Meet Your New AI Assistant
Earlier this year, I wrote here on LinkedIn about the power of agentic AI, predicting that in 2025 the workplace would need to adjust to a whole new kind of worker: Generation AI Agent, as agentic AI continues to transform industries.
When PUMA Group released an advertisement created entirely by AI agents.
This rapid transformation is being fueled by VC-backed innovation, and in the latest edition of my newsletter, Venture Legal: Where Capital Meets Legal Innovation, I take a closer look at a major milestone: ServiceNow’s nearly $3 billion acquisition of the agentic AI company Moveworks.
In the featured story, I explore:
- The background of the Moveworks and ServiceNow deal, and why it made more sense for ServiceNow to buy rather than build agentic AI technology
- The growing enthusiasm for agentic AI and mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector
- How VC-backed agentic AI is beginning to influence LegalTech and RegTech
- The role of agentic AI in compliance risk management
- How these innovations are strengthening regulatory compliance for corporations
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