Fragment Raises $56 Million for Procurement AI Agents
Fragment emerged from stealth with $56 million in Series A funding led by 8VC. Its AI agents resolve purchasing and payment exceptions through customers' existing systems.
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Fragment emerged from stealth with $56 million in Series A funding led by 8VC. Its AI agents resolve purchasing and payment exceptions through customers' existing systems.
A new GSA agreement gives federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments a 40% discount on Claude products and the Claude API.
Circuit Mind raised $25 million and released an AI agent tool that checks circuit board schematics for electrical errors.
Northstar Security emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding for a platform that connects security data and supports AI agents.
An unreleased Anthropic model found security flaws across major operating systems and browsers, then combined them into working exploits. The tests took place in a lab, and vendors patched the reported flaws.
BQuant Assistant uses natural language prompts to generate Python code, query Bloomberg data, debug notebooks and create visualizations.
The FIA will use AWS for faster aerodynamic simulation, AI shortcuts and rulebook checks as it shapes future Formula 1 regulations.
Generative AI tools now have 3.24 billion monthly users worldwide, representing 38.9% of the global population, according to the Digital 2027 report.
A congressional watchdog found gaps between the Pentagon's responsible AI guidelines and its work on military AI projects. Officials cited operational risks, unclear monitoring plans and limited access to responsible AI expertise.
Zocdoc is opening its healthcare booking infrastructure to registered AI agents and partnering with Instinct to support provider searches, insurance checks and confirmed appointments.
Vertiv reported third quarter sales of $4.31 billion, up 61% from a year earlier, as organic orders more than doubled.
OpenAI adds iCloud Mail and Calendar integrations to ChatGPT, allowing users to manage email, contacts and calendar events through the chatbot.
San Diego's council unanimously paused data center permits for 45 days, extendable for nearly two years, while the city writes rules.
Cognizant is folding three engineering practices into one group with AI-native product units, according to internal memos seen by Mint.
OLX Group introduces Agentic Selling for property sellers and DealFinder for buyers, expanding its portfolio to 14 live agentic tools across 16 marketplaces.
AI bots submitted 90,835 of the 118,756 responses to a 2023 UK consultation on tobacco and vape policy. Officials detected and removed the automated submissions before making their decision.
Check Point researchers found fake ChatGPT and Claude desktop apps on GitHub that install the Yoba malware chain. The campaign uses signed OpenAI and Anthropic executables to load malicious DLL files and ultimately deploy an XMRig cryptominer.
Intel and Oracle plan a multiyear collaboration to expand Xeon computing capacity on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including future X14 offerings based on Diamond Rapids processors.
OpenAI, one of Nvidia's largest customers, plans to buy Google's TPUs, according to The Information.
Oracle will use 6th Gen AMD EPYC processors in its OCI Compute E7 instances. Oracle Acceleron network cards will also incorporate AMD Pensando data processing units.
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