Agentic AI

Buy the Firm, Then Rebuild It With AI
Buy the Firm, Then Rebuild It With AI
August 04, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

A new class of buyers, sometimes called AI roll-ups, is emerging across accounting, property management and customer service. Unlike traditional acquirers, these companies are not...

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AI Voice Agents Take Over the Retail Sales Floor
AI Voice Agents Take Over the Retail Sales Floor
August 03, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Retail spent two years bolting chatbots onto websites that could field a shopper’s specific questions but never close a sale. Voice agents built on models...

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Actualyze AI Raises $7 Million for Platform For Governing AI
Actualyze AI Raises $7 Million for Platform For Governing AI
August 03, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Actualyze AI has raised $7 million for its self-named platform designed for enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) usage. This platform “sits between an organization’s people, applications,...

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Gradium CEO Says Voice AI Must Understand, Not Just Transcribe the Words
Gradium CEO Says Voice AI Must Understand, Not Just Transcribe the Words
August 03, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Gradium’s Neil Zeghidour Voice AI can hear every word you said and still have no idea what you meant. Anyone...

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Cards Make Their Case in an Agentic World
Cards Make Their Case in an Agentic World
August 03, 2026  |  Credit Cards

When AI agents start buying things, somebody has to settle the transaction. This week, the four largest card networks in the United States each made...

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Nine Out of Ten Firms Struggle to Manage Bot Traffic
Nine Out of Ten Firms Struggle to Manage Bot Traffic
August 03, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Bots have become the new majority on the internet, forcing companies to rethink how they tell a trusted customer from an automated threat. That shift...

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Amazon Puts AI Agents to Work as Sales Top $200 Billion
Amazon Puts AI Agents to Work as Sales Top $200 Billion
July 30, 2026  |  Retail

On Amazon’s first-quarter earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy described agentic artificial intelligence as a work in progress. Well, progress has been made. By the end...

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Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Expand Enterprise AI Platform
Encore AI Raises $30 Million to Expand Enterprise AI Platform
July 30, 2026  |  Investments

Agentic customer interaction platform Encore AI has raised $30 million in new funding. The company will use its Series A round, announced Wednesday (July 29)...

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zerohash Launches Agentic Finance Tools for Platforms
zerohash Launches Agentic Finance Tools for Platforms
July 30, 2026  |  Blockchain

On-chain infrastructure firm zerohash has launched a set of products that allows artificial intelligence agents, intelligent applications and machine-to-machine systems to initiate financial transactions directly....

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