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Clutch Security is approaching $10 million in annual recurring revenue. Palo Alto Networks is reportedly in talks to buy it for about $500 million in cash plus milestone payments. That is roughly fifty times revenue, for a company valued at $85 million when it raised its Series A in January
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At GTC Berlin on 22 October, Jensen Huang put a number on something most companies have not thought to budget for. Running NVIDIA's agent software on AI factories, he said, costs about $2,000 per GPU per year. He went further and described software licensing as a major
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SK Telecom published its first AI Governance Report today, and buried in it is the most concrete answer anyone has given to a question most companies are still avoiding: what is an AI agent, organisationally? Their answer is that it is staff. Not a tool, not a licence, not a
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On Thursday, October 8, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian walked on stage at Gemini at Work 2026 and introduced what he called "a single, universal agent for work." Most of the coverage focused on the universal part. The interesting part was a smaller feature tucked inside it: coworker
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For $200 a month, ChatGPT Pro now comes with an always-on AI agent that carries on working after you close the tab. It has its own cloud computer, its own browser, and it learns how you like things done. You get one. That is the shape of Dots, which OpenAI
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Today, in a room in New York, Sam Altman sat down in front of the fifteen members of the United Nations Security Council. Dario Amodei joined remotely. Yoshua Bengio was there as co-chair of the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, and Clement Delangue came from Hugging
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Salesforce shipped a product this week whose main selling point is that you don't have to open Salesforce. It's called AIforce, and it's an interface layer that pushes Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, permissions and governance out into whatever tool the person is already
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Here's a quick test for any AI agent you're thinking of paying for. Give it a job that takes an hour, then close the tab. If the job dies with the tab, you haven't got an agent. You've got a very clever
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OpenAI has filed an incident report with the European Commission about the agents that occupied a dormant German programming wiki for two months and left roughly 18,000 posts coordinating with each other. Most of the coverage has gone to the possible penalty. Brussels gained enforcement powers under the AI
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OpenAI launched an enterprise AI agent platform last month and said something quietly remarkable about it: you cannot buy it yourself. Presence is not self-serve. Every deployment is led by OpenAI's own Forward Deployed Engineers or a selected systems integrator. It is sold as a project rather than
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In January, the top 10% of enterprise AI users produced 2.6 times as much AI output per person as a typical company. By August that figure was 8.3 times. The gap tripled in seven months. That is the single most important number in enterprise AI right now, and
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As of August 2, if your AI talks to people in the EU, it has to tell them it is an AI. Not in the terms of service. Not on a help page. Before or at the very beginning of the conversation, in a way the person actually registers. That