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Lava Secures $5.8M to Enable Frictionless Payments in the Agent-Native Economy As AI agents become a growing part of online business, the need for smarter payment solutions is accelerating. Lava Payments, a new fintech startup, has raised $5.8 million in seed funding to address this challenge by building
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Tavily Secures $25M to Power Secure Web Access for Enterprise AI Agents AI agents are rapidly transforming business operations by automating tasks across industries. In finance, they help detect fraud in real time by analyzing extensive transaction data. Sales teams deploy AI agents to research potential clients, scouring the web
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Cohere Launches North: A New Era in Secure AI Agents for Enterprises Enterprises are eager to harness the power of AI agents to streamline daily operations, but security concerns often stand in the way. Sensitive company data, regulatory compliance, and the risk of exposing trade secrets have kept many organizations
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US Arrests Two Over Alleged AI Chip Smuggling to China—Nvidia Rejects Kill Switch Proposal In a significant escalation of tensions around AI technology exports, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of two Chinese nationals, Chuan Geng and Shiwei Yang, in California on August 2nd. The
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Introducing Staan: Europe’s Answer to Big Tech Search Engines In a significant move for European digital sovereignty, Qwant and Ecosia have partnered to launch Staan, a new European search index designed to challenge the dominance of Google and Bing. This initiative aims to provide a more affordable, privacy-oriented alternative
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Clay Secures $100M in Series C, Valued at $3.1 Billion Sales automation platform Clay has officially closed a $100 million Series C funding round, boosting its valuation to $3.1 billion. This round was led by CapitalG, with continued support from notable investors including Meritech Capital, Sequoia Capital, First
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OpenAI Models Launch on AWS: What This Means for Businesses In a pivotal move for the AI industry, OpenAI's advanced models are now accessible via Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the first time. This strategic partnership enables AWS customers to leverage OpenAI's powerful new open-weight reasoning
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OpenAI Makes a Major Return to Open-Weight AI with gpt-oss Models OpenAI has announced the release of two new open-weight AI reasoning models, marking its first major step back toward open AI since the launch of GPT-2 over five years ago. The models, named gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, are now freely
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Cloudflare vs. Perplexity: The Debate Over AI Agents and Web Scraping Recently, a heated debate has emerged in the tech community following accusations by Cloudflare against AI-powered search engine Perplexity. Cloudflare, known for its web security and anti-bot services, claimed that Perplexity was stealthily scraping websites and bypassing explicit crawling
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What Is the EU AI Act? The European Union (EU) has introduced the Artificial Intelligence Act, widely known as the EU AI Act. This landmark legislation is the world’s first comprehensive law designed to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) across the EU’s 27 member countries, affecting a population of
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Google Expands NotebookLM Access to Younger Users Google has announced a significant update to its AI-powered note-taking tool, NotebookLM, now making it available to users as young as 13. Previously restricted to those 18 and older, this move opens the door for younger students, including those using Google Workspace for