Tag: AI Agents

Agentic AI startups in Robinhood Ventures Fund II

A look at the agentic AI companies inside Robinhood Ventures Fund II, from identity layers to video-call avatars.

Meta’s Glimmer release puts desktop agents in reach

The Apache-licensed 30B model brings agentic AI to local machines.

Naïve banks $28.5M to let AI agents run entire businesses

A $28.5M Series A backs agents that incorporate and operate companies.

Contact center veteran Omilia banks $67M after ARR hits $60M

The Athens firm grows annual revenue tenfold since 2020 and keeps AI use selective.

Approval fatigue lets a third of dangerous agent commands slip

A 40,000-run browser game finds humans approve about one in three malicious requests.

Microsoft open-sources Orchard to train agents in real harnesses

Microsoft's Orchard framework trains and evaluates coding and browsing agents inside the same harnesses they will ship in.

Stanford’s agent swarm designs a cancer drug Merck also found

Stanford's 37,000-agent virtual biotech designed a lung cancer drug that Merck independently developed and validated.

Tencent opens Team Memory hub with no fix for wrong facts

Tencent's Team Memory gives AI agents a shared knowledge hub, but critics say wrong facts have no correction…

AgentRadio lets coding agents share notes without pausing

AgentRadio's async messaging lets coding agents share discoveries mid-task and nearly double their accuracy.

OpenAI and rivals back one plugin format for AI agents

Five major AI companies back a portable plugin format that packages agent skills and tools for any platform.

Agent browsers get a lightweight rival as Cloudflare ships Kitesurf

Cloudflare's agent-first browser runs on Workers and skips the human web stack.

Obsidian hits unicorn status with $85M for AI agent guardrails

Obsidian Security banks $85 million in a Series D that values the AI agent governance startup at $1.1…