Vantora rebranded from UP.Labs, raised $100M from Silversmith Capital Partners, and shifted to building startups for corporate clients only. The $100 million investment came alongside a move toward a proprietary M&A pipeline for those startups. This change lets partners fold the ventures into their own businesses, enabling Vantora to focus more on physical AI use cases.
Snap announced new AR glasses partnerships aimed at making its Specs usable in business workplaces. The program has reportedly consumed more than $3.5 billion so far. Snap is trying to shift from consumer-focused glasses toward enterprise features with Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, and Salesforce AI and agent integrations.
Disney hired Karandeep Anand as its first-ever chief technology officer, despite him previously leading Character.AI, an AI startup Disney accused of copying its characters. He was formerly CEO of Character.AI, founded in 2021, and Disney sent a cease and desist letter in September 2025. The company’s leadership shifts toward AI-enabled tech, with Anand moving from an AI character platform into a core Disney technology role.
Robinhood product executive Abhishek Fatehpuria discussed how the brokerage app is expanding into a broader financial platform and what it takes to build trusted products at scale. Robinhood reported 28.6 million funded customers and $384 billion in total platform assets at the end of August 2026. The push expands beyond trading into banking, credit, crypto, retirement, prediction markets, and AI-powered investing tools, with customers increasingly adopting these new offerings.
Disney appointed Karandeep Anand as its first CTO, with responsibility for infrastructure, product, engineering, and data/AI platforms. Anand previously served as CEO of Character.AI for just over a year. The move brings leadership with chatbot and AI-product experience into Disney’s technology and AI platform teams.
UK small business owners report higher confidence in generative AI than actual usage, with adoption focused on low-stakes tasks. The survey of 1,000 owners found that 48% use generative AI regularly, and only 5% apply it to supply-chain management. Interest in more autonomous agentic AI is rising, with 68% saying they want to learn what it can do next.
xFarm Technologies acquired Sibium Analytics to expand its global AgData footprint, including deeper coverage of Brazil’s sugarcane and bioenergy industries. The deal adds Sibium’s 8 million tracked hectares to xFarm’s ecosystem, following xFarm’s second acquisition in Brazil within a year. xFarm will integrate Sibium’s remote sensing and ESG/traceability offerings with its IoT and decision-support tools to build a single end-to-end agricultural intelligence platform.
Howseen AI launched a tool that tracks whether AI systems recommend specific brands across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews and identifies questions where a brand is not cited.
Salesforce launched Agentforce to move enterprise AI assistants from prototype “vibe coding” into production-ready agent orchestration with evaluation, testing, and monitoring built in. It points to a Southwest Airlines rollout beginning in November 2025 across its help center and mobile app. The rollout is expected to raise autonomous resolution to 45% and deliver $6 million in projected annual operational savings while improving customer satisfaction by 900%.
SoftBank’s $200 million investment in Gravis Robotics highlights construction autonomy’s near-term scaling path through contractors’ existing machinery. The funding amount is $200 million. This shifts focus toward using Europe’s equipment yards owned by construction firms as the main rollout testbed for autonomy.
Iris launched today, offering AI agents that plug into a company’s existing workflows and tools. It coordinates work across teams and can follow up in Slack and iMessage. Teams can move recurring processes forward by building agents for functions like operations, sales, customer success, and recruiting with shared company context and approval controls.
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