Cowbell unveils AI liability insurance for small businesses that deploy AI agents (opens siliconangle.com)
A standalone policy for US small and midsized businesses covering losses caused by the AI agents they deploy.
Context: A BFSI operations worker says nearly every large call center they talk to has replaced, or plans to replace, its IVR with a voice agent.
From r/indianstartups: I work in BFSI operations and in the last year almost every large call center I’ve talked to has either replaced their IVR or is planning to like with a voice agent that just picks up and talks.
A standalone policy for US small and midsized businesses covering losses caused by the AI agents they deploy.
Firmly raised $15 million, backed by JPMorgan and Mastercard, for software that lets online retailers sell through AI shopping assistants and marketplaces without a separate integration for each.
Claude, ChatGPT and in-house AI agents can now run business payments through Pliant, the Berlin B2B payments company.
UiPath will charge for each document its new finance agents process instead of selling a software project, a UiPath director said at UiPath FUSION in Dubai.
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
Anthropic also announced Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data the same day; Claude Meetings drafts plans and timelines as participants talk.