Auditing the agent economy: what the forecasts actually say
Auditing the agent economy: what the forecasts actually say

Grand View Research puts the enterprise agentic AI market at $24.5 billion by 2030. On the other hand, MarketsandMarkets estimates the AI agents’ market size at $52.62 billion over the same horizon. Both start from a mid-single-digit-billion base and b…

Before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal built reverse mortgage software later adopted by other lenders
Before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal built reverse mortgage software later adopted by other lenders

Years before developing AngelAi, Pavan Agarwal was already building mortgage software. Earlier in his career at Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. he developed ReverseSoft, a backend platform for reverse mortgage operations that, according to the company,…

BRKZ secures $31m to scale AI-enabled building materials procurement
BRKZ secures $31m to scale AI-enabled building materials procurement

BRKZ is a technology-enabled building materials procurement platform in Saudi Arabia. It has announced $31 million in new capital to fuel its next phase of growth. That includes advancing its AI-powered pricing and fulfillment engine. It also includes …

From tools to AI teammates: the next era of investing
From tools to AI teammates: the next era of investing

Investment tools are powerful, but largely reactive. They help investors research, analyze and act, but they still depend on the investor to decide what deserves attention and when. They respond intelligently, but rarely take the initiative. AI agents …

From IFA demonstrations to a wider design question: why should an office chair expect the body to stay still?
From IFA demonstrations to a wider design question: why should an office chair expect the body to stay still?

At IFA Berlin 2026, ARBREST put a chair through movements that office furniture often treats as exceptions. COVE is the new brand’s first product, made its world debut with an IFA Best of Design award. At Hall 2.2, Stand 141, visitors leaned toward a d…

AI agents are learning to spend money. Who will handle the payments?
AI agents are learning to spend money. Who will handle the payments?

AI is already changing how people find and buy things online, comparing prices, narrowing down options, doing in seconds what used to take an afternoon of tabs open. An AI agent could find a flight that fits your schedule, for example. Giving it permis…

Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.
Traditional firewalls can’t see what’s inside an AI prompt. Check Point built one that can.

Nearly half of organizations are entirely blind to the machine-to-machine traffic their AI agents generate, and the tools built to watch enterprise networks were never designed to look inside a prompt. Check Point’s AI Network Firewall, launched this s…

Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself
Christy Chen on why today’s chatbots aren’t built to help you know yourself

Christy Chen, founder of Cit Labs, argues that AI chatbots fail at emotional support not because the technology is incapable but because the models were optimized for engagement, trained on text that performs support rather than delivers it, and lack p…

Geely Sweden Holdings CEO Per Ansgar joins Concordium Foundation board
Geely Sweden Holdings CEO Per Ansgar joins Concordium Foundation board

Per Ansgar, CEO of Geely Sweden Holdings, joins the Concordium Foundation Board, deepening a five-year Geely-Concordium partnership focused on verified identity infrastructure for AI agents and machine-initiated payments in connected vehicles. The Conc…

Haier’s IFA stand turns the smart home into architecture you actually want to live in
Haier’s IFA stand turns the smart home into architecture you actually want to live in

Berlin‘s Messe halls are usually a chaos of flashing screens and feature lists shouted over the din. Walk into Hall 3.1, Stand 101 this year and the noise drops. What greets you is not another wall of black boxes. It is a carefully lit landscape of sur…