How do you balance risk management and safety with innovation in agentic systems — and how do you grapple with core considerations around data and model selection? In this VB Transform session, Milind Naphade, SVP, technology, of AI Foundations at Capital One, offered best practices and lessons learned from real-world experiments and applications for deploying and scaling an agentic…
Elon Musk’s ‘truth-seeking’ Grok AI peddles conspiracy theories about Jewish control of media
July 8, 2025
Elon Musk’s xAI is facing renewed criticism after its Grok chatbot exhibited troubling behavior over the July 4th holiday weekend, including responding to questions as if it were Musk himself and generating antisemitic content about Jewish control of Hollywood.
The…
Why CISOs are making the SASE switch: Fewer vendors, smarter security, better AI guardrails
July 8, 2025
Investors, including venture capitalists (VCs), are betting $359 million that secure access service edge (SASE) will become a primary consolidator of enterprise security tech stacks.
Cato Network’s oversubscribed Series G round last week demonstrates that investors view…
Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI agents like they’re just a prompt away from replacing entire departments. The dream is seductive: Autonomous systems that can handle anything you throw at them, no guardrails, no constraints, just give them your AWS credentials and they’ll solve all your problems. But the reality is that’s just not how the world works, especially not in the…
Dust hits $6M ARR helping enterprises build AI agents that actually do stuff instead of just talking
July 4, 2025
Dust, a two-year-old artificial intelligence platform that helps enterprises build AI agents capable of completing entire business workflows, has reached $6 million in annual revenue — a six-fold increase from $1 million just one year ago. The company’s rapid growth…
Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has introduced a new technique that allows multiple large language models (LLMs) to cooperate on a single task, effectively creating a “dream team” of AI agents. The method, called Multi-LLM AB-MCTS, enables models to perform trial-and-error and…
Bright Data beat Elon Musk and Meta in court — now its $100M AI platform is taking on Big Tech
July 3, 2025
Bright Data, the Israeli web scraping company that defeated both Meta and Elon Musk’s X in federal court, unveiled a comprehensive AI infrastructure suite Wednesday designed to give artificial intelligence systems unfettered access to real-time web data — a capability the company argues Big Tech platforms are trying to monopolize.
The announcement of Deep Lookup, Browser.ai, and enhanced data…
The autonomous software revolution is coming. At Transform 2025, Ashan Willy, CEO of New Relic and Sam Witteveen, CEO and co-founder of Red Dragon AI, talked about how they’re instrumenting agentic systems for measurable ROI and charting the infrastructure roadmap to…
As AI agents enter real-world deployment, organizations are under pressure to define where they belong, how to build them effectively, and how to operationalize them at scale. At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, tech leaders gathered to talk about how they’re transforming…
This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue.
AI’s promise is undeniable, but so are its blindsiding security costs at the inference layer. New attacks targeting AI’s operational side are quietly inflating budgets, jeopardizing regulatory compliance and eroding customer trust, all…
