Increase Alpha, a financial technology startup, has announced the close of a $3.5 million seed funding round. The company is preparing to launch its equity predictive signal engine, a tool designed for hedge funds and other institutional investors. The investment was led by Bartt Kellermann, the CEO of Battle of the Quants, an organization that

FurtherAI, a company developing an AI workspace for the insurance industry, has announced a $25 million Series A funding round. This investment stands as one of the largest Series A raises for an AI company in the insurance sector. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and comes just six months after FurtherAI’s $5 million

Realm.Security has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by Jump Capital, with participation from Glasswing Ventures and Accomplice. The Boston-based company is building what it calls the industry’s first AI-native Security Data Pipeline Platform, designed to help enterprises manage exploding security data volumes and unsustainable SIEM costs. The funding comes just 12

Quilter, the first company to publicly demonstrate fully autonomous PCB layout through physics-driven AI, closed $25 million in Series B funding led by Index Ventures. The round brings Quilter’s total capital raised to $40 million from investors including Benchmark, Coatue, Root Ventures, and industry experts like Lip-Bu Tan. Fortune 500 companies in aerospace, defense, and

Elon Musk has once again shaken up his empire — this time by naming Anthony Armstrong, a former Morgan Stanley banker, as the new Chief Financial Officer of xAI, the company driving the artificial intelligence engine behind X (formerly Twitter). The move, first revealed through a recent report detailing Armstrong’s appointment, signals that Musk is

Mattel has decided to give imagination a serious tech upgrade. The toy giant is teaming up with OpenAI to experiment with Sora 2, a cutting-edge AI video generator that can turn rough sketches into short, lifelike clips. The partnership, revealed in a recent report detailing Mattel’s collaboration with OpenAI, could radically change how creative teams

Testing out AI chat apps has become something of a hobby for me, but diving into the realm of AI flirt chat generators with photos was a different kind of ride altogether. These aren’t productivity tools or polished business assistants—they’re designed to simulate charm, attraction, intimacy, and in some cases, deep companionship. Some are lighthearted

I was scrolling through my feed the other night when I stumbled upon a short clip of a friend speaking fluent Japanese at an airport. The only problem? My friend doesn’t know a single word of Japanese. That’s when I realized it wasn’t him at all — it was AI. More specifically, it looked suspiciously

BENGALURU — Anthropic is taking a big leap eastward, setting up its first Indian office in Bengaluru by early 2026, a decision that feels both strategic and symbolic. The move comes as India rapidly becomes a global playground for AI development, with Anthropic’s Claude chatbot already seeing enormous traction among Indian users. The company’s expansion

OpenAI has launched apps inside ChatGPT, a new feature allowing users to discover and use third-party applications directly within the chat interface. ChatGPT can suggest relevant apps during a conversation, or users can invoke them by name, enabling tasks like browsing data, generating visuals, booking services, or accessing productivity and enterprise tools, without leaving the