires Instaleap to Expand Its Enterprise Platform
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
Visa Intelligent Commerce Connect Gives Merchants an Agentic Sales Layer
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
OpenAI Acquires Technology Talk Show TBPN
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
Nexus Raises $4.3 Million to Put Governed AI Agents in Business Teams
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
Databricks Enters Security Market With Lakewatch Agentic SIEM
The platform combines security data and automated investigation on the company's lakehouse.
Databricks Acquires SiftD.ai for Its Lakewatch Security Platform
The small team brings large-scale search and detection experience from Splunk into an agentic SIEM.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Eragon Raises $12 Million for a Prompt-First Enterprise Operating System
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
Nvidia Launches Toolkit for Long-Running Enterprise AI Agents
OpenShell, AI-Q and new Nemotron models aim to give companies more control over autonomous software.
Sunday Raises $165 Million to Put Its Memo Robot Into Homes
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Manufact Raises $6.3 Million to Build Infrastructure for MCP Developers
The startup formerly known as mcp-use is turning an open-source toolkit into a managed platform for deploying the connectors used by AI applications.
Google Pushes Gemini Deeper Into Docs, Sheets and Slides
The update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
Denki Raises $4.1 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Audits
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
Kana Launches With $15 Million for Configurable Marketing Agents
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
Render Adds $100 Million for a Cloud Platform Built Around AI Applications
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
Braintrust Raises $80 Million to Measure AI Systems in Production
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
OpenAI Launches Frontier to Manage Enterprise AI Agents
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
Sapiom Raises $15.75 Million for Machine-Native Financial Infrastructure
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
