Artificial intelligence, professionally covered
AI agents — systems that plan and act, not just chat — are the fastest-moving area in AI. This hub tracks agentic product launches, enterprise deployments, coding and voice agents, agent frameworks and the emerging rules around autonomous AI.
The $10 billion data unicorn is acquiring an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup that builds simulated Excel, Salesforce and Slack for agents to rehearse in — a deal its CEO says he was angling for when he angel-invested three months ago.
Jul 11, 2026
Lyzr says its agent 'SivaClaw' handled 130-plus investors, drafted memos and tracked which slides they lingered on — surfacing about $400 million of interest without a traditional roadshow.
Jul 10, 2026
The first model sold through Meta's new Model API is an agentic coder priced far below OpenAI and Anthropic — and Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to claim Meta's models finally beat Google's.
Jul 10, 2026
A new agent that builds documents, spreadsheets and websites for non-coders arrives as OpenAI retires the standalone browser it shipped nine months ago — folding agentic browsing into a Chrome extension, the desktop app and a cloud browser.
Jul 10, 2026
The Stockholm 'vibe-coding' startup is reportedly raising about $300 million led by existing backer Menlo Ventures — twice the $6.6 billion it commanded in December — on the back of $500 million in annualized revenue.
Jul 9, 2026
Radical Ventures led the round for the startup whose reinforcement-learning stack turns enterprises into model trainers — with Nvidia, Intel and Dell joining and revenue already running past $100 million a year.
Jul 9, 2026
Elon Musk says the new model rivals Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 while running faster and cheaper, priced at $2 per million input tokens — a public launch timed one day before OpenAI's GPT-5.6 reaches everyone.
Jul 9, 2026
Khosla Ventures led the Series C into a company embedding law directly into AI agents — with clients running compliance on more than $30 trillion in assets, Blackstone among them.
Jul 8, 2026
Sysdig caught an extortion campaign run end-to-end by an AI agent — recon, credential theft, lateral movement, encryption — that fixed its own failed login in 31 seconds. The victim's data is unrecoverable by design.
Jul 8, 2026
Tesla's first market outside Texas and California skips the supervised phase entirely — a bet on camera-only autonomy in a city Waymo has served since January, where summer rain is the real test.
Jul 7, 2026
China's rules for humanlike AI take effect July 15 — and rather than retrofit compliance, Doubao and Qwen are shutting their custom agents down, with user data on a deletion clock.
Jul 7, 2026
Europe's largest-ever private defense-tech round values the German drone and autonomy company at about $8 billion, co-led by Blackstone, Airbus and Advent.
Jul 5, 2026
The agentic-security startup's Series A lands as its own research finds most attacks on AI agents lead to data theft or code execution.
Jul 4, 2026
The mid-tier model matches larger systems on agentic coding and computer use, and ships as the default on Claude.ai — but early users flagged tokenizer and API changes.
Jul 4, 2026
