Topic: enterprise software
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Record Zero-Day Attacks Target Enterprise Software
The number of zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks reached 90 in 2025, an all-time high for enterprise software and appliances. Enterprise technology became the primary target, with 48% of all zero-day exploits aimed at business software and appliances. Nearly half of these enterprise-ta...
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Anthropic's Cowork Gains Agentic Plugin Power
Anthropic has expanded its Cowork platform with agentic plugins, transforming Claude's AI assistant into a versatile productivity engine for automating specialized workflows across departments. These plugins allow deep customization for tasks like content drafting or legal review, with an emphasi...
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Zeta Global Acquires Marigold's Enterprise Software Division
Zeta Global is acquiring Marigold's enterprise software division, including tools like Marigold Loyalty and Cheetah Digital, to enhance its customer engagement and data-driven marketing capabilities, with the deal expected to close by the end of 2025. The acquisition adds specialized platforms th...
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Steph Curry's VC Invests in AI to Fix Food Supply Chains
The global food supply chain is inefficient, relying on outdated methods like emails and faxes for orders, which creates bottlenecks and hurts thin profit margins. Burnt, a startup, has secured $3.8 million in seed funding to use AI agents that automate back-office tasks, such as order entry, wit...
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Nvidia to Launch Open-Source AI Agent Platform
Nvidia is developing an open-source platform called NemoClaw to help enterprises deploy autonomous AI agents for employee tasks, designed to be accessible even without Nvidia hardware. The platform aims to address corporate adoption concerns by integrating security tools, though AI agents can pos...
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Atlassian Acquired The Browser Company Behind Dia and Arc
Atlassian has acquired The Browser Company for $610 million to integrate its AI-powered Dia browser with Atlassian's suite of work tools, enhancing workflow efficiency. The Dia browser uses conversational AI to interact with applications and transfer data, and will now prioritize workplace functi...
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TechnologyOne Launches AI-Powered Enterprise Software Revolution
TechnologyOne has launched PLUS, an AI-powered enterprise platform that integrates a natural language interface to predict outcomes, analyze data, and simplify processes across all business functions. The platform breaks down information silos by connecting data from various departments, providin...
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Jira Update: AI Agents Now Collaborate With Humans
Atlassian is launching an AI feature called "agents in Jira" that allows users to assign and manage tasks for AI agents directly within the same dashboard used for human team members, aiming to boost output without proportional chaos. The integration provides managers with complete visibility int...
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Naboo Secures $70M for AI Event Procurement Platform
Naboo secured $70 million in Series B funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, to fuel its expansion and vision to become the essential digital backbone for corporate event management. The company's AI-powered platform centralizes and automates the fragmented corporate event procurement proce...
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ServiceNow Acquires Cybersecurity Firm Armis for $7.75 Billion
ServiceNow is acquiring cybersecurity firm Armis for $7.75 billion in cash, significantly expanding its security portfolio and integrating asset intelligence into its platform. Armis, a rapidly growing company with over $340 million in annual recurring revenue, opted for this acquisition over an ...
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IFS Loops: Deploy Agentic AI Digital Workers to Accelerate Operations
IFS has expanded its Loops platform with 10 Digital Workers featuring 50 agentic skills to automate operational tasks, with plans to reach 100 skills by December 2025 across various industries. These Digital Workers handle complex workflows autonomously, integrating with enterprise systems to pro...
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Sierra CEO: Why the AI Boom Echoes the Dotcom Era
The current AI investment surge resembles the dot-com boom, with potential for both failures and transformative successes like Amazon or Google. Sierra, led by Bret Taylor, uses outcome-based pricing for AI customer service agents, focusing on voice interactions for natural, effective support. Ta...
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Unleash Secures $35M to Govern AI-Generated Code for Enterprises
A Norwegian startup, Unleash, secured $35 million in Series B funding to address risks from AI-generated code in enterprise systems, highlighting a shift toward tools that ensure stability alongside speed. The company's platform uses feature flags to instantly toggle off problematic AI-written co...
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Replit's 9-Year Grind Pays Off: Can It Sustain Its Market?
Replit achieved a $3 billion valuation through long-term persistence, overcoming multiple business pivots, revenue plateaus, and a critical downsizing before experiencing breakthrough growth. The company's recent $250 million funding round and surge to over $150 million in annualized revenue foll...
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SpendRule Emerges From Stealth With $2M to Track Hospital Spending
SpendRule, a new AI platform co-founded by Chris Heckler and Joseph Akintolayo, has launched with $2 million in seed funding to help hospitals control operational spending. The platform specifically targets inefficient spending on non-traditional purchases like services and contracts, which lack ...
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Slackbot Evolves Into an AI-Powered Assistant
The AI-powered Slackbot is now generally available, functioning as a productivity agent that can find information, draft content, and manage tasks within Slack and connected apps like Microsoft Teams. This launch is a key part of Salesforce's enterprise AI strategy, representing a significant pro...
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Empromptu Secures $2M to Power Enterprise AI App Development
Empromptu is a new platform that enables business owners, including non-technical users, to transform AI concepts into functional enterprise software by describing their desired application to an AI chatbot, which then builds it. The platform distinguishes itself by focusing on turning AI experim...
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How This 16-Year-Old Company Is Making AI Accessible for Small Businesses
Small businesses are adopting AI through tools like Netstock's Opportunity Engine, which provides actionable recommendations for inventory management without high complexity or cost. The AI tool enhances decision-making by identifying patterns in data and empowering employees, while still requiri...
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PraxisPro Secures $6M Seed Funding to Train Medical Sales Teams
PraxisPro, an AI-powered sales coaching platform for life sciences, has secured $6 million in seed funding to transform how sales representatives are trained for critical client interactions with healthcare providers. The platform uses specialized small language models to simulate realistic conve...
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VCs Crown AI Winners Early with 'Kingmaking' Strategy
Venture capital firms are increasingly using a "kingmaking" strategy, deploying massive early funding to create a perceived market leader in AI, often before startups have significant revenue. This accelerated investment pattern is evident in sectors like AI enterprise software, where rivals secu...
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Paid AI raises $21M seed to bill clients only for results
Manny Medina's new startup Paid has raised $33.3 million in total funding, achieving a valuation over $100 million, with its seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Paid introduces a results-based billing platform for AI agents, allowing developers to charge clients based on the tangible v...
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Microsoft Copilot Accessed Private Emails Without Consent
A security flaw in Microsoft's AI Copilot service allowed it to access and summarize confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies. Microsoft identified and fixed the code defect, which affected the Copilot Chat feature in Outlook and other 365 apps, highlighting new AI-related cybersec...
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Meridian Raises $17M to Reinvent Agentic Spreadsheets
Meridian, a startup, has secured $17 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, achieving a $100 million valuation to develop an agentic, IDE-like platform for financial modeling. The platform is a standalone workspace designed to drastically reduce complex financial analysis from hours ...
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UiPath Acquires WorkFusion to Expand in Financial Services
UiPath has acquired WorkFusion to strategically expand into financial services automation, integrating specialized AI agents for compliance into its platform. The acquisition provides banks with a unified toolkit to automate complex regulatory workflows like AML monitoring and KYC investigations,...
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Hupo Pivots to AI Sales Coaching, Secures Meta-Backed Growth
Hupo evolved from a mental wellness platform into an AI sales coaching solution for the BFSI sector, driven by a focus on integrating seamlessly into daily workflows and avoiding judgmental tools. Its AI platform provides real-time, consistent coaching for sales teams in regulated industries by a...
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Wonderful Raises $100M to Deploy AI Agents for Customer Service
Wonderful secured a $100 million Series A investment, led by Index Ventures with other major investors, to develop its scalable multi-agent AI platform for customer service. The company's localized approach, adapting to language, culture, and regulations, has driven rapid growth, achieving an 80%...
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Google Warns of Rising Cyber-Physical Attacks in Europe
Google Cloud Security forecasts a major increase in cyber-physical attacks on Europe's critical infrastructure by 2026, targeting sectors like energy, transportation, and digital systems, which threatens public safety and economic stability. State-sponsored cyber espionage from countries such as ...
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TechnologyOne Achieves Global AI Trust with ISO 42001 Certification
TechnologyOne has achieved ISO 42001 certification, reinforcing its commitment to responsible AI and ethical practices to build customer trust in rapidly advancing technology. The certification, attained in just five months, positions the company as a leader in balancing innovation with risk mana...
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The End of AI Coding Tools: What's Next for Developers?
Smaller AI coding startups face existential threats from tech giants controlling foundation models, struggling to differentiate their business models despite significant venture funding. These startups' core functionality in code generation depends entirely on foundation models from competitors l...
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Google Speeds Up Chrome Updates
Google is accelerating Chrome's stable release cycle from four weeks to two weeks, starting in September, to deliver features, security patches, and performance improvements more rapidly. The new two-week schedule begins with Chrome 153 on September 8th for desktop and mobile, while enterprise us...
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Risotto Secures $10M Seed to Simplify Ticketing With AI
The help desk automation sector is seeing innovation from AI-focused startups like Risotto, which secured $10 million in seed funding to autonomously resolve support tickets, challenging established players. Risotto's competitive advantage lies in its sophisticated infrastructure, including promp...
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Box CEO Aaron Levie: AI's Impact on Enterprise SaaS
Box CEO Aaron Levie envisions AI agents working alongside enterprise SaaS platforms, enhancing decision-making and automating tasks while relying on traditional systems for core workflows. He emphasizes a separation between deterministic SaaS for stability and non-deterministic AI for adaptabilit...
Read More » Why LLM Drift Will Dominate SEO in 2026
Large language models (LLMs) are becoming a primary research tool, shifting trust to AI-driven recommendations and making a brand's presence in model outputs critical for visibility. A new measurable phenomenon called LLM perception drift is emerging, reflecting dynamic monthly changes in how AI ...
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Transform Forecasts into Action with Qlik Predict
Qlik has launched its Multivariate Time Series capability in Qlik Predict, enabling businesses to model complex, real-world drivers and act on insights directly within their analytics workflow, with the upcoming WriteTable feature allowing operationalization of AI-generated forecasts. The new cap...
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Epicor Leads in Cloud ERP Vision and Execution
Epicor has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for the third consecutive year, recognizing its AI-enhanced solutions tailored for product-focused businesses. The company's cloud-first strategy and customer-led innovation focus on enhancing operational efficiency, data-...
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When OpenAI Stumbles, the Tech World Shivers
OpenAI's announcement of internal AI tools caused a significant market reaction, with Docusign's stock falling 12% and other software firms like HubSpot and Salesforce also experiencing declines. The incident underscores OpenAI's immense influence, as even basic demonstrations are perceived as co...
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Adobe Animate to Shut Down Next Month
Adobe is discontinuing Adobe Animate, ending sales next month, citing newer platforms as better meeting animators' needs and concluding the software's nearly 30-year legacy. Current users can download files until March 2027 (2029 for enterprise), with the app remaining available and supported unt...
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