81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says
81% of CIOs lack full oversight of AI agents built outside IT, Dataiku says

Most chief information officers cannot fully see the AI agents their staff build outside approved systems, a survey by Dataiku found. 81% of the 685 CIOs polled said they lack complete oversight of AI agents created outside formal channels. The Harris …

The next thing your endpoint manager manages is an AI agent
The next thing your endpoint manager manages is an AI agent

Gartner forecasts that task-specific AI agents will be integrated into 40% of enterprise applications by the end of the year. That’s up from less than 5%. The systems meant to catalog what runs on a managed device haven’t kept pace. 46% of organization…

Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents
Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents

Island, the Dallas company behind the Enterprise Browser, has raised $400m in a Series F round. The deal values it at $6.4bn, Island announced on Thursday. Evolution Equity Partners led the round. In March 2025, Island raised $250m in a Series E led by…

UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it
UiPath’s Dines says AI needs a manual and launches Cartographer to write it

“Without this manual, nobody will really succeed in deploying autonomous AI that we can trust to make decisions and understand how we actually work,” UiPath founder and CEO Daniel Dines said on Wednesday. Dines used his keynote at FUSION, UiPath’s annu…

Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick
Amazon sellers can now run their stores from Claude and Amazon Quick

“Our vision was that they would never have to log into Seller Central. We would just bring it to them where they work,” Mary Beth Westmoreland, Amazon’s vice president of Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, told GeekWire. Amazon announced on Wednesda…

Numeral raises $100m Series C for AI sales tax compliance
Numeral raises $100m Series C for AI sales tax compliance

Sales tax has become a much bigger operational challenge as companies grow across markets, systems and business models. Sam Ross, co-founder and chief executive of Numeral, said that as the San Francisco company announced a $100m Series C on Wednesday….

“Crazy nonsense”: Benioff dismisses the SaaSpocalypse and launches AIforce
“Crazy nonsense”: Benioff dismisses the SaaSpocalypse and launches AIforce

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has dismissed months of talk about a “SaaSpocalypse”. “We’ve been hearing all this kind of crazy nonsense about the SaaSpocalypse, especially over the last six months,” he said on Tuesday, opening the Dreamforce …

Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports
Salesforce drops ‘Agentforce’ from product names, The Information reports

Salesforce is taking the word “Agentforce” out of the names of some of its biggest products, a week before its Dreamforce customer conference. Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton reported the change for The Information, citing two people with direct kno…

Clay raises $115m at a $7.1bn valuation, more than double its 2025 price
Clay raises $115m at a $7.1bn valuation, more than double its 2025 price

Clay has raised $115m in a Series D round that values the New York go-to-market software company at $7.1bn. Wellington Management led the round, the company said in its announcement on Wednesday. The New York Times broke the news, in a DealBook story b…

Waymo robotaxis go live on the Lyft app in Nashville
Waymo robotaxis go live on the Lyft app in Nashville

Waymo’s driverless cars can now be booked through the Lyft app in Nashville, making it the first market where the same autonomous fleet is available through two competing rideshare platforms. The service covers central Nashville, including Downtown and…