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Happy Wednesday!
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Riding off the high of yesterday’s catchup recap, Today’s News issue covers the news from the past week, so it’ll be short and sweet.
In this Issue:
Your Weekly Industry News Recap
The Raise Recap
Headliner: One Epic Chart - AI’s World Takeover, You Can’t Ignore 📊🌍
Visual Capitalist dropped a data-packed breakdown of the 2025 AI Index, charting AI’s crazy growth across industries. 🚀📈 From research output to model efficiency to investment surges, AI’s global momentum looks unstoppable—but uneven. Some sectors (like healthcare and finance) are racing ahead, while others are just waking up. ⚡🌍 If you love trends and infographics, this report is pure gold.
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Your Weekly Industry News Recap
Top Generative AI Apps in the Enterprise – From chatbots to copilots, this breakdown covers real-world genAI use cases by industry. 🏢🤖
🔗 Read MoreOpenAI Adds Shopping Tools to ChatGPT – ChatGPT just got a cart: OpenAI is testing shopping-focused search enhancements. 🛒💬 🔗 Read More
AI’s Big Role in Future Product Design – AI isn’t just helping design products—it’s becoming a creative partner in the process. 🎨🤝 🔗 Read More
India Faces Agentic AI Talent Shortage – Demand is booming, but there’s a shortage of talent to build agentic systems. 🇮🇳🚨 🔗 Read More
Alibaba’s Qwen3 Open-Source Model Outperforms – Alibaba’s latest model beats out OpenAI’s O1 and DeepSeek R1 on key benchmarks. 🏆🇨🇳
🔗 Read MoreRachel Chng Talks Ignition AI Accelerator – The co-founder shares how she’s helping founders build and scale AI startups fast. 🚀🧠 🔗 Read More
Bloomberg Research Flags RAG Safety Risks – Retrieval-augmented generation isn’t all good—new research shows surprising safety issues. 🧠🚧 🔗 Read More
Microsoft Simplifies Copilot with Team Merge – Internal shakeups at Microsoft aim to streamline AI assistant integration across tools. 🔄💼 🔗 Read More
Baidu Drops Ernie 4.5 Turbo + Dev Tools – China’s AI race heats up with Baidu’s new models and open developer platform. ⚙️🧠 🔗 Read More
Qubrid Signs Asian Distributor Deal – Qubrid is expanding on-premise AI hardware access across Asia. 🖥️🌏 🔗 Read More
Mashable on GenAI’s Environmental Cost – The U.S. government (one of its agencies, at least) is waking up to the climate toll of large AI models. 🌎⚠️🔗 Read More
Sustainability Must Join the AI Hype Train – Productivity is great, but where’s the green AI strategy? 🧠🌱 🔗Read More
ReversingLabs Adds CycloneDX xBOM Support – Full software bill of materials (xBOM) support for deep AI and software supply chain security. 🔐📦
🔗 Read MoreABB Chooses Coveo for AI Commerce Discovery – ABB’s new AI tool is powering smarter search in its customer portal. 🔎🛠️ 🔗 Read More
Op-Ed: EU Faces Risk After Dropping AI Liability Rule – Critics say ditching the AI liability directive leaves citizens exposed. ⚠️🇪🇺 🔗 Read More
Acquisitive VCs Are Eating the AI Market – Stripe, Infinite, and others are snatching up startups at speed—M&A is back. 🛒🔥 🔗 Read More
Diligent Launches AI Risk Essentials Suite – A new AI toolkit to help boards and risk teams govern smarter and faster. ⚙️📘 🔗 Read More
Google Accelerator Makes AI Entry a Must-Have – AI isn’t optional anymore—every accepted startup is AI-native. ✅🤖 🔗 Read More
This Week’s Raise Recap 📈💰
Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Protect AI – Big security play: Palo Alto is scooping up Protect AI to lock down the AI stack. 🔐🤖
🔗 Read MoreVenture Capital Secondary Market Heats Up – With IPOs slowing, VCs are trading stakes in AI unicorns like baseball cards. 💸📉
🔗 Read MoreFluency AI Raises $15M Pre-Seed to Fix Docs – This early-stage AI startup wants to automate process documentation with real intelligence. 📑⚡
🔗 Read MoreReducto Raises $24.5M to Unlock Unstructured Data – This AI platform helps enterprises dig into messy data with precision and speed. 🔍📊
🔗 Read MoreParadigm & Nous Back Crypto-AI Venture – AI and crypto are merging again, with DeepSeek and others pulling in VC hype. 🤝🔗
🔗 Read MoreLovable Gets New Backing for AI Product Launch – This feel-good AI brand just pulled in new capital to scale user-first tech. 💕💡
🔗 Read MoreBagel AI Nets $5.5M to Improve Product Intelligence – The platform helps companies understand product behavior using AI insights. 🥯📈
🔗 Read MoreAscertain Raises $10M for Agentic AI Platform – Ascertain’s agentic AI is built for autonomy at scale—and now it’s got Series A fuel. 🧠💬
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WHAT I’M READING - Research Paper
New research on arXiv shows that even top-tier AI models crack under pressure when reading long documents. 📚🧠 Instead of smartly tracking complex narratives, most models lose focus, forget facts, or hallucinate after a few thousand words. This exposes major gaps in today’s hype around "context windows." 🚪❌ Long story short: memory and reasoning are still massive AI pain points.
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Stay well, and see you next week!
-✌🏽 Sam