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WhatsApp Tests a Separate Inbox for Offers and Business Updates
Messages from large companies could move automatically after a few hours, reducing clutter in users' main chat timelines.
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.
Zuckerberg Predicts Billions Will Use Personal AI Agents Within Five Years
Meta is betting that persistent assistants will become a new product layer across messaging, glasses and consumer applications.
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.
Google Expands Privacy-Preserving Age Signals for Android Apps
Developers worldwide will be able to receive an age range without collecting a user's exact birth date.
Apple Launches Klarna-Backed Leasing for iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watch
Apple Upgrade replaces two existing U.S. payment programs and lets eligible customers return, buy or exchange a device at the end of the lease.
WhatsApp Adds Voice and Video Calling to Its Web App
The browser version gains calls, screen sharing, reactions and waiting rooms as Meta closes a long-standing gap with its desktop software.
Cognition Acquires the Company Behind Poke
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
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.
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.
Salesforce Expands Agentforce Commerce Across the Shopping Stack
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
Android 17 Adds Multitasking, Privacy and Theft Protections
Google's mobile operating system update begins on Pixel devices with floating app bubbles, improved recording and stronger controls for lost phones.
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Fin for $3.6 Billion
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
ZoomMate Launches as an Agentic Assistant for Workplace Tasks
The product combines enterprise search, generated deliverables and actions across connected applications.
Google Tests Gemini-Built Ads Inside AI Search
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Multiply Raises $9.5 Million for Self-Learning B2B Advertising
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
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.
Newo Raises $25 Million to Put AI Receptionists Into Small Businesses
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.