Business and Industry covers the commercial adoption of artificial intelligence across corporate sectors and economic markets. Truncated covers enterprise deployments, industry investments, market trends, workforce impacts and regulatory compliance.
GeekWire — Investor Match started as a way for the Incisive Ventures founder to help his own portfolio companies raise follow-on rounds. Now any founder can use it for $20.
MarTech Series — Box, Inc., the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA that enables organizations to securely execute AI-powered workflows at scale.
semafor.com — Tech companies are pitching bespoke, AI-driven tools to help operate drilling rigs, refineries, and other oil assets.
TechCrunch — The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.
PYMNTS.com — Artificial intelligence agents are becoming a new place to shop faster than merchants can plug into them. Analysts expect AI-driven traffic to retail
Tech Funding News — Kalepa raised $75 million in a Series B at a $470 million valuation, led by Updata Partners. The New York-based insurance AI start-up previously closed a
sdxcentral.com — 1Finity launches vRAN suite
MarTech Series — Genesys®, a global leader in agentic orchestration for customer experience (CX), announced the expansion of its forward-deployed engineering (FDE) capabilities to help enterprises operationalize agentic AI across the customer experience
The New Stack — The $350M deal underpins DBX Agent Cloud, Dropbox’s push into AI infrastructure, as the company also rolls out agentic AI features to 70,000 teams.
macstories.net — For the past week, I've been testing betas of the following updates coming to Apple Creator Studio later this month: Logic Pro Pixelmator Pro Pages Numbers Keynote Final Cut Pro is being updated this month, too, but I haven't tested it. I use Logic Pro to edit MacStories' podcasts, and so far, I've edited four
WIRED — The startup Aina bets you won’t need to rely on your phone to control virtual assistants. It’s making a smart ring that lets you control the actions of your autonomous agents with one tap.
CNBC — U.S. midterm results could slow data center development, raising the value of existing AI capacity while increasing pressure on debt-funded neoclouds.
Wccftech — Altman argues that several competing AI labs are better for the world, as Dario Amodei's Anthropic and Mira Murati's lab take their own paths.
Tech Funding News — Barcelona startup Kabilio raises €10M led by Picus Capital and Visionaries to develop AI accounting agents, reporting growth to over 500 accounting firms.
crn.com — Microsoft is delaying default usage-based billing for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business again, giving partners more time to prepare for the change.
FedScoop — Perplexity is the first company to be certified under the full sped-up 20x process within the class most akin to the old “moderate” level. More are coming, FedRAMP says.
Tech.eu — UK-based healthtech company develops AI-powered companions designed to support patients between clinical appointments and help healthcare teams manage routine enquiries and workloads.
MarTech Series — AI-powered retail media personalisation platform Particular Audience (PA) has added Customer Data Platform (CDP) audience targeting to its retail media platform.
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