AI & Robotics

The AI startup Photon is so sure that agents will eventually come to replace mobile apps that it held a funeral for the latter – yes, a real funeral in a church, with speeches and everything. Photon, which helps developers build agents that work over iMessage and WhatsApp, now has $4.5 million in seed funding to develop its products. The raise comes after the company signed up over 40,000…

When Stephan Ewen co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn’t have anticipated how valuable such an offering would become for managing AI agent processes. The Berlin-based startup had set out to build an execution engine that made multistep workflows resilient to crashes and network interruptions – something that made it a fit for the agentic era.

Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises start deploying AI agents en masse. But CISOs worried about securing swarms of agents suddenly operating across networks are likely finding themselves dealing with a new kind of sprawl: vendors offering to help. Just a quick glance at public Crunchbase and PitchBook profiles…

Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 million in new funding for its platform that uses an array of small models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and policy enforcement for voice agents in regulated industries. The funding follows a popular trend among investors in the growing voice AI industry: backing companies…