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Blossom Health, a New York-based telepsychiatry startup founded in 2024, has raised $20 million in combined seed and Series A funding to scale an AI-powered platform that pairs psychiatrists with clinical copilots and automated administrative support. The round was led by Headline, whose co-founder
OpenAI has shelved its plans to add an erotic “adult mode” to ChatGPT indefinitely, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, capping a five-month saga in which the feature was announced with confidence, delayed twice, and ultimately abandoned after pushback from staff, advisors, and investors. The
The BT subsidiary, operator of the UK’s largest broadband network and the country’s second-largest commercial fleet, has built a digital twin of the UK’s transport and broadband infrastructure on Vertex AI, and is using Gemini Enterprise to cut engineering overhead by more than half. Openreach, the
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla Ventures participated. The gap between an AI agent
The AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in internal benchmarking against DeepL and Gemini. The model is natively integrated into the Trados portfolio. The problem RWS is describing is a r
The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capital led the round; HSBC Innovation Banking UK also
The Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in European space. Visionaries Club and Creandum led; Lombard Odier, Atlantic Labs, and Sistafund also participated. The satellite l
Tony Siu, founder of Coffee & Code Philadelphia and an AI engineer and community builder, aims to advance a model of ecosystem development that blends human connection with the thoughtful use of AI. His approach reflects a community-first, servitude-leadership philosophy where participation, shared
BNESIM, a global connectivity provider specializing in travel eSIM and digital communications, acknowledges the far-reaching influence artificial intelligence is having across industries. Operating in a space defined by constant movement, both in terms of people and technology, the company approache
In the sprawl north of Dallas, where data centres are multiplying and the Texas grid groans under record demand, Energy Vault has placed a new bet on battery storage, and on the idea that the companies powering AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity will need far more of it, far faster. The Califo
A cow wearing a GPS collar doesn’t sound like a $2 billion idea. But for the ranchers who have strung virtual fences across 60,000 miles of American pastureland in under two years, it apparently is. Halter, the New Zealand-born agtech company, announced on Monday that it has raised $220 million in S
Enterprises have spent years and considerable fortunes building data lakehouses, training models, and unifying customer records inside platforms like Databricks. The harder problem, it turns out, is not building the intelligence but deploying it, getting a prediction out of a data warehouse and into
OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give the developers who build on top of its models the tools to avoid creating the same problem. The company announced on Tuesday that it is relea
Somewhere in your company right now, someone is sharing a login credential through Slack, a sticky note, or a spreadsheet named “passwords_final_v3.” You know it. They know it. And eventually, an attacker will know it too. This article contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these l
The nonprofit that controls OpenAI has outlined four programme areas, Alzheimer’s, jobs, AI resilience, and community, and brought on two senior hires to run the biggest of them. The gap between its charitable history and its new ambitions is the most striking number in their announcement. When Open
The deal, Amazon’s second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company’s portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed. The race to put a humanoid robot in every home
The London startup uses AI-engineered enzymes to break nylon 6,6 waste, from leggings to airbags to carpets, back into the monomers it was made from, recovering more than 90% and removing the need for virgin petroleum feedstock. Total funding now exceeds $50M. Nylon 6,6 is one of the most useful mat
Bengaluru’s Swish has now raised $54M in 18 months, values itself at $139M, and is betting that owning the kitchen, the technology, and the last mile is the only way to make ultra-fast food delivery work at scale. The timing is pointed. In the months before Swish announced its $38 million Series B,
The OpenTelemetry-native platform founded by the team behind Instana has grown to 600 customers in under two years. Its Series B, led by Balderton, with Accel, Cherry, and Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital, will fund Agent0, an AI layer that doesn’t just surface production problems but fixes them. Observ
The Italian foodtech, which makes Choruba from Mediterranean carob and has already signed four European confectionery partnerships, now has €9.4M in total funding to push commercial expansion and develop an organic product line. Foreverland, the Italian startup making a carob-based alternative to ch