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Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M
Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As…
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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark…
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Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs
AI has become the smartphone industry’s latest battleground, with manufacturers racing to add AI-powered features to attract mainstream…
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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
There’s something almost too perfect about this one, via Bloomberg. Lyzr, a three-year-old, Jersey City, New Jersey, startup…
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Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as…
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Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent is now handling roughly a third of its customer support issues in…
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Slackbot is an AI agent now
Slackbot, the automated assistant baked into the Salesforce-owned corporate messaging platform Slack, is entering a new era as…
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Port raises $100M at $800M valuation to take on Spotify’s Backstage
Spotify may be synonymous with music streaming, but it’s also got a wildly popular developer-tool side-hustle called “Backstage.” …
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Anthropic signs $200M deal to bring its LLMs to Snowflake’s customers
AI research lab Anthropic’s not slowing down in its efforts to snap up enterprise clients. The company on…