Agentic AI
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 […]
AIR Raises $50M to Secure AI Agents, Skills and MCP Servers
AIR’s researchers started with something that looked harmless: a useful AI skill. They placed it inside a respected open-source ecosystem, where it inherited the credibility of roughly 37,000 GitHub stars, promoted it to ordinary users, and watched security scanners approve it. People installed it. Eventually, AIR says the experiment reached more than 26,000 AI agents. […]
Cloover Adds $100M to Scale AI-Powered Home Energy Across Europe
Europe’s energy transition is usually discussed in enormous numbers: gigawatts of solar, millions of heat pumps, national climate targets and billions of euros in infrastructure. For a homeowner, however, the decision can become much smaller and much more uncomfortable. A family can understand exactly why solar panels, a battery or a heat pump makes sense […]
Scan.com Raises $220M to Expand U.S. Medical Imaging Infrastructure
A medical scan can take less than an hour. Reaching the scanner can take weeks. That gap is what Scan.com has spent nearly a decade trying to remove. The company began in the UK in 2017, after clinicians Dr Khalid Latief and Jasper Nissim saw how slow and opaque diagnostic imaging could be for their […]
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 […]
Prevalent AI Raises $22M to Build Trusted Context for Enterprise AI
Prevalent AI is building around a problem that becomes more dangerous as AI gains more autonomy inside large organizations: fragmented data can turn a fast decision into a wrong one. The London company continuously cleans, connects, and contextualizes information from across complex enterprise systems into a sovereign knowledge graph, giving both human teams and AI […]
Dynatrace Acquires Arize AI to Build Toward Self-Improving Software
Dynatrace has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Arize AI, the company that created the AI observability category 6 years ago. The deal is bigger than one acquisition: it marks the moment two separate markets, watching software and watching AI, quietly collapse into a single one. Some acquisitions buy a customer base or a revenue […]
OpenAI Pauses Some Astra Work Over Critical Cyber Risk
OpenAI has run into a rare problem with its next-generation model: Astra may be advancing faster than the security controls built around it. Internal evaluations showed significant gains in agentic coding and cybersecurity, pushing OpenAI to pause some work involving the unreleased model while stronger safeguards are put in place. The key concern is unusually […]
The Forward-Deployed Engineer Is the Hottest Job in AI. It’s Also a Warning Sign
The forward-deployed engineer, an engineer who embeds inside a customer’s business to make a complex product actually work, has become one of the most sought-after roles in AI. Understanding why it exploded tells you more about the state of AI products than any benchmark does. Every few months, a job title escapes the industry and […]
Naïve Raises $28.5M Series A for Autonomous Company Infrastructure
AI agents can build software faster than ever. The harder part is giving them the infrastructure to set up and operate a real business without stitching together dozens of services manually. Naïve has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding, led by Nexus Venture Partners. Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors including Gokul […]