Venture Beat

• Dust hits $6M ARR helping enterprises build AI agents that actually do stuff instead of just talking

  Dust AI startup hits $6M revenue building enterprise agents that automate workflows and take real actions across business systems using Anthropic's Claude models and MCP protocol.

• HOLY SMOKES! A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab TNG Technology Consulting GmbH

  This gain is made possible by TNG’s Assembly-of-Experts (AoE) method — a technique for building LLMs by selectively merging the weight tensors

• Confidence in agentic AI: Why eval infrastructure must come first

  At VentureBeat’s Transform 2025, tech leaders gathered to talk about how they're transforming their business with agents.

• Transform 2025: Why observability is critical for AI agent ecosystems

  New Relic's Ashan Willy talked about how they're instrumenting agentic systems for measurable ROI to maximize agentic AI.

• Bright Data beat Elon Musk and Meta in court — now its $100M AI platform is taking on Big Tech

  Bright Data beat Elon Musk's X and Meta in court, then launched $100M AI infrastructure suite with Deep Lookup and Browser.ai to challenge Big Tech data monopolies.