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Artificial Intelligence, StartupsFormer Icertis executives raise an oversubscribed seed round co-led by Sitara Capital and 3one4 Capital for AI agents that recover money enterprises are owed under contracts but never collect.
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, BusinessThe New York company says its AI can read a patient's entire cancer record, not just a single document. Battery Ventures led the $22 million round.
Business, LeadershipBeling chief executive Damir First told a security congress in Rome that companies spend heavily on cybersecurity and very little on detecting listening devices and other physical surveillance.
EU FocusThe same wallet infrastructure behind the EU age verification app is being mandated for banking, insurance and telecoms. Most member states are not ready.
CEO ProfilesThe South Carolina author sat on his inspirational trilogy for years. After three independent awards in 2026, he is preparing the capstone volume, All Hope Abandon.
Green Tech, StartupsA patented kinetic energy recovery system installed at the Port of Hamburg has generated over 6,700 kWh of electricity from truck traffic since November 2025. Now the company behind it wants to prove that roads can double as power plants.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsZurich-based thermal monitoring startup AVIAN has raised a $2.6 million pre-seed round led by Founderful to expand its AI fire prevention platform into recycling, maritime, and chemical processing.
Business, PoliticsA viral claim built on GDP per capita falls apart under basic scrutiny. Median wealth, consumer debt, healthcare costs and life expectancy tell a different story.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsMultiplayer AI platform Dust has raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Abstract and Sequoia, bringing total investment to more than $60 million. The company has deployed over 300,000 agents across 3,000 organisations.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsThe AlphaGo creator's London lab, fresh from Europe's largest ever seed round, will help NVIDIA build the hardware for AI's next scaling frontier.
Science & Tech, Supply ChainsThe EU's revised Chips Act bets on strategic indispensability rather than self-sufficiency. The wager rests on a small number of European firms that already control irreplaceable nodes in the global supply chain.
BusinessProfounda Health & Beauty, Inc, a pharmaceutical company founded by an industry veteran, will stock its Rhinase X nasal care line in 126 select Walmart stores beginning August 2026.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsSan Francisco startup introduces three-agent system to run intake, contracts, and accounts payable for mid-market companies, and a new role to oversee it.
Supply Chains, LegalThe independent-contractor shield that protects shippers from carrier accidents has real holes. Here is where it fails and how to close the gaps.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsVoice AI platform Vapi has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Peak XV, bringing total investment to $72 million after crossing one billion calls.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsSwedish startup Pit launches from stealth with $16 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, positioning itself as an AI product team that builds custom enterprise software in days.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsResearch from Causal Dynamics Lab shows AI coding agents spend more than 80 per cent of their time searching for files. Its new product claims to fix that.
BusinessAfter 53 years in exhibition design and services, Larry Kulchawik co-authored The Invisible Industry and Trade Shows from One Country to the Next. Both books document an industry that generates $1.6 trillion in economic activity, yet remains largely unknown to the next generation of people seeking career opportunities.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsClaude Desktop silently installs browser permissions across seven Chromium browsers without consent. Anthropic says Claude writes 70 to 90 per cent of its code. Whether or not anyone reviews it, is a different matter.
EU Focus, Science & TechThe media treated a GitHub repository like a consumer product and reported bug discoveries as a scandal. The EU's age verification app is open source. Finding vulnerabilities is how open-source software gets secure.
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Science & TechMosaic SoC's multi-core perception chip brings spatial intelligence to wearables without draining the battery.
Artificial Intelligence, Startups, FinTechBlack Ore, an Austin-based AI tax preparation platform backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Oak HC/FT, opened its Tax Autopilot software to thousands of accounting firms on Wednesday after a two-year invitation-only pilot.
FinTech, StartupsA free app for tracking gold and silver prices launches with a prediction game and a leaderboard. The model relies on engagement rather than subscriptions or advertisements.
Artificial Intelligence, StartupsTestMu (formerly LambdaTest) shipped Kane CLI today, a free terminal tool for the browser check AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor still can't do themselves.