AI agent startup Sierra secures $350 million in funding at a $10 billion valuation, with the company founded by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor serving hundreds of enterprise customers and tracking toward over $100 million in recurring revenue.
SoundHound and White Castle expand their drive-thru AI partnership nationwide, rolling out SoundHound's technology to over 100 White Castle drive-thru lanes by 2024, delivering fast, accurate, and scalable AI-powered ordering with 90% completion rates.
Taco Bell faces backlash as customers express dissatisfaction with AI-powered drive-thrus, leading the fast-food chain to pause the rollout of this technology amid concerns over incorrect orders and subpar experiences, prompting a reevaluation of AI's deployment in high-volume locations.
ElevenLabs unveils Chat Mode, allowing customers to converse with AI agents through text instead of speech, empowering developers to rapidly deploy chat-based conversational AI solutions using SDKs, API, or HTML.
Major HR tech firm Workday suffers data breach as hackers steal customer names, emails, and phone numbers from third-party database, raising concerns over potential social engineering scams for its 70 million global users.
Startups are aggressively hiring 'Forward Deployed Engineers' to bridge the gap between AI solutions like ChatGPT and customers, embedding them with both client and engineering teams for seamless integration.
In a groundbreaking development, Claude AI now possesses conversational memory, enabling it to reference past interactions with users, matching the capabilities of ChatGPT, although this feature is currently limited to Enterprise, Team, and Max subscribers.
SaaStr embraces AI workforce, deploying 10 agents by Q3 to handle revenue and operations tasks, requiring daily oversight like managing junior employees but offering advantages of zero turnover, 24/7 availability, instant scalability, and perfect product knowledge retention.
Pioneering users unveil groundbreaking applications of ChatGPT 5, showcasing its versatility in revolutionizing work, business, and daily life through innovative use cases that push the boundaries of this cutting-edge technology.
McKinsey slashes workforce by 5,000 and deploys 12,000 AI agents for tasks like PowerPoint decks and note-taking; Anthropic unveils 'persona vectors' controlling AI traits like 'evil' and 'sycophancy'; Carta automates finance tasks with AI, saving 3,500 hours monthly.