AI Agents

Move Over, Chatbots: Agentic AI Is Here to Run Retail
Move Over, Chatbots: Agentic AI Is Here to Run Retail
January 10, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Tech companies are rolling out artificial intelligence (AI)-powered retail solutions that mark a shift from the generative AI boom of recent years to the agentic...

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Pipe17 Raises $15.5 Million to Scale AI-Powered Composable Order Operations Platform
Pipe17 Raises $15.5 Million to Scale AI-Powered Composable Order Operations Platform
January 10, 2025  |  Investments

Software company Pipe17 raised $15.5 million in a Series A funding round to support its efforts to build and scale its infrastructure for artificial intelligence-powered...

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Salesforce to Launch AI Agents and Cloud-Based POS for Retailers
Salesforce to Launch AI Agents and Cloud-Based POS for Retailers
January 10, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce is set to release two new artificial intelligence-powered tools for retailers. One tool will make it easier for retailers to build AI agents, while...

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Hippocratic AI Debuts App Store for Health-Focused Agents
Hippocratic AI Debuts App Store for Health-Focused Agents
January 09, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Healthcare-focused firm Hippocratic AI debuted an app store for its artificial intelligence agents. The Healthcare AI Agent App Store lets clinicians craft AI agents to...

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Nevermined Raises $4 Million to Help AI Agents Pay and Get Paid
Nevermined Raises $4 Million to Help AI Agents Pay and Get Paid
January 09, 2025  |  Investments

Nevermined has raised $4 million to accelerate adoption of its AI-to-AI payment protocol that enables artificial intelligence (AI) agents to pay and get paid. The...

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Talkdesk Adds AI Agents for Retail Customer Service
Talkdesk Adds AI Agents for Retail Customer Service
January 09, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Talkdesk added artificial intelligence agents for customer service to its range of AI-powered customer experience solutions. The new Talkdesk AI Agents for Retail join the...

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Zebra Debuts Mobile AI Tool for Frontline Retail Workers
Zebra Debuts Mobile AI Tool for Frontline Retail Workers
January 09, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Zebra Technologies has debuted a set of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for frontline retail workers. The company’s Zebra Mobile Computing AI Suite, announced Thursday (Jan. 9), comes with...

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Meta Chief AI Scientist Slams Quest for Human-Level Intelligence
Meta Chief AI Scientist Slams Quest for Human-Level Intelligence
January 08, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on Wednesday (Jan. 8) criticized prevailing definitions of artificial general intelligence (AGI), arguing that continued scaling of text-based large...

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Google Helps AI Agent Fazeshift Raise $4 Million in Seed Funding
Google Helps AI Agent Fazeshift Raise $4 Million in Seed Funding
January 07, 2025  |  Investments

Fazeshift, an accounts receivable-focused artificial intelligence (AI) agent, has raised $4 million in seed funding. The funding round, announced Tuesday (Jan. 7), was led by Google’s early-stage...

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