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Google says Gemini Spark will work in the background, take action under user direction, and later support custom sub-agents plus authorized payments with budget and merchant controls.
Strategic signal: Google is moving agents from chatbot UX into always-on consumer infrastructure.
Nvidia posted $81.62B in revenue, up 85% YoY, and forecast $91B next quarter as Jensen Huang framed AI factories as “the largest infrastructure expansion in human history.”
Strategic signal: agentic workloads are becoming the core demand story for compute.
Reuters reports Manus founders are exploring a $1B raise to unwind Meta’s $2B+ acquisition after Chinese regulatory pressure. Manus builds general-purpose agents that act like digital employees.
Strategic signal: AI agents are now sensitive strategic assets in U.S.–China tech competition.
$20.8B in Redemption Requests. Percent Was Issuing Deals and Paying on Schedule.

Those requests came from non-traded BDC investors in Q1 2026, and most got back roughly half of what they asked for. Moody's U.S. BDC sector outlook: Negative.
On Percent's marketplace that same quarter: new issuances, scheduled payments, 0.44% lifetime net loss rate on asset-based deals since inception.† The difference is structural: concentrated corporate loans with redemption windows that close at manager discretion vs. asset-based finance with 6–24 month deal terms. 14.6% net ABS returns LTM after losses (3/31/26).† Starting at $500.
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Pivot raised a Series B led by Forestay and Notion, bringing total funding to $70M. Its platform uses agentic workflows for approvals, vendor onboarding, invoice processing, and budget tracking.
Strategic signal: procurement is becoming a prime enterprise beachhead for agents.
Zendesk’s “Autonomous Service Workforce” replaces deflection bots with specialized AI agents and outcome-based pricing tied to verified resolutions.
Strategic signal: customer service SaaS is shifting from seats and tickets to autonomous outcomes.
Brett Adcock’s new AI hardware startup Hark raised $700M at a $6B valuation to build personalized AI systems and devices.
Strategic signal: personal agents are becoming a hardware race, not just an app race.
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