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Yellow.ai's $550M merger with Bluerock Acquisition Corp. funds a plan to buy BPO operators and automate them. The committed capital is $30M, not the $205M headline — and the acquisition targets are the same outsourcers already running its software.
August 4, 2026 · 13 min read
An arXiv benchmark of eleven production voice-agent stacks ran 3,300 simulated calls against a real database. The researchers found task completion collapses on complicated calls, per-call cost varies thirteenfold with no link to quality, and a verification leak hides inside correct refusals.
August 1, 2026 · 13 min read