Price.com Pushes AI From Recommendation to Execution
Price.com launched “Buy with AI,” a feature that allows an artificial intelligence (AI) agent to search for products,…
3 Companies That Could Thrive Beyond Chips in 2026
SoundHound has a huge opportunity in voice-powered AI agents. Salesforce stock looks washed out, and it also has…
Equity’s 2026 Predictions: AI Agents, Blockbuster IPOs, and the Future of VC
TechCrunch’s Equity crew is bringing 2025 to a close and getting ahead on the year to come with our annual predictions episode!…
More Than Half of Telecoms Run AI Agents in Production
While many sectors use AI mainly for back-office tasks, telecommunications involve live infrastructure where problems can escalate quickly…
Nvidia Bets on Open Models to Power AI Agents
Nvidia announced on Monday (Dec. 15) the debut of the Nemotron 3 family of open models designed to…
These 3 Warren Buffett AI Stocks Could Be Big Winners in 2026
Alphabet’s Google Gemini 3.0 could make Google Cloud more attractive to customers than ever. Amazon’s investments in agentic…
AI Agents Can Cheat When Pressure Mounts, Research Shows
In the high-stakes world of financial services, the promise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is efficiency at scale.…
OpenAI’s new GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max — all about the agentic coding model that can work for long hours
OpenAI this week rolled out GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new agentic coding model, built for long-running and detailed software development…
Anthropic says Chinese hackers misused Claude in first AI‑driven cyberattack: What’s compromised?
Anthropic revealed in a blog post published Thursday that a Chinese hacking group misused its Claude AI systems…
6Sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1Mind
Although LLM-powered AI agents are a fairly new phenomenon, one of the areas where they’ve been most popular so far is in sales. 1Mind, a startup co-founded…
Amazon, Perplexity Clash Over Third-Party AI Shopping Agents
Amazon and artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity are in a dispute over the deployment of third-party AI agents…
Serval raises $47 million to bring AI agents to IT service management
Some startups pride themselves on having prestigious financial backers — but just as important is having prestigious customers.…