Daily AI Agent News - Last 7 Days
Wonderful AI Raises $100M for Customer Service Agents
Israeli startup Wonderful secured $100 million in Series A funding, bringing total funding to $134 million. The company's AI agents are already handling tens of thousands of customer requests daily with an 80% resolve rate across voice, chat, and email. They're expanding to Germany, Austria, and the Nordics in 2025. This shows enterprise customers trust AI agents for real customer support work.
AI Agents Deliver Real Money but Require Focus
While only 5% of companies get measurable AI value at scale, 66% of firms that actually deployed AI agents report they're delivering productivity gains. The real win: Cribl, a data management company, saved $3 million this year using an AI agent to contact vendors and negotiate lower contract prices on smaller deals—work humans didn't have time for. The lesson: AI agents excel at specific, repetitive tasks with clear rules.
Humanoid Robots Enter Mass Production Phase
$9.8 billion in cumulative funding has been raised for humanoid robots as of October 2025. Expect prices to drop from $75,000 today to $25,000 by 2035 as Chinese manufacturers scale production. The global humanoid market is projected to hit $51 billion by 2035. China already hosts over 50% of all active humanoid robot companies.
AI Job Growth Falls Short of Historical Trends AI experts predict only 2% white-collar job growth through 2030—down from the historical 6.8% average. Your role in knowledge work faces real automation pressure. Plan your skills accordingly.
AI Journey 2025 Conference Launches in Moscow The 10th International Conference on artificial intelligence kicks off with sessions on production-grade AI agents, enterprise adoption strategies, and the latest agentic breakthroughs reshaping workflows across industries.
AI Agents News: Breakthroughs and Reality Checks
AI Crosses Major Threshold OpenAI's Sam Altman announced a big milestone: AI systems can now beat humans at hard intellectual tasks. Here's the timeline: small scientific discoveries by 2026, major breakthroughs by 2028. The cost of intelligence drops 40x per year. Researchers say this is 80% progress toward AI that discovers things on its own.
Financial Company Launches Working AI Agent Shinyoung Securities rolled out the first AI agent in the securities industry. It monitors sales conversations to catch missing disclosures automatically—something that just checking keywords can't do. The system learned from 14,000 hours of real financial conversations.
AI Takes On Aviation Safety Joby Aviation paired up with Nvidia to run AI safety systems on electric air taxis using Nvidia's new IGX Thor processor.
Important Reality Check Google's new Veo-3 AI makes shockingly realistic surgical videos, but it doesn't actually understand medical procedures. This shows even advanced AI agents copy patterns without grasping real meaning. Don't trust AI with critical work unless it truly understands the domain.
AI Agents Transform Spanish Accounting
Kabilio, a Spanish accounting software company, raised €4 million to launch Kabi, a new AI agent that lets accountants ask questions in plain language instead of clicking through complicated software. Kabi will debut at Accountex Spain 2025, targeting Spain's 65,000 accounting firms drowning in repetitive data entry tasks. The AI can retrieve insights and eventually automate entire workflows—meaning accountants get back time for actual strategy work.
China's AI Expansion Accelerates
The China Internet Development Report revealed that AI is spreading faster across China's economy than ever before. Multimodal AI models (combining text, images, and video) are becoming the cutting edge, while robots and embodied AI are expanding into manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and elderly care. China's breakthrough reasoning capabilities in large language models are positioning the country as a major player in the global AI race.
Why This Matters for You:
- Kabilio users save hours weekly on accounting busywork
- China's multimodal AI advances signal shifts in global tech competition
- Both highlight AI agents moving from "nice to have" to essential business tools
These developments show AI agents now solve real problems in specific industries—not just hype.
AI Agents Are Becoming Real at Scale
Expedia Group's AI agents are now handling over 50% of customer queries — proving that agentic AI isn't theoretical anymore. This means real jobs are getting done right now across travel bookings and customer support.
Bank of America is deploying AI across their entire workforce to boost productivity and growth. Their CEO sees AI as a tool to make people better, not replace them. Expect more enterprises to follow this playbook in the next 90 days.
Google dropped Ironwood TPUs — their seventh-generation chips that beat NVIDIA's best hardware. Translation: AI models will run faster and cheaper for every company building on Google Cloud.
Microsoft quietly launched a Superintelligence Team focused on solving real-world problems in medicine and clean energy. Led by former OpenAI talent, this is the company getting serious about AGI progress while staying human-centered.
Lockheed Martin's STAR.OS solution lets different AI systems finally work together seamlessly — major for enterprises juggling multiple AI platforms.
Bottom line: If your company isn't running production AI agents by end of Q4, you're already behind. The winners aren't experimenting anymore — they're shipping.
Salesforce Agentforce just crossed two million customer service interactions—proof that AI agents have moved from experimental to essential business tools.
MoEngage secured $100 million in new funding led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to scale AI marketing agents globally. The platform now serves 1,350 brands, automating campaigns and personalizing customer experiences across web, mobile, email, and messaging. For marketers, this means smarter competition is coming—AI agents that optimize campaigns automatically are becoming the standard.
Doosan Robotics won CES 2026's Best of Innovation award for Scan & Go, an AI-powered autonomous robot that handles complex manufacturing tasks without programming. It learns on-the-job and adapts automatically—a game-changer for factories facing labor shortages.
Subtle Computing launched with $6 million to build voice AI that works in real-world conditions—not just controlled labs.
Red Hat introduced sovereign EU support, giving European companies local control over AI infrastructure.
What this means: AI agents are transitioning from hype to production tools. If your company isn't evaluating AI agents for customer service, marketing, or manufacturing, you're falling behind. The funding surge shows this isn't a passing trend.
AI Agents News Digest - November 6, 2025
DeepL Agent Now Available to All
DeepL launched DeepL Agent, an autonomous AI coworker designed to automate repetitive tasks for knowledge workers. The tool completed over 20,000 tasks during beta testing with 1,000+ users.
Why it matters: The average knowledge worker switches between apps 1,200 times daily and loses 11 hours weekly chasing data. DeepL Agent eliminates this by connecting to your existing CRM, email, calendars, and project management tools.
Practical uses:
- Sales teams: Automatically research prospects, draft personalized messages, schedule follow-ups
- Customer service: Resolve issues and process exchanges without human intervention
- Marketing: Identify trends, analyze competitors, generate content, coordinate campaigns
DeepL also added 70 new languages (now over 100 total) and launched Customization Hub to enforce brand consistency in translations automatically.
---
Global AI Innovation Accelerates
Taiwan Innotech Expo attracted 50,000+ visitors from 65 countries and showcased 1,100 cutting-edge AI technologies from 422 companies and academic institutions. The expo highlighted AI's role in transforming industries from semiconductors to green energy.
Bottom line: AI agents are moving from experimental tools to production-ready systems handling enterprise operations at scale.