Walmart Pays $1.4B for Ad Tech Startup Vibe

MoEngage, an Indian marketing platform, has completed an all-cash deal to acquire technology that enables assignment of individual AI agents to customers. The acquisition gives the company access to a system designed to personalize marketing at scale through dedicated AI agents for each customer. This move positions MoEngage to compete in an emerging market segment focused on AI-driven customer engagement.

Fika Jobs, a Stockholm-based startup, has raised $4 million to develop a video-first hiring platform that uses AI interview agents alongside short-form video candidate profiles. The platform blends elements of LinkedIn and TikTok to streamline recruitment. The funding supports the company's expansion of its AI-driven interview and candidate discovery capabilities.

Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, an AI feature integrated into Slack that operates as a persistent team member within workplace messaging. The tool goes beyond basic productivity assistance by learning organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows from Slack conversations. This represents a strategic move by Anthropic to embed its AI deeper into how companies operate and to capture valuable data about business processes.

NVIDIA has released Agent Toolkit, an open-source foundation for building specialized AI agents that can reason, use tools, and take action within enterprise workflows. The toolkit combines customizable models, tools that connect to existing systems, and a secure runtime environment. Companies like CrowdStrike, Cadence, and Synopsys are already deploying specialized agents for security, chip design, and other domain-specific tasks.