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Workato unveils a squad of agentic AI Genies for every major business function
Enterprise automation startup Workato Inc. is launching a fleet of new artificial intelligence agents, which it says are ready to automate work and deliver measurable outcomes across multiple business functions from sales and marketing to information technology to finance. Announced today at Workato’s annual user conference WOW: World of Workato in Las Vegas today, the ...
Workato’s developer sandbox lets any company experience the power of agentic AI automation
Low-code business automation software firm Workato Inc. wants to energize the agentic artificial intelligence economy, and to do so it’s giving developers free access to its entire suite of tools for building AI-powered agents. Announced at the company’s WOW: World of Workato event in Las Vegas today, the Workato Developer Sandbox is a self-service offering ...
Groundcover debuts a dedicated observability tool for AI agents and LLMs
Application monitoring startup Groundcover Ltd. today announced the launch of a new observability tool that offers code-free, real-time visibility into artificial intelligence applications powered by large-language models. The new tool is customized for large language model observability and covers applications such as AI agents, which go beyond general chatbots by automating tasks on behalf of ...
Salesforce unleashes AI agents in City Hall
Salesforce Inc. said today its agentic artificial intelligence platform Agentforce is now available for government agencies, giving them access to a digital workforce of intelligent AI agents that can work autonomously without human supervision. Agentforce for Public Sector is available from today, and will enable government offices to automate tedious manual tasks currently performed by ...
SoftBank to take $2B stake in beleaguered chipmaker Intel
SoftBank Group Corp. will make a $2 billion investment in Intel Corp., providing a boost to the embattled chipmaker amid ongoing discussions about a government intervention. Under the terms of the deal, SoftBank will buy $2 billion worth of Intel’s stock at $23 per share, representing a slight discount on the company’s Monday closing stock ...
Crypto lending firm Figure Technology files for Nasdaq IPO
Cryptocurrency lending and investing platform Figure Technology Solutions Inc. has filed paperwork associated with its U.S. initial public offering, becoming the latest in a growing list of crypto-focused companies looking to list publicly. The company revealed in a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its revenue jumped more than 22%, to $191 ...
Atlas teams up with Google Cloud to launch its AI-native video game development platform
A startup called Atlas AI wants to convince professional game developers of the merits of artificial intelligence-powered agents for 3D content creation after securing a partnership with Google Cloud. Today’s partnership promises to accelerate the development of AI-native games, with its multi-agent AI stack set to run exclusively on Google’s infrastructure, using the Vertex AI ...
DeepSeek R2 model release reportedly held back by faulty Huawei chips
China’s leading artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek Ltd., which took the industry by storm earlier this year, was reportedly forced to delay the release of its upcoming R2 model after struggling to train it using chips supplied by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The delay highlights the ongoing struggles China faces as it pushes domestic AI companies ...
Google’s Gemma 3 270M is a compact yet powerful AI model that can run on your toaster
Google LLC’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab has released one of its smallest models yet in the shape of Gemma 3 270M, with just 270 million parameters. That means it’s much smaller than many of the most powerful frontier large language models, which generally have billions of parameters, or internal settings that govern their behavior. The ...
Applied Materials’ stock plunges on a downbeat forecast that signals more misery for chipmakers
Shares of the semiconductor industry giant Applied Materials Inc. plunged in extended trading today after it provided analysts with a disappointing outlook for the current quarter. The chip equipment maker beat expectations with its third-quarter results, posting earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.48 per share, easing past the analyst’s consensus estimate of ...