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Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting industry’s broken talent pipeline with artificial intelligence. The funding came via seed and preseed rounds led by backers …
Salesforce targets a more human touch for financial services firms, with AI agents
Salesforce Inc. has unveiled a series of prebuilt templates for creating AI agents that can perform the duties of loan officers, banking and insurance agents, financial advisers and more. The templates can be found in a special version of Salesforce’s Agentforce artificial …
Gravitee raises $60M to help developers tame API complexity
Digital traffic pipeline management startup Gravitee Topco Ltd. said today it has closed on a $60 million Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $125 million. The latest round was led by Sixth Street Growth and …
With a flurry of new model features, Google outlines plan to build a universal AI assistant
Google LLC wants to combine the emerging “agentic” capabilities of its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant with advances in areas such as robotics and physics to create a new kind of “world model” that can imagine things in the same way as humans …
New AI Mode promises to make Google Search, and Shopping, much more intelligent
Google Search is building on the generative artificial intelligence search experiences introduced with AI Overviews last year, as part of a broader effort that will ultimately see it go beyond simply providing information. The enhanced search capabilities were announced at Google’s annual …
AI agents unleashed in Windows with Model Context Protocol
Microsoft Corp. believes we’re headed toward a future where artificial intelligence-powered agents will become pervasive in enterprise computing environments, so today it’s making it easier for those agents to communicate with the third-party tools they must use to accomplish various tasks on …
Microsoft debuts Windows AI Foundry for local model development on AI PCs
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s advancing the local artificial intelligence development capabilities of Windows, as part of an effort to help developers build and experiment and reach new users with sophisticated AI experiences. At Microsoft Build 2025 running this week in Seattle, …
NLWeb is Microsoft’s new, open-source tool that integrates generative AI search into any website
With the launch of a new, open-source project called NLWeb, Microsoft Corp. says it can transform any existing website into an artificial intelligence-powered application by integrating natural language capabilities. The project, announced at Microsoft Build 2025 today, is meant to simplify the …
Cerebras Systems blazes a trail for AI inference, powering advanced reasoning in real time
Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems Inc. is heralding the launch of Qwen3-32B, one of the most advanced and powerful open-weight large language models in the world, as proof of its ability to outcompete Nvidia Corp. in AI inference. The company said …
Applied Materials’ chips are down following revenue miss and light guidance
Semiconductor industry giant Applied Materials Inc. delivered mixed results in its latest quarter and offered guidance that came in just shy of expectations, sending its stock lower in extended trading today. The chip manufacturing equipment maker reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs …