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Building AI for Reliable Execution: Lessons From Industrial Robotics
Standard Bots claims to be “America’s largest AI-native industrial robot manufacturer.” It recently raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation, in a series C round led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a fund focused on robotics.
Pay-per-inference for AI agents: How BlockRun and Incarna use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
In this post, we look at how Incarna used AgentCore payments to let its agents pay BlockRun for model inference one request at a time.
Nvidia, Samsung back $90M round for AI agent startup Nous Research
Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding.
Building a context-aware AI assistant on AgentCore and OpenClaw
This post shows how to build a personal assistant that accumulates context using OpenClaw, an open source agentic system, running on AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
Automation Anywhere acquires Boost.ai to expand customer-facing voice AI
Automation Anywhere Inc., an enterprise agentic automation and orchestration firm, announced Wednesday an agreement to acquire Boost.ai Inc., a conversational voice artificial intelligence company, from Nordic Capital.