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A new startup called Hone, founded by former employees from Cognition and Ramp, just raised $60 million to build AI agents that can handle extended business tasks over weeks or months without human intervention. The company is valued at $285 million after the funding round led by Benchmark and Index Ventures.
- Hone is developing AI agents designed to function as autonomous professional staff, capable of managing complex, long-duration tasks
- The company raised $60 million in seed funding at a $285 million valuation, backed by top-tier VCs Benchmark and Index Ventures
- The founding team comes from Cognition (an AI agent company) and Ramp (a fintech platform), bringing expertise in both AI systems and business automation
Researchers built AI models trained only on pre-1930 text to let people interact with "historical minds," then tested whether this changed how participants viewed the past. Talking to a 1930s-bounded AI reduced the "moral decline illusion"—the common belief that people were more ethical back then.
- A randomized experiment with 240 participants showed that interacting with historically-bounded LLMs reduced the illusion of moral decline compared to using contemporary AI
- The study demonstrates a new experimental method where temporal knowledge boundaries become controllable variables, turning philosophical thought experiments into testable science
- This approach reveals how our understanding of the past gets distorted by everything that happened after it—we can't see history clearly without the filter of hindsight