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OpenAI Targets Production AI Agents for Customer Service
OpenAI has a new pitch for enterprise customers, and it's aimed at a problem the company itself admits is unsolved: getting AI agents to actually work outside a demo.
Fenix Flexin' New Single Sparks AI Slop Debate Over Vocal Style
"Rubberz" sits at number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, a real chart position for a song a growing number of listeners suspect wasn't really written or sung by a human being.
Apple May Charge for Advanced Siri AI Features
Tim Cook spent his last earnings call as Apple's chief executive doing something the company rarely does before a product ships: talking price.
Microsoft's low-cost AI cybersecurity model tops Anthropic in benchmark
Microsoft's cybersecurity model MAI-Cyber-1-Flash just beat Anthropic's Mythos by 12 percentage points on the CyberGym benchmark, and it did so at half the cost.
Anthropic Says Claude AI Hacked Systems in Cybersecurity Tests
Anthropic told the public on Thursday that its Claude models broke into the production systems of three separate organizations while running cybersecurity evaluations, none of which knew they'd been touched until the company went looking.
Economy Relies on OpenAI, Anthropic IPOs Amid Political Uncertainty
Silicon Valley spent last week in a mild panic, and this time it wasn't about a single product launch or funding round.
Okta acquires AI security startup Permiso for approximately USD 200 million
Okta agreed Thursday to buy Permiso Security, an identity threat detection startup, in a deal a source told TechCrunch is worth just under $200 million and structured as almost all-cash.
Hush Security: AI Agents Create New Identity Governance Gap
Hush Security closed a $30 million Series A this week, led by returning backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures, with Akamai Technologies joining as a strategic investor.
NTT DATA: AI Agents Need More Than Identity to Learn Company Context
Sixty-nine percent of enterprises running AI agents are still letting those agents share credentials, according to VentureBeat research published in June. That's not a minor configuration problem.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 Advances Task Orchestration and Multi-Robot Control
Google released Gemini Robotics ER 2 on Wednesday, its newest "embodied reasoning" model built to give robots a faster, more capable planning layer.
Data Issues Plague Disjointed AI Initiatives, Says Kask
SAP put a number on something a lot of executives have suspected for a while: the AI they've rolled out is doing less than it could.
Dili raises USD 21.7M to automate AI compliance for infrastructure projects
Dili closed a $15 million Series A on Thursday, pushing its total funding to $21.7 million after a $6.7 million seed round.
Microsoft Confirms Copilot 'Super App' for This Year
Satya Nadella put a timeline on it. Speaking to investors during Microsoft's earnings call on Wednesday, the CEO said the company will launch a Copilot "super app" this year, one that folds chat, coding tools and autonomous agents into a single...
Meta's AI Investments Cut Profit 91% Amid New Data Center Deal
Meta's net income fell 83% in the third quarter, dragged down by a one-time $16 billion tax charge tied to the Trump administration's spending bill, plus the company's continued spending spree on AI infrastructure.
Microsoft marks down OpenAI investment by USD 600 million
Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, covering the period ending June 30, came with a rare side-by-side look at how its two big AI bets are performing.
Zuckerberg Says Personal AI Agents Will Drive Meta's Next Products
Mark Zuckerberg used Meta's Q2 2026 earnings call on Wednesday to lay out where he thinks the company's AI push is headed next: personal agents that act on a user's behalf, not just chatbots that answer questions.
Zuckerberg: Meta to get paid when AI delivers business results
Mark Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday that Meta's enterprise AI plans go well past the customer-service agent the company launched in June.
Waymo Shifts Focus to AI Evaluations, Testing Models Post-Launch
Waymo has logged more than 220 million fully autonomous miles on public roads, and the company says its cars produce 17 times fewer serious crash injuries than human drivers over the same distance.
Raindrop AI CTO: Agents Need Audit Logs to Fix Critical Issues
Enterprise AI agents can already write code, file tickets, and process transactions without a human clicking a button. What they can't do reliably is prove why they did it, or explain themselves when something breaks.
Target SVP: AI Competitive Advantage Lies Beyond the Models
Siobhán Mc Feeney runs technology strategy at Target as senior vice president, and at VB Transform 2026 she laid out a position that cuts against the current enterprise AI rush.
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