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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Side Events schedule: Women in Tech, MongoDB, Silkroad Innovation Hub and more to host

With TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 right around the corner, we’re thrilled to introduce the companies hosting Side Events that will extend the buzz and excitement to the thousands of attendees and Silicon Valley locals alike. Whether it’s a fun happy hour, insightful panels, or energizing morning runs, “Disrupt Week” — happening from October 25-31 — offers…

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Salesforce AI Research Introduces WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools): Enabling LLM agents to Automatically Discover Reusable Tools from Any Website

A team of Salesforce AI researchers introduced WALT (Web Agents that Learn Tools), a framework that reverse-engineers latent website functionality into reusable invocable tools. It reframes browser automation around callable tools rather than long chains of clicks. Agents then call operations such as search, filter, sort, post_comment, and create_listing. This reduces dependence on large language…

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Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen to offer enterprise AI services

Palantir said on Thursday it had struck a partnership with Lumen Technologies that will see the telecommunications company using the data management company’s AI software to build capabilities to support enterprise AI services. The companies are calling the deal “a multi-year, multi-million-dollar strategic partnership,” but Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources, that Lumen is going to…

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