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Yelp acquires Hatch, which charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments, for $300M (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/yelp-buy-ai-agent-startup-300-million<…

Yelp to Buy AI Agent Startup for $300 Million 
Recommendation app Yelp on Wednesday said it agreed to acquire AI agent startup Hatch for $300 million, or roughly 12 times the startup’s annual recurring revenue. Hatch charges a monthly fee for AI-powered agents that can respond to customer inquiries and make appointments. Yelp, which has a $1.8 billion market capitalization, said it plans to operate Hatch as a standalone business as well as

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AI Agents ‘Perilous’ for Secure Apps Such as Signal, Whittaker Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/ai-agents-perilous-for-secure-apps-such-as-signal-whittaker

AI Agents ‘Perilous’ for Secure Apps Such as Signal, Whittaker Says
Artificial intelligence agents that autonomously carry out tasks pose a threat to secure apps such as Signal, according to Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation.

The Trump administration appeared poised to send dozens of federal agents to the San Francisco Bay Area for a major immigration enforcement operation,
prompting condemnation from California leaders.
Details of the deployment were still emerging, but it will reportedly involve more than 100 federal agents.
The agents are reportedly set to begin using the US Coast Guard base in Alameda,
a city located across the bay from San Francisco.
It remained unclear whether …

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Microsoft will KI-Agenten smarter machen und mit Agent 365 besser überwachen
Microsofts neue KI-Agenten sollen durch noch mehr Datenzugriff intelligenter werden. Sie werden kontrolliert von Agent 365, der Steuerungsebene für KI-Agenten.

iOS Developers Claim 1Password isn’t Removing Deleted Profile Pictures
The iOS developer and security researcher duo Mysk claims that after deleting their 1Password account, their profile picture was still being stored and remained publicly accessible via a URL.
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iOS Developers Claim 1Password isn’t Removing Deleted Profile Pictures
The iOS developer and security researcher duo mysk claim that after deleting their 1Password account, their profile picture was still being stored and remained publicly accessible via a URL.

Sorcero, which makes AI agents for pharmaceutical companies to market new medications, raised a $42.5M Series B, bringing its total funding to $59M (Katherine Davis/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/biotech-deals/2025/11/21/sorcero-series-b-agen…

Exclusive: Sorcero raises $42.5M for agentic AI pharma marketing
A growing group of startups is harnessing AI in pharma.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-20/former-google-chief-accused-of-spying-on-employees-through-account-backdoor
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Ritter is accusing Schmidt of stealing business out from unde…

Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor'
Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former girlfriend and business partner of using a Gmail "backdoor" to spy on her and company employees.

Signal's Meredith Whittaker says deeper integration of AI agents into devices is "perilous" for encryption, since agents need access to lots of data across apps (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20