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Slack is a business messaging and collaboration platform owned by Salesforce, with channels, bots, and third-party integrations.
Bessemer and Lightspeed co-led the funding that takes Zenzap, an Israeli workplace-chat startup, to $44 million raised as it leaves stealth. Calcalist reports $33 million of it is the Series A and $11 million a 2022 seed.
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Scuba emerged from stealth with $34 million across a pre-seed led by Accel and a seed co-led by Accel and IVP. One deal backing two ex-Slack founders is thin evidence that investors are still funding shared-context layers.
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Google and its partners are asking at least $899 for a Googlebook, Android Police reports. The writer sets that against a $699 MacBook Neo and lists app gaps a fleet buyer would need to test first.
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Shane Mac's Grok Bot agent posted his personal bank balances and spending into his company's executive Slack channel. The agent's bank access was read-only, a limit on what it could do to the accounts that left open where it could send what it read.
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Google Cloud's Gemini agent works inside Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack and the command line, keeping one set of memories across all of them. For whoever rolls it out, the work becomes wiring in the systems of record and access controls it depends on.
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Google's Android-based Googlebook launched without Adobe's suite or the Linux support ChromeOS had, 9to5Google found in nearly a week of use. For teams buying work laptops, the Android apps it does run were the bigger problem in that testing.
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Four Verge staff testing all five launch Googlebooks rate the hardware great to excellent and call Googlebook OS the weak point. Their notes describe Android apps acting like tablet software on a laptop, so a team that buys now is signing up for beta software.
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FDA officials hosted at least 35 industry groups at an unannounced February session on patient chatbots, after inviting them in a CMS Slack chat room. The guidance it informs will cover every patient-chatbot maker, including firms left outside the room.
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n8n 2.43.0, shipped October 6, refuses to publish any workflow whose required node inputs are unconnected, according to a dev.to review of the changelog. The check covers wiring only, so wrong credentials and bad prompts still need their own tests before an agent goes live.
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ServiceNow launched Flow, a Slack and Teams service desk it says deploys in one day, at no additional cost for existing AI-SKU customers on consumption terms. Futurum calls it a land-and-expand defence against AI-native rivals in SMB and mid-market accounts.
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Gamma launches Gamma 5 with thousands of templates and about 20 data connectors, aiming for decks that look less AI-made. Its product chief says complaints that AI-made decks all look alike have grown since early this year.
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OpenAI's Dots agents, arriving in a business base of more than 35 million weekly users, must get a user's sign-off before changing a password or deleting data. Permissions are adjustable settings, so each team deploying an always-on Dot sets its own limits.
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Meta launched Muse for Small Business on Tuesday, pitching the AI agent at the 200 million small business owners it says use its platforms. How much cash it brings in depends on how many owners pay for higher limits and how much ad spend comes from the campaigns it drafts.
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ServiceNow says a small team with a founder-like mandate built Flow, its AI service desk for Slack and Teams, in three months. For IT teams whose staff already work in chat, the question is whether a desk with no setup project will still fit once request volume and complexity grow.
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Metaview raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110M for AI agents that source and screen job candidates. Its sourcing agent already works in Slack, so teams can trial it on one role before reorganizing recruiters.
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OpenAI's Dots, unveiled Tuesday at DevDay, is a background agent that acts on events such as Slack alerts across about 4,000 connected apps. For security teams it is a new standing identity inside Slack, holding whatever app access each user grants it.
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OpenAI is letting enterprise workspace admins decide whether staff get Dots, its always-on ChatGPT agents that can connect to more than 4,000 apps. Whoever turns on the beta approves software that keeps working while nobody watches, under permission rules each employee writes for their own Dot.
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Meta connected its Muse AI agent to QuickBooks, Shopify, Slack, Canva and 11 other third-party tools for owners in the US and Canada. For an owner, the access decision comes when picking which services to connect, since plugging in QuickBooks lets an agent read the books.
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OpenAI opened the plugin system behind ChatGPT's own features to outside developers at DevDay and launched a 32-partner enterprise marketplace. For teams that build internal tools, ChatGPT is now both a place their integrations can run and a product that competes with them.
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OpenAI's Dots give ChatGPT persistent agents that each run on an isolated cloud computer and keep working after the user leaves the chat. Teams now have to sort which errands can run unwatched and which must stop for a person's approval.
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