Apple is developing smart home devices with LG that will be sold under the LG brand, including a doorbell, thermostat, deadbolt lock, and three cameras. The lineup is expected to reach the market in early 2027. Apple’s own smart home hub and updated HomePod mini and Apple TV are also due next Tuesday, with the hub designed to control devices and support facial and voice recognition.
Ambiguous Workspace launched 18 productivity apps intended to let work flow between teams and AI agents. The launch is dated “today” and includes 18 apps. Users can interact with each agent using email, messages, task assignments, or comments instead of dealing with access errors or agent logins.
Melius, an AI platform for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25 million after pivoting from its first marketing-tool product. The funding includes a $20 million Series A led by CRV. Following the failed initial product, the team scrapped its codebase and refocused on generating creative assets and campaigns instead of optimizing ad spend.
SAP agreed to acquire TechWolf, a Belgian AI company, to supply skills-and-work context into its HR agents in SAP SuccessFactors. The companies disclosed no deal terms, and SAP expects the acquisition to close in the fourth quarter after regulatory approval. TechWolf will continue operating separately with its CEO staying on, and its context graph will be integrated to improve agent responses and reduce token costs for HR tasks like skills-based hiring and workforce planning.
SAP is rolling out Joule AI assistants to put its enterprise AI agents directly in front of finance, spend management, HR, customer experience, and supply chain workers at Connect in Las Vegas. It says the International Trade Assistant can cut product-classification work by as much as half in early deployments. From early adopter programs, SAP will expand assistant availability through general releases between now and Q1 2027 and add AI governance and payments capabilities to manage those agents across workflows.
Mirror Particle is building a foundation “world model” intended to predict human consumer behavior rather than relying on LLMs that are prompted or fine-tuned to role-play. The company has raised a first round of angel funding and says it is close to closing its first venture round. This shifts its approach toward simulating behavior change over time to generate brand insights about motivations and “revealed behavior” for targeting and product decisions.
L’Oréal’s chief digital and marketing officer Asmita Dubey said the company is redesigning its marketing “engine” to account for AI mediating how consumers discover and evaluate products. She reported that almost 20% of L’Oréal’s marketing investments are now AI-led. As a result, L’Oréal is bringing data/IT and marketing together on marketing architecture, testing AI search placements like Google’s AI Overviews, standardizing account and product data, and expanding work on generative-engine optimization.
Strawberry launched its 3rd release of an AI browser that lets teams run AI agents inside a web browser interface. The update is positioned as a “3rd launch” and is offered alongside “Free Options.” The company says agents can be built and shared across teams to handle tasks like research, drafting outreach, and updating CRMs or sheets within logged-in apps.
Atlassian and OpenAI expanded their partnership to connect frontier models with enterprise knowledge so teams can plan, build, and deliver work. The article provides no date, price, or measurable benchmark. The change is that the collaboration will further focus on turning enterprise knowledge into actionable outcomes for teams.
A voice travel concierge was demonstrated for airline apps by wiring spoken requests to backend itinerary, booking, and policy actions using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore plus related AWS services. It streams real-time, bidirectional audio over a WebSocket session. It changes the customer experience by letting travelers tap and talk in the same session to manage travel tasks and optionally escalate to a live agent, rather than navigating screens.
SAP agreed to acquire Belgian AI startup TechWolf for an undisclosed sum. The company said it is the largest acquisition of a venture-backed software company in Belgian history. The deal means SAP will bring TechWolf’s AI capabilities into its software business.
NetApp presented an intelligent data infrastructure approach to make legacy enterprise data usable for AI without re-architecting or moving it. The company plans a fully managed storage service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure within the next 12 months. This shifts legacy storage from a static archive toward unified, governed, protected data access via NetApp’s storage, control plane, and partner protection tools.
SAP is acquiring Belgian AI startup TechWolf to use its workforce skills and work understanding for its talent strategy. The company was founded in 2018, and TechWolf has raised more than $50m in total. The acquisition is expected to close in Q4 this year, expanding SAP’s AI-driven HR and workforce planning capabilities via TechWolf’s technology.
Gamma Tech Inc. released Gamma 5, rebuilding its AI presentation platform to reduce repetitive layouts and more generically designed visuals by adding a redesigned editor, a more capable AI agent, and a larger visual-style library connected to company information. The import visual-accuracy benchmark improved from roughly 30% early in development to over 97%. The update lets users create and revise slide elements more freely with agentic tools in a sandbox, adds thousands of templates and connectors to internal data, and is reported to cut presentation creation time from 8–10 hours to about 30 minutes.
Init, a German public-transport technology company, acquired a majority stake in Norwegian start-up Applied Autonomy to run driverless bus operations using Applied Autonomy’s xFlow software. It bought 67.74 percent of the Kongsberg-based company, and the purchase price was not disclosed. Init plans to combine xFlow with its MOBILE-ITCS system to operate autonomous and conventional bus fleets in a single environment, with a focus on expanding in Germany.
SAP announced that it is expanding Joule into an agentic work layer for interacting with agents across enterprise work outside apps, not just within them. General availability of SAP’s Autonomous Enterprise architecture, along with Joule Work and Desktop, starts this month with October as the key milestone for broader rollout. Customers will get updated agents across finance, supply chain, spend, and workforce/customer experience, plus an interface that pulls information from multiple systems to deliver single business answers with governance and auditability.
TanStack Charts released version 1.0, describing a charting API built around composing “marks,” scales, axes, and interactions that can support growing visualization needs and custom renderers. The release is dated Oct 5, 2026. The update is positioned to let existing users upgrade without rebuilding their app while enabling continued development of new features through stable API contracts.
BCG and Fortune expanded their Fortune Future “Future 120” list by adding companies and using the Vitality Score to assess firms’ long-term growth potential. They screened more than 3,000 companies each year and analyzed more than 10 million data points to build a score from 15 predictive metrics. The result shifts emphasis toward AI-adoption strengths across industries, while showing that firms can build “vitality” by investing in growth, talent, and culture.
Valon raised $150M in a Series D led by a16z and new investor Ribbit Capital, valuing the AI-native fintech at $2.3B as it expands ValonOS and AI agents for mortgage servicing. The company says one in six US mortgages is under contract to run on ValonOS, after signing over $200M in contracted annual recurring revenue within six months of opening it to outside customers. Valon will use the funding for product development, hiring, and broader rollout so additional servicers can migrate to its unified platform and agent workflows.
Comparables.ai raised $6 million in a seed round to expand its AI platform for finding M&A targets using a global dataset of over 370 million companies. The funding round is 5.1 million euros and will be used to expand into more markets and strengthen its AI engine. As a result, dealmakers are expected to get broader, faster access to company matches and related financials, ownership structures, and decision makers across more countries.
calliora raised $6M pre-seed with Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments and redalpine to develop an AI platform that targets hospital billing errors before invoices are submitted. From 2027, German hospitals with rejected audited invoices above 35% could face audits of up to 40% of invoices, and above half rejected could allow up to 100% audits. This shifts hospitals toward earlier error checking in the billing workflow, and calliora expands its AI and product teams to cover more stages of hospital cases.
calliora raised $6 million in a pre-seed round to build an AI platform that checks hospital invoices before they are sent to insurers. The funding was led by Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments and redalpine. Its software rollout is expanding and the 2027 changes to German audit caps increase the urgency to reduce billing errors before invoices go out.
Figma launched its Agent inside the design canvas to generate layouts, edit components and variables, and turn comments into changes. It is Figma’s 34th launch and includes prompt-based design, bulk edits across screens, and prototype building. The workflow shifts from manual canvas editing to running repeatable agent “skills” via / that also pull context from Notion, Slack, GitHub, and Linear.
Nettle raised an oversubscribed seed round to expand its AI workspace for commercial insurance loss control. The company secured $4.8 million, bringing total funding to $6.8 million. It will use the money to expand across the US and Europe and add engineering and go-to-market staff, allowing faster risk inspections and broader data collection.
Cleavr raised a €8 million seed round to expand its AI-native accounts receivable automation platform across Europe. The company says customers cut days sales outstanding (DSO) by an average of 37% within the first few weeks. The funding will support product development, sales team expansion, and growth into more European markets.
Cleavr raised an €8M seed round to automate late invoice collections across multiple European markets. The company says it cut days sales outstanding by 37% for customers shortly after rollout. It will expand its sales team and keep developing an AI agent that handles reminders, contact discovery, and disputes with humans only stepping in when needed.
HeyPi launched today as an AI meeting tool that tracks conversations in real time and uses past meeting context to surface key information and start follow-up work during the meeting. It follows what was said and can generate outputs like landing pages, apps, social media content, and ad campaigns live within the meeting. The result is less AI meeting notes and more automated execution after ideas are discussed.
Nettle announced a $4.8 million seed financing round led by MTech to address commercial insurers’ inspection backlog and staffing constraints. The company said inspections can be completed five times faster, with an April 2026 Allianz Türkiye pilot finding inspections up to three times faster. The new funding will be used to expand in the US and Europe and hire more engineers and sales staff, while rolling out its inspection data-gathering product to agents and policyholders.
Serval founder Jake Stauch pivoted from failed neuroscience work into an AI-driven automated service management platform aimed at changing IT from ticket-handling to building tools and protecting data. He received $5,000 to pursue his first startup concept using brain scans to measure advertising efficacy. The story reframes Stauch’s career path as one that leads to applying AI capabilities to fix long-running IT workflow bottlenecks and perceptions.
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