Agentic AI
Meta Muse Spark Open Brings 816B Agentic AI to Local Hardware
Most frontier AI models still come with a requirement: someone else’s datacenter. Developers can build with them through an API. The model itself the infrastructure behind it and often the data path remain outside their control. Meta is testing a direction with Muse Spark Open, an open-weight agentic model large enough to compete with leading […]
AI Shopping Agents Can Now Buy for You, but Who Pays When They Make Mistakes?
AI used to be wrong inside a chat box. Now it can be wrong while buying something, sending a message, booking your day or acting inside an account. That changes the cost of a mistake. Recent examples documented by The Wall Street Journal show just how quickly convenience can turn into exposure. Personal AI agents […]
Doris Labs raises $600k to make sure you never lose a deal you should have won.
Doris Labs has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding, led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from Manchester Angels and a group of angels from across the B2B software industry. Doris has built the GTM AI semantic layer that captures everything a sales team learns across calls, emails and documents, and then their agents drive the deal […]
Deepslate Raises €7.7M Seed for European Speech-to-Speech AI
A voice agent can sound almost human until a caller says “Müller-Straße 14b,” reads an IBAN aloud, switches from German to English halfway through a sentence or speaks in a regional dialect. For Deepslate, those are not edge cases. They are the reason to build a European voice model in the first place. The German […]
OuterSignal Raises $22M for Agentic Customer Intelligence
An ecommerce brand can know that you spent $186.40, opened three emails, bought twice in six months and used a discount code on your first order. It can still have no idea who you are. OuterSignal was built around that strange imbalance. Modern commerce software remembers transactions exceptionally well, yet the relationship behind those transactions […]
OpenAI Dots: The GPT-6 Astra Agents Designed for Ongoing Work
An early tester did not ask his Dot to check whether he had forgotten to invoice anyone. According to OpenAI, the agent noticed the missing invoice itself, prepared it, then sent it only after the user approved the action. It is a small example buried inside the Dots announcement, but it explains the product more […]
From Chatbots to Autonomous AI Workflows | HumanX 2026
The next enterprise AI failure may not be a hallucination or a rogue agent. It could be much simpler: a company spends millions on AI, celebrates hundreds of pilots and still cannot explain what changed in the business. That tension ran through Charlie Perreau’s conversation with H CEO Gautier Cloix at HumanX Amsterdam. The session […]
Lovable at HumanX 2026: What Comes After Vibe Coding?
Iain Martin opened one of the most revealing conversations at HumanX Amsterdam with a deliberately simple challenge to Lovable co-founder Fabian Hedin: “You think vibe coding is dead. What comes next?” Hedin did not reject what the phrase once represented. “Vibe coding” captured the early thrill of handing a rough idea to AI and watching […]
Kontext Raises $4M to Put a Security Check Between AI Agents and Real-World Actions
Imagine an AI coding agent asked to fix a production bug. It has authenticated correctly, received access to the repository and been given the tools it needs. Reading the relevant code is reasonable. Running tests is reasonable. But those same credentials may also let the agent inspect unrelated files, call an external service or perform […]
Palma.ai’s $1.8M Bet: AI Agents Need a Control Layer Before They Get the Keys
For most of enterprise AI’s short history, the risk ended with the answer. A chatbot could summarise a document, draft an email or suggest a next step, but a person still decided what happened afterward. AI agents change that bargain. Once software can update a CRM, query a financial system, call internal tools or trigger […]
Creem Raises €5M to Make Getting Paid as Fast as Building With AI
AI has compressed one of the hardest parts of starting a software company. An idea can become code, a working interface and even a deployable product in days. But the moment someone wants to pay for it, speed disappears. A founder suddenly needs checkout, subscription logic, usage metering, taxes, invoices, chargebacks, affiliate payouts and a […]
OpenAI Says AI Agents Now Do 3.1x More Research Work Than Humans
At the start of 2026, coding agents were still operating in the background of OpenAI’s research organization, helping researchers write code, troubleshoot experiments and move technical work forward. Within months, that balance shifted dramatically. Before June, total agent runtime was still below human labor. By mid-August, OpenAI says researchers were consuming 3.1 agent-workdays for every […]