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On Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled its new enterprise agents program, its most aggressive push yet to integrate agentic AI into everyday workplaces. In an official briefing, Anthropic’s head of Americas, Kate Jensen, told reporters that the new system would finally deliver on the promise of agentic AI. “2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed the enterprise, but the hype turned out to be mostly premature,” Jensen said. “It wasn’t a failure of effort. It was a failure of approach.” Under the new program, companies can use the plug-in system to deploy pre-built agents to help with common enterprise tasks,…
Companies are increasingly launching software to build and monitor AI agents in an effort to get enterprises to adopt AI. New Relic is no different. As the data observability company launches an AI agent platform of its own, it knows it isn’t the only game in town. New Relic on Tuesday unveiled a no-code agentic platform that lets enterprises put together data observability AI agents that monitor a company’s data to catch bugs and issues before they disrupt products. Called New Relic Agentic Platform, it lets companies deploy pre-built agents and manage existing bots as well. It also supports the…
There are more than 900 confirmed measles cases in the United States, as of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent weekly count. It’s less than two months into the year, “and we already have over a quarter of [the measles cases] we had all of 2025, so things are not great,” said Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.Measles is the most contagious disease known and can be serious, especially for young children. It spreads when a person coughs or sneezes and can cause a…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A coalition of Wisconsin school districts, teachers’ unions, advocacy groups, parents, students and others announced a lawsuit Tuesday against the state Legislature, alleging that it’s failing to adequately fund public schools.The lawsuit, filed Monday in Eau Claire County Circuit Court, argues that schools are in crisis, with high-needs students facing the greatest risk. It asks the court to adopt a new finance system that meets the needs of districts unless the Legislature and governor enact one first “in a timely fashion.”School funding lawsuits have been brought for decades in states across the country with varying degrees…
Believe it or not, web search is still thriving as an industry. As businesses invest in using AI agents to make the most of their data, there’s demand for tools that not only scrape the web to inform what those AI bots do, but also return those results in a way that’s easier to use with modern data tools. That’s the promise behind web search startup Nimble, which recently raised a $47 million Series B round, led by Norwest. The New York company’s platform employs AI agents to search the web in real time, verify, and validate the results, and…
2026-02-24T10:46:02.529Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. OpenAI’s Codex lead Alexander Embiricos shares why he thinks now is a great time to be an engineer. He said because it’s easier than ever to build things, engineers need to show agency and taste. Embiricos said an email with a link to an interesting project stands out a…
Alexandra Jamieson, 50, built a life around being vegan. She literally wrote multiple books on the subject — Living Vegan for Dummies and Vegan Cooking for Dummies, among them — and cocreated the 2004 film Super Size Me, which documented what happened when her ex-husband, Morgan Spurlock, ate McDonald’s for 30 days straight (spoiler: It wasn’t good).Jamieson says she stumbled on veganism in her mid-20s. She was working at a corporate job and started having health issues, including frequent migraines. Doctors suggested pain medication, but she opted to see what she calls a “hippie doctor,” who asked Jamieson about her diet.…
While software stocks get hammered over fears that AI startups will eat their lunch, an Anthropic executive says the sell-off shows how fast AI has advanced.Anthropic’s head of applied AI, Cat de Jong, oversees a team focused on helping large companies weave Anthropic’s AI into their products. At a press briefing with Thomson Reuters on Monday, she said that people inside Anthropic have seen the market sell-off as rational due to the pace of progress.”The rate of change is just so incredible, and I think the market is really starting to see this now,” she said.”We’re grappling with exponentials, and…
Earlier this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the AI lab would “dramatically slow down” hiring to avoid the kind of mass layoffs that have roiled the tech industry.OpenAI is still growing. Federal filings show OpenAI continues to hire from abroad. And the company’s latest high-profile addition — OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger — underscores that the AI talent wars are still alive and well.OpenAI’s workforce hails from elite universities like Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon, and they’re compensated accordingly. The company’s more than 4,000 employees receive an average of $1.5 million in stock-based compensation, The Wall Street Journal reported.While OpenAI…
On Monday, creative suite maker Canva announced the dual acquisition of startups Cavalry, which works on animation, and Mango AI, which works on improving ad performance. UK-based Cavalry works on 2D motion animation for different verticals such as advertising, marketing, gaming, and generative art. Canva said that Cavalry’s tooling will add to the existing capabilities of Affinity, Canva’s professional creative editing suite for photos, vectors, and layouts, which it acquired in 2024 Canva revamped Affinity’s design last year and made it free for all users. The company said that since then, people have downloaded the software over five million times.…