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Capacity Raises Over $50M in Series E to Expand its Unified AI-Native Customer Experience Platform
Insider Brief Capacity raised more than $54 million in Series E funding, bringing its total raised to over $159 million, following its surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue in June after growing 20x in 3.5 years. Founded in 2017, the agentic support automation platform unifies omnichannel AI agents, real-time agent assist, automated QA, and…
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Mistral AI Secures €3B in Record European Funding Round, Positioning Itself as Sovereign AI Alternative
French AI lab Mistral AI has raised €3 billion, roughly $3.58 billion, at a post-money valuation exceeding €21 billion, or about $24.39 billion, in what the company describes as the largest equity funding round ever completed by a European technology firm. The Series D round was led by Samsung Electronics, with EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund…
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Huskeys Announces $27M Series A to Address AI-Driven Security Challenges at the Network Edge
Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup Huskeys has raised $27 million in a Series A round led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, bringing its total funding to $35 million following an earlier $8 million seed round. Additional investors include Merlin Ventures, Skinos Ventures, Zscaler Ventures, Okta Ventures, Bright Pixel Capital, SV Angel, and individual backers from companies including…
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Sav Closes $3.5M Pre-Series A to Expand AI-Driven Financial Platform for Global Expats
GCC-based fintech Sav has raised $3.5 million in Pre-Series A funding to scale its AI-native financial platform and expand its capabilities across open finance and wealth management. The round was led by Phoenix Venture Partners, with participation from 394H Capital, Vestalia Investments, Majlis Investment Management, 500 Sanabil, KAUST Innovation Ventures, and several family offices and…
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Forus Raises $150M at a $3B Valuation as Its AI Network Becomes How Medicine Reaches Patients
Insider Brief Forus raised $150 million in Series C financing at a $3 billion valuation, tripling its valuation within months of its Series B and bringing total funding to over $300 million, led by Bain Capital Ventures with reinvestment from Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Accel, and other existing backers. The platform gives every prescription its…
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Inside OpenAI’s agent-powered research boom
Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 3,137 new readers. It’s a given that OpenAI gets to put its newest models to work before the rest of us can try them. The company’s latest research report shows us what that head start actually…
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Arm launches Total Design for Physical AI and robotics framework
Arm has launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI alongside a new robotics framework to establish common standards across automated systems. Physical industries – spanning mining, agriculture, manufacturing, and global transport – account for trillions of dollars in economic activity and an estimated $200 billion annual compute opportunity by the 2030s. To address engineering fragmentation…
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Coca-Cola uses AI to improve retailer ordering in Malaysia
Coca-Cola is using AI to recommend which products Malaysian retailers should order and in what quantities through its Coke Buddy platform. The Perfect Basket feature uses Coca-Cola’s Central Recommendation Engine to analyse previous orders, ordering frequency, seasonality, weather, and purchasing patterns among similar businesses. Coca-Cola said Coke Buddy currently supports about 39,000 retail outlets across…
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AI weather forecasting enters the energy market as Google targets grid operators with WeatherNext 3
Google’s newest AI weather forecasting model predicts wind speed at 100 metres above the ground, roughly the height of a modern wind turbine. It also forecasts cloud cover and how much sunlight reaches the surface, and it updates every hour. Energy traders, grid operators and wind and solar developers already pay other companies for that…
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YouTube Appears in 53% of Google AI Overviews for Vitamin and Supplement Searches
YouTube was the most frequently cited website in Google AI Overviews across a panel of vitamin and supplement searches, according to new research. The video platform appeared in 186 of 350 AI-generated answers, or 53.1%, making it the only website cited in more than half of the answers collected. Searcherries followed 50 searches daily from…
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