How leading CPG brands are transforming operations to survive market pressures
Presented by SAP The consumer packaged goods industry is experiencing a fundamental shift that’s forcing even the most established brands to rethink how they operate. It’s what some folks call the CPG squeeze, or a convergence of margin compression, trade policy headwinds, and the sobering reality that pricing-led growth is no longer a viable strategy. […]
Airtable’s Superagent maintains full execution visibility to solve multi-agent context problem
Airtable is applying its data-first design philosophy to AI agents with the debut of Superagent on Tuesday. It’s a standalone research agent that deploys teams of specialized AI agents working in parallel to complete research tasks. The technical innovation lies in how Superagent’s orchestrator maintains context. Earlier agent systems used simple model routing where an […]
Factify wants to move past PDFs and .docx by giving digital documents their own brain
Tel Aviv-based startup Factify emerged from stealth today with a $73 million seed round for an ambitious, yet quixotic mission: to bring digital documents beyond the standard formats most businesses use — .PDF, .docx, collaborative cloud files like Google Docs — and into the intelligence era. For Matan Gavish, Factify’s Founder and CEO, this isn’t […]
Adaptive6 emerges from stealth to reduce enterprise cloud waste (and it’s already optimizing Ticketmaster)
The generative AI era has sped everything up for most enterprises we talk to, especially development cycles (thanks to “vibe coding” and “agentic swarming“). But even as they seek to leverage the power of new AI-assisted programming tools and coding agents like Claude Code to generate code, enterprises must contend with a looming concern — […]
How SAP Cloud ERP enabled Western Sugar’s move to AI-driven automation
Presented by SAP Ten years ago, Western Sugar made a decision that would prove prescient: move from on-premise SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. At the time, artificial intelligence wasn’t a priority on most roadmaps. The company was simply trying to escape what Director of Corporate Controlling, Richard Caluori, calls “a trainwreck:” a […]
SOC teams are automating triage — but 40% will fail without governance boundaries
The average enterprise SOC receives 10,000 alerts per day. Each requires 20 to 40 minutes to investigate properly, but even fully staffed teams can only handle 22% of them. More than 60% of security teams have admitted to ignoring alerts that later proved critical. Running an efficient SOC has never been harder, and now the […]
Contextual AI launches Agent Composer to turn enterprise RAG into production-ready AI agents
In the race to bring artificial intelligence into the enterprise, a small but well-funded startup is making a bold claim: The problem holding back AI adoption in complex industries has never been the models themselves. Contextual AI, a two-and-a-half-year-old company backed by investors including Bezos Expeditions and Bain Capital Ventures, on Monday unveiled Agent Composer, […]
How Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 helps AI builders spin up agent swarms easier than ever
Chinese company Moonshot AI upgraded its open-sourced Kimi K2 model, transforming it into a coding and vision model with an architecture that supports an agent swarm orchestration. The new model, Moonshot Kimi K2.5, is a good option for enterprises that want agents that can automatically pass off actions instead of having a framework be a […]
A European AI challenger goes after GitHub Copilot: Mistral launches Vibe 2.0
Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence company that has positioned itself as Europe’s leading challenger to American AI giants, announced on Tuesday the general availability of Mistral Vibe 2.0, a significant upgrade to its terminal-based coding agent that’s the startup’s most aggressive push yet into the competitive AI-assisted software development market. The release is a […]
Theorem wants to stop AI-written bugs before they ship — and just raised $6M to do it
As artificial intelligence reshapes software development, a small startup is betting that the industry’s next big bottleneck won’t be writing code — it will be trusting it. Theorem, a San Francisco-based company that emerged from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, announced Tuesday it has raised $6 million in seed funding to build automated tools that […]