z.ai debuts faster, cheaper GLM-5 Turbo model for agents and ‘claws’ — but it’s not open-source
Carl Franzen March 16, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known for…
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Gumloop lands $50M from Benchmark to turn every employee into an AI agent builder
When Max Brodeur-Urbas co-founded Gumloop in mid-2023, his vision was to help non-technical employees automate repetitive tasks using AI. At…
Microsoft announces Copilot Cowork with help from Anthropic — a cloud-powered AI agent that works across M365 apps
FeaturedCarl Franzen March 9, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with GPT-Image-1.5If you thought Anthropic was about to run away with the…
Google’s Opal just quietly showed enterprise teams the new blueprint for building AI agents
Sam Witteveen February 27, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Pro ImageFor the past year, the enterprise AI…
Runlayer is now offering secure OpenClaw agentic capabilities for large enterprises
FeaturedCarl Franzen February 20, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Pro Image on fal.aiOpenClaw, the open source AI…
Building an AI News Curator with n8n, Claude, and RSS Feeds
Building an AI News Curator with n8n, Claude, and RSS Feeds Configuring an n8n workflow to read RSS feeds, analyze…
Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use
Help desk automation is a billion-dollar industry, and one of the most likely to be disrupted by tech built upon…
Why Egnyte keeps hiring junior engineers despite the rise of AI coding tools
Taryn Plumb January 13, 2026 CleoP made with MidjourneyEgnyte, the $1.5 billion cloud content governance company, has embedded AI coding…
One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
Two people. Eighteen accounts spanning checking, savings, credit cards, investments. Three currencies. Twenty minutes of work every week.One net worth…
Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026
Concerns about how AI will affect workers continue to rise in lockstep with the pace of advancements and new products…
Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium’s creator
Vibium Browser automation without the drama. Vibium is browser automation infrastructure built for AI agents. A single binary handles browser…
AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2
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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies,…
Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning
Carl Franzen December 9, 2025 Credit: VentureBeat made with Flux 2 on Fal.aiChinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has…
Ex-Googler’s Yoodli triples valuation to $300M+ with AI built to assist, not replace, people
Yoodli, an AI-powered communication training startup, has reached a valuation of more than $300 million — more than triple its…
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 is here: Cheaper AI, infinite chats, and coding skills that beat humans
Anthropic released its most capable artificial intelligence model yet on Monday, slashing prices by roughly two-thirds while claiming state-of-the-art performance…
How to avoid becoming an “AI-first” company with zero real AI usage
Remember the first time you heard your company was going AI-first? Maybe it came through an all-hands that felt different…
Tome’s founders ditch viral presentation app with 20M users to build AI-native CRM Lightfield
Lightfield, a customer relationship management platform built entirely around artificial intelligence, officially launched to the public this week after a…
Writer’s AI agents can actually do your work—not just chat about it
Writer, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, is launching a unified AI agent platform designed to let any employee automate…
For AI to succeed in the SOC, CISOs need to remove legacy walls now
What separates the SOCs getting results from their AI strategies from those that don't begins with CISOs who take ownership…