Prismm helps banks keep inherited money in-house
With Prismm, account holders can give designated family members access to their accounts and documents ahead of time.
A London startup is putting AI cameras into Polish operating theatres
VitVio is deploying its Vetro camera and sensor platform at University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk, the first Polish hospital to take it. The AI Act category that covers systems mon…
Deezer will soon let you filter out AI-generated music
Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.
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Zenzap raises $44M for its AI chat app that aims to replace WhatsApp in the workplace
Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell
Humanly acquires CareerArc, adding recruitment marketing to its AI hiring tools
Humanly has acquired recruitment marketing company CareerArc, its fifth acquisition since 2025, with no price disclosed. The AI hiring tools it is consolidating fall into the EU A…
America has passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time
The US passed 80,000 public fast-charging ports for the first time, adding 4,106 in the third quarter, a 12% drop on a year earlier. The EU counted 212,439 public DC points in Apr…
Floqer’s AI agents research sales prospects so teams don’t have to
The problem Floqer is trying to solve is familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations.
Netflix to lay off 1,000 staff amid intensifying competition for user attention
Netflix said most of the cuts would affect its product, tech, legal, and human resources departments.
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OpenAI’s CFO says firms using Chinese AI models are risking security
OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar told the International AI Summit in Dublin that businesses using low-cost Chinese models are taking a cybersecurity risk. Hugging Face, …
NTangible bets it can predict how athletes will perform under pressure
NTangible is building an analytics platform for collegiate sports organizations and other clubs to measure an athlete's "clutch" factor.
Huskeys Launches Profiling to Advance Proactive Network Edge Security
For security teams, detecting a threat is only part of the challenge. They must also determine which application is at risk, how the activity relates to legitimate business operat…
AI trading agents face a reliability bar human apps never did
Picture two AI trading agents running the same model and the same strategy. A signal arrives during a fast market, both send an order, and one platform answers in milliseconds whi…
Revolut launches its mobile plan in Germany for €14.99 a month
Revolut has launched its own mobile phone plan in Germany, the company announced today. The fintech, which recently won a French banking licence, is pushing further beyond its ban…
European Commission plans to use AI to respond faster to cyberattacks
According to a document obtained by Politico, the European Commission’s IT department wants to use AI to fight back against the most dangerous cyberattacks. DG DIGIT, the Commissi…
Estonian energy storage firm Skeleton becomes unicorn with Siemens deal
Siemens has bought into Skeleton Technologies, an Estonian maker of energy storage systems. With this, the deal values Skeleton at more than $1 billion, its CEO Taavi Madiberk tol…
INmune Bio and Quantum Computing partner to apply quantum optimization and AI to advance Alzheimer’s drug research and explore new applications for XPro
Boca Raton, Florida, October 14th, 2026, Financewire Collaboration combines INmune Bio’s clinical research with QCi’s Dirac-3S quantum optimization machine to identify potential n…
Uvi raises $7.5M to give AI agents the company context they lack
Uvi, a startup that feeds company knowledge to AI agents, has emerged from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding. CT Innovations and Cardumen led the funding round, with Mana …
Forgepoint raises $9.8M to help manufacturers quote faster
American manufacturers can often make a part faster than they can get a quote back to the customer asking for it. That mismatch is the result of decades of automation reaching the…
Evos raises $9M to bring autonomous operators to industrial businesses
Evolutionary Operating System, Inc. (Evos), the company building autonomous operators for the physical economy, came out of stealth, announcing $9M in pre-seed funding. Uncork Cap…
Scimplify raises $25M to speed up critical materials production with AI
Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures to supply specialty chemicals and critical materials outside China, with German customer Henkel joining as an inve…
Apple, OpenAI head to court over AI trade secrets, with the case on the line
A federal judge in San Jose hears two opposed motions on the same day, Apple’s request to stop OpenAI using anything taken from it and OpenAI’s request to throw the case out. Appl…
US and European regulators question banks about AI agents and cyber risks
Banking regulators in the US and Europe are stepping up efforts to contain the risks AI poses to banks, Reuters reported, citing six people familiar with the matter. Some fear tha…