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Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence | TechCrunch

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or to speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover...

Enterprise

Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to | TechCrunch

Floqer is an autonomous customer knowledge platform that provides business-to-business sales and marketing teams with an AI-powered database...

AI

Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache | TechCrunch

The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them...

Commerce

Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from making unauthorized purchases | TechCrunch

Personal AI agents are increasingly making transactions on their users’ behalf, but given the nondeterministic nature of large...

Fundraising

Former Plaud exec raises $26M for AI app that listens to you in the background | TechCrunch

One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better...

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AI

Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages  | TechCrunch

Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person....

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Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B Valuation, launches AI agents for business users | TechCrunch

Nous Research, the startup developing the open-source Hermes agent, has raised a $90 million Series B at a...

AI

The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in | TechCrunch

Personal AI agents, like Meta’s Muse, Instinct, ChatGPT’s Dots, and others, are kicking off a new wave of...

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Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’ | TechCrunch

A new fleet of AI agents is making its presence felt on the Internet. On Sunday, a group...

AI

All the AI agents that can live in your text messages  | TechCrunch

Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person....