Compa has closed a $35 million Series B round led by Jump Capital, with participation from Crosslink Capital, Storm Ventures, Permanent Capital, HR Tech Investments LLC (an affiliate of Indeed, Inc.), and PagsGroup. The AI-driven compensation platform is changing how big companies decide what to pay their employees, using a network of nine million real-time

Egypt is once again at the center of Africa’s AI momentum as international technology experts, influential policymakers and startups prepare to convene at Ai Everything MEA Egypt 2026, the world’s first all-AI expo and summit of the year. Announced just four months ago, the event has already mobilised the global AI ecosystem at unprecedented speed,

New Agent Builder cuts time to production by up to 50% and reduces early production issues by 20% Wonderful teams up with frontier AI lab Anthropic to build the foundations for enterprises managing entire networks of agents at scale Wonderful, the enterprise agent platform, today announced the launch of its Agent Builder, an autonomous AI

The new program helps customers reach transformative AI outcomes faster News summary:   Now live, the Cisco 360 Partner Program, designed to deliver outcomes that only Cisco and its ecosystem can achieve together, showcases the power of partnering with Cisco in the AI era.  New partner designations and tools make it easier for customers to find and build partner teams for today’s needs:

Market-leading ARR growth, margin expansion and net retention underscore accelerating adoption of purpose-built Industrial AI Key highlights FY2025 Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR): +23% YoY  Cloud Revenue: +30% YoY Recurring Revenue: 83% of total revenue Net Retention Rate (NRR): 114% Operating Margin Expansion: +5pp YoY IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, today announced its financial

IVP, CapitalG, and NVIDIA anchor the round as inference becomes the defining infrastructure layer for AI. Baseten, the AI inference company chosen by the new wave of category-defining AI applications, today announced a $300 million financing with IVP, CapitalG, and NVIDIA as anchor investors. This values Baseten at $5 billion and marks the company’s third fundraise

The EU has now singled X out – and this time it’s not political, misinformation based or some nebulous free speech argument. It has to do with porn: Specifically, there’s this question of the sexually explicit images that can be created using Grok, the AI associated with Elon Musk’s platform, and whether some of those were

Organizations need to be less trustful of data given how much of it is AI-generated, according to new research from Gartner. As more enterprises jump on board the generative AI train — a recent Gartner survey found 84% expect to spend more on it this year — the risk grows that future large language models

JetBrains has released Ktor 3.4, an update to its Kotlin-based framework for asynchronous server-side and client-side application development. The release brings duplex streaming to the OkHttp client engine and introduces a new HttpRequestLifecycle plugin that enables the cancellation of in-flight HTTP requests when the client disconnects. Ktor 3.4 was announced January 23. Instructions for getting

Descope has announced Agentic Identity Hub 2.0, an update to its no-code identity platform for AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. The new release gives developers and security teams a dedicated UI and control plane to manage authorization, access control, credentials, and policies for AI agents and MCP servers, Descope said. Unveiled January