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Networking technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a new networking switch for quantum systems that routes quantum information between computers while preserving quantum state. The Cisco Universal Quantum Switch, a working prototype, is the company’s latest proof of concept aimed at pus
Generative artificial intelligence security startup Portal26 Inc. today announced the launch of a new module designed to rein in runaway token consumption by autonomous AI agents, a problem the company says is driving unpredictable costs and operational instability at enterprises rolling out agentic
A startup called Rilian that’s building agentic systems integration tools for companies operating in the defense and national security industries, said today it has raised $17.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by 8VC, Tamarack Global and First In, and saw participation from defense techno
Funding to EV-related startups reflects a mix of optimism and restraint. While investors are backing big rounds for a handful of upstart brands, funding remains far below prior peaks and exit activity appears muted.
Cloneable, a startup that uses AI to shadow human experts in heavy industries such as energy and replicate their specialized workflows into autonomous agents, has raised $4.6 million in seed funding, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
ServiceNow Inc. today delivered first-quarter results that surpassed Wall Street’s expectations, but its stock fell hard in late trading after it said the ongoing war in Iran was dragging on its subscription revenue. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 97
OpenAI Group PBC said today it’s pushing ChatGPT outside its usual chat interface with the launch of “workspace agents,” which is a new feature that allows business users to automate recurring tasks, even when their human employees aren’t online. In a blog post today, OpenAI explained that its works
Thinking Machines Lab Inc. will expand its use of Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership the companies announced this morning. TechCrunch cited a source as saying that the deal is valued in the “single-digit billions.” Thinking Machines is an artificial intelligence startup led by Chie
Salesforce Inc. said today it’s trying to break down the siloes that separate enterprise’s customer relationship management data from their productivity tools, specifically for artificial intelligence agents. It’s doing so by expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, unveiling a deep set of integ
Prediction market platform Kalshi said today that it has suspended and fined three congressional candidates from Minnesota, Texas and Virginia for “political insider trading” relating to wagering bets on their own campaigns. The three men are Mark Moran, a former Virginia Democratic primary candidat
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy added AWS infrastructure leader Prasad Kalyanaraman to the company's S-team and promoted Dave Brown to senior vice president, according to an internal memo viewed by GeekWire. Read More
OpenAI introduced a new paradigm and product today that is likely to have huge implications for enterprises seeking to adopt and control fleets of AI agent workers. Called "Workspace Agents," OpenAI's new offering essentially allows users on its ChatGPT Business ($20 per user per month) and variably
Anthropic PBC is investigating a report that unauthorized users accessed Claude Mythos, the next-level artificial intelligence model the company says is powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks. A small group of users in a private online forum gained access to Mythos on the same day Anthropi
Google LLC has released two artificial intelligence agents that can generate research reports about user-specified topics. The agents made their debut on Tuesday. Deep Research and Deep Research Max are the successors to an AI research tool that Google introduced in December. The tool used Gemini 3
Application observability startup groundcover Ltd. today announced a major expansion of its AI Observability capability, adding native support for agentic AI systems fully compatible with Google Vertex AI. The update allows users to trace every large language model interaction and gives engineering
IBM Corp. reported revenue and earnings that topped analysts’ expectations, but its stock price dropped more than 7% in early after-hours trading as the firm declined to raise full-year estimates. Revenue rose 6%, to $15.9 billion, at constant currency, ahead of analysts’ estimates of $15.62 billion
As AI inference demand surges and enterprise compute budgets buckle under expanding workloads, x86 efficiency has emerged as one of the most powerful — and underutilized — levers in cloud financial management. The pressure is showing up at the intersection of hybrid cloud and financial operations, w
Every enterprise faces an imminent reckoning with agentic AI, but the transformation is too large and too complex for any single organization to navigate alone. The race is now on to build the ecosystems, skills and infrastructure necessary to bring about the agentic enterprise. Google LLC is bettin
Enterprise teams building multi-agent AI systems may be paying a compute premium for gains that don't hold up under equal-budget conditions. New Stanford University research finds that single-agent systems match or outperform multi-agent architectures on complex reasoning tasks when both are given t
The era of enterprises stitching together prompt chains and shadow agents is nearing its end as more options for orchestrating complex multi-agent systems emerge. As organizations move AI agents into production, the question remains: "how will we manage them?" Google and Amazon Web Services offer fu
