AI research company Pathway has secured additional funding at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed financing to $30 million as it prepares to scale a new generation of models built around its post-Transformer architecture. The financing includes participation from Id4 Ventures, TQ Ventures, Red Bridge Ventures, Kadmos Capital, and WS Investment Co., the…
Sam Jenkins, Managing Partner at Punchcard Systems, has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and organizational transformation. Since co-founding Punchcard Systems in 2016, he has helped guide the company’s growth while advising organizations on digital workplace strategy, custom software, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies. His earlier experience includes co-founding…
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Flagler Health has raised $50 million in Series B funding as the healthcare technology company looks to expand its artificial intelligence platform across the U.S. musculoskeletal care market. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from SignalFire, Alumni Ventures, Streamlined, 186 Ventures, Proof VC, Tribeca Ventures, and Offscript. The financing brings Flagler…
Moshe Sambol, VP of Customer Solutions at Lightrun – brings more than two decades of experience spanning software engineering, architecture, cloud infrastructure, and customer-facing technical leadership. Before joining Lightrun in 2022, he spent nearly a decade at Google, where he held several leadership positions, including Cloud Customer Engineering Manager, helping organizations adopt and scale Google…
Earlier this year, Google introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to enable AI agents, businesses, and payment providers to communicate and transact through a shared framework. Then came Universal Cart, the company’s new intelligent shopping hub that brings products from across its ecosystem into a single, AI-powered destination. If you rewind…
A colleague who forgot every prior conversation the moment it ended would not last long in most jobs. Yet a lot of business AI works exactly that way. The session closes and the context disappears with it. A consumer firing off one-off questions may barely notice, but a company running a process that lasts longer…
Anthropic has confirmed it will embed imperceptible watermarks into text generated by Claude models launched in the EU on or after August 2, 2026 and attach digitally signed provenance metadata to generated files, laying out the commitment in a new support page detailing its compliance plan for the EU AI Act’s transparency obligations, which became…