Google rolls out Project Mariner, its web-browsing AI agent

Google announced during Google I/O 2025 that it’s rolling out Project Mariner, the company’s experimental AI…

Airbnb is quietly rolling out an AI customer service bot in the US

Airbnb started rolling out an AI-powered customer service bot in the U.S. last month, CEO Brian…

Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation

Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up…

Twin’s first AI agent is an invoice retrieval agent for Qonto customers

When Twin came out of stealth in January 2024, AI agents were more of a theoretical…

Outreach founder Manny Medina has a new startup that helps AI agents get paid

As the year of the AI agent takes shape, a new trend is emerging: startups offering…

Browser Use, the tool making it easier for AI ‘agents’ to navigate websites, raises $17M

We may not have an agreed-upon definition of AI “agent” yet, but a multitude of startups…

Opera announces a new agentic feature for its browser

Norway-based browser company Opera announced a new agent feature called Browser Operator as a feature preview.…

A job ad for Y Combinator startup Firecrawl seeks to hire an AI agent for $15K a year

Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl…

Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the technology world by surprise on Thursday with the release of…

OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off this year by saying in a blog post that 2025…