AI & Robotics

When Sara Du was helping companies build MCP servers in 2025, people kept asking her how they could use AI agents from within Slack itself. But there were a bunch of technical hurdles in the way: moving messages back and forth and getting agents the right context, all without burning through token budgets. Upon digging into the problem, Du realized that there was a deeper issue that stemmed from…

Ema, a startup that uses teams of AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, has raised $77 million in a new funding round as it aims to take on more of the work traditionally handled by enterprise software and IT services. The Series B round was led by Bengaluru-based venture firm Creaegis, with existing investors Accel, Section 32, and Prosus increasing their stakes.

Fly to an asteroid, land on it, make no mistakes: If only it were that easy. When NASA sends spacecraft to explore the solar system, they build in redundancy and automation. But much of the work is done by teams of flight controllers communicating with the vehicle from Earth. The OSIRIS-REx mission, which rendezvoused with an asteroid in 2018, had 100 operators on each eight-hour shift. But…

In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling more than 2,000 returns a year. “We did bookkeeping, accounting, sales tax, taxes, everything,” Ali says. It was a stable business, and one that would have been easy to stay in. But Ali started to notice something. His work was increasingly dictated by the frictions of accounting software…