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  • OpenAI and Spotify leaders back London-based AI agent security startup in $13M seed round

    A London-based startup which helps mitigate risks and vulnerabilities of businessesdeployingso-called AI agents or AI tools that can complete specific tasks has emerged from stealth with a $13mseed round. The funding round in Trent AI was ledby LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, with participation from leaders at OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks, and Amazon Web Services. The read more

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    OpenAI and Spotify leaders back London-based AI agent security startup in M seed round

  • Meet Rachel: the AI agent that phoned 3,000 pubs to price a pint

    Over Paddy’s weekend 2026, a friendly Northern Irish “woman” called Rachel rang more than 3,000 pubs across all 32 counties to find out the price of a pint of Guinness. Over 1,000 gave a price. Only a handful seemed to realise Rachel was an AI voice agent. A data gap 14 years in the making read more

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    Meet Rachel: the AI agent that phoned 3,000 pubs to price a pint

  • Agent debugging startup Laminar raises $3M seed to tackle the observability gap in AI agents

    Laminar today announces a $3 million seed round led by Atlantic.vc, with participation from Y-Combinator, AAL.vc, and notable angels including Ben Sigelman, co-creator of OpenTelemetry and Ant Wilson, CTO of Supabase. Founders Robert Kim (CEO) and Dinmukhamed Mailibay (CTO) grew up together in Kazakhstan, studied at KAIST, and worked side by side in London before read more

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    Agent debugging startup Laminar raises M seed to tackle the observability gap in AI agents

  • SurrealDB secures $23M and launches SurrealDB 3.0 to address AI agent memory challenges

    London-based SurrealDB, the company behind a multi-model, AI-native database, has raised an additional $23 million in Series A funding, bringing the round’s total to $38 million. Chalfen Ventures and Begin Capital joined existing investors FirstMark and Georgian in the extension, while Mike Chalfen of Chalfen Ventures will join the company as a director. The latest read more

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    SurrealDB secures M and launches SurrealDB 3.0 to address AI agent memory challenges

  • AI customer support agent startup GetVocal raises $26M

    A Paris-headquartered startupwhich develops AI agents for businesses to use in customer supporthas raised $26m and says it’s working with big-name brands such as Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom. The Series A funding round in GetVocal was led by Creandum, the Nordic VC firm, with participation from Austrian VC Speedinvest and Elaia, the French deeptech VC. read more

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    AI customer support agent startup GetVocal raises M

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

    Microsoft is moving forward with its plans to turn Windows 11 into a full-fledged “AI” operating system amidst Copilot backlash. The first big move in that direction is an experimental feature called “Agent Workspace,” which gives AI agents access to the most-used folders in your directory, such as Desktop, Music, Pictures, and Videos. It will read more

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    Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk