News•Jan 15, 2026
Skene Raises €800k to Accelerate Software Growth via AI Agents
Skene, a Helsinki‑based product growth automation platform, closed an €800,000 pre‑seed round led by Superhero Capital with participation from NVIDIA executives. The startup’s AI agent reads a SaaS product’s source code to generate real‑time, personalized user guidance embedded in everyday workflows. By automating onboarding, adoption and retention, Skene aims to close the execution gap that leaves many SaaS tools underused. The company plans to surpass €1 million ARR and expand its autonomous growth loop by early 2026.
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 15, 2026
IBM Tackles Cloud, AI Sovereignty with New Platform
IBM announced Sovereign Core, a software platform that lets enterprises run cloud and AI workloads under their own sovereign control. The solution embeds data‑localization and governance controls directly into the software, offering a customer‑operated control plane. Available in tech preview...
By CIO Dive
News•Jan 15, 2026
US Legaltech Unicorn Harvey Is Pushing Hard Into Europe. Can It Win?
Harvey, the US legal‑tech unicorn backed by Andreessen Horowitz, EQT and Evantic, is accelerating its European push with new offices in Paris, Spain and Germany and a growing London team. The company now reports $190 m in annual recurring revenue and...
By Sifted
News•Jan 14, 2026
Depthfirst Secures $40M to Expand Agentic Approach to Software Security
Depthfirst Inc. announced a $40 million Series A round led by Accel to accelerate its AI‑native security platform. The startup’s General Security Intelligence platform deploys custom AI agents that continuously analyze code, infrastructure and workflows, delivering context‑aware vulnerability detection. In its first...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 14, 2026
Aikido Security Raises $60M Series B at $1B Valuation to Unify Application Security
Belgian cybersecurity firm Aikido Security announced a $60 million Series B round that values the company at $1 billion, making it Europe’s fastest unicorn in the sector. The funding will accelerate its unified application security platform, which combines static and dynamic testing, software...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 14, 2026
ChromaDB Explorer
Chroma Explorer is a native macOS desktop client designed for ChromaDB, enabling users to browse collections, perform semantic searches, and manage vector embeddings through a polished interface. The app supports multi‑profile connections to local, remote, or Chroma Cloud instances and...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 14, 2026
CrowdStrike Shareholders Lose Battle to Recoup Losses From 2024 Outage
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman dismissed a class‑action lawsuit by CrowdStrike shareholders alleging securities fraud over the July 2024 outage. While the court found two statements plausibly misleading, it ruled the plaintiffs did not sufficiently allege scienter, a required element...
By The Register
News•Jan 14, 2026
Four Takeaways On The State Of Social Suites
The episode highlights how social suites have become essential in martech, evolving from basic management tools to unified platforms that combine content planning, listening, creator marketing, and customer response. Four key takeaways are discussed: AI is moving from assistive to...
By Forrester MarTech
News•Jan 14, 2026
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Jan 14, 2026
The SaaSRise Mastermind on Jan 14, 2026 delivered a rapid‑fire playbook for SaaS CEOs covering digital marketing, geographic expansion, new product validation, go‑to‑market tactics, trial‑to‑paid ownership, AI‑driven UI/UX, and display‑ad performance. Attendees were urged to allocate 90% of ad spend to Meta,...
By SaasRise
News•Jan 14, 2026
Kroger Taps Google Gemini, Announces More Key AI Moves
Kroger announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, deploying Gemini Enterprise’s Customer Experience solution as a personal shopping assistant. The AI‑driven assistant can generate shoppable recipes, recommend offers, and schedule deliveries using Kroger’s real‑time inventory and pricing data. Kroger also...
By CIO Dive
News•Jan 14, 2026
How To Choose the Right Tool for Your Google ADK Agent
Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) introduces a structured tool framework that lets AI agents invoke external functions, turning them from pure text generators into autonomous actors. ADK categorizes tools into four types—function, built-in, third‑party, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools—each...
By The New Stack
News•Jan 14, 2026
Companies Confess Their Agentic AI Goals Aren't Really Working Out - and a Lack of Trust Could Be Why
A Camunda report finds 73% of firms see a gap between their agentic AI ambitions and actual deployment, with only 11% of use cases reaching production last year. Business risk, transparency and regulatory concerns dominate the hesitation, even as 71%...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 14, 2026
App Downloads Declined Again in 2025, but Consumer Spending Soared to Nearly $156B
App downloads fell for the fifth year in 2025, reaching 106.9 billion installs, a 2.7% decline from 2024. At the same time, consumer spending on mobile apps surged 21.6% to an estimated $155.8 billion, driven by the subscription economy. Non‑game apps accounted...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Jan 14, 2026
Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software
Beijing has ordered Chinese companies to cease using cybersecurity software from roughly a dozen U.S. and Israeli vendors, citing national security concerns. The directive targets products from Broadcom‑owned VMware, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Israeli firm Check Point. The move...
By Slashdot
News•Jan 14, 2026
Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)
At the OpenZFS Developer Summit 2025, Zettalane unveiled MayaNAS and MayaScale, highlighting objbacker.io—a native ZFS VDEV that eliminates FUSE overhead and streams data directly from S3, GCS, and Azure Blob. The solution aligns 1 MB ZFS blocks with individual objects, delivering...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 14, 2026
Show HN: Tabstack – Browser Infrastructure for AI Agents (by Mozilla)
Mozilla’s Tabstack launches an API that handles the web‑layer for AI agents, turning raw URLs and intents into clean, structured data. It dynamically escalates from lightweight fetches to full headless browser sessions only when JavaScript rendering is required. The service...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 14, 2026
Harvest Acquires Firstance to Expand European WealthTech Reach
Harvest, a European WealthTech software provider, announced the acquisition of Italy’s Firstance, adding a life‑insurance distribution platform to its portfolio. The deal follows Harvest’s March 2025 purchase of Fincite, which opened the German market, and now extends the group’s coverage...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 14, 2026
The Hidden Risk of Single-Developer Dependency in SaaS Companies
SaaS firms often hide a critical vulnerability when a technical co‑founder alone builds and maintains the core platform. This single‑developer dependency concentrates architectural knowledge, creates a single point of failure, and hampers scalability. The risk surfaces during rapid growth, fundraising,...
By SaasRise
News•Jan 14, 2026
Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched
Jeff Bezos likened today’s desktop towers to obsolete generators, predicting a future where users rent cloud‑based PCs from providers like AWS and Azure. Recent market pressures—soaring DRAM costs, Micron’s exit from consumer memory, and tightening SSD supply—are making that vision...
By Slashdot
News•Jan 14, 2026
From Backup to Business Resilience: Inside Cognizant and Rubrik’s New BRaaS Model
Cognizant and Rubrik have launched a Business Resilience as a Service (BRaaS) platform that merges Rubrik’s cyber‑resilience technology with Cognizant’s delivery expertise. The service addresses modern threats such as ransomware, cloud‑infrastructure attacks, and AI‑driven disruptions by providing unified data protection,...
By CIO.com
News•Jan 14, 2026
Meet the $500M AI Startup Quietly Interviewing Customers for Microsoft
Listen Labs, a San Francisco AI startup, raised $69 million in a Series B round, pushing its valuation above $500 million. The company’s automated interview platform has conducted over one million AI‑led customer interviews for brands such as Microsoft, Sweetgreen and Perplexity. By...
By eWeek
News•Jan 14, 2026
Testing AI-Infused Applications: Strategies for Reliable Automation
AI-driven workflows are being embedded directly into applications, creating testing challenges due to the nondeterministic nature of large language models (LLMs). Parasoft’s experience shows that exact‑match verification fails, driving up costs when tests repeatedly call external LLM APIs. Teams can...
By SD Times
News•Jan 14, 2026
How to Replace an Account Manager Without Risking Your Revenue
A B2B SaaS firm faced a high‑stakes transition when a top account manager responsible for millions in ARR announced their departure. The company considered a commission‑only “audition” hire, but the post warns that treating account management like sales can erode...
By SaasRise
News•Jan 14, 2026
HTTP RateLimit Headers
An IETF draft proposes standard HTTP RateLimit-Policy and RateLimit headers to inform clients about quota and window constraints, helping avoid 429 errors. The draft originally assumes quota‑reset algorithms, but the article argues that headers can work with any rate‑limit strategy,...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 14, 2026
Kaggle Introduces Community Benchmarks to Allow for Custom Evaluations of AI Models
Google’s Kaggle platform has launched Community Benchmarks, a new feature that enables data scientists to create, run, and share custom evaluation tasks for AI models. Users can define individual tasks, combine them into benchmarks, and generate leaderboards that compare model...
By SD Times
News•Jan 14, 2026
UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake
West Midlands Police admitted that Microsoft Copilot fabricated a non‑existent football match between West Ham and Maccabi Tel Aviv, which was then embedded in an intelligence report. The erroneous detail prompted the ban of Israeli supporters at a subsequent game....
By Slashdot
News•Jan 14, 2026
I’m a Backup and Recovery Provider, but Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Just Trust Me
In operational technology (OT) environments, a green check on a backup dashboard is often mistaken for a guarantee of recoverability, yet legacy systems and custom hardware make true restoration far more complex. Without continuous testing, backups can hide data corruption,...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 14, 2026
$60M Series B Propels Aikido Into the Global Unicorn Ranks
Belgian cybersecurity startup Aikido announced a $60 million Series B round that lifts its valuation to $1 billion, making it Europe’s fastest‑growing cyber‑security unicorn in just three years. The funding, led by DST Global with participation from PSG Equity and others, follows a year...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 14, 2026
Tesla to Stop Selling FSD as a Standalone Package and Switch to Subscription Only
Tesla announced that, effective February 14, it will cease selling Full Self‑Driving (FSD) as a one‑time purchase and will offer the Level 2 driver‑assist system exclusively through a $99‑a‑month subscription. The move follows a 15.6% year‑over‑year sales decline and comes as Elon...
By The Verge
News•Jan 14, 2026
AI Spending at Record Highs but Enterprises Still Miss Revenue Targets
Record AI spending is at an all‑time high, yet 87% of enterprises still miss their revenue targets according to Clari Labs’ survey of 400 CIOs, CROs and RevOps leaders. More than half (55%) encounter conflicting pipeline signals from disconnected data...
By BetaNews
News•Jan 14, 2026
Three-Quarters of UK Fintech Founders Use AI to Speed up Recruitment, Says Survey
A recent survey of 45 early‑stage UK fintech founders reveals that three‑quarters are already leveraging AI‑powered tools to identify candidates and accelerate hiring pipelines. Founders cite platforms such as Cord and Jack & Jill for faster funnel speed and reduced...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 14, 2026
Phenom Acquires Included to Expand Agentic People Analytics Capabilities
Phenom People announced the acquisition of Included, an AI‑native people analytics platform, for an undisclosed sum. Included consolidates HR, ATS, and performance data into a unified dataset and delivers real‑time, predictive insights on hiring bottlenecks, attrition risk, and equity gaps....
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 14, 2026
IO River Raises $20M to Decouple Edge Infrastructure From Services
IO River Ltd. announced a $20 million Series A round to fund its multi‑edge platform that separates edge infrastructure from add‑on services. The startup’s virtualization layer lets enterprises aggregate disparate CDN and edge providers into a single logical system, preserving performance, security...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 14, 2026
JumpCloud Unveils New AI Capabilities to Secure and Manage Enterprise AI Adoption
JumpCloud introduced AI‑focused capabilities to secure, monitor, and automate enterprise AI usage. The new suite adds zero‑trust controls for AI agents, automatic detection of shadow AI and hidden machine identities, and an AI Admin Assistant that handles routine tasks via...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 14, 2026
Fender Is Bringing Its Play Learning Platform to TVs for the First Time, in Partnership with Samsung
Fender is expanding its Play video‑based learning platform to Samsung smart TVs, launching globally in 2026 across 49 countries. The partnership is exclusive, positioning the app as a native TV experience with a new "jam mode" that adds Dolby Atmos...
By TechRadar
News•Jan 14, 2026
Banks Aim for Agentic AI Scale in 2026: Report
Banks are accelerating the deployment of agentic AI in 2026, leveraging cloud platforms to build brand‑aligned, compliant AI agents. Accenture forecasts that 57% of banking executives will embed agents in risk, compliance, audit, fraud detection, and transaction monitoring, while 56%...
By CIO Dive
News•Jan 14, 2026
The Convergence of SaaS and AI: Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
The article argues that artificial intelligence is evolving from a peripheral add‑on to the foundational layer of SaaS platforms. It outlines how AI‑driven automation, predictive analytics, and personalized experiences are reshaping product design, pricing models, and growth strategies. Real‑world examples...
By CIO.com
News•Jan 14, 2026
Drill, Baby, Drill! How Walmart's Agentic Experimentation with Google and OpenAI Promises a New Shopping Experience
Walmart is teaming with Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to embed native checkout directly inside AI conversations. The UCP will let users complete purchases without leaving Google Search, Gemini or ChatGPT, while Walmart supplies inventory data and its...
By Diginomica
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News•Jan 14, 2026
How Platform Engineering Is Dying and What that Means for Platform Engineers [Q&A]
Enterprises are moving away from building custom internal developer platforms because of hidden costs in time, talent, and maintenance. Instead they are adopting purpose‑built or open‑source platforms that deliver scalability, governance and a ready‑made developer experience. Lakmal Warusawithana explains that...
By BetaNews
News•Jan 14, 2026
How Daimler Trucks North America Built a Living Knowledge Graph of Its Business
Daimler Trucks North America built a living knowledge graph using Neo4j Aura to map its entire IT landscape after splitting from its parent in 2021. By ingesting real‑time network‑flow data from ExtraHop and coupling it with Claude’s large language model,...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 14, 2026
The Tech Leadership Realizing More than the Sum of Parts
Parts ASAP’s CIO John Fraser credits a "listen first, act later" culture and talent acquisition for building a resilient e‑commerce engine that keeps industrial equipment running. By deploying a custom product‑information management platform, the firm can publish thousands of SKUs...
By CIO.com
News•Jan 14, 2026
Spot Ship Closes £1M Round Led by Ventures.eu to Modernise Ship Chartering
Spot Ship, a UK‑based SaaS platform that applies AI and machine learning to ship chartering, closed a £1 million financing round led by Lisbon VC Ventures.eu. The round also featured Improbable CEO Herman Narula, Tradeworks.vc and Marcel Kind. Spot Ship’s API‑first solution compresses...
By Tech.eu
News•Jan 13, 2026
CrowdStrike Acquires Browser Security Startup Seraphic Security for $400M
CrowdStrike Holdings announced the acquisition of browser‑security startup Seraphic Security, with market estimates placing the deal at about $400 million. Seraphic’s platform isolates the JavaScript engine, randomizes memory addresses, and monitors over 200 webpage data points to block ransomware, phishing, and...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 13, 2026
CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions
CloudBees CEO Anuj Kapur warns that many enterprises chase costly migration projects, calling it a “migration mirage.” A recent survey shows 57% of organizations spent over $1 million on migrations last year, with an average $315,000 loss per project due to...
By The New Stack
News•Jan 13, 2026
As Enterprise Risk Rises, AI Agent Control Is Cast as Critical Infrastructure
Enterprises are rapidly deploying AI agents, but many lack robust guardrails, prompting leaders to label AI‑agent control as critical infrastructure. Rubrik’s research predicts that within a year, at least half of cyberattacks will be driven by agentic AI, highlighting an...
By SiliconANGLE