AI shaping future of work; KaarTech secures $11M in Series B
A senior product manager on the AI Agents Platform at Microsoft Teams, with three patents to her name, Sukhmani Lamba is part of the new wave shaping the future of work—building at the intersection of enterprise software and conversational AI.
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AI agent gone rogue.
An AI agent in China reportedly freed itself and started secretly mining cryptocurrency, researchers have found. A team affiliated with the technology company Alibaba said it discovered a bot trying unauthorised cryptocurrency mining during training, an event that triggered internal security alarms.
With AI companies pushing these agents as ‘replacements’ for humans, security and privacy still remains a sticky point.
Meanwhile, Microsoft said it is adding Anthropic's AI technology to its Copilot service. The technology giant’s move to tap into the demand for autonomous agents comes weeks after Anthropic’s new tools sparked a selloff in software stocks as well as its issues with the US government.
Speaking of Anthropic, the company is suing the Department of Defense and other federal agencies over US President Donald Trump’s decision to label it as a “supply chain risk.”
Closer home, ecommerce company Flipkart has moved its headquarters back to India from Singapore. The move, according to TechCrunch, comes ahead of its proposed IPO in the coming months.
Lastly, the crisis in the Middle East has spooked investors. Stocks fell and oil prices traded above $100 per barrel Monday. The Dow sank 820 points, or 1.73%. The S&P 500 slipped 1.45%, and the Nasdaq Composite declined 1.3%, reports CNN.
In today’s newsletter, we will talk about
- AI shaping future of work
- KaarTech secures $11M in Series B
Here’s your trivia for today: What sea borders Tunisia to the north?
Inspiration
AI shaping future of work
A senior product manager on the AI Agents Platform at Microsoft Teams, with three patents to her name, Sukhmani Lamba is part of the new wave shaping the future of work—building at the intersection of enterprise software and conversational AI.
Her current work focuses on agent memory, agent intelligence, and agent context in Microsoft Teams. This is the infrastructure that determines what an AI agent knows about you, your preferences, your personality, your projects, and your organisation, and how it uses that information to serve you most effectively.
Key takeaways:
- While Lamba acknowledges that the engineer’s coding role has largely transformed due to AI, she insists that the human aspects of work, such as strategic thinking, alignment, persuasion, and driving, are not going anywhere.
- As an executive in Residence at Mighty Capital, a San Francisco-based VC fund, Lamba advises Series A and Series B enterprise startups.
- In the academic world, she reviews papers and conferences at the intersection of AI, human-computer interaction, and the future of collaboration.
News
KaarTech secures $11M in Series B
Chennai-based tech services company KaarTech has raised $11 million in a Series B round of funding led by Playbook Partners.
KaarTech plans to use the capital for strategic acquisitions in data engineering and analytics with the goal of strengthening its AI-led Enterprise Operating System platform.
Capital:
- The funding will be used to accelerate the deployment of its agentic AI capabilities across enterprise programmes, enhance global delivery scale, and strengthen go-to-market efforts.
- Founded in 2005, KaarTech specialises in enterprise operating system modernisation across enterprise applications, data, cloud, and AI.
- The flagship tech platform of KaarTech is KTern.AI, which embeds governance and outcome assurance into large-scale enterprise transformations.
News & updates
- Oil war: Analysts said on Monday there is no precedent for the surging price of oil, as the Middle East crisis deepens fears of prolonged production shut-ins and disruption to shipments through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.
- Self-driving vehicles: Zoox, Amazon’s self-driving arm, plans to start testing its autonomous vehicles in Dallas and Phoenix, the company said. It will initially deploy a few of its retrofitted Toyota Highlander SUVs, with a human driver behind the wheel for safety.
What sea borders Tunisia to the north?
Answer: Mediterranean Sea
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