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Vapi nabs $50M to make voice AI more human
Voice artificial intelligence startup Vapi Inc. said today it has raised $50 million in new funding to change the way people talk to computers, experience phone calls and interact with customer support. Vapi builds voice AI infrastructure, the middleware that connects AI models, such as OpenAI Group PBC’s GPT and Anthropic PBC’s Claude models to voice-to-text and text-to-voice engines. It allows low-delay ...
White Circle raises $11M to help companies secure and monitor AI model behavior
Artificial intelligence guardrail and monitoring startup Pumpkin Intelligence Inc., which operates as White Circle, announced today it raised $11 million in seed funding from a who’s who of AI leadership after its founder showed it was possible to break most models with a single prompt. Some of the biggest names in the industry joined the round, including OpenAI Group PBC Head of Developer Experience Romain Huet; Dirk ...
Honeycomb introduces agent observability features to keep an eye on production
Full-stack observability startup Hound Technology Inc., which does business as Honeycomb, introduced a number of new platform updates aimed at investigating artificial intelligence agent activity in production. The new enhanced capabilities provide deeper visibility into what AI agents are doing while they’re running, the company said. The enhanced capabilities include Agent Timeline, Canvas Agent and ...
SAP recasts Joule as the front door to autonomous enterprise AI
SAP SE today introduced at Sapphire 2026, the company’s annual conference, what it calls Autonomous Enterprise, a suite of artificial intelligence tools and agents designed to enhance how humans and AI work together. The announcements are built on SAP Business AI Platform, a new governed foundation for building and deploying enterprise AI grounded in business ...
CodeWords raises $9M to develop AI agents that automate before you ask
CodeWords, operated by Agemo AI Ltd., today announced it has raised $9 million in seed funding led by Visionaries to build artificial intelligence agents that don’t wait to build automations. Firstminute Capital, which first backed the company at pre-seed, also participated in the round, alongside Sequel and Illusian, a Helsinki-based family office and venture platform co-founded by mobile game developer Supercell Oy Chief Executive Ilkka Paananen. In the usual lifecycle of no-code ...
Vibe launches Dot, a wearable AI device for capturing real-world workplace conversations
Vibe Inc., the creator of a contextual artificial intelligence workspace platform that handles real-world meetings, introduced a wearable device today that brings an AI assistant to professionals wherever they happen to be. The device, Vibe Dot, captures spoken conversations and voice commands in real time, syncing everything with the company’s Vibe AI app as a ...
MongoDB announces platform enhancements for enterprise-ready AI production
Popular NoSQL-based database company MongoDB Inc. today announced a new set of capabilities during the company’s .Local conference in London, bringing together everything software and artificial intelligence engineers need to run agents in production into one platform. The company announced the availability of MongoDB 8.3, building on previous generations of the database software with superior performance aimed at the agentic AI era. To support this, MongoDB added enhanced ...
Adobe introduces productivity agent to transform PDF creation and sharing
Adobe Inc. today introduced an artificial intelligence experience embedded in its ubiquitous PDF document reader and creator, Acrobat, to transform how people create, understand and share information. The new experience, which Adobe calls the productivity agent, uses AI to automate tools and models to generate images, text and audio to generate materials including presentations, podcasts and social posts alongside chat interfaces for PDFs. Users can take otherwise static text ...
Coinbase cuts staff by 14%, citing crypto market downturn and AI adoption
Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Brian Armstrong announced today that the company intends to cut its headcount by 14%, or roughly 700 jobs, citing a combination of market forces and artificial intelligence changing how the company operates. Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Armstrong noted that although the company is “well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm,” but that crypto is currently in a “down market,” ...
Subquadratic launches with $29M to bring 12M-token context windows to AI
Subquadratic, a company developing a novel generative artificial intelligence model, launched today with $29 million in seed funding. The new large language model, dubbed SubQ, uses what the company calls a subquadratic architecture that greatly increases the context window — how much information the AI can read at once — without significantly increasing the amount ...