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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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Centralize Raises $15 Million to Map Relationships in Enterprise Sales
The startup is using AI to show sellers how buyers, colleagues and past interactions connect across a complex deal.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5
The flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
Cognition Acquires the Company Behind Poke
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Elastic Agrees to Acquire Deductive AI
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
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.
Aina Raises $5.5 Million for AI-Native Interface Hardware
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
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.
OpenAI Debuts a $230 Control Surface for Codex
Codex Micro gives developers physical controls for switching among agents, checking status and adjusting common coding workflows.
Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 and a Model API
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
Meta Rolls Out Muse Image, Then Removes a Controversial Instagram Feature
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
Agave Raises $15 Million to Bring AI Into Construction Financials
The startup is adding automation to a data layer that connects the accounting, project and payment systems used by contractors.
Together AI Raises $800 Million at an $8.3 Billion Valuation
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
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.
Patronus AI Raises $50 Million to Simulate the Worlds Agents Work In
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
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.
Adobe Agrees to Acquire Topaz Labs
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
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.
Kotoba Technologies Adds $10 Million to Expand East Asian Voice AI
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
Salesforce Expands Agentforce Commerce Across the Shopping Stack
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
Figma Motion Adds Native Animation Tools to Product Design Files
Teams can build, review and hand off interface motion without leaving the shared canvas.
JustAI Raises $17 Million for Enterprise Marketing Agents
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
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.
Superhuman Agrees to Acquire AI Detection Company GPTZero
The productivity platform is adding authenticity tools used by educators, publishers and employers.
Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
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.
Cloudflare Lets Developers Deploy Temporary Workers Without an Account
The new workflow creates a short-lived Cloudflare environment that can be claimed or allowed to expire.
Architect Labs Raises $24 Million to Speed Custom Chip Design
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
Convey Raises $38 Million to Give Enterprises AI Teammates
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
Genspark Extends Series B to $485 Million at a $2.6 Billion Valuation
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
DeepL Acquires Mixhalo and Opens Silicon Valley Office
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
Bland Raises $50 Million to Expand Its Enterprise Voice AI
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
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.
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.
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Maker Anysphere
The $60 billion stock deal would place one of the fastest-growing coding tools inside SpaceX's AI business.
Databricks Agrees to Acquire Security Platform Panther
The data company is adding an AI security-operations center to its expanding lakehouse strategy.
Facebook Adds AI Mode and New Creative Tools
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Fin for $3.6 Billion
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
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.
Apple Introduces Systemwide Dictation With Automatic Polishing
The voice input update can improve punctuation, capitalization and formatting while new Siri voices aim for more natural delivery.
Supabase Raises $500 Million at a $10.5 Billion Valuation
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
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.
Cisco Cloud Control Unifies Management Across IT Systems
The agentic platform brings networking, security, computing and observability into one operating layer.
ZoomMate Launches as an Agentic Assistant for Workplace Tasks
The product combines enterprise search, generated deliverables and actions across connected applications.
Anthropic Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
Asana Acquires No-Code Agent Builder StackAI
The work-management company is adding cross-system automation for human and AI teams.
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.
Hark Raises More Than $700 Million for Personalized AI Models and Hardware
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
Zscaler Plans to Acquire Symmetry Systems
The cybersecurity company is adding an access graph designed to map how AI agents reach data and applications.
Anthropic-Backed Services Venture Acquires Fractional AI
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
Figma Design Agent Brings Prompted Creation Onto the Canvas
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
Google Brings Agentic Tasks Into Search
New Search agents can continue monitoring information and assemble interactive results instead of returning only a list of pages.
Google Launches Antigravity 2.0 for Parallel Agent Development
The updated desktop application and command-line tool can coordinate multiple coding agents, create subagents and schedule work.
Google Unveils Gemini Spark as a Persistent Personal Agent
The opt-in assistant runs in a dedicated cloud environment and can work across Google services while asking before high-stakes actions.
Google Adds Voice Workflows and a New Pics App to Workspace
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
Google DeepMind Licenses Contextual AI Technology and Hires Researchers
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
Outmarket AI Raises $17 Million to Automate Insurance Brokerage Work
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
Monaco Raises $50 Million for an AI-Native Sales Platform
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
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.
Intuit Unveils QuickBooks Workforce for End-to-End HR Management
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
Altara Raises $7 Million to Bring AI Into Physical Science Workflows
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default ChatGPT Model
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
OpenAI Adds Advanced Account Security for High-Risk Users
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
Hightouch Raises $150 Million for an Agentic Marketing Platform
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations for Back-Office Work
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
Augment Acquires Merlin to Expand Supply Chain AI
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
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.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 for Professional and Scientific Work
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
Sierra Acquires AI Workflow Startup Fragment
The customer-service agent company is adding a French team that connects AI with business processes.
Adobe CX Enterprise Brings Agentic AI to Customer Operations
The new system connects marketing data, content, analytics and automated work across the customer lifecycle.
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.
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.
Hilbert Raises $28 Million to Turn Growth Data Into Automated Decisions
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
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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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.
Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Coordinates Work Across Creative Apps
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
Modern Relay Raises $3 Million for a Shared Context Layer for AI Agents
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
Sanas Acquires Real-Time Voice Startup Tomato.ai
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
Instacart Acquires Instaleap to Expand Its Enterprise Platform
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
Primepoint Labs Discloses $10 Million Seed Round for Construction AI
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
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.
daydream Raises $15 Million for an AI-Native SEO Agency
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
Miravoice Raises $6.3 Million for AI-Led Voice Research
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
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.
Sycamore Launches With a $65 Million Seed Round for Enterprise AI Agents
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
Deccan AI Raises $25 Million to Build More Reliable Post-Training Data
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
Google Expands Search Live to More Than 200 Markets
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
Doss Raises $55 Million to Build an AI-Native Operations Cloud
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
Apple Unifies Its Business Services in One Platform
Apple Business combines device management, employee tools, customer-facing listings and support for organizations of different sizes.
Google TV Adds Gemini Visual Answers and Sports Briefs
The television interface can now show richer responses, narrated topic explorations and quick updates for sports fans.
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.
IBM Completes $11 Billion Confluent Acquisition
The deal gives IBM a major real-time data platform for enterprise AI and hybrid cloud systems.
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.
Replit Raises $400 Million as Valuation Triples to $9 Billion
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
Google Completes $32 Billion Acquisition of Wiz
The cloud-security company will keep its brand and multicloud commitment inside Google Cloud.
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.
Zoom Opens No-Code Platform for Custom Workplace AI Agents
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
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.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4 for Professional and Agentic Work
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
Salesforce Launches Five AI Agents for Communications Providers
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
Anthropic Acquires Computer-Use Startup Vercept
The Seattle company's team and desktop-agent technology will support Claude's ability to operate software.
SambaNova Raises $350 Million and Signs Multi-Year Intel Partnership
The Palo Alto AI infrastructure company will use the capital to expand its SN50 chip and SambaCloud platform as demand grows for alternatives in inference computing.
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.
Temporal Raises $300 Million to Make AI Agents More Reliable
The durable-computing company reached a $5 billion valuation as enterprises look for infrastructure that can keep long-running AI work on track.
Simile Raises $100 Million to Build AI Simulations of Human Behavior
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
Intuit Launches Construction Edition for Its Enterprise Suite
The industry-specific system adds project accounting, proposals, invoicing and an AI management agent.
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.
