DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work. The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, an updated flagship model focused heavily on agentic workloads, alongside DeepSeek Harness v0.1, a new open-source agent harness that gives developers an alternative …
Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform used by Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, released its new flagship model Palmyra X6 today, alongside a rebuilt agent orchestration “harness” and new governance tools designed to give IT leaders control over runaway token spending. The headline numbers are striking: Writer says its agent product now …
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Presented by Capital One At VB Transform 2026, Kel Vanee, MVP of machine learning engineering at Capital One, spoke with Sam Witteveen, Senior Technology Contributor at VentureBeat, about how the bank built a scalable multi-agent AI architecture around deeply customized open-weight models rather than relying on an off-the-shelf foundation model. “At Capital One, we’re not …
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Visa’s president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic’s Mythos at Visa’s own payment network. The model stitched minor weaknesses into working exploit chains, and Visa open-sourced the harness that governed the hunt. That’s what it looks like when an enterprise has the engineering depth to act on what …
Elon Musk’s company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to run. The model scores 61 on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing the popular open …
Skan AI, a startup that builds what it calls a “context graph of work” by observing how employees actually perform their jobs across enterprise software, has raised $63 million in Series C funding co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, the company announced Wednesday. Citi Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, State Farm Ventures, and Wipro Ventures …
Across 116 enterprises, agents are in production and so are the incidents: A majority have already had a confirmed agent security event or a near-miss. Two-thirds of enterprises enforce scoped permissions at runtime. Barely one in five isolates its highest-risk agents, making containment the weakest layer in the stack precisely as autonomy scales. Credential sharing …
Across 108 enterprises, trust in automated agent evaluation rose sharply in July — and the failure rate it is supposed to predict did not move at all. The share of organizations that fully trust automated evaluation nearly tripled, from 5% in June to 13%, and the complaint that evaluations don’t match real-world outcomes fell 10 …
Across 101 enterprises, the context feeding AI agents is failing often and repeatedly. Sixty-eight percent have traced a confident but wrong agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context in the past six months, and the single most common answer is not “once” but “more than once.” The counterintuitive part is which companies report it. …
Across 107 enterprises, agentic orchestration is not a choice of a single platform. The typical enterprise runs three orchestration platforms at once, and selects them for flexibility across models rather than affinity to any single one. Microsoft leads primary usage while Anthropic leads forward consideration by a wide margin. The AI control plane enterprises expect …