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Town, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup developing AI assistants, nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B funding round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures. The company launched publicly just four months ago and said it reached millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue in a matter of weeks. It…

Home Assistant has released another couple of updates for its iOS app. This time, users of the open-. They have arrived a couple of weeks after the last update, version 2026.9.3

Off-the-shelf AI assistants answer individual questions well, but they fall short on a different axis: continuity. Ask a stateless assistant about your garden today and it has no idea that you mentioned your fast-draining raised beds three weeks ago, that you only use organic fertilizer, or that your petunias were struggling through a heat wave.…

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Rivian Assistant is coming to R2 in the October software update, Wassym confirmed on social media today, which closes one of the bigger gaps between R2 and the R1 fleet.

Optigo Networks announced the public launch of the Optigo AI Assistant, a purpose-built assistant embedded in Optigo Visual Networks (OptigoVN), the company’s cloud-based OT monitoring platform for BACnet building automation systems.

Instinct, the buzzy new AI assistant now valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature that will allow it to do more on its users’ behalf: it’s giving everyone Instinct email addresses.

This post shows how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant built with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Nova 2. Many quick-service restaurants spread ordering across an app, a website, a phone line, and the counter. Each of those is a separate system to build and run. Each one also fragments the customer’s history, making…