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Deloitte Touche Ltd. wants to help thousands of enterprises and small businesses around get to grips with agentic artificial intelligence with its new Zora AI platform, which provides access to a selection of ready-made artificial intelligence-powered agents. Deloitte said its prebuilt and …
Accenture debuts AI agent builder within its AI Refinery platform
Accenture Plc is doubling down on its agentic artificial intelligence partnership with Nvidia Corp., announcing a new AI agent builder within its AI Refinery platform. Using Accenture’s AI agent builder, business users can quickly create their own, highly customized AI agents, using …
AI code assist startup Graphite raises $52M to try and keep ahead of the competition
New York City-based artificial intelligence code review startup Graphite, officially known as Screenplay Studios Inc., said today it has raised $52 million in a Series B round of funding. Today’s round was led by Accel and saw participation from Menlo Ventures through …
Nvidia cranks up agentic AI with revamped Blackwell Ultra GPUs and next-gen AI desktops
Artificial intelligence agents dominated the conversation at Nvidia Corp.’s GTC 2025 event, and much of the talk was about how they’ll benefit from the accelerated performance of the company’s latest graphics processing units. The company lifted the veil on Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, …
Nvidia’s new reasoning models and building blocks pave way for advanced AI agents
Nvidia Corp. is looking to capitalize on the agentic artificial intelligence trend not only by providing the underlying infrastructure, but also the models that power these next-generation autonomous agents. At its GTC 2025 annual conference today, the company unveiled a new family of Llama …
Adobe unleashes an army of AI agents on sales and marketing teams
Adobe Inc. is taking aim at its rival Salesforce Inc. in the customer experience department with the launch of a new tool for orchestrating artificial intelligence agents within its flagship Adobe Experience platform. It’s joined by a suite of highly customized “Experience …
Orion Security raises $6M to plug sensitive data leaks with AI smarts
Cybersecurity startup Orion Security Ltd. wants to help companies defend against sensitive data leaks after raising $6 million in a seed funding round announced today. Rather than relying on manual policies and rigid rules, it uses context-aware artificial intelligence systems to identify …
Mistral AI’s newest model packs more power in a much smaller package
Paris-based artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI said today it’s open-sourcing a new, lightweight AI model called Mistral Small 3.1, claiming it surpasses the capabilities of similar models created by OpenAI and Google LLC. It’s a move that’s likely to escalate the race …
Baidu debuts its first AI reasoning model to compete with DeepSeek
The Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence with the launch of two of its most powerful models yet, including a new reasoning-focused model that it claims can outperform DeepSeek Ltd.’s R1. Baidu first debuted …
Surveillance tech startup Flock Safety scores $275M in new funding at $7.5B valuation
The surveillance technology startup Flock Safety Inc. said today it has closed on a $275 million funding round that brings its value to a cool $7.5 billion, up from a prior valuation of $4.8 billion. The round was led by Bedrock Capital …