By 2027, half of all business decisions will be augmented or automated by AI agents for decision intelligence. This seismic shift is changing how organisations operate, and AI leaders are under pressure to adapt, innovate, and guide their teams through complexity. Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026 is designed to help these leaders meet their

We’re all chasing talent. It’s become as crucial to success as building amazing products, and a lot of businesses are feeling the squeeze. The problem is that demand for people with AI skills is skyrocketing, but the supply isn’t keeping up. The OECD points this out – lots of us need AI expertise, but very

Freya, a company that automates customer calls using AI voice agents, has raised $3.5 million in funding. The round attracted investment from DOMiNO Ventures, Y Combinator, Formosa Capital, Rebel Fund, BD Partners, N1 Tech, 212 VC, BLAST, Eight Capital, and Maiora Rebel Ventures. The startup has built technology that allows AI agents to handle phone

Jiga, an AI-powered manufacturing platform used by NASA and Siemens, has closed a $12 million Series A funding round led by Aleph. Symbol, which led the company’s seed round, participated alongside Y Combinator. The Tel Aviv-based startup addresses a growing problem in hardware development. While software engineers can deploy autonomous agents in three hours, mechanical

Berlin-based voize has closed a $50 million Series A funding round to expand its AI voice assistant for nurses across Europe and into the United States. Balderton Capital led the round, with participation from existing investors HV Capital, Redalpine, Y Combinator, and HPI Ventures. The funding addresses a problem that costs the healthcare industry billions

Chargeflow has closed a $35 million Series A funding round, including a $10 million debt facility, to accelerate its AI-powered chargeback automation platform. Viola Growth led the investment, with participation from existing backer OpenView Venture Partners. The round brings the company’s total funding to $49 million. The fresh capital will drive product development and help

Countly, the first-party digital analytics and customer engagement platform, has released a major update designed to give enterprises full control over the data powering their AI systems. With 78% of organizations now utilizing AI in at least one function, many still struggle with fragmented or third-party data sources, which reduce accuracy and complicate compliance. Countly’s

Google has just released its newest base model, and yep – it’s a doozy. The company claims Gemini 3 is its “smartest model” yet, which can do deep reasoning, multimodal interactions and even complex coding workflows. For the whole day, from the time you wake up as a developer until you go to sleep with your email

TikTok is stirring things up: the app has just introduced a feature that allows users to determine how much AI-generated content they are served on their feed – and if you’re anything like me, waking up scrolling first thing and wondering how much of what you see was created by a human, this could be big

Users of the Go language can expect improved support for AI coding agents in the coming year, according to the Go team. Also in the works is an overhauled go fix command that promises greater developer productivity. In a November 14 blog post marking the 16th anniversary of Google’s open source release of Go as