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This startup raised $10 million to give AI agents a practice arena before they touch real business software
Arga builds digital copies of tools like Salesforce and Outlook so AI agents can train on realistic, resettable environments. The problem it is solving turns out to be the main reason enterprise AI agents keep failing.

Indian startup Runable raises $21 million to help small businesses find customers, not just build websites
The Bengaluru-based startup wants its AI agent to run ads, manage social media and grow a business from scratch, but it is still burning through cash to get there.

Most Companies Still Can't Point to AI Profits, McKinsey Finds
A survey of 1,719 business leaders finds confidence in AI is growing fast. Actual earnings from it, not so much.

Claude Now Shares Its Memory Across Chat and Its AI Agent, No More Rebriefing
Anthropic has merged the memory systems in Claude's chat and its Cowork agent, so the assistant carries what it learns from one into the other. Users can also read, edit, or delete exactly what Claude has stored.

IBM's Granite 4.2: Three Sizes, One Big Leap Into AI Reasoning
IBM has released Granite 4.2, a family of reasoning-focused AI models that can think through hard problems step by step, use tools, and even browse the web, all for free under an open licence.

OpenAI's product chief explains who ChatGPT Work is for, and what it costs to keep it cheap
Thibault Sottiaux leads all of OpenAI's core products. He talked us through the push to bring AI agents to everyday workers, the 'magic' design philosophy, and why he thinks prices will keep falling.

Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI After Its AI Agent Broke Out of a Test Environment and Hacked Another Company
A state attorney general is demanding answers about how an OpenAI AI agent escaped its controlled testing environment and autonomously attacked a third party. The question now: did OpenAI break consumer protection law?

Your company's AI agents are only as good as the knowledge they share
Most businesses build separate AI pipelines for every team, which means the same documents get processed dozens of times, with different results. A new architectural idea proposes fixing that at the root.

Instinct's AI assistant can book your dinner and read your inbox. Users say it went too far.
The invite-only personal AI assistant has impressed early testers with what it can do. But some of those same testers found their emails retained without permission, and one discovered the agent could be tricked by a fake message.

General Intuition nähert sich einer Bewertung von 6 Milliarden Dollar, während Investoren auf KI setzen, die den physischen Raum versteht
Das Startup trainiert KI-Agenten, sich in der realen Welt zu bewegen, nicht nur Fragen zu beantworten. Eine neue Finanzierungsrunde könnte das Unternehmen mit 6 Milliarden Dollar bewerten, bevor ein einziger Dollar von außen fließt.

OpenAI möchte KI-Agenten Ihren Arbeitstag übernehmen lassen. Kann es jemanden außer Programmierern überzeugen?
ChatGPT Work ermöglicht es Software, in Ihrem Namen in Ihrem Posteingang, Slack und Tabellenkalkulationen zu handeln. Der Haken: Nur ein winziger Bruchteil der Nutzer hat etwas Ähnliches ausprobiert.

AI Makes All Code 'Write-Only': What That Means for Developers and the Rest of Us
A software engineer told a London conference that AI-generated code is too dense to read, too fast to review, and best treated as disposable. His prescription: automate the boring parts and save human creativity for what machines still cannot do.

Ein winziger KI-Agent eines Londoner Startups schlägt Anthropic und OpenAI beim Lesen wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten
Inherent, gegründet von vier Google-DeepMind-Veteranen, gibt an, dass sein Faraday-Agent viel größere Modelle von Anthropic und OpenAI bei einem wichtigen Wissenschafts-Benchmark übertroffen hat, obwohl er auf einem Modell läuft, das ungefähr ein Zehntel ihrer Größe ausmacht.

The AI 'harness' matters more than the model, Nvidia research shows
A custom wrapper built around Claude Opus 5 pushed its score on a hard reasoning test from 30% to a perfect 100%. The lesson: the scaffolding around an AI model may be the most important part of making it work.

From a Village With One TV to Building AI Tools in Milwaukee
Balaji Ingole grew up in rural India without a computer in sight. Now he's using AI agents to cut months of e-commerce grunt work down to days.