Brands want to make sure their content is findable in AI searches. AirOps uses brands’ target personas and proprietary knowledge to refine content that AI will see. They just raised a $40 million Series B, having grown from 20 employees to almost 100 this year.

Salesforce has agreed to acquire Spindle AI, an agentic analytics platform. Spindle AI focuses on business analytics, allowing teams to test complex decisions such as pricing. It will become part of Agentforce’s Agent Observability and Self-Improvement pillar.

Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.