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Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, lea…

Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months

Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.

Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo

This is Adobe’s second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023

Sequoia-incubated Empirik launches with $21M to predict outages before they happen

The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.

Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families

Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.

This startup is fuel-injecting hydrogen to make cargo ships more efficient

Newlight has raised a $9 million seed round and completed an 8,500-nautical-mile test run from Singapore to Ghana.

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India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation

“We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that,” Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. “I’m not going to dress these facts up.”