Writer launches AI agents that can act without prompts, taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce

Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and Insight Partners, today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to a [...]

One tool call to rule them all? New open source Python tool RunPod Flash eliminates containers for faster AI dev

Runpod, the high-performance cloud computing and GPU platform designed specifically for AI development, today launched a new open source, MIT licensed, enterprise-friendly Python programming tool call [...]

One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it

Just two months ago, researchers at the Data Intelligence Lab at the University of Hong Kong introduced CLI-Anything, a new state-of-the-art tool that analyzes any repo’s source code and generates a [...]

Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof.

A little-known Miami-based startup called Subquadratic emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a sweeping claim: that it has built the first large language model to fully escape the mathematical constrai [...]

The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps

There's an app for nearly every imaginable user and use case these days, but one thing they all have in common is that they're centered around one device: the smartphone.That changes today a [...]

How NTT DATA AIVista closes the last mile of agentic AI for enterprise agents

Presented by NTT DATA AIVista At VB Transform 2026, NTT DATA AIVista CEO Bratin Saha joined VentureBeat CEO and editor-in-chief Matt Marshall to discuss the last-mile challenge of operationalizing fro [...]

Apple is about to let you replace its AI with ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude — and it could change the iPhone forever

Apple’s plan to let users choose between multiple AI models marks a shift from a controlled system to a more open platform approach [...]

HawkEye 360 raised $416 million in its NYSE debut, pricing at the top of its range

The Herndon, Virginia-based signals intelligence company sold 16 million shares at $26 each, the high end of its $24-to-$26 target range [...]

OpenAI brings GPT-5-class reasoning to real-time voice — and it changes what voice agents can actually orchestrate

Voice agents have been expensive to run and painful to orchestrate, not because the models can't handle conversation, but because context ceilings forced enterprises to build session resets, stat [...]