Profitmind has raised $9 million in Series A funding to expand its AI decision intelligence platform for retail. The round was led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from new investor Thorndale Farm, Inc., as well as returning backers Magarac Venture Partners, AI Fund led by Chairman Andrew Ng, and Lightscape Partners. Several individual investors also

Company unveils new Agentic AI capabilities in Invoice Lifecycle Management Platform, paving way to autonomous AP  The future of finance is intelligent, and Basware, the global leader in Invoice Lifecycle Management is delivering it today. The pioneer and leader in accounts payable unveiled new AI agents in its market-leading Invoice Lifecycle Management Platform that unleash the power of Agentic

70% of organizations say DevOps maturity materially affects AI success. Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams seeking AI innovation at scale, today announced the findings of the 2026 State of DevOps Report, which surveyed 820 technology professionals worldwide; 54% of respondents hold C-level positions. The survey examined whether AI renders traditional DevOps practices obsolete,

European AI semiconductor leader earns backing from funds managed by Innovation Industries and SiteGround Capital along with EU institutions; edge-first architecture addresses AI’s critical energy and cooling constraints Axelera AI, the European leader in AI acceleration hardware, announced its latest funding round led by Innovation Industries, with participation from prominent funds and accounts including BlackRock and SiteGround

New Certification Reflects Company’s Commitment to Responsible AI Development Obsidian Security, leader in SaaS security, today announced that the company has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification, the world’s first international standard for an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS). AI governance requires sophisticated platforms that can provide real-time visibility, automated compliance monitoring, and continuous risk assessment across

New real-time AI solution for in-store teams makes rapid recommendations for deals, add-ons, and savings for a more efficient customer experience  SoundHound processed nearly 30 million AI customer interactions telecom and retail businesses globally in 2025; Debuts at MWC Barcelona as part of growing interest from European market SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global

Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI developers of running large-scale campaigns to illicitly extract capabilities from its Claude model to improve their own systems. The company claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax used a distillation technique, where a less capable model is trained on the outputs of a more advanced one. More than 16 million interactions

A massive Shai-Hulud-style npm supply chain worm is hitting the software ecosystem, burrowing through developer machines, CI pipelines, and AI coding tools. Socket researchers uncovered the active attack campaign and called it SANDWORM_MODE,  derived from the “SANDWORM_*” environment variable switches embedded in the malware’s runtime control logic.” At least 19 typosquatted packages were published under multiple aliases, posing

Google has added an agent step to its Opal tool for building AI-powered mini-apps. Powered by the Gemini 3 Flash model, the new agent in Opal enables autonomous workflows that plan, reason, and execute on the user’s behalf, Google said. Introduced February 24 and available to all Opal users, the agent step upgrades Opal workflows

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached its second release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set having been frozen in December. The following 10 features are officially targeted to JDK 26: a fourth preview of primitive