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Hush Security raised $30 million in Series A funding, with Akamai Technologies joining Battery Ventures and YL Ventures as an investor. The company plans to expand its AI agent identity and access controls for enterprise systems.
Act Security emerged from stealth with $60 million in funding and launched a cloud security platform that limits access paths across cloud infrastructure for humans, workloads, and AI agents.
Cognizant has launched an EMEA AI unit to help companies in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa move agentic AI projects from pilots to larger deployments.
KDDI and Google AI Futures Fund have launched a joint program for Japanese AI startups, offering equity investment, early model access, cloud credits, GPU infrastructure, and expert support.
Orange and Morrison plan a 50/50 data centre joint venture in France targeting 400 MW of capacity, backed by a €3 billion investment programme.
Safe Superintelligence Inc. has entered a strategic partnership with NVIDIA that will expand its compute capacity by 10x. NVIDIA also made an investment in the AI lab, which is led by Ilya Sutskever.
Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cyber model, along with Perception, an agent system for security workflows. The tools are designed to work with MDASH to find and remediate software vulnerabilities.
HSBC plans to open a Global AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore in the second half of 2026 and hire more than 100 AI specialists.
Enigma has raised a $70 million seed round to test how people communicate with robots through an online experiment using more than 100 proprietary robots.
Intersignal announced progress on The Braid, its protocol for AI to AI and AI to human communication, and published a roadmap for Pipeline, a proposed public coordination layer.
BlackWolf Advisory Group and Authority Partners are partnering to help mortgage lenders and servicers assess, build, and deploy custom AI platforms without hiring internal development teams.
Rival Technologies announced a Model Context Protocol to connect proprietary research data with enterprise AI applications. It also introduced the Emerging Consumer Index for affluent Gen Z and Millennial consumers in the United States and Canada.
CollectivIQ announced new pricing tiers and admin controls that let companies set spend caps, manage model access, and view AI usage across employees and teams.
FirstTeam Real Estate is deploying PurlinOS, Purlin Close, and Purlin Offer & Negotiate across its brokerage to connect leads, CRM, contracts, closings, and commissions on one AI foundation.
deliverz.ai has introduced its AI powered hospital logistics orchestration platform to healthcare organizations in the United States.
AssureCare and CURIS have partnered to help Federally Qualified Health Centers and rural clinics use CMS Rural Health Transformation funding for care management, patient engagement, analytics, and nutrition management.
Redox and Lapsi Health are collaborating to integrate the Keikku Clinical Platform with existing EHR systems through Redox's healthcare data network.
Natural Cycles has received its sixth FDA clearance for its next generation AI powered NC° Fertility Algorithm. The update uses statistical modeling and machine learning to adapt fertility predictions to individual cycle patterns.
Insilico Medicine will present first in human Phase 1 data for ISM6331 at ESMO Congress 2026 in Madrid.
Keyfactor plans to acquire Cofide, a UK identity platform that secures software workloads and AI agents in cloud environments. The company says Cofide will extend its Trust Control Plane to non human identities.
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