Sierra's $950M Round and the End of the Call Center
Sierra raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation to put AI agents in charge of customer service for some of the world's largest insurers and banks - and the safety questions are just beginning.
Articles Tagged "AI Agents"
Tool-Use Tax, Jailbreak Risk, and Robot Vision
Three new papers: tools slow LLM agents under noisy prompts, jailbreaks barely dent frontier model capabilities, and interleaved text-vision traces push robot success to 95.5%.
Cisco Buys Astrix for $400M to Lock Down AI Agent Keys
Cisco closes its $400M acquisition of Astrix Security, folding a non-human identity platform into Cisco Identity Intelligence to govern the API keys and OAuth tokens powering enterprise AI agents.
OpenAI Moves to AWS One Day After Microsoft Exclusivity Ends
One day after Microsoft's exclusive license ended, OpenAI launched GPT-5.4, Codex, and jointly built Managed Agents on Amazon Bedrock - all in limited preview.
Meta Buys ARI to Build the Android of Humanoid AI
Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a one-year-old startup building foundation models for humanoid robots whose founders describe their goal as physical AGI.
Prompt Traps, Swarm Failures, and AI-Discovered Physics
Three new papers reveal when few-shot examples hurt scientific reasoning, why homogeneous agent swarms lock in errors, and how an AI autonomously found a novel physical mechanism.
Microsoft AI Revenue Hits $37B as Copilot Tops 20M Seats
Microsoft's Q3 FY2026 earnings show its AI business running at $37 billion annually - up 123 percent - while Copilot enterprise seats hit 20 million, demolishing the low-adoption narrative.
Mistral Ships Medium 3.5 With Cloud Coding Agents
Mistral releases Medium 3.5, a 128B open-weights model that scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified, and pairs it with asynchronous cloud coding agents in Vibe that open pull requests on GitHub while you are away.
AI Coding Agent Wipes PocketOS Database in 9 Seconds
A Cursor agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 found an old Railway token in the codebase and deleted PocketOS's entire production database - backups included - in nine seconds.
Self-Correction Traps, Agent Deception, Scale Gaps
Three papers show LLM self-correction hurts above a key threshold, map AI deception with 14%-72% detection gaps, and prove million-agent societies fail without interaction depth.
OpenAI's 2028 Phone Would Replace Apps With AI Agents
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims OpenAI is building a smartphone with Qualcomm and MediaTek where AI agents replace traditional apps, targeting 2028 mass production.
China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Deal - Founders Barred
China's NDRC ordered Meta to reverse its $2B Manus acquisition and barred the startup's founders from leaving China, ending the 'Singapore washing' strategy that let Chinese AI firms dodge Beijing oversight.
