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OPAQUE has secured $24 million in Series B funding led by Walden Catalyst, with participation from Intel Capital, Race Capital, Storm Ventures, Thomvest, and the Advanced Technology Research Council. The funding values the company at about $300 million and will accelerate development of its Confidential AI platform for enterprises handling sensitive data.
Feedzai has partnered with Neterium to integrate real-time transaction screening into its financial crime prevention platform, combining AI-driven fraud detection with cloud-native compliance screening.
Zettabyte and LITEON Technology have announced a research and development collaboration to build the Ultra Edge Pod, a distributed edge AI inferencing platform designed for deployment at cell tower and network-proximate locations.
ZAST.AI has raised $6 million in a Pre-A funding round led by Hillhouse Capital to expand its AI-driven code security platform focused on eliminating false positives.
Algorized has secured $13 million in Series A funding led by Run Ventures, with participation from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Acrobator Ventures, to expand its edge-AI technology for industrial automation.
Iambic Therapeutics has entered a multi-year collaboration with Takeda to use its AI-driven platform for small molecule drug design in oncology and gastrointestinal research, with potential payments exceeding $1.7 billion.
Robo.ai and DaBoss.AI have established a joint venture in the UAE to create a distributed embodied intelligence data acquisition and annotation center, addressing challenges in data scale, cost, and compliance for large AI models.
Swarm Defense Technologies has been chosen by the U.S. Department of War as one of 25 companies to participate in the $1.1 billion Drone Dominance Program, which aims to deploy attack drone systems across American forces.
Aligned has launched the AI Deal Workspace, a buyer-facing platform that integrates AI to streamline deal execution between sales teams and buyers, addressing inefficiencies that persist between CRMs and client communications.
Singletrack has acquired Mediasterling to strengthen its AI-based client engagement and research content capabilities for capital markets firms. The deal builds on a long-term partnership between the two companies and is effective immediately.
ElevenLabs has become the first company to secure AIUC-1 certification and launch an insurance policy covering the actions of its AI voice agents, enabling enterprises to insure against potential AI-related risks.
Adyen has launched Personalize, an AI-driven feature within its Adyen Uplift suite that adapts checkout experiences in real time to boost conversion rates and cut transaction costs.
More than 300 robotics firms have established operations in Beijing’s Yizhuang Economic-Technological Development Area, forming a 10-billion-yuan industrial chain supported by competitions, incentives, and real-world testing environments.
Saudi AI company Humain has launched Humain Sport following its acquisition of a majority stake in London-based AI and sports technology firm ai.io, aiming to expand AI-driven sports solutions globally.
Astrix Security has launched the OpenClaw Scanner, a free tool designed to detect instances of the open-source AI assistant OpenClaw across enterprise environments, addressing security concerns over autonomous AI agents.
Eve Security has filed a patent for its new 'Interrogation-as-a-Service' technology, designed to control and audit AI agent actions in real time. The system introduces a reasoning-before-execution approach to enhance safety and compliance in enterprise AI operations.
Robots & Pencils has introduced a three-part thought leadership series titled 'Supply Chain as a Patient Safety System,' authored by Eric Ujvari. The series highlights how applied AI can align healthcare supply performance with patient care demands.
Vention has introduced GRIIP, a generalized physical AI pipeline designed to automate industrial processes across multiple applications without task-specific programming. The system integrates NVIDIA foundation models and enables 24/7 autonomous operation with rapid deployment capabilities.
Kong Inc. has launched Context Mesh, a tool that converts enterprise APIs into agent-ready resources to simplify integration for AI agents, now available in tech preview for Konnect deployments.
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a lightweight version of its Codex coding model powered by Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine 3 chip. The model focuses on fast inference for real-time coding and is available in research preview for ChatGPT Pro users.
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