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Spara Raises $15M to Build ‘Superhero’ AI Agent for Inbound Sales

Spara Raises $15M to Build ‘Superhero’ AI Agent for Inbound Sales
Spara Raises $15M to Build ‘Superhero’ AI Agent for Inbound Sales
October 08, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Watch more: Need to Know: Spara, David Walker and Zander Pease Is the B2B sales world ready for AI-powered platforms that act less like pieces...

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Coupa Adds 4 New AI Agents to Spend Management Platform
Coupa Adds 4 New AI Agents to Spend Management Platform
October 03, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Coupa has added four new artificial intelligence agents to its spend management platform. The AI agents are among more than 100 enhancements included in the...

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From Search to Checkout, AI Agents Rewrite Retail’s Rules
From Search to Checkout, AI Agents Rewrite Retail’s Rules
October 01, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

AI agents are fast becoming the new gatekeepers of commerce, shrinking discovery from thousands of listings to a handful of curated options and collapsing checkout...

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OpenAI’s ‘Instant Checkout’ Lets Users Shop Via ChatGPT
OpenAI’s ‘Instant Checkout’ Lets Users Shop Via ChatGPT
September 29, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI has added a new eCommerce component to its popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. The startup on Monday (Sept. 29) announced “Instant Checkout,” a...

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Paid Raises $21 Million to Help SaaS Companies Sell AI Agents
Paid Raises $21 Million to Help SaaS Companies Sell AI Agents
September 29, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Paid raised $21 million in a seed round to expand its mission to include helping software-as-a-service companies pivot to selling artificial intelligence (AI) agents. This...

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Merchants and Marketplaces Must Speak the Language of Agents to Compete
Merchants and Marketplaces Must Speak the Language of Agents to Compete
September 29, 2025  |  Connected Economy

Retailers already face an uphill battle managing inflation, tariff-driven price shifts and the looming holiday rush. Now comes another challenge: learning a new language. It’s...

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The Rise of AI Agents and the Fall of Digital Wallets
The Rise of AI Agents and the Fall of Digital Wallets
September 24, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

In 1996 the Palm Pilot felt like the future. For those unfamiliar (or not yet born), the Palm Pilot was a pocket computer that organized...

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Prompt Economy™ Recalculates Basic Math of Commerce
Prompt Economy™ Recalculates Basic Math of Commerce
September 15, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

A year ago, it was “everything is about AI.” Months later, it was “everything is about gen AI.” Now the focus has shifted to agentic...

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