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Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate revenue operations for B2B companies, raised a $20 million Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to approximately $40 million (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 16, 2025

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate revenue operations for B2B companies, raised a $20 million…

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Simular, which develops AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5 million Series A round led by Felicis; Simular released version 1.0 for macOS (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 7, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The 100-person AI lab that has become Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge…

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Lumia, which uses AI to analyze interactions between autonomous agents and humans, has raised an $18 million seed led by Team8 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 4, 2025

Chris Metinko / Axios: Lumia, which uses AI to analyze interactions between autonomous agents and humans, has raised $18 million…

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Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in U.S. sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: U.S. online sales increased 9.1% to $11.8 billion (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 29, 2025

Jeanne Verdon / Forbes: Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in…

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Clover Security, whose AI agents connect to developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security vulnerabilities, raised $36 million led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 27, 2025

Sam Sabin / Axios: Clover Security, whose AI agents connect to developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security…

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Trump signs executive order establishing the Genesis Mission to spur AI innovation, including using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents (David Shepardson/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 25, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: She sold her startup for $500 million, here’s her next idea Grit explores what it takes to…

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Amazon unveils its autonomous threat analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 24, 2025

Featured Podcasts Squeak: She sold her startup for $500 million, here’s her next idea Grit explores what it takes to…

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Major insurers recently asked U.S. regulators for permission to offer policies excluding liabilities related to companies deploying chatbots and AI agents (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 23, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: A Guide to Difficult Conversations, Building Trusted Teams, and Designing a Life You Love | Rachel…

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Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems, which develops tools for AI agents to search the web, raised a $100 million Series A at a $740 million valuation (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 12, 2025

Tom Dotan / Newcomer: Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems, which develops tools for AI agents to search…

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Tala Health, which plans to deploy AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, has raised a $100 million round led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 9, 2025

Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Tala Health, which plans to deploy AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year,…

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Amateur solved a 60-year-old Erdős problem with a single GPT-5.4 Pro prompt; Terence Tao says it’s a great achievement, but its long-term significance is unclear (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)

Palantir Slack logs and staff interviews reveal internal debates over the company’s ICE and DOD contracts during Trump’s second term, his manifesto, and more (Makena Kelly/Ars Technica)

A profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become a must-listen in the AI community, with guests including Jensen Huang, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)

Sources: Genki Robotics, a Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a valuation of approximately $1 billion; it raised around $50 million in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique managed by an AI agent; Andon Labs experiment uses an agent based on Claude Sonnet 4.6 to manage the store (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Browsing: agents

Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate revenue operations for B2B companies, raised a $20 million Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to approximately $40 million (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Simular, which develops AI agents for Mac and Windows PCs, raised a $21.5 million Series A round led by Felicis; Simular released version 1.0 for macOS (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Lumia, which uses AI to analyze interactions between autonomous agents and humans, has raised an $18 million seed led by Team8 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Salesforce: Black Friday online sales grew 6% year-over-year to $79 billion globally, including $3 billion in U.S. sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: U.S. online sales increased 9.1% to $11.8 billion (Joan Verdon/Forbes)

Clover Security, whose AI agents connect to developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security vulnerabilities, raised $36 million led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Trump signs executive order establishing the Genesis Mission to spur AI innovation, including using federal scientific datasets to train models and create AI agents (David Shepardson/Reuters)

Amazon unveils its autonomous threat analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Major insurers recently asked U.S. regulators for permission to offer policies excluding liabilities related to companies deploying chatbots and AI agents (Financial Times)

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal’s Parallel Web Systems, which develops tools for AI agents to search the web, raised a $100 million Series A at a $740 million valuation (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)

Tala Health, which plans to deploy AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, has raised a $100 million round led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)