Encore AI, a startup that mines customer interactions to train AI agents for sales and support roles, closed a $30M Series A led by Team8, with 40+ enterprise customers and 5x ARR growth.
An MCP infrastructure startup alleges that HR software maker Rippling copied its product design after a failed enterprise trial.
ServiceNow acquires a minority stake in BusinessNext, an AI-focused banking software firm, to accelerate its financial services expansion in Asia and beyond.
IBM Research and Hugging Face introduce ScarfBench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents on framework migration tasks that require working, deployable code—not just syntactic translation.
Indian marketing platform MoEngage bought San Francisco startup Aampe for tens of millions to embed autonomous AI agents that personalize customer interactions at the individual level.