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Glean launches upgraded Glean Agents toolkit with new development tools
Glean Technologies Inc. today moved its Glean Agents toolkit into general availability with new features designed to ease developers’ work. San Francisco-based Glean is backed by more than $600 million in funding. It provides an artificial intelligence platform that helps workers search for information across their company’s spreadsheets, the public web and other sources. It ...
Report: Circle could potentially be acquired by Coinbase or Ripple for $5B+
Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial Ltd. could potentially be sold for more than $5 billion, Fortune reported today. The publication cited four sources as saying that the company recently held “informal talks” about an acquisition. It’s believed that Coinbase could be bought by Coinbase Global Inc. or Ripple Labs Inc. The former company operates the ...
Workday adds seven new AI agents to its cloud platform
Workday Inc. today introduced a set of new artificial intelligence agents designed to automate repetitive tasks for users. Nasdaq-listed Workday counts more than 60% of the Fortune 500 as customers. It provides a cloud platform that human resources professionals use for payroll management, recruiting and related tasks. Workday also offers two other feature collections geared ...
Anthropic raises $2.5B in debt to finance growth investments
Large language model developer Anthropic PBC has secured $2.5 billion in debt financing, CNBC reported today. The loan is structured as a revolving credit facility. Standard debt financing deals require the borrower to pay back the funds in a fixed number of installments. A revolving credit facility, in contrast, has no such requirement. Additionally, the ...
AWS open-sources Strands Agents SDK to ease AI agent development
Amazon Web Services Inc. today released Strands Agents SDK, an open-source toolkit for developing artificial intelligence agents. The project’s code is available on GitHub. AWS originally created Strands Agents SDK to support the work of its internal development teams. There were already tools on the market for building AI agents, but the cloud giant found ...
OpenAI updates ChatGPT with coding-optimized Codex AI agent
OpenAI today debuted a new artificial intelligence agent, Codex, that can help developers write code and fix bugs. The tool is available through a sidebar in ChatGPT’s interface. One button in the sidebar configures Codex to generate new code based on user instructions, while another allows it to answer questions about existing code. Prompt responses ...
Cognichip raises $33M to speed up chip development with AI
Cognichip Inc., a startup working to make chip design teams more productive, launched today with $33 million in initial funding. Lux Capital and Mayfield jointly led the seed round. They were joined by FPV and Candou Ventures. Cognichip is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Faraj Aalaei. He was previously the CEO of Aquantia Corp., ...
AI-powered drug development startup Pathos AI closes $365M investment
Pathos AI Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to develop new oncology drugs, today announced that it has raised $365 million in a late-stage funding. The company didn’t disclose the investors in the Series D round. According to FierceBiotech, the raise included the participation of both new and existing Pathos backers. The company, which is ...
Trump takes issue with Apple’s manufacturing investments in India
U.S. President Donald Trump told Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook that he disapproves of the company’s supply chain buildout in India. “I said to Tim, I said, ‘Tim look, we treated you really good, we put up with all the plants that you build in China for years, now you got build us,’” ...
Google DeepMind develops AlphaEvolve AI agent optimized for coding and math
Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind unit today detailed AlphaEvolve, an artificial intelligence agent that can tackle complex programming and math challenges. The company says that it has used AlphaEvolve to make its data centers more efficient. Additionally, the AI agent is showing promise as a tool for mathematical research and chip development. AlphaEvolve carries out processing ...