Agentic finance AI improves business efficiency and ROI only when deployed with strict governance and clear return on investment targets. A recent FT Longitude survey of 200 finance leaders across the US, UK, France, and Germany showed 61 percent have deployed AI agents merely as experiments. Meanwhile, one in four executives admit they do not

Disconnected clouds aim to improve AI data governance as businesses rethink their infrastructure under tighter regulatory expectations. Ensuring operational continuity in isolated environments has become increasingly vital for businesses. Facilities lacking continuous internet access face unique constraints where external dependencies become unacceptable. Microsoft recently expanded its capabilities to allow regulated industries and public sectors to

Anthropic has detailed three “industrial-scale” AI model distillation campaigns by overseas labs designed to extract abilities from Claude. These competitors generated over 16 million exchanges using approximately 24,000 deceptive accounts. Their goal was to acquire proprietary logic to improve their competing platforms. The extraction technique, known as distillation, involves training a weaker system on the

Slang AI has raised $36 million in Series B funding, bringing total capital raised to $68 million. The round was led by US Venture Partners, with participation from Thayer Investment Partners and former Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson. Existing backers Homebrew, Stage 2 Capital, Active Capital, Wing VC, Collide Capital, and Underscore VC also joined

Basis has raised $100 million in Series B funding at a $1.15 billion valuation, marking one of the largest recent rounds in accounting technology. The round was led by Accel through partner Miles Clements, with participation from GV and Lloyd Blankfein. Khosla Ventures, represented by Keith Rabois and Vinod Khosla, doubled down alongside other existing

Turbine has secured $25 million in Series B funding to scale its virtual cell technology and move into immunology. The round was led by Interactive Venture Partners, with participation from Beiersdorf Venture Capital and existing investors Accel, MSD Global Health Innovation, and Mercia. The company also announced a new immunology-focused collaboration with a top 10

New survey of 200+ healthcare leaders, finds interoperability maturity continues to lag AI ambition  Rhapsody, a global leader in digital health enablement and interoperability, today released its State of Interoperability Report, revealing a persistent gap between healthcare’s investment in interoperability and its ability to translate that progress into operational impact and AI readiness.  According to the research,

Tavus, the human computing company building lifelike AI humans that can see, hear, and respond in real time, today launched Phoenix-4, a real-time behavior generation engine that generates emotionally responsive, context-aware human presence in live conversation. Phoenix-4 is the first real-time model to generate and control emotional states, active listening behavior, and continuous facial motion as

Sela and 2bcloud announced their merger, forming one of the region’s largest multi-cloud engineering organizations. The move reflects accelerating demand for cloud-native, data-driven, and AI-powered transformation. The combined company will operate under the Sela brand, employ more than 500 cloud engineers, and hold premier partnership designations across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google

Experian®, the global data and technology company, today announced it has acquired AtData, a leading data and intelligence company backed by the world’s most comprehensive email insights technology. Verified, real-time email insights represent one of the most powerful digital identity signals. The acquisition expands Experian’s vast data and identity assets, adding over 10 billion email