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WilsonAI raises $1.7M in pre-seed funding for ‘AI paralegal’

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:00:58 +0000

WilsonAI Co., the provider of an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for in-house legal operations, said today it has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of what the company calls an AI paralegal that companies can “hire” for their teams. The company was founded in 2024 by Chief Executive Gus Naete, formerly a […]

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Spore.Bio raises $23M to cut microbiology testing to minutes from days using AI

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:50:00 +0000

Paris-based Spore.Bio, a startup that developed an artificial intelligence-driven method for detecting pathogens, said today it has raised $23 million in early-stage funding to reinvent microbiology testing. The company’s Series A funding round was led by Singular and joined by Point 72, 1st Kind Ventures, Station F and Lord David Prior. Returning investors LocalGlobe, No […]

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Nvidia uses AI to release Signs, a sign language teaching platform

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:30:05 +0000

To increase accessibility to American Sign Language learning, Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence-powered platform that offers instruction day and night. The platform is called Signs, a teaching platform developed in partnership with Nvidia, the American Society for Deaf Children and the creative agency Hello Monday. It’s an interactive web […]

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Decentralized protocol leaders join forces to launch HumanAIx AI infrastructure alliance

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:36 +0000

OORT, a decentralized blockchain-based cloud computing platform for artificial intelligence, today announced the launch of HumanAIx, a global alliance for decentralized protocols to build better AI infrastructure. HumanAIx will be an open protocol where partners will connect together, each contributing a critical component – validation, storage, compute and data — to form a decentralized AI […]

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Augury raises $75M for AI-driven industrial equipment health and repair process optimization

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:00:09 +0000

Israel-based Augury Inc., a provider of internet of things sensors and artificial intelligence to predict machine repairs, today announced it has raised $75 million in a late-stage funding round. Lightrock led the Series F round, with returning investors participating including Insight Venture Partners, Eclipse Ventures, Munich Re Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures and […]

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British legaltech startup Luminance raises $75M for contract AI assistant

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:10:49 +0000

London-based legal artificial intelligence startup Luminance Technologies Ltd. today announced it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Point72 Investments. The funding for Luminance comes amid a flurry of investments directed at AI legaltech startups and businesses. New investors Forestay Capital, RPS Ventures and Schroders Capital participated in the round, […]

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Elon Musk’s xAI unveils Grok-3 with advanced reasoning capabilities

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:20:19 +0000

Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. late Monday night announced the launch of Grok-3, the latest in the company’s family of large language models. The company says the AI model is a significant leap in power over its previous Grok-2 LLM that includes “reasoning models” to mimic human thinking. During a livestream announcement, xAI researchers said that […]

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AI-driven critical infrastructure cybersecurity startup Dream raises $100M at $1.1B valuation

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:40:20 +0000

Dream, an artificial intelligence startup that provides cybersecurity to governments and critical infrastructure, said today it has raised $100 million in early-stage funding at a $1.1 billion valuation. The round was led by Bain Capital Venture, and other investors participating in the Series B round included Group 11, Tru Arrow, Tau Capital and Aleph. The […]

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Legal AI startup Eudia launches with $105M to bring AI agents to legal teams

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:10:34 +0000

Eudia, an artificial intelligence startup for in-house corporate legal teams, launched Thursday with up to $105 million in early-stage funding to bring the power of AI agents to the legal industry. The Series A round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Floodgate, Sierra Ventures, Hakluyt Capital, Defy, Everywhere Ventures, B3 Capital, Backbone and […]

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SpotDraft raises $54M to help legal teams manage contracts with AI

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:20:15 +0000

SpotDraft, which makes an artificial intelligence-powered platform for contract lifecycle management, announced Wednesday it has raised $54 million in a Series B funding led by Vertex Growth and Trident Partners. The company provides a tool for corporate legal teams to manage all aspects of contracting using AI to do the laborious knowledge work. This includes […]

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AI-powered humanoid robotics company Apptronik raises $350M

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:45:17 +0000

Apptronik Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, today announced it has raised an early-stage $350 million funding round to advance the development of its next-generation robot Apollo. The Series A round was co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory with participation from Google. Humanoid robots have continued to lead industry interest with their […]

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SAP announces Databricks partnership to power AI with Business Data Cloud

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 10:30:31 +0000

Enterprise software giant SAP SE today debuted the Business Data Cloud, a new data solution that unifies all SAP data and third-party data throughout an organization to provide a foundation for insights and artificial intelligence applications. The company also announced a partnership with enterprise data processing and AI company Databricks Inc. The collaboration natively embeds […]

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Adobe launches commercially safe AI video model for creative professionals

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:00:43 +0000

Creative software developer Adobe Inc. today launched into public beta test a new generative artificial intelligence video model, which the company claims is the first commercially safe AI video creation model on the market. It’s available in a new version of the company’s Firefly web application, which offers a suite of professional-grade creative tools, allowing […]

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Harness expands experimentation and feature management for DevOps teams

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:00:44 +0000

Harness Inc., the software delivery startup that provides tools for developers to update and monitor applications as they go, today announced several new features that expand its feature management and experimentation capabilities. The new features come from the completion of the company’s integration of Split Software Inc., a company Harness acquired in May, into the […]

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Integrail raises $10M in seed funding for no-code agentic AI delivery platform

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:00:55 +0000

Integrail Corp., an artificial intelligence startup that allows businesses to design and deploy AI agents more easily using a drag-and-drop platform, today announced it has raised $10 million in a seed funding round and the hiring of Peter Guagenti as chief executive to drive the rollout of the company’s solution. Ratmir Timashev, co-founder of Veeam […]

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Workday unveils AI agent workforce management system

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:00:38 +0000

Enterprise management software company Workday Inc. today unveiled a workforce management system designed to help companies track, govern and optimize their growing artificial intelligence agent lineups. Workday is calling the new platform the Agent System of Record. It’s aimed at helping businesses that are onboarding agents keep track of their new digital workforce and treat them […]

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Kodiak Hub AI-powered supplier management platform raises $6M to expand into the US

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:00:35 +0000

Kodiak Hub, a Stockholm-based platform that helps businesses manage relationships with suppliers, announced today it raised $6 million in new funding from Oxx to expand its operations into the United States. Kodiak’s platform provides a cloud-based, artificial intelligence-powered supplier relationship management solution for strategic buyers and their teams to help them secure quality goods while […]

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Harness and Traceable announce merger to bring API security to AI-driven software delivery

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:30:25 +0000

Continuous software delivery startup Harness Inc. announced a merger today with application programming interface security startup Traceable Inc., which will bring its cybersecurity technology to the development and operations pipeline. Harness and Traceable are co-founded and helmed by Jyoti Bansal (pictured), who serves both as chief executive officer. Harness launched in 2017 with the mission […]

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Mistral adds major updates to its AI assistant, mobile apps and high-speed responses

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:10:37 +0000

Paris-based artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI rolled out several major updates to its AI assistant Le Chat today, including new features and mobile apps, while overhauling its pricing structure. The new Le Chat has received an upgrade to its web interface and the company also released mobile versions on iOS and Android for smartphone users. […]

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Market research AI platform GetWhy raises $8.4M funding

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:00:07 +0000

GetWhy A/S, a Copenhagen-based agentic AI-powered consumer research tech platform that helps companies carry out market research studies via video-based interviews, today said it has received 60 million DKK, or about $8.4 million in a debt financing. The money came from CIBC Innovation Banking. Since its founding in 2018, GetWhy has raised $64.5 million, including a […]

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Olas raises $13.8M to launch decentralized app store for AI agents

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:00:41 +0000

Olas announced Tuesday it has raised $13.8 million to launch Pearl, a blockchain-based decentralized artificial intelligence agent marketplace. The round was led by 1kx with participation from Tioga Capital, Sigil Fund, Zee Prime Capital and Spaceship DAO. Olas, also Autonolas DAO, launched a platform for autonomous AI agents in 2021 within the blockchain and crypto industry. […]

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Google expands access to Gemini 2.0 AI models and debuts experimental versions

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:50:14 +0000

Google LLC today said it’s expanding its Gemini artificial intelligence model family and increasing the availability of existing models. To start, Google is making an updated Gemini 2.0 Flash generally available in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, the company’s managed machine learning development platform. This follows the company making 2.0 Flash available to all […]

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Astra raises $2.7M to simplify cybersecurity by mimicking hacker behavior with AI-powered solutions

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:00:10 +0000

Astra Security, a cybersecurity startup specializing in artificial intelligence-driven penetration testing, today announced it has raised $2.7 million in early-stage funding to enhance its AI capabilities and expand its cloud offerings. Launched in 2018, Astra provides a platform that simplifies the cybersecurity process of penetration testing, or pentesting, which is the simulated process of attacking […]

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Pipedrive introduces agentic AI teammates for the sales process

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:55:02 +0000

Pipedrive, a sales customer relationship management system backed by artificial intelligence, today announced a network of intelligent AI agents that will assist customers at every stage of the sales process like teammates. Pipedrive helps salespeople manage and automate the sales process so that they can focus on leads and strategy. With this new update, the […]

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Opera launches web browser focused on well-being and mindfulness

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:30:32 +0000

Norwegian web browser developer Opera announced today released a new free browser, Opera Air, that will help users reduce stress through relaxation and mindfulness exercises. “The web is beautiful but it can be chaotic and overwhelming,” said Mohamed Salah, senior director of product at Opera. “We decided to look at science-backed ways to help our […]

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Observo reduces observability costs using agentic AI-powered data pipelines with $15M raise

Kyt Dotson — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:15:25 +0000

Observo AI, an artificial intelligence-powered data pipeline company that helps companies solve observability and security issues, said Thursday it has raised $15 million in seed funding led by Felicis and Lightspeed Venture Partners. As AI-generated data becomes the norm, enterprise businesses face ever-increasing volumes of observability and operational data, rising to terabytes and petabytes. The […]

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D3 raises $25M to put internet domain names on the blockchain

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:25:22 +0000

D3 Global, a startup working on a way to bring internet domain names onto the blockchain, said Wednesday it has raised $25 million in an early-stage financing led by venture capital firm Paradigm to make that vision a reality. The Series A round was also joined by Coinbase Ventures, co-founder of Polygon Labs Sandeep Nailwal, […]

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Sensitive DeepSeek database exposed to the public, cybersecurity firm Wiz reveals

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:25:17 +0000

New York-based cloud cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. said Wednesday it discovered a sensitive database belonging to popular Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek the company did not properly secure and thus exposed it to the public internet. DeepSeek has gained popular media fame in recent weeks after releasing several groundbreaking AI models, including DeepSeek-R1. According to the […]

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Rad AI raises $60M to help radiologists improve accuracy of patient care

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:00:41 +0000

Healthcare startup Rad AI announced today it raised $60 million in a Series C funding round led by Transformation Capital to deploy generative artificial intelligence technology for healthcare providers. Existing investors Khosla Ventures, World Innovation Lab, UP2398, Kickstart Fund, OCV Partners and Cone Health also participated in the round. The raise comes seven months after […]

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Alibaba unveils Qwen 2.5-Max AI model, saying it outperforms DeepSeek-V3

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:30:16 +0000

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., has released its latest breakthrough artificial intelligence large language model just in time for the Chinese New Year: Qwen 2.5-Max, which it claims surpasses today’s most powerful AI models. The Tuesday release of Qwen 2.5-Max is the second big LLM release out of China in […]

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