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Sources: Apple cut some engineers' daily AI spending cap to $200 from $300 and plans cuts to as little as $100, as cost cutting stokes staff fears of layoffs — Apple Inc. is reducing employee budgets for artificial intelligence usage as part of a cost-cutting effort, even as the company seeks …
Data security startup Sentra will use the money to expand its platform for controlling what AI agents can reach inside corporate data stores.
Docusign is buying Suplari, which uses AI to analyze corporate spending and supplier data, years after its team bought it back from Microsoft.
We turn what employees explain in interviews and show on screen or through a phone camera into workflow maps that AI agents can use as a context layer
vsActual is a standalone AI product that tracks whether a company's work matches its plan, even for companies that don't use Smartsheet.
Every cell shows its reasoning, with one-click citations to cell and document references.
Figma reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $391.4M, above est., gross margin of 80%, below 81% est., and lifts its 2026 revenue outlook; FIG drops 6%+ after hours — Figma (FIG.N) is leaning on cashing in on its AI features through credits and using its first-party model to power tasks …
The Age reports the cuts respond to slowing growth; co-founder and CEO Melanie Perkins said some people will change roles or be asked to move to central hubs.
Paige is an AI agent for site reliability engineering, launched with the renamed PD Reliability Platform and PD Labs.
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.
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.
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy Cresta, a nine-year-old maker of AI contact-center automation software; The Information reports the price at $2.7 billion.
Clean (YC Fall 2026) gives sales teams and their agents real-time data on what just changed at each account.
US commercial revenue rose 148% to $984M and topped US government revenue ($953M) for the first time.
Pelion Ventures led the Series A in the AI adoption-measurement startup, which links AI tool use to productivity and spend data; it has raised $47M in total.
A relay that lets copiers, scanners and business apps keep sending email through your own Microsoft 365 mailbox.
Heartcore and Seedcamp led the pre-seed in the Munich startup, whose AI 'coworkers' learn how people work before automating it.
Hex says it rebuilt its data analytics platform for AI agents; Peak XV led the $100M round at a $1.2B valuation.
Broccoli AI sells AI agents to plumbing, HVAC and electrical companies; the Series A and Series B were announced together, with a source putting the valuation at $300M.
Sweep speeds up customer migrations to ServiceNow's CRM; the price was undisclosed but is estimated in the hundreds of millions.
Rune's AI software helps the military plan supplies near the front line; it joins Missionforce, the defence business Salesforce launched a year ago.
I’m a civil engineer and own a small municipal engineering firm. I also do forensic engineering, including expert work for legal cases. I use Claude, and it’s honestly shocking how powerful it is for this kind of work.
Practice software for vets in Pune that keeps pet owners on doses and boosters after the visit.
For those who have AI features included in a flat subscription: how do you stop one user from burning through your margin? What I'm curious about: - Do you set a hard cap per user (tokens, requests, $)? What happens when they hit it? - Rate limits, credits, pricing tiers, or something else?
The artificial intelligence buildout is making an enormous bet on what businesses will eventually be willing to pay for intelligence. In our research this summer on forecasting the AI bubble, we argued that a key indicator to watch is productive utilization by enterprise customers.
Fleety sends the right technician to the right job and rebuilds the schedule through the day for plumbing and HVAC companies.
Worked on an AI product where the co-founder pulled the plug because token costs and API changes kept shifting the unit economics every month. Now reading that enterprise AI runs $9-19M/year with no proven ROI. Anyone here actually showing positive unit economics on an AI product after 12+ months?
The AI logistics startup would bolster Salesforce's Missionforce defense platform.
Eve CEO Jay Madheswaran argues AI will let law firms take cases they could not afford to before.
Rune makes AI military logistics software and had raised $30M from a16z and others; TechCrunch says it will join Salesforce's Missionforce defense platform.
Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI firm has entered the picture.
Growing companies that outgrow entry-level accounting software face a hard choice: Stay put or gamble on a mid-market ERP that promises automation but often brings cost and disruption.
AWS revenue grew 39% to $46B in the third quarter, and Andy Jassy expects more than 40% growth in 2027 and 2028.
Reflex uses AI agents to build, deploy and maintain custom business software that replaces generic third-party tools.
Solink, which began in Ottawa in 2009 selling cloud video surveillance, uses AI to pull business information from retailers' security cameras.
Serval raised at a $3 billion valuation to take its automation agents from IT into more departments.
Crux Labs turns enterprise judgment into continuous improvement for AI agents.
