2026-07-29
Nimble claims its new, domain-specialized Web Search Agents cut token costs in half while boosting retrieval accuracy
Nimble, a New York City-based tech startup VentureBeat previously covered for its efforts to re-invent web search for enterprises by using multiple AI agents to improve accuracy and depth, is taking another step toward its vision of a world in which agents do most of the web searching instead of us typing and reviewing the results manually. Nimble today launched Web Search Agents, a new retrieval [...]
2026-07-29
AI agents don’t log in like people. That problem just sold for $1bn.
Every AI agent a company switches on needs an identity to log in and reach data. Enterprises now run millions of them, with almost no way to keep track. That gap just sold for $1bn. The data-security firm Cyera has agreed to buy Oasis Security for around $1bn, the Wall Street Journal first reported. It […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-29
xAI says the First Amendment protects the right to build ‘nudify’ tools
xAI has a novel argument for why it should get to keep building tools that digitally undress people. The First Amendment. Elon Musk’s AI company, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota’s attorney general on Monday, CBS News first reported. It wants a federal court to strike down the first US law banning “nudification” technology. The […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-29
BuzzFeed bet on AI to save it. It just cut another third of its staff.
BuzzFeed bet on AI to rescue itself. This week it laid off another third of its staff. The bet, it turns out, was never the thing that could save it. The company cut about 180 jobs on Monday, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, the New York Times reported. The cuts hit the news […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-29
Runlayer showed Rippling its source code. A Rippling insider called the result ‘a 1 to 1 copy.’
Runlayer spent nearly a year showing Rippling how its product worked, down to the source code. It now says Rippling used that access to build a near-copy. The New York AI-security startup sued Rippling on Tuesday in a Manhattan federal court, the New York Post first reported. The complaint alleges trade-secret theft, unfair competition and […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-07-29
PwC has allegedly published AI-generated reports containing false or fabricated sources
Following KPMG, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young, GPTZero has now found fabricated sources and false claims in four PwC Middle East reports. One governance report scored 84 percent AI-generated and promoted a PwC product with unverified customer references. All Big Four firms are now affected by AI hallucinations.<br /> The article PwC has allegedly published AI-generated reports containing f [...]