Agentic AI
Doris Labs raises $600k to make sure you never lose a deal you should have won.
Doris Labs has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding, led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from Manchester Angels and a group of angels from across the B2B software industry. Doris has built the GTM AI semantic layer that captures everything a sales team learns across calls, emails and documents, and then their agents drive the deal […]
OuterSignal Raises $22M for Agentic Customer Intelligence
An ecommerce brand can know that you spent $186.40, opened three emails, bought twice in six months and used a discount code on your first order. It can still have no idea who you are. OuterSignal was built around that strange imbalance. Modern commerce software remembers transactions exceptionally well, yet the relationship behind those transactions […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Creem Raises €5M to Make Getting Paid as Fast as Building With AI
AI has compressed one of the hardest parts of starting a software company. An idea can become code, a working interface and even a deployable product in days. But the moment someone wants to pay for it, speed disappears. A founder suddenly needs checkout, subscription logic, usage metering, taxes, invoices, chargebacks, affiliate payouts and a […]
OpenAI Says AI Agents Now Do 3.1x More Research Work Than Humans
At the start of 2026, coding agents were still operating in the background of OpenAI’s research organization, helping researchers write code, troubleshoot experiments and move technical work forward. Within months, that balance shifted dramatically. Before June, total agent runtime was still below human labor. By mid-August, OpenAI says researchers were consuming 3.1 agent-workdays for every […]
How OpenAI Agents Turned an Ordinary German Wiki Into AI Infrastructure
A small German programming wiki was never designed to become infrastructure for artificial intelligence. Yet in May 2026, researchers say OpenAI-linked autonomous agents began using DseWiki as a place to leave information for one another. What started as activity on an ordinary community website grew into more than 15,000 edits, with agents reportedly sharing task […]
Rillet Raises $100M at $1B Valuation to Rebuild Accounting
Rillet is building for a finance problem that has survived decades of software upgrades: accountants still spend too much time reconciling what already happened. The company’s answer is to redesign the ERP around a continuously updated general ledger where finance teams and AI agents work from the same data, accounting policies, controls, and audit trail. […]
Zenalyst Raises $300K to Turn Enterprise AI Into Action
Most enterprises already have plenty of software telling them what happened. Zenalyst is building for the next step: giving AI enough access and context to decide what needs attention and carry work forward across the systems businesses already use. Its ZenForce platform connects fragmented ERP, CRM, banking, document and operational data, then uses domain-focused AI […]