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Emergent, an Indian startup known for its vibe-coding platform, has launched Wingman, a messaging-first autonomous AI agent, as it expands into a growing category of software that runs in the background to complete tasks — popularized by tools like OpenClaw and Claude from Anthropic. The Bengaluru-based startup initially gained attention for its vibe-coding platform, which competes with tools like Cursor and Replit and lets users without technical backgrounds build full-stack applications via natural-language prompts. With Wingman, Emergent is now pushing beyond creation into execution, aiming to let AI agents handle routine tasks across tools and workflows. “The obvious next step…
Almost one year to the day before he traveled to California in what authorities said was a bid to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Daniel Moreno-Gama handed in an assignment for a college English class.”My most important belief can be described in one of my favorite proverbs: ‘A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in,'” read the assignment for Lone Star College in Montgomery, Texas, which was posted to a Substack account using his name in February. It’s a quote that would appear again in the bio of an Instagram…
US businesses have been on a tariff roller coaster over the last year. Sweeping tariffs were implemented at varying levels across different countries. Though some were eventually overturned by the Supreme Court, there is now an added layer of bureaucracy as companies seek potential refunds. Some are turning to AI for help. Loading audio narration… Companies like EQI and customs advisory firms like KPMG are using generative AI “to process all that chaos,” said Brendan Connallon, the VP of finance at EQI, a company that supplies metal components and provides supply chain advising services to manufacturers. The technology can rapidly…
After selling its shoe brand and assets last month for $39 million, Allbirds is pivoting to AI. Of course, the company is also changing its name, since the footwear brand “Allbirds” was part of the sale. Introducing: NewBird AI, a “fully integrated GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud solutions provider,” the company announced via its investor relations site on Wednesday. The rebranded AI company also announced a $50 million investment from an undisclosed institutional investor in the form of a convertible financing facility. It’s objectively pretty funny that Allbirds is becoming an AI company — not because it’s unusual for companies to…
Nuseir Yassin, the content creator known as Nas Daily, has raised $27 million for his newest venture: an AI platform for solo entrepreneurs to launch and run an online business.After quitting his job in 2016 to become a content creator sharing short, high-energy videos, Yassin amassed around 70 million followers across social media platforms. He says that era is behind him.”My next 10-year bet is completely different, and it’s about entrepreneurship on the internet,” Yassin told Business Insider.Yassin’s focus is now on Nas.com, which the Israeli-Palestinian founded to provide “solopreneurs” with the tools to launch a business — even if…
Days after Meta shut down its internal “tokenmaxxing” dashboard following news of the AI leaderboard leaking to the press, LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman came out in support of the concept that’s recently taken Silicon Valley by storm. An AI token is a small chunk of data that an AI model processes when it’s trying to understand a prompt and generate a response. It’s also the unit that’s used to measure AI usage and determine how much AI services cost. As a result, many companies have begun internally tracking which employees are using the most tokens as a…
OpenAI said more Americans than ever are using ChatGPT to do their taxes — just don’t rely too heavily on the chatbot. Loading audio narration… OpenAI shared some stats on Tuesday, a day before tax day, on how people are using its AI to figure out what they owe Uncle Sam. The company said in an X post that total tax-related searches on ChatGPT were up four times in quarter one of 2026 compared to a year prior.On the graphic showing the breakdown of what taxpayers were asking ChatGPT, there was some tiny but telling fine print toward the bottom.”ChatGPT…
Last October, Adobe previewed a new assistant under the “Project Moonlight” moniker that could do tasks for you by tapping different Adobe apps like Acrobat, Photoshop and Express. That product is now being launched as Firefly AI Assistant. The Firefly AI Assistant will be available in public beta in the coming weeks. The company didn’t specify if the AI assistant will be priced differently from Firefly’s credit-based subscription tiers. Like other creative tools, the Firefly AI Assistant lets you describe what you want it to create, and it will handle the rest. Adobe says the assistant can work across apps…
With the advent of “vibe coding,” AI agents have unleashed a deluge of code onto companies that many are now struggling to manage. This sudden inundation has been called “code overload.” Reports have shown that AI-generated code can introduce significant problems—including bugs and other quality issues—into codebases, which then have to be fixed by senior engineers before the code can be “shipped” to market. Now, a new company is trying to fix this problem using the same tool that caused it: AI. Gitar—a startup founded by Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, a veteran of Intel Labs, Google, and Uber—emerged from stealth Wednesday with…
“Give me tokens. Just give me tokens. I want them fast. I want them cheap. I want them now.” That’s the mantra for developers building software on generative AI models, or at least what Parasail CEO Mike Henry hears. Parasail provides a cloud computing service to companies running AI models for inference, and Henry told TechCrunch it generates 500 billion tokens a day. How’s that for tokenmaxxing? Henry was an executive at Groq, the LLM-focused chipmaker, where he built the company’s cloud offering, an early recognition that developers building software on AI models would want cloud processing specialized to their…