An AI agent can complete a task and still make a decision an experienced employee would reject. The difficult part is often understanding the unwritten rules: when to ask another question, when to escalate, and what a good outcome means for a particular business. Crux Labs is building a platform to turn that expert judgment…
Serval announced on October 29, 2026 that it has raised a $150 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation, a round led by Sequoia that the company described as its third funding round in 12 months. The financing drew participation from Elad Gil, Evantic, First Round, General Catalyst, and Redpoint, with Conviction and Headline…
Pluto Security’s research team on October 29, 2026 published its Load/Mine report, disclosing a cryptomining and backdoor campaign distributed through malicious Hugging Face model repositories. The report counts 31 malicious repositories across seven Hugging Face accounts plus a mirror on ModelScope, with 29,818 recorded campaign downloads and 32,376 when 13 linked repositories are included. Pluto…
A retailer can launch a promotion across hundreds of stores in a morning. Making sure every employee knows how to sell it is a different challenge. Bites is building its AI training platform around that gap, raising a $40 million Series A to connect short, mobile-delivered lessons with the sales, service and operational results those…
AGIBOT introduced Worken, a proposed framework for measuring how much productive work robots perform once deployed, at AGIBOT Innovation Day 2026 in Shanghai on October 29, 2026. The company also used the event to unveil its AHA3 integrated hardware platform, debut the GO-3 Preview embodied foundation model and the WITA-Omni interaction model, and formally launch…
VitVio is bringing its Vetro surgical operating system to Hospital Español de Veracruz, extending its use of spatial AI from hospital deployments in the United States and Europe into Latin America. The partnership announced October 29 will install the platform across all of the Mexican hospital’s operating rooms. The companies describe the deployment as Mexico’s…
ServiceNow on October 28, 2026 announced the ServiceNow Control Tower Alliance, a partner ecosystem spanning AI, cloud infrastructure, security, governance, value measurement, and token metering, with Kong among founding members that also include Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, HiddenLayer, NVIDIA, Okta, OpenAI, Stripe, WitnessAI, and Zenity. The alliance is built around the ServiceNow Super Intelligence…
Google is scaling ads in AI Mode to 10 additional countries and launching multiturn ads in the United States, which allow ads to appear in follow-up queries in AI Mode, the company announced on October 28, 2026. The expansion covers Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Singapore. In the…
Microsoft on October 28, 2026, announced results for its fiscal 2027 first quarter, ended September 30, 2026, reporting revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year, and net income of $36.6 billion, up 32% on a GAAP basis. Azure revenue increased 48%. Operating income was $45.9 billion and increased 21%, or 22% in constant…
An AI agent that reads every security alert or log entry incurs a cost even when its conclusion is that nothing needs doing. At enterprise volumes, those uneventful investigations can become a substantial workload of their own. Kindo has launched Deep Hat Sift, a model designed to decide which incoming events warrant an agent run…