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Chinese regulators are assessing whether Meta’s acquisition of AI startup Manus violated technology export control rules. The review could affect how cross-border AI deals involving Chinese-developed technology are approved.
Enterprise AI firm Articul8 secured more than half of a planned $70 million Series B round at a $500 million pre-money valuation. The company is targeting regulated industries with specialized AI systems deployed inside customer environments.
Meta Platforms has agreed to acquire Singapore-based AI startup Manus for about $2 billion, gaining a rare revenue-generating AI agent platform. The deal strengthens Meta’s AI strategy as investor scrutiny grows around heavy infrastructure spending.
Lemon Slice has introduced a diffusion-based model that enables AI agents to interact through real-time video avatars. The startup aims to expand chatbots beyond text into interactive visual experiences.
OpenAI acknowledges prompt injection attacks cannot be fully eliminated and is using automated AI attackers to harden its Atlas agentic browser against threats.
Visa said it successfully completed hundreds of AI-driven transactions in a pilot program testing agent-based payments. The effort reflects a broader push across fintech to let AI agents handle purchases on behalf of consumers.
Mozilla appointed Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as CEO as Firefox faces new AI-driven browser competition and plans optional AI features and diversified revenue streams.
MoEngage raised $180 million in a Series F follow-on round, valuing the company at over $900 million and boosting investment in its AI-driven customer engagement platform.
Google released a major upgrade to its Gemini Deep Research agent, giving developers access to advanced autonomous research capabilities through the Interactions API. The company also introduced DeepSearchQA, a benchmark for evaluating multi-step web research agents.
Harness secures $240M to scale its AI DevOps agents, knowledge-graph automation, and global engineering teams as rising AI code volume intensifies demand for after-code testing, security, and deployment automation.
Surf has raised $15M led by Pantera to develop Surf 2.0, expand its enterprise AI crypto research tools, and scale its specialized multi-agent analysis platform used by major exchanges.
IBM acquires Confluent in $11 B deal, combining real-time data streaming and AI infrastructure to support the next generation of cloud and enterprise applications.
Simular, a startup developing agentic AI for PC and Mac OS, raised $21.5 million in Series A funding to advance its technology that autonomously completes complex tasks with minimal human oversight.
DeepSeek has launched two new open-source AI models — V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale — that the company says match or exceed leading U.S. systems in advanced reasoning and tool-use tasks.
Microsoft has launched Agent 365, a new enterprise tool that lets IT teams monitor, provision, and control AI agents across corporate systems, regardless of vendor—tightening security and governance as AI automations proliferate.