Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production
Raindrop hits $50m in funding to catch AI agents failing in production

“Agents now run for hours, call thousands of tools, and handle real money, real health data, and real customers,” said Zubin Koticha, chief executive of Raindrop. “When an agent fails, it does the wrong thing convincingly at scale until someone happens…

Beacon buys Haize Labs to stop its AI agents going wrong
Beacon buys Haize Labs to stop its AI agents going wrong

“The Fortune 500 will have no shortage of AI,” said Leonard Tang, co-founder and chief executive of Haize Labs. “The harder problem is making AI useful for the businesses that power the rest of the economy, where most humans work and receive value.” Ta…

Springshot says Google’s $10m Spirit deal could include its trade secrets
Springshot says Google’s $10m Spirit deal could include its trade secrets

A proposed sale of Spirit Airlines data to Google has drawn an objection from aviation software company Springshot, which says some of the assets may not be Spirit’s to sell. Google won the bankruptcy auction with a $10 million bid for a vast archive. …

Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power
Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power

“Getting there means controlling the infrastructure from electrons to tokens,” said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and chief executive of Crusoe. He was describing what he called an era of abundance brought by AI. The Denver company announced the initial…

Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring
Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring

“Security software shouldn’t just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk changes,” said Lewis Carhart, chief executive and co-founder of Comp AI. The Miami company has raised a $34m Series A led by Roo Capi…

Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads at its advertiser summit
Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads at its advertiser summit

“Traditional search advertising has long relied on keywords, but in an AI-driven world, people are expressing themselves in much richer ways,” said Bill Ready, chief executive of Pinterest. The company announced Visual Search Ads on 17 September at Pin…

House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI
House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI

“This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. This is an American issue, and it is a global issue,” House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark said on 17 September. Her party is pressing Republicans to stay in Washington and legislate on AI. Clark spoke al…

Pentagon CTO Emil Michael says the US should not take stakes in AI firms
Pentagon CTO Emil Michael says the US should not take stakes in AI firms

“We don’t want government to get in the middle,” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, told CNBC when asked about government stakes in AI companies. Michael appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on 16 September. Asked whether the Tru…

Factory raises $200M at a $5B valuation for its AI coding agents
Factory raises $200M at a $5B valuation for its AI coding agents

“Across the world’s largest enterprises, we are seeing a move from individual coding agents to software factories that serve as the core foundation from which an entire software company operates,” said Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory. The…

Hackers extracted a Flock camera’s software and key, 404 Media reports
Hackers extracted a Flock camera’s software and key, 404 Media reports

“Why just destroy them when we can reverse engineer them and find the secrets of those spying on us?” one hacker told 404 Media. The hacker belongs to a collective called stegan0gram. The group pulled a Flock Safety camera down from above a roadway and…