Disney named Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first-ever chief technology officer, a senior executive vice president role starting Oct. 2 that reports to Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro and covers ente…
The Walt Disney Company named Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first company-wide chief technology officer, effective October 2, reporting to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Anand will oversee Disney's techn…
Disney announced on September 18, 2026 that Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI and a 15-year Microsoft Azure veteran, will become its first-ever chief technology officer starting October 2, r…
Disney named Karandeep Anand, former CEO of generative AI chatbot company Character.AI, as its first chief technology officer, effective Oct. 2, reporting directly to CEO Josh D'Amaro. Disney said a n…
CodeSignal, a skills validation platform, offers AI Interviewer agents that run structured, adaptive interviews and return objective scores, alongside certified Skills Assessments drawn from a bank of…
The Machine Earning AI Summit, scheduled for September 29 in San Francisco, will feature Ryan King, co-founder of Chime, and Jean-Denis Greze, co-founder of Town and former CTO of Plaid, as speakers. …
Emil Michael, the Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, sold his Perplexity AI stake in June for between $5 million and $25 million, according to financial disclosures rev…
SaaStr, a media and events company, has run Salesforce headless for six months using an AI agent built on Anthropic's Claude, called 10K, and reports revenue up 47% year over year after being down 19%…
A Hacker News post questions whether 'an agent with tools' is the only valid LLM application, citing Brex's CEO's stance, and argues for end-to-end workflows that require minimal user feedback, despit…
Brex released its summer fastest-growing vendors list, reporting that infrastructure companies dominated, indicating that the real AI growth is in the underlying technology rather than applications.…
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin revealed on The Agents podcast that his company canceled Notion after 7 years because their AI agent, 10K, took over the staff meeting function, leaving Notion with no rema…
Fintechs including Stripe, Ramp, and Brex are issuing virtual cards with per-transaction and per-merchant-category limits designed for AI agents, repurposing authorization holds as real-time circuit b…
Comedians Harris Alterman and Dave Ross installed satirical subway advertisements in New York City mocking the formulaic copy of AI startups, and their stunt videos garnered more than 7.5 million view…
Mercury, a Silicon Valley banking solution, launched AI agent cards, virtual credit cards that let businesses delegate and automate purchasing decisions, as part of an expanded spend management offeri…
Brex open-sourced CrabTrap, an HTTP/HTTPS proxy that monitors AI agents' network traffic to enforce governance, on April 21, 2026, and it has gained over 700 GitHub stars. The tool uses static rules f…
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, acquired TierZero on July 20, 2026, marking the first of three acquisitions announced in a single week, to extend Devin from writing software into…
Great Question, a Y Combinator W21-backed AI customer research platform, is hiring a Senior Demand Gen Manager to own the sales qualified lead (SQL) number and build a demand engine across organic sea…
Brex has open-sourced CrabTrap, an HTTP proxy that intercepts AI agent network traffic and uses an LLM judge to approve or deny requests in real time, designed to secure autonomous agents with access …
Sazabi, an AI-native observability startup founded by former Brex and Crunchbase engineer Sherwood Callaway, raised an $8 million seed round co-led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator. Th…
AI agents rely on external systems to manage memory because large language models are stateless and process only the text in their context window per call. Developers must engineer memory by inserting…