Berlin fintech Pliant raises $80 million Series C to open its B2B payment infrastructure to AI agents
Seaya Nova and Speedinvest led the round; Pliant says it has passed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and will expand in the US and Canada.
- Uber says third-party AI agents booked just four rides last quarter and about 500 Eats orders in Halloween week
- Sentra raises $150 million Series C led by Capital One Ventures to guard corporate data from AI agents
- Nooks gets a $500 million General Catalyst commitment to push AI sales agents
- AI data-centre stocks slide as Democratic midterm wins raise prospect of tighter rules
- Google extends voluntary buyout offers to staff in several countries outside the US
- Axiom releases a Lean formalization of the entire Stacks Project, about 16 million lines built by AI agent swarms
- Altman says people must not cede control of the future to superintelligence
- NBC exit poll: 57% of US midterm voters say AI will hurt society, 76% oppose a local data centre
- Democrat Gina Hinojosa wins the Texas governor's race after pledging a moratorium on new data centres
- Japan plans to seek early data on undisclosed software flaws from US AI developers, Nikkei reports
- Tencent releases Hy4, adding visual reasoning to its flagship open-weight model