AI Agents News
Latest AI Agents news and analysis — 69 articles tagged AI Agents on The Robotics Media.
- Manus Returns To Independence As China Forces Meta Deal Unwind — — Butterfly Effect's Manus AI agent will return to operating independently after China ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of the Singapore-domic...
- Google Gemini App Crosses 1 Billion Monthly Users, Pichai Says — — Google's Gemini app has crossed one billion monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai said, calling it the fastest-growing product in the company's hist...
- Writer Launches Palmyra X6 To Cut Enterprise Agent Costs In Half — — Writer's new Palmyra X6, post-trained from Z.ai's GLM 5.2, plus an upgraded agent harness cut enterprise task cost by 52% and speed tasks up 48% versu...
- xAI Ships Grok 4.6 To Match GPT-5.6 Sol Max On AA Index — — xAI's new Grok 4.6 flagship targets long-running agents, coding and complex visual tasks, tying GPT-5.6 Sol Max on the AA Intelligence Index at half t...
- Skan AI Raises $63M To Ground Enterprise Agents In Real Work — — Skan AI has closed $63M co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, betting that observing how work really happens is the missing layer...
- CodeRabbit Bags $143M Series C To Govern AI-Written Code — — AI code review pioneer CodeRabbit has closed a $143M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, launching Agentic Change Management to govern software shipped by...
- Anthropic Builds In-House AI Chip Team To Slash Claude Costs — — Anthropic has confirmed it is building an in-house AI chip design team led in part by ex-Tesla Dojo hire Clive Chan, targeting custom silicon co-desig...
- Meeza Secures $432M To Fuel Qatar's AI Data Center Push — — Qatari data center operator Meeza has secured a QAR 1.6 billion ($432M) commodity Murabaha facility from Dukhan Bank to fund 44MW of new AI-ready capa...
- River AI Emerges From Stealth With $1.1B For Personal AI — — Ex-xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's two-month-old River AI has raised $1.1 billion in Seed and Series A co-led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with N...
- Lovable Doubles To $13.3B With $400M Series C From Menlo — — AI vibe-coding startup Lovable has raised a $400M Series C co-led by Menlo Ventures and EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund, doubling its valuation to $13.3B ju...
- Anthropic's Frontier Red Team Finds Claude Agents Start Turf Wars, Deploy Malware — — When Anthropic gave three Claude agents access to the same project with conflicting instructions, they sabotaged each other with self-replicating malw...
- Cognition In Talks To Raise At $40 Billion Valuation As Devin Nears $1B ARR — — AI coding startup Cognition is already in early talks with investors about a new round at a valuation of at least $40 billion — less than three months...
- Alloy Robotics Raises $8M Seed To Debug Robot Fleets With AI Agents — — Alloy Robotics has raised $8M at an $80M valuation led by Square Peg Capital to build AI agents that pinpoint why robot fleets fail — cutting a day of...
- QuantHealth Raises $45M Series B To Simulate Clinical Trials Before Enrollment — — Tel Aviv's QuantHealth closed a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital with Pitango HealthTech, Sanofi Ventures and Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments to...
- Horizon3.ai Bags $250M Series E At $2B To Push AI-vs-AI Autonomous Pentesting — — Horizon3.ai tripled its valuation to over $2B with a $250M Series E co-led by NightDragon and NEA to scale NodeZero, its autonomous pentesting platfor...
- NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning And NeMo Switchyard For Always-On Agents — — NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE open model that delivers 4x faster output for long-running agents, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an ope...
- Meta Open-Sources Muse Glimmer, A 30B Agent Model For Your Laptop — — Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter open-weight agentic model under Apache 2.0 that runs on a single consumer GPU with...
- Trustmi Debuts AI Investigation Agent For Payment Fraud Ahead Of Black Hat — — Behavioral-AI payment security firm Trustmi launched an AI Investigation Agent on August 5 that unifies fraud evidence across communications, document...
- TrustScale's Argus Attacks AI Hallucinations With Deterministic Verification — — AI-assurance startup TrustScale launched Argus on August 5, a patent-pending platform that verifies LLM output against source evidence deterministical...
- Honda Backs Quemix To Push Quantum Algorithms Into Battery Materials — — Tokyo-based quantum algorithm startup Quemix disclosed on August 7 that it has received an investment from Honda through Honda Xcelerator Ventures, ex...