Anthropic is attempting to renegotiate the terms of its AI contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD). CEO Dario Amodei has been in meetings with Emil Michael, the US under-secretary of defense for research and engineering, to iron out contractual disagreements that led the DoD to mark Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, the Financial

A new iPhone-hacking exploit has exposed the uncomfortable truth that when governments build offensive attacks, they eventually come for all of us. Revealed by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and iVerify, the Coruna exploit can compromise iPhones running iOS 13 through to iOS 17.2.1, though Apple has secured its systems against this threat in iOS 26. What Coruna does Coruna

What do tech companies have to do to get your attention?  Have you heard about the Attachment Economy? It’s the next evolution of the Attention Economy.  The Attention Economy concept was first articulated by economist Herbert A. Simon in 1971. He wrote that “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” The idea was

The financial services industry has a pilot problem. Institutions pour resources into AI proofs-of-concept, generate impressive dashboards, and then quietly watch momentum stall before anything reaches production. Singapore-headquartered Dyna.Ai was built precisely to break that pattern–and investors are now backing that thesis with serious capital. The AI-as-a-Service company has closed an eight-figure Series A round

Artificial intelligence is moving from pilot projects to core business systems inside large companies. One example comes from JPMorgan Chase, where rising AI investment is helping push the bank’s technology budget toward about US$19.8 billion in 2026. The spending plan reflects a broader shift among large enterprises. AI is no longer treated as a small

Evervault has raised $25 million in Series B financing, bringing its total funding to $46 million. The round was led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Operator Partners. The funding supports Evervault’s effort to build infrastructure that allows companies to manage sensitive data while keeping it encrypted throughout

Levitate has raised $16 million in a new funding round, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $71 million since its founding. The round was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with participation from Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and Bull City Venture Partners. The Raleigh based company builds AI powered tools designed for businesses that depend

Lio, previously known as askLio, has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The round also included participation from SV Angels, Harry Stebbings, and Y Combinator. The new capital brings the company’s total funding to $33 million. Lio plans to use the investment to accelerate product development and

Stonhaus, a two-decade enterprise sales veteran who helped build Ironclad into a category-defining company, joins Zip as the AI procurement platform enters its next phase of growth Zip, the AI platform for enterprise procurement, today announced the appointment of Dallas Stonhaus as Chief Sales Officer. Stonhaus brings more than two decades of enterprise sales leadership

Veteran database architect to guide performance and operational reliability as enterprises operationalize AI on live analytical data AtScale, the leader in governed semantic layer technology, today announced that Chuck Bear has joined the company as Chief Architect. Bear will help advance AtScale’s semantic layer as the context foundation AI systems rely on to query live analytical data and will