‘I am sorry…’: Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu gets insider buyout details in acquisition pitch, then ‘AI agent’ takes blame

Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu took to X (formerly Twitter) to share that he received insider buyout details in an acquisition pitch from a startup founder. Later, another email landed in his inbox – not an apology from the founder for the oversight, but from the AI agent. Yes, you read that right!

‘I am sorry…’

“I got an email from a startup founder, asking if we could acquire them, mentioning some other company interested in acquiring them and the price they were offering,” Vembu wrote on X.