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Vectara’s new Tool Validator promises to prevent AI agent planning errors
A startup called Vectara Inc. wants to help enterprises safeguard themselves against any potential damage or problems caused by artificial intelligence agents, and its solution is yet another agent. The company today announced the immediate availability of its new Tool Validator agent, the second in its family of “Guardian Agents.” They’re designed to enforce governance ...
Couchbase puts AI data and services into a single platform to simplify agent development
Cloud database company Couchbase Inc. said today it’s trying to reduce the complexity of agentic application development with the launch of a new suite of AI Services that bundle model hosting and data processing capabilities into a single platform. The company is looking to streamline the development of artificial intelligence-powered “agents” that can automate complex ...
Synopsys records record-breaking full-year revenue as it beats expectations again
Shares of the chip design automation software company Synopsys Inc. were trending higher in late trading today after it beat expectations on earnings and revenue and offered strong profit guidance for the current quarter and year. The company reported fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.90 per share, ahead ...
Shares of Oracle slide 10% on revenue miss and rising capital expenditures
Shares of Oracle Corp. dropped more than 10% in extended trading today after the cloud and database giant missed expectations on quarterly revenue while going full-steam ahead on its ongoing artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout. The company reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.26 per share, easily beating Wall Street’s target ...
AgentField aims to fix agentic AI’s coordination crisis with cryptographic IDs and Kubernetes-style orchestration
Agentic artificial intelligence identity startup AgentField today is launching its platform as an Apache 2.0 open-source project so it can do for AI agents what Kubernetes did for software containers. Its mission is to transform AI agents into “scalable and governed production infrastructure” by solving what it says is a “coordination crisis” in autonomous software. To ...
Channel3 raises $6M to make every product sold on the web discoverable by AI agents
A database infrastructure startup called Channel3 is building a catalog that it says will eventually list every single product available to buy across the entire internet, in order to make them discoverable by artificial intelligence chatbots. The startup announced its goal after closing on a $6 million seed funding round today, led by Matrix. Ludlow ...
Microsoft to spend $17.5B on AI infrastructure to support India’s AI ambitions
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s going to invest $17.5 billion into building out its data center and artificial intelligence infrastructure in India, as part of an effort to scale its presence in the South Asian country, which is fast becoming a major battleground for global technology giants. The investment was announced by Microsoft Chief Executive ...
Mistral AI’s Devstral 2 is an open-weights vibe coding model built to rival the best proprietary systems
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is jumping into the vibe coding market with the launch of Devstral 2, a new model that’s built specifically to handle advanced coding tasks. Announced today, Devstral 2 is a 123 billion-parameter model that comes with autonomous software engineering capabilities that the company says can rival those of the ...
Snowflake Ventures invests in data trust startup Ataccama to boost agentic reliability
Agentic data trust company Ataccama Corp. said today it has closed on a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount from Snowflake Ventures. The data company said it would help deepen its interaction with Snowflake Inc.’s AI Data Cloud platform and deliver more trusted and explainable data for enterprise’s artificial intelligence projects. Ataccama is the creator ...
Pryzm raises $12.2M in seed funding to accelerate procurement for defense tech innovators
A procurement startup called Pryzm Dynamics Inc. has raised $12.2 million in a seed funding round led by high-profile investor Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism fund to try to accelerate innovation in the U.S. defense sector. The round, which includes participation from existing investors XYZ, Amplify.LA and Forum Ventures, will help the startup scale up its ...