OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn
OpenAI says it’s developing an AI-powered hiring platform to connect businesses and employees, a service that would put the outfit…
Year: 2025
SAP to Invest $23 Billion in Europe Sovereign Cloud
German software giant SAP announced that it is investing 20 billion euros ($23.3 billion) to expand its “sovereign cloud” services as it bets…
Ai Everything MEA 2026 Debuts in Egypt, Signaling Regional AI Leadership
Dubai, 2 September 2025 – Egypt is accelerating its leadership in artificial intelligence across the African continent and beyond, backed…
Microsoft Unveils VibeVoice for Longer Conversational AI Audio
Microsoft has released VibeVoice, a new open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model that lets users create podcasts and other audio — a counter to Google’s…
OpenAI to Acquire Statsig to Accelerate Experimentation and Application Development
OpenAI plans to acquire Statsig, the experimentation platform that powers A/B testing, feature flagging and real-time decisioning for OpenAI and other companies. Together with…
Predoc Raises $30 Million for AI-Powered Health Information Management System
Predoc raised $30 million in seed and Series A funding for its artificial intelligence-powered health information management system, according to a…
SoFi Debuts ETF to Target Companies Focused on AI
Digital finance app SoFi has introduced its SoFi Agentic AI exchange-traded fund (ETF). The ETF, dubbed AGIQ, will invest in American companies…
OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer to Lead Science Discovery Group
OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is taking on a new role inside the company that goes beyond product development: He is learning…
Google Beefs Up Gemini to Become an All-Around AI Tool
Google is beefing up its features for Gemini, its primary suite of generative AI models and the chatbot that serves as its main interface. New tools are aimed at productivity,…
UN Creates Two Mechanisms for Global Governance of AI
The United Nations has created two new global mechanisms for artificial intelligence (AI) governance, a move described by the Office of the…
PayPal Offers Early Access to Perplexity’s Comet Browser
PayPal is offering customers early access to Perplexity’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered browser Comet. The offering, announced Wednesday (Sept. 3) and open to Venmo and…
Trescon’s CARE Dialogues in Dubai highlights renewable energy and sustainable mobility trends
Dubai, UAE: CARE Dialogues, part of Trescon’s global climate action, renewable energy & sustainability event series, CARE, united top sustainability…
US and Indian VCs just formed a $1B+ alliance to fund India’s deep tech startups
Eight U.S. and Indian venture capital and private equity firms — including storied investors Accel, Blume Ventures, Celesta Capital, and…
WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool
Web publishing platform WordPress is introducing an early version of an AI development tool, which CEO Matt Mullenweg described as…
Agentic AI Puts a Face on Corporate Treasury’s Next Leap
Picture this: a treasury office in 2035. The morning might start with a chief financial officer logging into a secure…
PayPal-Backed Kite Raises $18 Million for Agentic Web
Autonomous agent infrastructure company Kite has raised $18 million in a PayPal Ventures-led funding round. “Formerly known as Zettablock, Kite leverages years of…
Anthropic Valued at $183 Billion Amid ‘Exponential Growth in Demand’
Anthropic has raised $13 billion in a Series F funding round that values the artificial intelligence (AI) startup at $183 billion. The company…
Amazon launches Lens Live, an AI-powered shopping tool for use in the real world
Amazon is further investing in AI-powered shopping experiences with Tuesday’s launch of Lens Live, a new AI-powered upgrade to its Amazon Lens shopping…
Japan team develops AI models for ovarian function prediction
Tokyo (Jiji Press) — A Japanese research team has said that it developed artificial intelligence models to predict ovarian function…
U.S. and Indian VCs just formed a $1B+ alliance to fund India’s deep tech startups
Eight U.S. and Indian venture capital and private equity firms — including storied investors Accel, Blume Ventures, Celesta Capital, and…