“In financial services, every decision you make has to stand up to regulators, auditors, compliance teams, and determined fraudsters.” – Laura Spiekerman, Alloy Financial services is a tough proving ground for agentic AI due to a high regulatory bar and zero tolerance for unexplained decisions..

This week, we’re looking at a company going after a problem most teams feel but rarely name: the growing coordination tax of working across humans, tools, and now, AI agents. Highlight AI just raised a $40 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures to build what it calls a shared intelligence layer f..

Christine Yen, CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, discusses “mob coding” with Claude, building mecha suits for humans, and the visibility problem in software development. What happens when you build something for a customer, and it breaks without any visibility? Things look fine on your end, but o..