Enterprise AI agents are only as reliable as the messiest documents behind them
Enterprise AI has largely been built around context engineering. Teams connect enterprise systems, generate chunks and embeddings, build retrieval pipelines, and assemble the context needed by individual AI applications. While this approach works well for isolated assistants and copilots, it treats enterprise knowledge as application-specific context rather than a shared enterprise asset. As organizations deploy […]
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read the full conversation — and jump in unprompted
Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn’t model intelligence — it’s the fact that most people still use AI alone. In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic’s head of product for enterprise, laid out the company’s thesis for what it calls “multiplayer AI“: a shift away […]
IBM’s next-gen mainframe chip is the first to run Arm and Z workloads on the same cores
IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades: a processor whose cores can natively execute both IBM’s own instruction set and Arm’s — switching between the two in nanoseconds. The chip, which will power the next generation of IBM Z and […]
Enterprises winning with AI agents are limiting how much the agents can do alone
For much of the past two years, the general belief in enterprise AI has been that more autonomy equals better performance. Build agents that can plan, decide, and act across multi-step workflows, and give them as much room to run as possible. That assumption is now being tested at scale, in real production environments — […]
One in five enterprises can’t stop a runaway AI agent’s spending in real time
Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor to run the show, according to VB Pulse data. This is not just to avoid vendor lock-in and retain flexibility (although that’s […]
NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message
Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems. Now NanoCo., the company behind the hit open source, enterprise-friendly, autonomous AI agent harness NanoClaw (a more sandboxed, lower code version […]
Nvidia finds that simple linear math can replace costly AI model handoffs
When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving up compute costs and latency. This is a major bottleneck for enterprises building long-horizon, multi-LLM workflows. […]
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat
Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat. The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including Anthropic’s Claude Code, Cognition’s Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel’s agent — directly into dedicated Slack channels where entire teams can watch, steer, […]
Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed
Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build the automation itself. Catalyst sits above Serval’s AI-native service management platform as an admin-facing “super agent.” It can inspect […]
TrueFoundry’s open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents
Another day, another new AI agent harness is released. Only this time, it’s one that aims to solve a growing enterprise problem as AI agents proliferate: enabling greater developer control of agents and tools, while reducing cost. TrueFoundry, a San Francisco B2B machine learning startup co-founded in 2021 by former Meta engineers, has released its […]