2026-07-08
Amazon’s secret ‘Moonraker’ project pushes Alexa into the AI-agent race
Amazon has an agentic upgrade for Alexa in the works, codenamed Moonraker. Internal documents show it is also one of the priciest bets in the Alexa+ overhaul. Amazon wants Alexa to act, not just answer. The company has a previously unreported project, codenamed Moonraker, that would let Alexa handle complex, multistep tasks, Business Insider reports, […]<br /> This story continues at The N [...]
2026-07-08
UiPath’s Dines: not hiring juniors is a mistake
At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis from Daniel Dines, chief executive of UiPath. He spoke at the RAISE CxO […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-08
Fleek raises $25m to build the AI infrastructure behind global secondhand fashion
Fleek, a London startup building the software plumbing behind the global secondhand clothing trade, has raised $25m in Series B funding to scale the AI it uses to sort, grade and price used garments. The round takes the company’s total funding to $45m. It was led by Burda Principal Investments, an early backer of Vinted and a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
