Author: Amitabh Sarkar

Clay, an AI-powered go-to-market platform, is raising a new funding round led by Wellington Management at a $7 billion pre-money valuation, Axios Pro reported on August 31, 2026. Clay has not announced the round, and the round size and Wellington’s stake remain unreported. Clay is raising at a $7 billion pre-money valuation — up from $3.1B in August 2025 and $5B in January 2026 — in a round led by Wellington Management. The raise signals investor conviction that AI-powered sales enrichment platforms will consolidate the go-to-market software stack. Clay has not confirmed the round or its size. The raise would…

Updated: September 21, 2026 — Salesforce’s post-keynote strategy is now clear: AIforce pushes CRM data, permissions and approved actions into Claude and Slack rather than into the Salesforce interface. ClaudeForce, Slackforce Surfaces availability, and the published deflection numbers are added below. Salesforce runs Dreamforce 2026 on September 15–17, 2026 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and the company has built the entire event around proving that Agentforce, its autonomous AI agent platform, produces measurable results in production CRM deployments rather than in demos. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, delivers the opening keynote, and now shares a confirmed keynote conversation…

AI orchestration tools coordinate multiple AI agents, models, and automation steps into a single workflow. The orchestrator holds the state of the job, decides which agent or step runs next, and passes each result forward, so a multi-step task finishes without a person supervising every handoff. This guide compares 10 orchestration platforms by architecture, technical level, and price so you can choose the one that fits your team, and it follows the same evaluation approach we use for the best AI agents for business tasks, where the agent itself, not the pipeline around it, is the product. What Is an…

xAI launched Grok Bot on August 11, 2026 — a team of persistent AI agents, each running on its own dedicated cloud computer, that signs into a business’s existing applications and completes multi-step tasks without human supervision. Grok Bot is xAI’s first direct enterprise seat subscription, sold to businesses rather than developers. The product targets operations, sales, and HR teams that want automated workflows without requiring an IT administrator to configure them — the same buyer profile as Salesforce Agentforce and Microsoft Copilot Studio. xAI’s central differentiator is the removal of a workflow-builder step: a user onboards a Bot by…

Temporal published its 2026 State of Development Report on August 25, 2026, setting the AI agents adoption 2026 baseline at 80.8% of surveyed engineers using AI agents daily or more often, up from 47.3% a year earlier — a 70.8% relative increase in frequent use. The workflow-orchestration company surveyed 554 software engineers, architects, and engineering leaders across the US, UK, and EMEA between April 29 and May 25, 2026, screening for respondents who already use AI agents. The same respondents report that 41.1% hit agent-related issues daily or more, placing reliability, not adoption, as the open problem. AI Agents Adoption…

Updated: September 14, 2026. Google has extended Gemini Enterprise’s pricing model since this post’s original publication, adding a zero-base-subscription consumption edition, Flexible Savings Plans with up to 20% token discounts, and deprecating the gemini-omni-flash-preview API endpoint on September 30, 2026. Details in the new section below. Google is rolling out pay-as-you-go billing, monthly spend caps, and off-peak task discounts of up to 50% for Gemini Enterprise, according to an Axios exclusive published August 26, 2026 — directly targeting the cost shock that is causing 1 in 4 businesses to delay or cancel AI projects. The Three Cost Controls Google Is…

The Trade Desk launched Kokai Zuma on August 27, 2026, adding a conversational AI assistant called Koa and four specialized AI agents to its programmatic advertising platform, with initial results across 62 campaigns showing a 32% average improvement in cost-per-acquisition. What Kokai Zuma Adds to the Platform Kokai Zuma is the latest release of The Trade Desk’s Kokai platform, introducing Koa — a conversational AI assistant — and four specialized Koa Agents that handle discrete campaign tasks. The four agent types cover audience creation, campaign optimization, performance troubleshooting, and campaign insights. Buyers issue natural-language instructions to the Koa Assistant, which…

24 days remain before Microsoft Project Online shuts down permanently on September 30, 2026. Every organization still running Project Online must export its data and select a replacement before that date — no grace period exists and no data recovery is available after shutdown. Microsoft Project Online is a cloud-based enterprise project management service built on SharePoint that Microsoft is retiring on September 30, 2026, citing the platform’s legacy architecture as the reason. Project Web App and every project stored in it become completely inaccessible after that date. Microsoft ended new license sales for Project Online on October 1, 2025.…

Shopify vs WooCommerce vs BigCommerce compared: pricing, fees, features, and which ecommerce platform wins for your business in 2026.

Published: August 30, 2026 X launched its Ads Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on August 23, 2026, giving advertisers a direct connection between their X campaign data and any MCP-capable AI tool — including Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, or a custom agent built on MCP SDKs. The server exposes 23 X Ads tools and accepts natural-language queries to read campaign analytics, launch campaigns, and manage ongoing ads. What Is the X Ads MCP Server? The X Ads MCP server is an implementation of the MCP (Model Context Protocol) standard that bridges X’s advertising platform to AI tools. Connecting the server to…