While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat | TechCrunch

Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed at customers using AI agents, the retailer announced on…

Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’ | TechCrunch

Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad has seen how AI is impacting the workplace firsthand, with businesses adopting his company’s AI coding tools to develop and launch their own software.…

Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence | TechCrunch

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or to speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed. Founded in 2024 on the basis of research done…

Pluto Security raises $42M as AI gives enterprise security teams a new headache | TechCrunch

The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies…