a16z led a $47M Series A for Lightfield, an agent-native CRM that auto-builds a living customer record from email, calls, and Slack. More than 5,000 companies signed up since Nov 2025; the platform exposes records via API, MCP, and CLI.
Samsung will integrate Mistral Large into on premises models for semiconductor design, defect prediction, and yield work, keeping sensitive data inside its own infrastructure. The pact, announced at the Korea–France summit, pairs with Samsung’s lead role in Mistral’s €3B Series D…
Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas co led a $30M launch for Cymphony, an AI governance platform that maps employees and agents, their system access, and data risk across SaaS and identity. Early customers include Syngenta, KKR, and Cass Information Systems…
Instinct ($2.5B) is rolling out dedicated agent email addresses so it can create accounts, contact businesses, and handle follow ups without cluttering the user’s inbox. Users claim addresses at mail.instinct.com; early adopters can also forward threads for returns and group chats…
Suno launched v6 and v6 wild for paid users plus free v6 mini, trained from scratch on licensed label data (not prior model datasets), and will retire older models. Sony and Universal lawsuits continue…
Cloudflare added support for running Cursor Cloud Agents inside customer controlled Sandboxes, so Self Hosted Machines workers execute terminal, filesystem, and browser tools in an isolated Cloudflare account while Cursor still runs the agent loop. It joins similar Cloudflare execution hooks for Devin Outposts and Claude Managed Agents…
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