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Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Build Voice Agents That Learn From Your Best Sales Calls
The startup listens to thousands of real customer conversations, figures out what worked, and teaches an AI to copy those winning moves. Banks and insurers are already paying for it.
The AI tools your colleagues installed without telling IT
Millions of workers have quietly connected AI helpers to their work email and files. Most companies have no idea what is running, or what it can do.
Cyera Is Buying Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Protect the Growing Swarm of AI Agents
A data-security firm flush with fresh funding is spending roughly $1 billion to watch over the software 'bots that companies increasingly hand the keys to their systems.
SAP's Case for Why Enterprise AI Agents Need More Than a Chatbot
A senior SAP advisor explains why giving AI agents company-specific knowledge, and proper access controls, separates a useful digital worker from an expensive autocomplete.
Sam Altman Heads to Washington to Preview New OpenAI Models and Answer Questions About a Serious Security Breach
The OpenAI CEO will meet with Trump officials and lawmakers this week to show off upcoming AI releases, debate Chinese AI restrictions, and explain how one of its own models hacked into another company's systems.
Bots Now Outnumber Humans Online. This Startup Just Raised $200 Million to Fight Back.
Spur Intelligence, which helps companies tell real users from fake ones, closed a $200 million funding round as new data shows bot traffic has, for the first time, surpassed human traffic on the internet.
Google's Gemini Managed Agents Get a Quieter Upgrade: Faster Default Model, Guardrails, and a Free Tier
Gemini 3.6 Flash is now the default for managed agents, and new environment hooks let developers block or audit what the AI does inside its sandbox.
Perplexity Brings Its AI Computer Agent to Windows
The tool can open files, update spreadsheets, and send emails on your behalf, but it costs $200 a month and is aimed squarely at business users.
Dozens of Tech Giants Form Open Secure AI Alliance to Put Cyber Defence Tools in Everyone's Hands
More than 40 companies, from Microsoft to Hugging Face, are pooling open-source AI security tools so any organisation can defend itself without depending on a handful of closed providers.
Can AI Agents Learn to Think Together? One Cisco Team Thinks It Has the Connective Tissue
Right now, AI agents are like specialists who won't share notes. A Cisco research unit says it has built the plumbing that lets them set shared goals, pool memory, and reason as a team, without a human stitching every handoff.
Five things enterprise leaders need to know before deploying AI agents
Intel ran thousands of experiments on agentic AI workloads and found that most organisations are measuring the wrong things. Here's what actually matters when you move beyond chatbots.
The $1 Billion Startup Teaching AI to Do Your Desk Job
Prentis, a four-month-old lab backed by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, is in talks to raise $100 million. It claims its AI can handle insurance claims and customs paperwork cheaper than any rival. Here is what ordinary workers should know.
Ex-Google security engineers raise $36 million to fight AI-crafted phishing emails
AegisAI, founded by two former Google executives who helped build Gmail's defences, says AI is now writing scam emails so convincing that existing filters miss them more than half the time.
What is an AI agent? A plain-English guide
AI agents are programs that can set their own mini-goals and take actions in the world, not just answer a question and stop.
ServiceNow puts $40 million into Indian banking AI firm BusinessNext
The U.S. enterprise software giant is buying a 5% stake in a 24-year-old Noida company that automates banking workflows for more than 70 lenders across Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.