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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 близка к оценке в $6 млрд, так как инвесторы делают ставку на ИИ, понимающий физическое пространство
Стартап обучает ИИ-агентов передвигаться в реальном мире, а не просто отвечать на вопросы. Новый раунд финансирования может оценить компанию в $6 млрд до того, как придет хоть один доллар внешних инвестиций.

OpenAI хочет, чтобы AI-агенты управляли вашим рабочим днём. Сможет ли она убедить кого-то, кроме программистов?
ChatGPT Work позволяет программному обеспечению действовать от вашего имени через почту, Slack и электронные таблицы. Но есть одна загвоздка: только крошечная доля пользователей пробовала что-то подобное.

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.

Крошечный AI-агент лондонского стартапа превзошёл Anthropic и OpenAI в чтении научных статей
Inherent, основанная четырьмя ветеранами Google DeepMind, заявляет, что её агент Faraday превзошёл значительно более крупные модели Anthropic и OpenAI по ключевому научному бенчмарку, работая на модели примерно в десять раз меньшего размера.

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.