A single AI agent conversation can look perfect and still be broken, leaders from LangChain, Conviva and CoreWeave said at VB Transform 2026

A single AI agent conversation can look flawless scored on its own and still point to a broken product. That gap is driving a shift in how enterprises evaluate agents, away from scoring individual tra [...]

New data claims small businesses haven't expanded their use of AI in the past few years

SMBs are using AI, but many are still using it for very basic automation indicating genuine use cases are still lacking. [...]

Evals are the new PRD, Expedia’s AI chief tells VB Transform 2026

“The new PRD are the evals,” Xavi Amatriain, Expedia Group’s first chief AI and data officer, told the VB Transform 2026 audience last week in Menlo Park. “So basically, you encode what you wa [...]

Inflection AI returns to consumer market with Pi Journeys after Microsoft upheaval

Inflection AI, the Palo Alto startup that two years ago became Silicon Valley's most famous cautionary tale about the brutal economics of frontier AI, announced Tuesday that it is returning to th [...]

Honeywell Technologies raised its profit forecast but missed earnings expectations in its debut standalone results

The automation company lifted its adjusted EPS outlook to $8.05–$8.35 but missed analyst expectations for the quarter [...]

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflows

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI ra [...]

Meta is upgrading its AI assistant to automate recurring tasks and daily briefings

The updated assistant, powered by Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 model, is launching first in select markets via the Meta AI app and meta.ai [...]

The evolving role of network engineers in the age of AI

AI is reshaping networking: integrated security, real-time visibility and predictive automation help engineers prevent issues before disruption. [...]

‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’: Are autonomy and robotics gaining momentum in the industry?

Automation has gotten so good within fixed parameters – construction is a whole new ball game, but with major potential benefits. [...]