Tavily raises $25M to connect AI agents to the web

The one-year-old startup raised a Series A led by Insight Partners.

Cohere’s new AI agent platform, North, promises to keep enterprise data secure

Canadian AI firm Cohere aims to alleviate data privacy concerns with its new AI agent platform, North, which can be deployed privately so that enterprises and governments can keep their, and their customers’, data safe behind their own firewalls. 

Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door

Cognition is also laying off 30 employees. Those who don’t take the buyout are expected to work 80+ hour weeks.

ElevenLabs launches an AI music generator, which it claims is cleared for commercial use

The AI audio-generation unicorn ElevenLabs announced the launch of a new model that allows users to generate music that’s cleared for commercial use.