10 articles from The Lab Blog.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
Causa Prima raised a $20 million seed round led by Base10 Partners to let buyers' and suppliers' AI agents negotiate payment terms and resolve invoice disputes.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
Vienna startup reebuild raised a €3 million seed round for AI that turns invoices and delivery notes into structured data for construction and real estate firms.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
OpenAI unveiled textGrain, an invisible watermark for AI-written text, coming to ChatGPT and Codex in the EU and available as an opt-in for API users worldwide.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
Sierra and Meta unveiled the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for how AI agents sign in to businesses, backed by Shopify, Stripe and Walmart.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
French startup Cleavr raised an €8 million seed round led by Varsity to automate invoice follow-ups by email, phone and text for businesses across Europe.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
OpenAI says it will begin testing clearly labeled visual ads during ChatGPT image generation in the U.S. later this month, expanding its ad business.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
Meshy, which turns text and images into 3D models, says it grew from $1 million to $100 million in annual recurring revenue in under two years.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
AI voice company ElevenLabs completed a $300 million employee tender offer at a $22 billion valuation, double what it was worth in February.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
Meta launched Muse for Small Business, a free-to-start AI agent that connects to tools like Shopify, Stripe and QuickBooks. Here is what it means for software makers.
DIGITAL BUSINESS
Faith communities read, study and teach every day. Software that meets them there is a real category.
