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Salesforce announced Help Agent, a prebuilt AI agent for customer service, with pay-per-resolution pricing. It can be set up in minutes and includes a revamped Customer Service Portal. General availability is July 2026.

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff involved.

LucidLink released a public beta of a Model Context Protocol server that extends its distributed file system to AI agents, enabling shared access to files across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. The server addresses data movement and state persistence issues in multi-agent workflows, allowing agents, applications, and humans to work from the same files without copying data.

AI startup Ornn AI Inc. raised $33M in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz's crypto fund and others to build a marketplace for computing power. The round was co-led by Galaxy Ventures with participation from Nordstar, SV Angel, and existing investors. Ornn aims to bring transparency to the GPU compute market with its OCPI index and Ornn Compute platform.

Seltz Inc. has raised $12.5 million in seed funding to build AI-optimized search infrastructure that helps AI agents find structured evidence from the web, moving beyond traditional search engines. The company has built its own crawling, indexing, and ranking systems, and already achieves 89% accuracy in news search with sub-250ms response times.

SK hynix Inc., the world's largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The South Korean company hopes to sell up to 17.79 million shares for $29.4 billion. The public offering is expected to be the second-largest on record after the recent listing of SpaceX Corp., which raised $85.7 billion.

Qualcomm shares surged 14% in after-hours trading after announcing plans to acquire AI inference startup Modular, previewing two new AI chips, and raising fiscal 2029 guidance for non-handset revenue to $40 billion.

Superhuman Inc., formerly Grammarly, has acquired AI writing detection startup GPTZero. The deal amount was not disclosed. GPTZero boasts 19 million users and ~$30M in annual recurring revenue. The acquisition signals a strategic shift from AI-assisted writing to verifying content authenticity.

OpenAI has unveiled a custom chip called Jalapeño, developed in collaboration with Broadcom, specifically designed for AI inference. The chip boasts higher performance per watt and an architecture that reduces data movement. Initial servers are expected by year-end, marking the first step in a multi-generation compute platform.

HelloTwin introduces Digital Authority, an accountable AI twin that integrates business intelligence and goals into a deterministic, auditable single source of truth, enabling governed AI agents for enterprise decision-making.

Enterprises are finding that data, not model sophistication, is the key constraint for AI outcomes. At Pure Accelerate 2026, experts discussed governance, ecosystem partnerships, and infrastructure rethinking as prerequisites for AI success.

Dell’s global CTO and chief AI officer John Roese shares insights from nearly two years of running fully autonomous AI agents, arguing that agents will redefine work composition and require organizational redesign. He also discusses how 'tokenomics' complicates CapEx decisions, pushing CFOs toward hybrid AI.

Coval, a voice AI testing startup, raised $28M to expand its platform as more enterprises deploy voice agents. Founded in 2024, Coval offers simulation, live performance tracking, and data labeling for voice and chat agents. Customers include Zoom and Deepgram. The funding round brings total to $31M.

Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack-integrated AI that acts as a virtual employee with persistent context and memory. It can break down tasks, search channels, and support handoffs. The launch aims to boost enterprise adoption ahead of Anthropic's expected IPO.

Upbound Inc. today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing AI inference clusters. It builds on the company's Crossplane project to simplify multi-cloud inference workloads, auto-scale resources, and reduce latency with distributed caching.

At the Bio International Convention, Nvidia unveiled the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to bring agentic AI into biotech. The toolkit turns large language models into domain-specific AI agents that can execute end-to-end biology and chemistry workflows, while optimizing for speed, accuracy, and cost. It aims to compress drug discovery timelines, lower barriers, and shift the industry toward a network of specialized agents.

Orderful Inc., an AI startup focused on supply chain efficiency, has raised $35 million in Series C funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies with NewRoad Capital participating, bringing total outside funding to $85 million. Its Mosaic AI platform accelerates EDI document exchange between retailers and suppliers, reducing onboarding time from weeks to hours or days, and automatically adapts to format changes to avoid penalties.

At AWS Summit NYC 2026, industry leaders discussed the shift from AI experimentation to production deployment across physical AI, agentic systems, DevOps automation, and enterprise partnerships. Key examples include Luminous Robotics using AI for solar panel installation, Burro.ai scaling autonomous robots globally, and Moody's integrating financial intelligence into Amazon Quick.

With the AI factory becoming a key focus in enterprise IT, hybrid architecture has become equally important as organizations seek to generate workloads on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge. This is why enterprises are increasingly looking toward major players such as Dell Technologies Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for production-scale deployment in the AI era.

ClickHouse's real-time analytical database addresses the new data layer demands of AI agents, providing high concurrency and sub-second query performance. The platform is available as a fully managed service on AWS Marketplace, offering natural language interface and streamlined procurement.

Nvidia and DDN collaborate to maximize AI investment value by optimizing GPU efficiency and reducing cost per token, crucial for enterprise AI adoption.

ZenBusiness expands its Velo AI guide with Velo Blueprint, a step-by-step planning tool for new entrepreneurs. Since its launch in July 2025, Velo has handled over 2 million conversations, with more than half of customers engaging and 53% returning within the same month. Velo now handles about 72% of conversations and routes users to human experts when needed.

AI-native loan origination startup Lama AI has secured $10 million in Series A funding, bringing total raised to over $20 million, after tripling revenue in the past year. The platform helps community and regional banks digitize lending processes using autonomous AI agents that handle intake, underwriting, decision-making, and more, enabling faster loan processing without compromising credit discipline. It already serves dozens of banks and has processed billions in loan volume.

Databricks launches Genie One, an agentic AI coworker that helps business teams orchestrate workflows and automate tasks. It leverages Genie Ontology to understand business context, supports structured and unstructured data, and can take actions across platforms. The announcement also includes Lake TAP architecture, Genie Agents, Genie App Builder, and more, with pay-as-you-go pricing.

Major enterprise platform companies are racing to build tools for a new class of users: artificial intelligence agents. One example of this was apparent today with the latest releases from Databricks Inc. The company unveiled a new architecture – Lake Transactional/Analytical Processing – that enables AI agents to access operational and analytics workloads on a primary copy of data that resides in a data lake.

Voice AI startup Bland announced a $50 million funding round to expand research, grow its engineering team, and scale its platform into more regulated industries. Unlike most voice AI systems that handle short scripted tasks, Bland builds its own voice models to manage long, nonlinear, high-stakes calls, such as guiding elderly patients through blood pressure readings. The company now handles over 3.5 million calls per week and has more than 250 enterprise customers. The Series C round was led by Dell Technologies Capital, bringing total funding to over $100 million.

SpaceX announced plans to acquire Cursor, the developer of a popular vibe coding platform, for $60 billion in stock. The deal is expected to close by the end of the quarter. This acquisition follows a previous partnership and could accelerate Cursor's AI development and impact xAI's product lineup.

Nexla launched Express, a conversational data engineering platform that reduces barriers to enterprise data integration. Available on AWS Marketplace, Express enables development teams to build production-grade data pipelines via natural language, supporting AI agents with rich context from over 550 connectors.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today unveiled a broad set of networking and artificial intelligence infrastructure enhancements at its Discover customer conference, promising to help enterprises deploy AI agents at scale by implementing self-driving networks and establishing AI factories as the foundation of what it calls the “agentic enterprise.”

TwelveLabs specializes in multimodal AI models that can “watch” and analyze video content. The company has expanded its reach through AWS Marketplace, with models Marengo and Pegasus for video search and analysis, and the new Rodeo AI copilot for video editing. Use cases extend from entertainment to automotive, legal, and insurance sectors.