Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls
Fireflies launches Voice Agents for screening, sales and support calls

Fireflies has launched Voice Agents that run screening interviews, sales discovery and support calls, reporting more than 40,000 conversations across 2,100 organisations in 97 countries. Recruitment and candidate evaluation systems are high risk under …

Netherlands-based AI startup Wonderful raises $550M at $5BN valuation

Wonderful, the Netherlands-based startup that provides AI services to help companies boost productivity, has raised around $550 million at a $5 billion valuation, it said today.The Series C funding ro…

Hiasynth raises angel funding to build a queryable synthetic model of Europe’s population

AI startup Hiasynth has raised an angel funding round led by Further Than Capital. The company has built a synthetic model of Europe’s population at 1:1 scale, designed to be queried by AI. With it, a…

Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale

As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make decisions with confidence. For Jabil, a global manufacturing company with more than…

Startups want to rent your idle gaming PC for AI tasks — Startups pitch an ‘Airbnb for AI inference,’ but profitability remains unproven

If your gaming rig spends most of its life doing nothing, a pair of startups would be willing to pay you something close to minimum wage for its downtime

Meet The Ex-OpenAI Guys Building A Cheaper Open Source Alternative

Just 15 months after it founding, Applied Compute is raising $350 million at a $3.25 billion valuation, nearly double its worth from four months ago.

Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies’ AI agents into running arbitrary code — supply-chain attack via llms.txt guidance file illustrates how data has become code
Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies’ AI agents into running arbitrary code — supply-chain attack via llms.txt guidance file illustrates how data has become code

Researchers easily trick Fortune-500 companies’ AI agents into running arbitrary code. This supply-chain attack, done via using data in public llms.txt guidance files, illustrates the dangers of data becoming code.

PwC projects that the global investment in AI infrastructure will reach $31.6 trillion by 2050
PwC projects that the global investment in AI infrastructure will reach $31.6 trillion by 2050

Building the world’s AI infrastructure will cost $31.6 trillion between now and 2050, according to modelling commissioned by PwC from Oxford Economics across 46 countries. Annual capital expenditure is projected to rise from $800bn this year to $1.8tn …

OpenAI says its next model finds security flaws nobody has found yet
OpenAI says its next model finds security flaws nobody has found yet

“With the right tools and access, Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop ways to exploit them,” said Amelia Glaese, the OpenAI vice president who oversees its safety work. That is the company describing its own unreleased model. A…