OceanBase Debuts AI Database, Introducing A New Product Portfolio Unifying Multimodal Data, Real-Time Analytics, and AI Agents

Jul 1, 2026 By Stephanie Simone OceanBase is debuting OceanBase AI Database, a comprehensive portfolio designed to enable enterprises to manage multimodal data, deliver real-time…

Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard |

A new startup wants to bring AI to the software you use the most: your smartphone’s keyboard. On Tuesday, Singapore-based Acti (short for “action”) launched…

AI Agents vs. AI Assistants

Jun 30, 2026 By Stephanie Simone </span> <span itemprop=”> Video produced by Steve Nathans-Kelly In this clip from Data Summit 2026, Sanjeev Mohan, principal,SanjMoand former…

Sponsored Content: AI Agents are Querying Your Document Data, Heres What They Can See 

</span> <span itemprop=”> By Donovan Kinney, technical enablement specialist at 3T Software Labs We hear a lot about AI’s benefits to productivity for data teams,…

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world |

As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my…

Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates |

The hiring process has long been criticized for its inefficiency and opacity. Candidates spend hours writing applications and submitting cover letters, only to disappear into…

Tigera Lynx Provides a Unified Control Plane for Kubernetes-Native AI Agents

Jun 18, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Tigera, the inventor and maintainer of Calico Open Source, is releasing Tigera Lynx, a unified control plane for Kubernetes-native…

NEA’s Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning

Tokenmaxxingwasthe hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as faras it would go.Then the bill came…

As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities |

Cybersecurity startup NewCore emerged from stealth with $66 million in funding on Monday, aiming to solve a challenge it believes many companies will soon face…

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business |

AI vendors promote their enterprise products as if they’re turnkey solutions, but the chances are low that AI agents will hit the ground running right…