
Encore AI, a startup that analyzes customer interactions to train AI voice agents, raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8. The company, now rebranded as Encore AI, uses interaction mining to identify effective strategies from employee conversations and deploy AI agents that adapt to different customer interactions. The platform helps businesses improve their customer support and sales processes by learning from real-world interactions and identifying inefficiencies.
Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.

Nvidia has a plan to make sure its GPUs won't lose value. It wants to convince a new crop of financiers to keep lending for AI buildouts.

The tech giant has considered a nine-figure budget for the payments, according to the WSJ.
