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Year2024

Key PlayersOpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain

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Gemini task automation rolls out to Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 with app control for ordering food

Google's Gemini can now handle ordering food and booking rides on Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 devices through a new task automation feature. The AI assistant takes control of apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash, completing multi-step processes based on simple voice commands, though users must confirm final checkout for security.

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Gemini task automation rolls out to Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 with app control for ordering food

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Wonderful raises $150M Series B at $2B valuation to scale AI agents across 30 countries

Israeli AI agent startup Wonderful has raised $150 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation, just four months after its $100 million Series A. The company deploys local teams to help enterprises integrate AI agents into complex workflows across telecom, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors in over 30 countries.

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Wonderful raises $150M Series B at $2B valuation to scale AI agents across 30 countries

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Santander tests agentic payments with AI agents across five Latin American markets

Santander and Visa completed pilot agentic commerce transactions across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay using Visa Intelligent Commerce. AI agents successfully purchased books and chocolates, validating secure data handling, consent capture, and interoperability. This follows Santander's recent collaboration with Mastercard on Europe's first live end-to-end payment using an AI agent.

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Santander tests agentic payments with AI agents across five Latin American markets

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Software companies defend against fears that AI will kill them with enterprise data moats

A $1 trillion stock market rout hit software companies after Anthropic launched AI plugins that automate traditional software tasks. Now Oracle, Salesforce, and other industry leaders are fighting back, arguing that their proprietary data and deeply embedded systems provide a competitive advantage that AI cannot easily replicate. But not all companies may survive the shift.

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Software companies defend against fears that AI will kill them with enterprise data moats

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Onyx Security raises $40 million to secure AI agents as enterprises face new cybersecurity risks

Israeli cybersecurity firm Onyx Security emerged from stealth mode with $40 million in funding to address a critical gap: securing autonomous AI agents operating within enterprise systems. The company has developed an AI control plane that monitors, governs, and controls AI agents with access to critical business systems, already working with multiple Fortune 500 companies as organizations grapple with new attack surfaces created by AI deployment.

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Onyx Security raises $40 million to secure AI agents as enterprises face new cybersecurity risks

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Perplexity Personal Computer turns Mac mini into 24/7 AI agent with local file access

Perplexity unveils Personal Computer at its Ask 2026 developer conference, transforming Mac mini devices into persistent AI agents. The system grants AI access to local files and applications while running continuously, controlled remotely from any device. CEO Aravind Srinivas positions it as a digital proxy that never sleeps, though security concerns prompt safeguards including audit trails and kill switches.

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Perplexity Personal Computer turns Mac mini into 24/7 AI agent with local file access

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Zendesk acquires Forethought AI in largest deal in two decades to dominate agentic service era

Zendesk is acquiring Forethought, the 2018 TechCrunch Battlefield winner that pioneered AI customer service years before ChatGPT existed. The deal, Zendesk's largest in 20 years, brings self-improving AI agents that handle over a billion monthly customer interactions. Zendesk projects 2026 as the year AI agents will surpass human service, accelerating its product roadmap by over a year.

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Zendesk acquires Forethought AI in largest deal in two decades to dominate agentic service era

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Perplexity takes AI agent Computer into enterprise, challenging Microsoft and Salesforce

Perplexity announced enterprise availability of its Computer AI agent at Ask 2026 conference, transforming the $20 billion startup into a competitor against Microsoft and Salesforce. The company also unveiled Personal Computer, a local AI operating system that runs on dedicated devices like Mac mini with enhanced security features.

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Perplexity takes AI agent Computer into enterprise, challenging Microsoft and Salesforce

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F5 launches Insight observability platform with AI security upgrades at AppWorld 2026

F5 unveiled major platform-wide upgrades at AppWorld 2026 in Las Vegas, introducing F5 Insight for unified observability and new AI security capabilities. The updates target enterprises managing AI workloads across hybrid and multicloud environments, with features including AI-powered risk scoring, automated remediation tools, and enhanced bot defense to distinguish between humans, bots, and autonomous AI agents.

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F5 launches Insight observability platform with AI security upgrades at AppWorld 2026

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Claude gains shared context across Excel and PowerPoint with automated one-click skills

Anthropic rolled out major updates to Claude for Excel and PowerPoint, introducing shared context across applications that eliminates repetitive data entry. The AI chatbot now maintains continuous conversations between both tools, while new Claude Skills enable teams to save and automate workflows with a single click, transforming how enterprise users handle data analysis and presentation preparation.

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Claude gains shared context across Excel and PowerPoint with automated one-click skills

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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super with 5x throughput boost to power enterprise AI agents

Nvidia unveiled Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion-parameter open model designed to run complex agentic AI systems at scale. The model combines Mamba, Transformer attention, and Latent MoE architectures to deliver up to 5x higher throughput and 2x better accuracy than its predecessor. It addresses context explosion and thinking tax challenges that plague multi-agent workflows, which generate up to 15x more tokens than standard chat interactions.

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Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Super with 5x throughput boost to power enterprise AI agents

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Musk unveils Macrohard as Tesla-xAI project aims to emulate entire software companies with AI agents

Elon Musk announced Macrohard, a joint Tesla-xAI project combining Grok's large language model with Tesla's Digital Optimus agent to simulate software company functions. The system runs on Tesla's $650 AI4 chip paired with xAI's Nvidia hardware. But the announcement contradicts Musk's 2024 claims that Tesla had no need for xAI technology, intensifying an ongoing shareholder lawsuit over conflict of interest.

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Musk unveils Macrohard as Tesla-xAI project aims to emulate entire software companies with AI agents

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Databricks launches Genie Code AI agent to automate data engineering and acquires Quotient AI

Databricks introduced Genie Code, an autonomous AI agent designed to handle complex data engineering tasks from pipeline building to debugging failures. The company also acquired Quotient AI, a startup specializing in agent evaluation and reinforcement learning, to strengthen continuous monitoring of AI agent performance in production environments.

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Databricks launches Genie Code AI agent to automate data engineering and acquires Quotient AI

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Nebius raises $3.75 billion in debt after landing $27 billion Meta AI infrastructure deal

Nebius plans to raise $3.75 billion in convertible debt following a major $27 billion deal with Meta for AI computing power over five years. The Amsterdam-based neocloud will deploy Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips and expects revenue to hit $7-9 billion by year-end. The move follows a $2 billion Nvidia investment and raises questions about AI infrastructure spending.

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Nebius raises $3.75 billion in debt after landing $27 billion Meta AI infrastructure deal

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AgentMail raises $6M to build email service for AI agents with their own inboxes

San Francisco startup AgentMail has raised $6 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst to provide AI agents with their own email inboxes. The API platform enables two-way communication, threading, and labeling, positioning email as the identity layer for AI agents rather than building new protocols from scratch.

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AgentMail raises $6M to build email service for AI agents with their own inboxes

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