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OpenAI Dots: The GPT-6 Astra Agents Designed for Ongoing Work
An early tester did not ask his Dot to check whether he had forgotten to invoice anyone. According to OpenAI, the agent noticed the missing invoice itself, prepared it, then sent it only after the user approved the action. It is a small example buried inside the Dots announcement, but it explains the product more […]
Eureka! Venture €20M First Close for Deep Tech Lazio Fund
DeepTech companies rarely fail because the science is uninteresting. They often struggle in the expensive stretch between proving that a technology works and proving that industry can actually use it. Eureka! Venture’s new €20 million fund is designed to enter precisely at that point. The Italian investment firm has launched Eureka! Fund II – Deep […]
Bilt.me Raises $700K to Take AI App Building From Prompt to App Store
AI has made the first version of an app almost suspiciously easy to create. Describe an idea, wait a few minutes and a polished interface appears on screen. But for founders trying to build a mobile business, that impressive demo is often where the easy part ends. The app still has to work on a […]
From Chatbots to Autonomous AI Workflows | HumanX 2026
The next enterprise AI failure may not be a hallucination or a rogue agent. It could be much simpler: a company spends millions on AI, celebrates hundreds of pilots and still cannot explain what changed in the business. That tension ran through Charlie Perreau’s conversation with H CEO Gautier Cloix at HumanX Amsterdam. The session […]
AI Music at HumanX 2026: Who Owns the Future of Music?
AI can now help produce a polished song in seconds. The harder problem begins once that song exists: who owns the voice, who controls the rights, and who gets paid? That tension shaped HumanX Amsterdam’s “Who Owns the Future of Music?” conversation between PRS for Music CEO Andrea Czapary Martin, EMPIRE founder and CEO Ghazi […]
Akamai CTO Robert Blumofe on Trusting AI Agents at Scale
AI rarely looks dangerous in a demo. A model answers a few hundred questions, an agent completes a handful of tasks, and the failure rate appears small enough to ignore. Then the same system reaches production, handles millions of interactions and begins touching real customers, infrastructure and business processes. The tiny error that disappeared inside […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into the Missing Layers of the AI Economy
AI funding this week looked less like a race to build another model and more like a race to build everything those models need. Capital moved into training data, AI clouds, enterprise agents, security and governance. At the same time, hundreds of millions flowed toward drug discovery, brain-computer interfaces, photonics, advanced materials, energy infrastructure and […]
Lovable at HumanX 2026: What Comes After Vibe Coding?
Iain Martin opened one of the most revealing conversations at HumanX Amsterdam with a deliberately simple challenge to Lovable co-founder Fabian Hedin: “You think vibe coding is dead. What comes next?” Hedin did not reject what the phrase once represented. “Vibe coding” captured the early thrill of handing a rough idea to AI and watching […]
50skills Raises $6M for AI HR Workflow Automation
The problem that eventually became 50skills did not begin with artificial intelligence. It appeared after a company had already found the right candidate. Once someone accepted an offer, HR teams still had to collect personal details, prepare documents, arrange signatures, request equipment and system access, notify managers, update payroll and make sure none of those […]
Kontext Raises $4M to Put a Security Check Between AI Agents and Real-World Actions
Imagine an AI coding agent asked to fix a production bug. It has authenticated correctly, received access to the repository and been given the tools it needs. Reading the relevant code is reasonable. Running tests is reasonable. But those same credentials may also let the agent inspect unrelated files, call an external service or perform […]
Fintech Duqu raises €1.5 million from Curiosity VC and No Such VenturesProprietary AI engine automates 95% of credit assessment
Amsterdam, 24 September 2026 – Duqu has raised €1.5 million in a pre-seed round from Curiosity VC and No Such Ventures. The Amsterdam-based fintech gives businesses immediate access to money they have already earned but that remains tied up in outstanding invoices. The company has also developed its own AI underwriting engine, automating 95% of […]
Palma.ai’s $1.8M Bet: AI Agents Need a Control Layer Before They Get the Keys
For most of enterprise AI’s short history, the risk ended with the answer. A chatbot could summarise a document, draft an email or suggest a next step, but a person still decided what happened afterward. AI agents change that bargain. Once software can update a CRM, query a financial system, call internal tools or trigger […]