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Stitch Closes $25 M Series A Led by Andreessen Horowitz
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (560+ words) PRESS RELEASE'Stitch, the operating system built for modern financial institutions, announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The investment marks a16z's first in the GCC and brings Stitch's total funding to $35 million. In addition…...
Pan-Canadian AI Strategy: What's Working & Where It's Stuck
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (299+ words) A policy analysis from the perspective of mid-2026 This article examines where the PCAIS has delivered, where it remains stuck, and what the emerging architecture of Canada's next AI chapter looks like. These are not trivial commitments. Canada's'Cohere'one of the world's…...
Former Amazon, Meta Scientists Unveil Graphon AI, the First Pre-Model Intelligence Layer, with $8. 3 M in Seed Funding
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (227+ words) Graphon's founders and advisors bring together decades of experience in robotics, AI research and the application of graphons to real-world systems. The leadership team includes former researchers and engineers from Amazon, Meta, MIT, Rivian, Google, Apple, NVIDIA, Samsung AI Center,…...
AI Sales Compensation Startup Dolfin Raises "2. 1 M to Replace Spreadsheets With Real-Time Incentive Intelligence
3+ hour, 45+ min ago (264+ words) Barcelona-based Dolfin, an AI-native platform for sales compensation management, has closed a "2. 1 million seed round led by Swanlaab, with participation from Archipelago Next, Inveready, and Dozen. Founded in 2023 by CEO Daniel Seror and CPO Antoni Bardina, Dolfin uses AI to…...
Open AI Launches AI Personal Finance Tools and Consolidates Products Under Co-Founder Greg'Brockman
3+ hour, 29+ min ago (106+ words) Gaiia, an AI-native operating system for communications service providers, has closed a $40 million Series B led by JMI Equity with participation from Inovia Capital, Barcelona-based Dolfin, an AI-native platform for sales compensation management, has closed a "2. 1 million seed round led…...
AI Design Startup Dessn Secures $6 M to Let Designers Work Directly Inside Live Codebases
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (194+ words) Unlike ground-up ideation tools such as Lovable or Vercel's v0, Dessn targets teams with existing production codebases who want to iterate quickly. By running those codebases in the cloud and abstracting away dependencies, it removes the need for developer involvement to…...
WIRobotics Raises USD $68 M in Series B Funding to Develop Humanoid Robotics Platform
3+ day, 15+ min ago (428+ words) South Korean robotics company WIRobotics has raised about $68 million in a Series B funding round as the company expands beyond wearable robotics to speed up development of its humanoid robotics platform. The round was led by JB Investment and included…...
Cisco Cuts 4, 000 Jobs to Fund AI and Cybersecurity Push Despite Record Quarterly Revenue
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (247+ words) CEO Chuck Robbins described the company as achieving record revenue and double-digit growth, while framing the redundancies as a strategic shift toward embedding AI across the organisation. The move follows a pattern seen across the tech industry, with Cloudflare and…...
Open AI Pursues Legal Action Against Apple as Codex Goes Mobile in Battle With Anthropic
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (140+ words) On the coding front, Open AI's Codex expansion is a direct response to competitive pressure from Anthropic, whose Claude Code has grown significantly in popularity among developers and businesses. Anthropic launched a comparable mobile monitoring feature earlier this year. Cisco…...
Origin Lab Announces $8 M to Turn Video Game Assets Into AI World Model Training Data
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (217+ words) Origin Lab, a startup building a licensed data marketplace between the video game industry and AI labs developing world models, has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, with participation from SV Angel, Eniac, Seven Stars, and FPV....