Toma's AI voice agents, tailored to car dealerships' needs through hands-on research, attracted $17 million funding from a16z and others, enabling the startup to expand its subscription service helping dealerships handle calls and operations efficiently.
New reports reveal major AI systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety guardrails, enabling generation of malicious content, code, and data theft, raising urgent security concerns around the rapid deployment of generative AI.
SAP announces massive Business AI expansion to over 400 scenarios by 2025, transforming Joule into an AI-powered interface with autonomous workflow agents that can execute complex tasks across multiple applications while eliminating manual prompt engineering.
Chinese tech giants and startups are gaining ground in the global race to develop AI agents that can automate complex tasks, with companies like Butterfly Effect, Alibaba, Zhipu, and ByteDance launching agents powered by their own AI models to compete with OpenAI and others.
Databricks launches Lakebase, a fully managed serverless Postgres database integrated with its lakehouse platform, offering one-click data sync, autoscaling, and instant branching to power AI agents and real-time applications without complex ETL pipelines.
Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software company, is acquiring cloud data management firm Informatica in an $8 billion deal, paying $25 per share to bolster its push into artificial intelligence and enable autonomous AI agents to deliver smarter and safer outcomes.
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei predicts the emergence of a $1B AI-powered unicorn with just one human employee by 2026, fueled by their latest models Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, which can code, reason, and support agentic capabilities to automate tasks and run experiments.
Anthropic announces four new capabilities on its API to build more powerful AI agents: code execution, MCP connector for external system integration, Files API for efficient document management, and extended prompt caching for up to an hour, enabling developers to create context-aware agents with advanced analytics.
Google unveils AI-powered upgrades to Workspace tools like Docs, Sheets, Meet, and Chat, including automated workflows with Workspace Flows, audio versions and writing assistance in Docs, and data analysis in Sheets, empowering businesses to boost productivity and insights.
BMW is pioneering the use of AI applications like Knowledge Navigator, Offer Analyst, and Tender Assistant to streamline its purchasing processes, supplier analysis, and tender management, while the Alconic agent system monitors supply chain data and identifies optimization opportunities using AI.