Ian Leysen, CEO and Co-Founder of Datadobi – Interview Series
Ian Leysen, CEO and Co-Founder of Datadobi, is a technology executive with more than three decades of experience in software engineering, quality assurance, and enterprise data management. He co-founded Datadobi in 2009 after spending eight years at EMC as Senior Manager of Quality Assurance, preceded by leadership roles at Mediagenix and Wave Research. Throughout his…
Adam Gross, Co-Founder and CEO of HarmonEyes – Interview Series
Adam Gross, Co-Founder and CEO of HarmonEyes, is a serial entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience building and scaling technology-driven businesses across healthcare, financial services, and data analytics. He co-founded RightEye in 2013, developing an eye-tracking technology platform used across healthcare, professional sports, and military performance applications, before co-founding HarmonEyes in 2024 to extend…
Yardstik Raises $30M Series B as AI Reshapes the Future of Workforce Trust
Yardstik has raised $30 million in Series B funding as the workforce technology company looks to expand beyond traditional background checks and tackle a growing challenge for employers: determining whether workers remain trustworthy after they have been hired. The round was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with participation from existing investors Rally Ventures, MissionOG, Crosslink…
Why Travel Needs Layered AI Adoption, Not a Race to Autonomy
AI discussions in travel often tend to center on how the technology can rapidly transform the sector and deliver high-impact outcomes. The reality, however, is more nuanced. While AI has demonstrated tangible value in areas such as personalization, customer service, and operational efficiency, not everyone is adopting it at the same pace. A major reason…
When Consumers Ask AI: Rethinking Brand Visibility in the Age of AI Recommendations
The Search Result Is Becoming a Recommendation For years, digital marketing was built around a simple transaction: a consumer searched, a search engine returned options, and the consumer decided what to click. Brands competed for rankings, impressions and traffic because the consumer still did much of the research themselves. AI is changing that sequence. A…
Ransomware Operator Ran Cursor Agent Inside Ten Victim Networks
Gambit Security’s threat intelligence team has published a detailed account of the Aurora ransomware operation, including six weeks of session logs showing an operator driving SpaceX’s Cursor AI coding agent through hands-on exploitation inside ten target organizations between April 8, 2026 and May 21, 2026. Reuters, which first reported the findings on August 27, 2026,…
When AI Is Everywhere, What Becomes the Competitive Advantage?
For the past few years, access to AI has been an advantage in itself. The companies that moved early could automate faster, build new capabilities, and experiment in ways their competitors could not. But that window is quickly closing. As powerful AI models become more accessible, affordable, and widely understood, simply having AI is no…
Your AI Agent Is Only As Good As Your Filing System
On 30 December 2025, Denmark’s postal service delivered the last letter in its 401-year history. The 1,500 remaining postboxes came off the streets during that year. Meanwhile, in July 2026 the German federal cabinet approved GeDIG, the healthcare data and digital innovation act, which phases the fax out of doctors’ offices by autumn 2029 and…
The Next Challenge for AI in Personal Injury Law Is Accountability
Some of AI’s use cases are relatively anodyne; others can generate quite the controversy. And given the technology is relatively nascent, one could argue its widespread adoption in the legal industry falls into the latter category. Concerns about AI’s role in legal practice remain widespread, particularly when its outputs influence legal analysis or client outcomes….
Deep Cogito Raises $43M Series A to Build the Post-Training Engine for Self-Improving AI
Deep Cogito has raised a $43 million Series A as the San Francisco AI lab looks to scale an increasingly important part of the artificial intelligence stack: what happens after a foundation model has already been pre-trained. The round was led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park…