AI startup Kairos launches an AI‑powered personal intern that can log into applications, navigate websites, and execute complex multi‑step tasks without human oversight. The platform includes a dedicated browser, native integrations with over 20 tools such as Gmail, Notion, and Google Sheets, and can run scheduled or trigger‑based workflows in the background. Kairos offers a free tier with limited tasks and a paid Plus plan at $37 per month that expands task volume and messaging limits. The service markets itself to marketing, sales, HR, and other departments seeking to automate repetitive processes.

PitchBook’s 2025 report sees a cautiously optimistic outlook for U.S. venture‑backed IPOs in 2026, noting that the IPO window has reopened but remains thin. Only 48 companies went public last year, delivering modest exit value while more than $4.3 trillion stays...
Pinecone Explorer is a native macOS desktop application that lets users browse, query, and manage Pinecone vector databases. The tool supports dense, sparse, and hybrid index types, offering advanced search, filtering, and built‑in reranking capabilities. It connects to both serverless...

F5 Inc. posted fiscal Q1 2026 revenue of $822 million, up 7% YoY, and adjusted earnings per share of $4.45, surpassing analyst expectations of $756 million and $3.65 EPS. Systems revenue surged 37% while software revenue fell 8%, and global services grew...

Commvault Systems saw its shares tumble more than 30% to a two‑year low after the data‑protection firm forecast fiscal 2026 fourth‑quarter revenue of $305‑$308 million, falling short of the $314 million analysts expected. The miss came despite a strong third‑quarter performance, with...
Enterprise SaaS founders identified a concise set of channels that actually close high‑value customers in 2026. SEO focused on commercial, high‑intent keywords and LinkedIn retargeting, sponsored messages, and founder‑led ads emerged as the top performers. Invite‑only masterclasses, strategic affiliate and...
Falconer introduced an “LLM‑as‑a‑Courtroom” system that automatically updates documentation when code changes, framing the decision process as a legal trial with prosecutor, defense, jury, and judge agents. The architecture extracts exact code and document excerpts, constructs arguments, and lets multiple...

Pulse, the world’s first AI‑curated technology news app, launched its beta today, inviting users to test a personalized feed of articles, videos, podcasts, and social posts across dozens of tech verticals. The platform lets users follow specific topics, publishers, creators,...
In December 2025 SoundCloud disclosed unauthorized activity that exposed profile data for roughly 30 million users, about 20 % of its base. The breach revealed email addresses, usernames, avatars, follower counts and limited geographic information, which were later mapped to individual accounts. Attackers...
Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript, reflects on his four‑decade career in a new GitHub interview. He discusses the 2014 migration of TypeScript to GitHub, the recent decision to rewrite its compiler in Go for...

ACA Group and Anduin have formed a strategic partnership to deliver a fully integrated AML/KYC and investor onboarding solution for private‑markets firms. The offering combines Anduin’s fund‑subscription platform with ACA’s ComplianceAlpha® AML/KYC managed services, creating a single‑point workflow that automates...

The Allen Institute for AI unveiled Ai2 Open Coding Agents, a family of open‑source developer agents that can be customized to any codebase. The flagship model, SERA‑32B, solves over 55 % of SWE‑Bench Verified problems, while the smaller SERA‑8B reaches 29.4 %—far...
Experian has partnered with Fincentive to launch a pension data platform that digitises the traditional annual pension payslip into up to twelve monthly digital updates. The solution leverages Experian’s data‑enrichment and PayDashboard infrastructure combined with Fincentive’s pension‑specific intelligence to provide...

Revolut Business has launched Subscriptions in the UK, an in‑app solution that lets merchants create, automate and manage recurring payment plans without additional billing software fees. The feature consolidates billing, payments and customer data, offering instant reconciliation, API access, free‑trial...

Risotto announced a $10 million seed round led by Bonfire Ventures, backed by Y Combinator and other investors. The startup builds an AI‑driven middleware that sits between ticket‑management platforms like Jira and the internal tools used to resolve issues. By leveraging prompt...

Sage Group reported a 10% revenue increase to £674 million for the quarter ending 31 December, led by a 15% rise in its Business Cloud segment. CEO Stephen Hare highlighted early AI monetisation through the Sage Co‑Pilot bundle, but stressed that large‑scale...

Databricks’ 2026 State of AI Agents report shows multi‑agent workflow usage exploding 327% over four months, yet only 19% of surveyed enterprises have deployed agents at scale. The study, based on activity from over 20,000 customers—including 60% of the Fortune 500—highlights...

Airtable unveiled Superagent, an AI‑driven multi‑agent platform, even as its market cap slumped from $11.7 billion to roughly $4 billion. The new product coordinates specialized AI assistants to produce interactive market analyses, drawing on premium data such as FactSet, Crunchbase, and SEC...

NYC‑based Nerd Apply, a privacy‑first college counseling platform, announced a $3.2 million seed round. The round was led by Riverpark Ventures and featured investors such as Alumni Ventures, 1.61 Ventures, Google Ventures CEO David Krane, and others. Nerd Apply currently supports...
The article highlights that typical B2B enterprises rely on six to ten disparate systems to support a single customer journey, leading to fragmented experiences and slow commercial change. It argues that true unified commerce is not about consolidating all functions...

Leaptree announced a suite of AI‑powered enhancements to its Optimize platform, enabling full‑coverage quality assurance across voice, email and chat within Salesforce. The new features automatically audit every interaction, generate dynamic scorecards, and deliver real‑time trend dashboards. By embedding these...

GRIN, a leading creator management platform, introduced instant, self‑serve access with month‑to‑month pricing, eliminating demos, contracts, and long‑term commitments. The new offering includes a 30‑day free trial and credit‑card billing, allowing brands of any size to launch and scale creator...

Swimlane unveiled its AI Agent workforce, branding the new Hero AI agents as native extensions of the Turbine platform. The agents claim to perform work equivalent to over 60,000 SOC analysts each day and can be dragged into low‑code playbooks via...
A new free scanner called the EU‑Sovereignty Audit lets website owners instantly assess reliance on non‑EU services such as Google Fonts, Analytics, CDNs, video embeds and more. It checks eight categories—hosting, fonts, analytics, CDN, video, chat, social and maps—to reveal...
My Main AI Inc. launched a $49‑per‑month subscription that combines text, image, voice, and video generation tools into a single platform. The plan draws on more than 100 large‑scale AI models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and...
Notte’s Demonstrate Mode, unveiled on Dec 18 2025, lets users create web automations by simply performing a task once in their browser. The tool records each click, keystroke, and navigation, then instantly outputs editable, production‑ready code without requiring prompts or syntax knowledge....
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Studocu, founded by four TU Delft students in 2013, has grown into a global EdTech platform serving 60 million monthly users in over 100 countries. Its library now hosts more than 50 million study documents from 120 000 schools, with roughly 50 000 new...

Idaho Farm Bureau Insurance adopted Akur8’s advanced pricing platform to replace fragmented, manual pricing processes. The insurer moved beyond traditional GLMs, integrating penalisation, credibility techniques and spatial analysis for more stable, long‑term rate predictions. Real‑time dashboards now let actuaries and...

DoControl unveiled an AI‑powered, agentic alerting system that continuously learns a company’s SaaS usage to spot genuine risk. Unlike static rule‑based alerts, the new solution analyzes patterns, intent, and business context from HRIS and identity sources, dramatically cutting noise. It...
Vertical SaaS firms confront unique billing challenges that generic pricing platforms cannot meet. Industry-specific workflows demand pricing logic tied to units such as locations, providers, or transactions. Purpose‑built monetization engines align charges with delivered value, reducing errors and accelerating sales....

Symbiotic Security, a Paris‑based AI‑first customer research firm, announced a $10 million seed round. The round was led by Alven and Drysdale with participation from Lerer Hippeau, Axeleo, Factorial Cap and angels from Hugging Face and Adaptive ML. The capital will fund rapid product...
Archyl launches an AI‑powered platform for documenting C4 model architectures, enabling automatic discovery of system structures directly from source code. The tool offers natural‑language conversations to query, visualize, and modify diagrams, create ADRs, and retrieve documentation without leaving the developer...

Recent research from Carnegie Mellon and Penn State demonstrates that large language models can be trained to reflect human cognitive styles, producing adaptive or innovative responses based on prompt framing. Adaptive prompts steer LLMs toward feasible, structured solutions, while innovative...

Brickanta, a Stockholm‑based AI platform for construction, closed an $8 million seed round led by Northzone, with participation from tech‑savvy angels and Y Combinator. The startup’s AI‑native operating system focuses on pre‑construction workflows such as bid analysis, cost estimation, and procurement. It...
Revolut Business has launched a native recurring billing tool that lets merchants automate subscription payments without paying for separate billing software. The feature is built into the existing Revolut Business platform, so users incur no additional subscription fees. It integrates...

AICA Data International unveiled an AI‑powered Product Classification Platform that automates mapping to UNSPSC and GS1 GPC standards. The solution delivers over 95% accuracy, handling 40,000 to 6 million items per hour, and provides a Reliability Score for each output. It...

Canadian retailers are under pressure to rebuild consumer trust and deliver personalized experiences as inflation curtails spending, according to SOTI’s latest global retail tech study. The survey of 1,000 Canadians shows 83% are shopping more carefully, while 53% expect retailers...

Conquer has introduced Voice Plus, a mobile‑first app that lets field sales reps capture calls, meetings and notes in under 30 seconds, removing the need for end‑of‑day CRM admin. The solution is built natively within Salesforce, syncing activity instantly to...

New Relic’s 2026 AI Impact Report, based on 6.6 million users in 2025, shows that engineers leveraging the platform’s generative AI and AIOps features ship code 80% more frequently than peers without AI. AI‑strengthened observability cuts alert noise by 27% and...

Wonderful introduced Agent Builder, an autonomous AI system that creates, tests, and refines enterprise agents. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, it ingests policy documents, knowledge bases, and call recordings to iteratively meet production standards. The tool claims up to 50% faster...

London‑based Flowla, an AI‑assisted automation platform for sales and customer success, closed a $2.5 million seed round led by Revo Capital. The funding will accelerate development of its buyer‑journey automation engine and fund a U.S. go‑to‑market team. Flowla’s no‑code digital sales...
Roots is an open‑source daemon that orchestrates Docker containers for game servers, exposing a full‑featured HTTP/HTTPS API, WebSocket console streams, and SFTP file access. It reads a YAML configuration (default /etc/roots/config.yaml) that defines panel integration, daemon networking, Docker settings, storage...

DemandScience’s 2026 State of Performance Marketing reveals a pervasive "Marketing Data Mirage," where 99% of marketers rely on signals that don’t reflect real buyer intent. AI tools amplify the problem by producing generic, non‑data‑driven content that erodes brand distinction. The...

Compensation platform Compa secured $35 million in Series B financing, led by Jump Capital with participation from Crosslink, Storm Ventures and others. The AI‑driven solution aggregates nine million real‑time market observations to replace traditional salary surveys, delivering instant pay analytics across salary,...

ChatGPT cannot continue a task once a reply turn ends, meaning it cannot run background processes such as long‑hand OCR transcription. The model’s “helpful” prompts often overstate its capabilities, leading users to expect continuous work that never materializes. In a...

Meta announced it will pilot premium subscription plans across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, offering exclusive features and enhanced AI capabilities. The bundles will integrate the recently acquired Manus AI agent and the Vibes video‑generation tool, while Instagram users could gain...
Google has integrated its Gemini generative AI model into Calendar, introducing a "Suggested times" feature that automatically scans attendees' calendars to recommend optimal meeting slots based on availability, work hours, and conflicts. The tool also provides a one‑click rescheduling banner...

This week SaasRise beta‑launched Pulse, an AI‑curated technology news app that pulls articles, videos and social posts into a single daily feed for community members. The edition also spotlighted a surge of large SaaS funding rounds, including €175 M for Pennylane...
A collective‑action lawsuit has been filed against Workday, Inc., alleging that its AI‑driven hiring platform discriminates against applicants aged 40 and older, violating the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The court has provisionally certified a class of anyone 40+ who...

SaasyRise introduced Pulse, an AI‑curated news app for its community, alongside a series of SaaS‑focused blogs and videos. The week featured sizable VC rounds, notably €175 M for Pennylane and $150 M for Claroty, and high‑profile M&A activity such as Capital One’s...