The word “agent” is everywhere in enterprise software right now, which is exactly why Convey does not want to use it. The startup has raised a $38mn Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures and Pear VC joining. Its pitch is a deliberat…
There is an unglamorous deadline bearing down on corporate IT, and it has just produced one of London’s more interesting AI raises. Conduct, a 35-person startup founded by three former Palantir engineers, has raised a $60mn Series A co-led by Index Ven…
When an AI agent does something on your behalf today, it usually has to become you. It logs in as you, with your access to everything. Estonia wants to end that. The country plans to issue personal identification numbers to AI assistants, the first nat…
Jeff Bezos appears to have settled on his AI thesis, and it is not chatbots. It is the physical world. CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, is in talks to raise about $400mn at a $2.6bn valuation, the Financial…
SpaceX has made it official. In a filing on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s newly public rocket company said it had signed a binding agreement to buy Anysphere, the startup behind the popular AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock deal that values the company at …
The race to secure non-human identities just produced its second deal of the day. SailPoint, the Austin-based identity-security giant, said it plans to buy Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that finds and protects the credentials, keys and machine accounts tha…
1Password is buying its way into the agentic enterprise. The Toronto identity-security company said on Monday it has acquired Apono, an Israeli startup that decides, in real time, what every human, machine and AI agent is allowed to touch inside a comp…
Optiak, a startup building what it calls a modular operating system for enterprise AI, has come out of stealth with a €4m pre-seed round, about $4.7m, led by Market One Capital, Next Tier Ventures, EA Ventures Plug and Play EMEA Fund and Mission. The c…
NewCore has come out of stealth with $66m to solve a problem most companies have not named yet: who, or what, is logging into their systems. The identity-security startup, based in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, is building a platform to govern both human…
Among the interpreters who rely on it, the verdict is consistent: at last, something built for the way they actually work. The premise is simple. Interpreting works best as human and machine together, not machine in place of the human. Interpreting is …