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AI fraud verification startup secures $20M in seed funding

Thu, 9th Oct 2025
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Canadian startup TransCrypts raises CDN $20 million to enhance secure digital ID control and combat rising AI-driven fraud globally.
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IBM & AMD power Zyphra's USD $1B open-source AI push

Fri, 3rd Oct 2025
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IBM and AMD partner to equip Zyphra's AI lab with AMD Instinct GPUs on IBM Cloud, powering its USD $1 billion open-source AI superintelligence project.
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Cloudflare to offer 1,111 global internships & expand student support

Tue, 23rd Sep 2025
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Cloudflare will recruit 1,111 interns globally in 2026, expanding its programme to support students with hands-on tech experience and mentorship worldwide.
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Check Point acquires Lakera to create AI security centre in Zurich

Wed, 17th Sep 2025
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Check Point will acquire AI-native security firm Lakera, making Zurich its Global Centre of Excellence for AI Security to boost enterprise AI protection worldwide.
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Digital Realty & Vultr launch global GPU AI infrastructure

Thu, 28th Aug 2025
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Digital Realty and Vultr partner to provide GPU-powered AI infrastructure across global data hubs, enhancing enterprise AI deployment and compliance.
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Metaforms raises USD $9m to revolutionise market research

Fri, 1st Aug 2025
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Metaforms, a San Francisco AI startup, has raised USD $9 million to enhance market research efficiency with innovative AI automation tools.
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Circumvent raises $6 million to advance proactive AI cloud security

Wed, 18th Jun 2025
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Circumvent raises $6 million to develop AI-driven cloud security platform that helps teams prioritise and remediate risks efficiently.
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Snowflake boosts AI with real-time licensed content access

Thu, 5th Jun 2025
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Snowflake launches Cortex Knowledge Extensions, enabling enterprises to enhance AI with real-time, licensed content from partners like Stack Overflow via its Marketplace.
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Skymel launches ARIA to unite major AI models in one platform

Wed, 4th Jun 2025
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Skymel unveils ARIA, an AI assistant uniting ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity into one seamless platform for unified, accurate user answers.
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Snowflake expands Marketplace with AI-ready news, data apps

Wed, 4th Jun 2025
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Snowflake expands its Marketplace with AI-ready news and data apps, integrating content from The Associated Press and USA TODAY to enhance enterprise AI applications.
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LuminX raises USD $5.5 million to advance AI for warehouses

Tue, 3rd Jun 2025
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LuminX raises USD $5.5 million seed funding to boost AI vision language models improving efficiency in warehouse and supply chain operations.
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Kurrent unveils open-source MCP Server for AI-driven databases

Fri, 30th May 2025
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Kurrent's new open-source MCP Server allows AI-driven natural language interaction with KurrentDB, simplifying database tasks and boosting developer productivity.
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Airwallex secures USD $300 million to drive global expansion

Wed, 21st May 2025
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Airwallex has secured USD $300 million in Series F funding, valuing the fintech firm at USD $6.2 billion and fuelling plans for global expansion.
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Udemy appoints Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh to lead CX

Wed, 7th May 2025
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Udemy appoints Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh as its first Chief Customer Experience Officer to lead global customer success and operations strategy.
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Amplifier Security secures USD $5.6 million for AI platform

Fri, 25th Apr 2025
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Amplifier Security raises USD $5.6 million seed round to launch AI-driven tools automating user engagement and plugging real-time security gaps.
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AI bots drive 57% of holiday shopping traffic, study finds

Thu, 24th Apr 2025
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Radware's 2025 report reveals 57% of 2024 holiday eCommerce traffic was from bots, marking a shift with AI-enhanced bots outpacing human shoppers online.
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OneShot.ai unveils Execution OS to unite AI & human sales teams

Wed, 23rd Apr 2025
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OneShot.ai has launched Execution OS, a platform combining AI with human expertise to improve sales and marketing go-to-market strategies.
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Jenny Decker joins Tempo as new Chief Financial Officer

Thu, 17th Apr 2025
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Tempo appoints Jenny Decker as new CFO, leveraging her 15+ years in SaaS to steer global finance and operations from San Francisco.
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Sourcetable raises USD $4.3M for AI-driven spreadsheet

Tue, 1st Apr 2025
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Sourcetable has secured USD $4.3 million in funding to launch the first AI-driven spreadsheet, aiming to revolutionise data analysis for everyday users.
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Sourcetable unveils first AI-driven spreadsheet solution

Tue, 1st Apr 2025
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Sourcetable has launched the world's first AI-driven spreadsheet, promising to revolutionise data analysis for the 750 million global users of spreadsheets.