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Data center power startup Emerald AI raises $150M at $1.05B valuation

Data center power startup Emerald AI Inc. today said that it has raised $150 million in new funding in an oversubscribed round at a valuation of $1.05 billion. Emerald will put the money into scaling up commercial deployments worldwide.

1d ago ·siliconangle.com

Agentic web search infrastructure startup Keenable raises $26M

Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it’s launching with $26 million in funding to try to revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, not the billions of autonomous agents that many believe will soon dominate the internet.

1d ago ·siliconangle.com

What Actually Breaks When You Put AI Agents In Front Of Real Customers

I have spent the last year building AI automation systems for small businesses. Chatbots, multi agent workflows, the kind of stuff that looks great in a demo and then meets an actual customer who types "idk just fix it" and breaks everything. Most articles about AI agents talk about architecture.

• Real users often provide contradictory, half-formed inputs that break AI agents.
• Explicitly instructing the model to say "I don't know" when uncertain is crucial.
• Maintenance is the most significant challenge due to frequent API and model changes.

23h ago ·dev.to