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Vapi nabs $50M to make voice AI more human

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:20:01 +0000

Voice artificial intelligence startup Vapi Inc. said today it has raised $50 million in new funding to change the way people talk to computers, experience phone calls and interact with customer support. Vapi builds voice AI infrastructure, the middleware that connects AI models, such as OpenAI Group PBC’s GPT and Anthropic PBC’s Claude models to voice-to-text and text-to-voice engines. It allows low-delay […]

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White Circle raises $11M to help companies secure and monitor AI model behavior

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:45:27 +0000

Artificial intelligence guardrail and monitoring startup Pumpkin Intelligence Inc., which operates as White Circle, announced today it raised $11 million in seed funding from a who’s who of AI leadership after its founder showed it was possible to break most models with a single prompt. Some of the biggest names in the industry joined the round, including OpenAI Group PBC Head of Developer Experience Romain Huet; Dirk […]

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Honeycomb introduces agent observability features to keep an eye on production

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:01:55 +0000

Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, introduced a number of new platform updates aimed at investigating artificial intelligence agent activity in production. The new enhanced capabilities provide deeper visibility into what AI agents are doing while they’re running, the company said. The enhanced capabilities include Agent Timeline, Canvas Agent and […]

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SAP recasts Joule as the front door to autonomous enterprise AI

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:30:26 +0000

SAP SE today introduced at Sapphire 2026, the company’s annual conference, what it calls Autonomous Enterprise, a suite of artificial intelligence tools and agents designed to enhance how humans and AI work together. The announcements are built on SAP Business AI Platform, a new governed foundation for building and deploying enterprise AI grounded in business […]

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CodeWords raises $9M to develop AI agents that automate before you ask

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:40:07 +0000

CodeWords, operated by Agemo AI Ltd., today announced it has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Visionaries to build artificial intelligence agents that don’t wait to build automations. Firstminute Capital, which first backed the company at pre-seed, also participated in the round, alongside Sequel and Illusian, a Helsinki-based family office and venture platform co-founded by mobile game developer Supercell Oy Chief Executive Ilkka Paananen. In the usual lifecycle of no-code […]

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Vibe launches Dot, a wearable AI device for capturing real-world workplace conversations

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:00:24 +0000

Vibe Inc., the creator of a contextual artificial intelligence workspace platform that handles real-world meetings, introduced a wearable device today that brings an AI assistant to professionals wherever they happen to be. The device, Vibe Dot, captures spoken conversations and voice commands in real time, syncing everything with the company’s Vibe AI app as a […]

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MongoDB announces platform enhancements for enterprise-ready AI production

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:35:12 +0000

Popular NoSQL-based database company MongoDB Inc. today announced a new set of capabilities during the company’s .Local conference in London, bringing together everything software and artificial intelligence engineers need to run agents in production into one platform. The company announced the availability of MongoDB 8.3, building on previous generations of the database software with superior performance aimed at the agentic AI era. To support this, MongoDB added enhanced […]

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Adobe introduces productivity agent to transform PDF creation and sharing

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:15:13 +0000

Adobe Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence experience embedded in its ubiquitous PDF document reader and creator, Acrobat, to transform how people create, understand and share information. The new experience, which Adobe calls the productivity agent, uses AI to automate tools and models to generate images, text and audio to generate materials including presentations, podcasts and social posts alongside chat interfaces for PDFs. Users can take otherwise static text […]

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Coinbase cuts staff by 14%, citing crypto market downturn and AI adoption

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:55:32 +0000

Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Brian Armstrong announced today that the company intends to cut its headcount by 14%, or roughly 700 jobs, citing a combination of market forces and artificial intelligence changing how the company operates. Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Armstrong noted that although the company is “well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm,” but that crypto is currently in a “down market,” […]

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Subquadratic launches with $29M to bring 12M-token context windows to AI

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:00:07 +0000

Subquadratic, a company developing a novel generative artificial intelligence model, launched today with $29 million in seed funding. The new large language model, dubbed SubQ, uses what the company calls a subquadratic architecture that greatly increases the context window — how much information the AI can read at once — without significantly increasing the amount […]

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Ai2 releases MolmoAct 2, enhancing robot intelligence in the real world

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:00:12 +0000

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling robots to operate in the real world, with MolmoAct 2. Last August, the company released its first iteration, MolmoAct, the company’s first action reasoning model, a new class of AI models that allows machines to reason about 3D environments […]

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Penske and Amazon introduce supply chain logistics solutions aimed at businesses

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:30:24 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. and Penske Logistics, the transportation solutions division of Penske Corp. Inc., today separately announced supply chain solutions aimed at easing business operations. Penske announced the launch of Supply Chain Insight, a technology platform and mobile application that tracks warehousing and shipments in real-time. Amazon introduced Supply Chain Services, providing companies access to the company’s logistics network to move, store and deliver everything from raw materials to finished products. Freight, distribution and fulfillment Amazon style Amazon announced its new […]

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Anthropic announces Claude Security public beta to find and fix software vulnerabilities

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:00:40 +0000

Anthropic PBC announced the launch of Claude Security in public beta mode today to help cybersecurity teams scan their codebases for vulnerabilities and generate patches. Part of Claude Enterprise, the company’s subscription model aimed at large organizations, Security began as a research preview as Claude Code Security in February. Since its introduction, the company said hundreds of organizations have used it to discover and fix exploits in […]

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Runpod launches Flash to bring AI inference to developers without infra overhead

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:00:55 +0000

Developer-centered artificial intelligence cloud provider Runpod Inc. today announced the launch of Flash, a software development kit and platform that removes the infrastructure overhead for deploying AI. With Flash, developers can go directly from local Python code to cloud AI inference, no container setup, no image management, no infrastructure configuration – just freewheeling and auto-scaling. “We built Flash because the feedback was consistent: Serverless […]

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HPE introduces new ProLiant systems for distributed AI and edge computing

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:00:24 +0000

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today expanded its ProLiant edge-computing portfolio with new systems aimed at running artificial intelligence, analytics and automation in rugged, space-constrained and distributed environments. The rollout is anchored by the new ProLiant Compute EL2000 chassis, the foundation for two new Gen12 servers, the EL220 and EL240, alongside enhancements to the ProLiant DL145 […]

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Cognizant to acquire Astreya for $600M to deepen AI infrastructure services

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:20:41 +0000

Information technology services company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. today announced it agreed to acquire Astreya Inc., a San Jose-based information technology managed services firm specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and data center operations. The deal is worth about $600 million, the company confirmed to Reuters, and is expected to strengthen Cognizant’s AI portfolio. Founded in […]

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Salesforce introduces Agentforce Operations to automate outdated back-office tasks

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:21 +0000

Salesforce Inc. today launched Agentforce Operations, an artificial intelligence system designed to extend specialized AI agents into the back office to automate manual work. Workflow automation tools have existed for a long time — not because office workers are lazy, but because it’s more efficient to have a task handled by a machine. The problem is […]

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Certifyde raises $2M to help guide businesses in adopting and scaling AI

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Certifyde Inc. today announced it has raised $2 million to help businesses turn investment in artificial intelligence into broader adoption and fluency among rank and file. According to a 2025 report from McKinsey & Co., although 88% of companies surveyed said that they had adopted AI across their organizations, only 7% indicated they had fully scaled it within their operations. Most companies indicated they were still in the early stages of […]

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Aviatrix launches AI agent containment platform for cloud workloads

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:00:53 +0000

Aviatrix Inc. today announced the launch of a new platform designed to contain artificial intelligence agents and enforce security controls and communications across AI workloads without changing AI agents or code. The company said the launch comes in response to an increasing number of supply chain attacks that do not always come from outside the […]

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Nvidia introduces Nemotron 3 Nano Omni with vision and speech for powerful agentic AI use

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:00:48 +0000

Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech, capable of acting as the “brains” of faster, smarter agentic AI applications. Dubbed Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, and weighing in at about 30 billion parameters, the new state-of-the-art model uses mixture-of-experts architecture to deliver extremely low latency and provides high flexibility and control. Nvidia combined vision and audio […]

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Qdrant Cloud launches high-performance vector database features for AI workloads

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:57 +0000

Open-source vector database startup Qdrant Solutions GmbH today announced three new enterprise-grade capabilities on its cloud service to address performance, availability and compliance requirements for artificial intelligence and always-on retrieval needs. The new services are graphics processing unit-accelerated indexing, Multi-AZ clusters and audit logging. As more AI systems become mission-critical for the agentic era and enterprise companies begin to adopt retrieval-augmented […]

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Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M at $1.5B valuation to deploy embodied AI technology

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:30:56 +0000

Pudu Technology Inc., a leading developer of intelligent service robotics, has raised nearly $150 million in a new funding round. With this capital raise, announced Thursday, the company exceeded $1.5 billion in valuation and has reached over $300 million in total funding. The architect of a variety of robots, Pudu has become a large producer of commercial robots, especially in the cleaning, hospitality and […]

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Cisco unveils universal switch for the quantum networking era

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:00:45 +0000

Networking technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a new networking switch for quantum systems that routes quantum information between computers while preserving quantum state. The Cisco Universal Quantum Switch, a working prototype, is the company’s latest proof of concept aimed at pushing quantum systems closer to real-world practical use. Researchers and enterprises already use […]

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Copperhelm dives deep into automation to build enterprise cloud defenses

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:00:40 +0000

Copperhelm Inc., a startup building agentic artificial intelligence for cloud cybersecurity, today announced its launch with $7 million in seed funding led by TLV Partners. ToDay Ventures, ICON and SaaS Ventures Israel also participated in funding the company’s launch. Notable angel investors joining alongside included Kfir Tishbi, Or Hiltch, Guy Zipori and Ephraim Yarmak. Cybersecurity is already being transformed by AI, where machine learning […]

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Yutori launches Delegate to turn AI agents into proactive web workers

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:00:24 +0000

Yutori Inc., a startup that develops autonomous artificial intelligence agents for everyday knowledge-work tasks on the web, today announced the launch of Delegate, which allows users to offload and “delegate” tasks. Delegate is an eager AI agent that the company says never sleeps and is always prepared, at the user’s beck and call, to take whatever the […]

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Iterable launches Nova agent to assist markets in scaling customer personalization

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:00:16 +0000

Iterable Inc., a customer engagement platform, today announced that it launched an artificial intelligence agent designed to help marketers keep customer interactions relevant as campaigns scale. The new agentic model, named Nova Agent, takes advantage of how the AI is reshaping the way the public is approaching discovering, evaluating and engaging with businesses. In the past, it was possible to sit down, write up a plan and take […]

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Google announces innovations in mega-scale networking for the agentic era

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:46 +0000

Rising to meet demands for increasing latency and scale, Google LLC today introduced a mega-scale datacenter network fabric and cross-cloud infrastructure aimed at agentic artificial intelligence delivery. Virgo Network, Google’s new networking system for AI infrastructure, is designed to speed communications both inside accelerator clusters and across the broader data center, where workloads need access to memory, compute and storage. The company said […]

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Two new TPUs to power the next wave of AI training and inference at Google

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:00:05 +0000

Google LLC introduced two new custom silicon chips for artificial intelligence today at Google Cloud Next 2026, unveiling two distinct Tensor Processor Unit architectures built for training and inference: the eighth-generation TPU 8t and TPU 8i. The company said it designed the pair of chips to tackle the next generation of AI workloads by splitting across the […]

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Yelp launches new Assistant chatbot integrated into every part of the platform

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:00:14 +0000

Yelp Inc., the popular local business discovery and recommendation engine, today announced the launch of a new chatbot assistant alongside 35 new features and updates that will provide recommendations, answers, bookings and more. The company first introduced the Yelp Assistant to help customers hire service professionals and answer questions about individual businesses. Now it works across every part of […]

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Aikido Security debuts Endpoint for AI-native developer security

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:00:26 +0000

Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security BV today launched Endpoint, a lightweight security agent designed to secure artificial intelligence use on developer workstations and address supply chain attacks against open-source software. Endpoint delivers a platform for enterprises to gain visibility and control over software packages, independent development environments, browser extensions and the AI tools now integrated into […]

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