Unlike static, rules-based systems, AI agents can learn, adapt, and optimize processes dynamically. As they interact with data, systems, people, and other agents in real time, AI agents can execute entire workflows autonomously. But unlocking their potential requires redesigning processes around agents rather than bolting them onto fragmented legacy workflows using traditional optimization methods. Companies…
The London-based startup, founded by former BBC and Uber executives, runs AI-orchestrated video conversations that can gather structured insight from thousands of employees simultaneously. A seven-minute conversation produces more than 1,000 words of d…
In short: Australian AI data centre company Firmus has raised $505m at a $5.5bn valuation in what it says is its final pre-IPO round, and is now targeting a $2bn listing on the ASX in June or July, backed by a $10bn Blackstone-led debt facility secured…
UK-based analytics startup WholeSum has brought its total Pre-Seed funding to $1.3 million, with an additional $335,000 new investment from Love Ventures, Beamline, and strategic angels, following its…
“All of us live in the dark most of the year, and we don’t have anything better to do than build,” says an organiser of one of a new wave of hacker houses which have cropped up in recent months across…
Everyone’s a coder now, thanks to AI. But more code means more bugs, more vulnerabilities, and not enough engineers to catch them.
The OpenAI Safety Fellowship, announced on 6 April 2026, is a pilot programme for external researchers to conduct independent work on AI safety and alignment. It runs from September 2026 to February 2027. It was posted to social media hours after a Ron…
Xoople, the data infrastructure company building a globalsystem of record for physical change on Earth, has closed a $130 million SeriesB round. The round included investors such as Nazca Capital, MCH…
In short: Anthropic has agreed to access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute capacity via Broadcom from 2027, its largest infrastructure commitment to date — while simultaneously disclosing that its revenue run rate has su…
In short: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if …