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Stripe Releases SDK Enabling Payment and Billing Capabilities for AI Agents
Stripe has introduced a new software development kit (SDK) to integrate its financial technology seamlessly into AI-driven workflows. With the Stripe agent toolkit, bots will be able to engage in monetary transactions, helping to earn and spend funds, provide troubleshooting, and provide bills for usage with metered billing. The new SDK supports AI agents built […]
How Companies Are Unlocking AI’s Value Beyond the Hype
IN THIS ISSUE: Learn how companies are cutting through AI hype to build effective, winning strategies with the technology. Plus, OpenAI’s AI-powered search is now available to the public, marking a pivotal moment: Is this the end of traditional search as we know it? Will Google’s crown be at risk? Finally, don’t forget about this […]
Workgrounds Raises $2.6 Million to Streamline Hotel Room Block Management With AI
Serial entrepreneurs Nikhil Sethi and Garrett Ullom have founded an AI startup to improve hotel room bookings. Called Workgrounds, it promises to automate the manual processes surrounding corporate group travel with its “end-to-end stack.” The company has raised $2.6 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate its mission, with participation from Oceans Ventures, Hannah Grey, Volo […]
LinkedIn Enters AI Agent Space with New Hiring Assistant to Transform Recruiting
LinkedIn has entered the agentic age by launching its first AI bot, Hiring Assistant. Like most agents, it was built to help recruiters address their more repetitive tasks and provide them the freedom to focus more on more impactful jobs to be done. “Over half (55 percent) of HR professionals globally say expectations of them […]
Salesforce’s Agentforce Goes Live, Turning Up the Heat in the AI Agent Fight With Microsoft
Get ready for a proliferation of autonomous agents. Salesforce’s Agentforce platform is now generally available, publicly launching more than a month after its introduction. With it, the company is ushering in the democratization of sophisticated AI bots, providing a solution in which anyone can quickly develop AI agents that connect with their enterprise data and […]
Celebrities and Artists Slam AI Training, Calling It a ‘Major Threat’ to Livelihoods
IN THIS ISSUE: Those in the arts, media, and entertainment industries are among the more vocal regarding AI, behaving as doomsayers and calling for more protection for their work. Plus, iPhone users will finally get AI on their devices when the first set of Apple Intelligence features are released next week; OpenAI may soon release […]
Augment Code Unveils AI-Powered Coding Tool to Challenge GitHub Copilot’s Dominance
Six months after raising a $227 million Series B round of funding, Augment Code is finally revealing its secret: it’s building an alternative to GitHub’s Copilot. It’s billed as a developer AI made for teams capable of understanding codebase and how engineers build software. “Our deep understanding of our customer’s software and how it is […]
Foursquare City Guide Shutting Down on Dec. 15; Swarm Will Stay Active
A decade after splitting its city guide feature from its social check-in service, Foursquare is streamlining further. The company will sunset the City Guide app on December 15, with the web version following in early 2025. Meanwhile, the popular Swarm check-in app will stay active, potentially receiving an update to enhance the user experience. Much […]
Microsoft to Launch AI Agents in Copilot Studio Public Preview Next Month, Firing Back at Salesforce
Microsoft is inching closer to letting businesses create autonomous AI Agents using its Copilot solution. At its AI Tour in London this week, the software company announced plans to bring a new set of capabilities within Copilot Studio into public preview in November 2024. Originally introduced at this year’s Build developer conference, these features are […]
Dropbox Acquires Nira, Hiten Shah’s Cloud Document Security Startup
Dropbox has acquired Nira for an undisclosed amount. The company buried the news in this week’s Dash for Business announcement, revealing that the startup’s technology is behind the AI-powered search app’s content governance capability. Founded in 2020 by Marie Prokopets and serial entrepreneur Hiten Shah (KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg, and Quick Sprout), Nira provides companies with […]