Imagine hiring a new employee who works around the clock, never takes a break and can place orders or move money on its own. Now imagine hiring that worker without checking references. That is roughly the risk companies take when they rush artificial intelligence agents...
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek has raised $15 billion in its second private funding round and is accelerating plans for a Shanghai listing in early 2027, potentially reaching public markets before OpenAI. The financing nearly doubled its original target amid strong investor demand, The...
Artificial intelligence is making it easier for retailers to get discovered. It is doing considerably less to help them get paid. Data in the October 2026 edition of the Consumer AI Benchmark Report from PYMNTS Intelligence reveals that nearly 45% of consumers who use AI...
Anthropic has unveiled an app in which Claude works as a “proactive agent” on behalf of professionals and small business owners, including purchasing business supplies, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) announcement. In this app, Claude Duet, Claude comes to the user when...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has found a new centerpiece for the company’s artificial intelligence ambitions: Muse, a personal AI agent he is positioning as the foundation for everything from shopping and advertising to enterprise software and smart glasses. After earlier AI efforts struggled to establish...
Boeing wants airlines to catch mechanical problems before they ground a jet. The aircraft maker announced in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) press release the launch of Dataliner, an artificial intelligence-powered platform built with Microsoft that pulls an airline’s maintenance and fleet data into one view....
Enterprise software platform ServiceNow has launched an agentic-AI-focused expansion of its partnership with Nvidia. The new updates are “designed to bring governance and security across every layer of AI agent execution,” the company said in a news release Wednesday (Oct. 21). “People are turning to...
Legora raised $550 million in a Series E funding round to support the expansion of its agentic operating system for legal professionals, Legora aOS, the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 21) blog post. The round valued Legora at $8.8 billion, according to the post....
Anthropic’s net loss jumped significantly to $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026, largely due to an accounting charge. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Oct. 20) by Reuters, which viewed a draft prospectus for the company’s planned initial public offering (IPO). Anthropic is...