AI cost efficiency and data sovereignty are at odds, forcing a rethink of enterprise risk frameworks for global organisations. For over a year, the generative AI narrative focused on a race for capability, often measuring success by parameter counts and flawed benchmark scores. Boardroom conversations, however, are undergoing a necessary correction. While the allure of

Preply, the world’s largest online language learning marketplace, has closed a $150 million Series D funding round led by WestCap, a strategic operating and investing firm managing over $6 billion in assets. Goldman Sachs International served as sole placement agent for the transaction. The round values the company at $1.2 billion, representing a major step

Furl, a security remediation platform, has closed a $10 million seed round led by Ten Eleven Ventures. The round also saw participation from Rapid7 CEO Corey Thomas and Open Opportunity Fund. The company is addressing what many consider the weakest link in enterprise security: turning vulnerability findings into actual fixes. The funding comes as organizations

Upscale AI has closed a $200 million Series A financing round led by Tiger Global, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation. The oversubscribed round included participation from Maverick Silicon, StepStone Group, Mayfield, Prosperity7 Ventures, Intel Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures. The fresh capital brings total funding to over $300 million, propelling the company to unicorn status just

Live narrative intelligence now available directly inside ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude PeakMetrics today announced the launch of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, enabling teams to access live narrative intelligence directly inside AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude. This allows teams to analyze risk, understand emerging narratives, and apply intelligence in

Introducing Easy Metrics’ role-specific AI Agents, led by Network Analyst, delivering proactive, executive-level insight and targeted recommendations Easy Metrics, a leader in warehouse performance management, today announced a new evolution of the Easy Metrics platform with the introduction of Easy Metrics AI Agents, a new set of AI-powered capabilities designed to help warehousing and third-party logistics

Sophelio enters a new chapter as an award-winning AI company focused on signal-first, provenance-driven data platforms for complex, multimodal systems. As an award–winning company working at the intersection of AI, machine learning, and high-stakes scientific data, Sophelio builds signal-first, provenance-driven systems designed for environments where reproducibility, interpretability, and operational trust are non-negotiable. Over the past several years,

Deal brings 12.5MW of hyperscale capacity to Syntys in Qatar Free Zones Ooredoo Group and Syntys announced today that Syntys has acquired Q Data QFZ LLC, which operates hyperscale data centre facilities in Qatar serving leading cloud and AI customers, with 5MW live and 7.5MW under development. The transaction transfers ownership of two Tier III‑certified, carrier‑neutral

Q/C Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: QCLS) (“Q/C Technologies” or “the Company”), a pioneer of quantum-class computing at the speed of light, today announced the appointment of Chelsea Voss to its Board of Directors. Ms. Voss is a computer scientist and Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, where she has played a key role in the development,

ScyllaDB’s integrated Vector Search can handle datasets of 1 billion vectors with P99 latency as low as 1.7 ms and throughput up to 252,000 QPS ScyllaDB today announced the general availability of its new Vector Search. This high-performance vector search supports the industry’s largest models with low TCO. ScyllaDB is commonly used for real-time AI