News•Dec 18, 2025
Microsoft, Google Rule AI Vendor Market for Enterprises
Gartner’s 2025 report crowns Microsoft and Google as the dominant AI vendors for enterprises. Microsoft’s broad partner and platform ecosystem gives it an edge in enterprise‑wide AI, while Google’s integrated agentic AI stack positions it as the company to beat in AI agents. Despite strong vendor leadership, most firms remain in pilot phases, with only 27% expecting near‑term ROI and pricing pressures rising as hyperscalers raise AI‑related subscription fees. AWS and other challengers could shift the hierarchy as the market evolves.
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 18, 2025
Show HN: Spice Cayenne – SQL Acceleration Built on Vortex
Spice.ai announced Spice Cayenne, a next‑generation data accelerator that pairs the Vortex columnar file format with an embedded SQLite‑based metadata layer. The solution targets multi‑terabyte object‑storage workloads, delivering up to 1.4× faster TPC‑H queries and 14% faster ClickBench runs while...
By Hacker News
News•Dec 18, 2025
Palona Goes Vertical, Launching Vision, Workflow Features: 4 Key Lessons for AI Builders
Palona AI, founded by former Google and Meta engineers, announced a vertical shift into the restaurant and hospitality sector with two new products—Palona Vision and Palona Workflow. Vision leverages in‑store security cameras to monitor queue lengths, table turnover, and kitchen...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 18, 2025
'A Lot of People Cry Using the App — We’ve Had Users Say It Put Into Words Things They’d Been...
Mark Manson and AI entrepreneur Raj Singh have launched Purpose, an AI‑mentor app that delivers personalized self‑help coaching directly on users' phones. The platform tailors advice to individual values, fears and goals while explicitly refusing therapy‑level issues and directing users...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
SaasRise CEO Mastermind Recaps for the Week of December 15-18, 2025
The SaaS CEO Mastermind for Dec 15‑18, 2025 tackled market contraction, product‑market fit ambiguity, AI positioning, and 2026 strategy. Leaders were urged to shift toward enterprise customers, secure multi‑year deals, and treat AI as an optional productivity boost. Recommendations emphasized a unified...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 18, 2025
Beyond Code: How Bitrix24’s AI Powers End-to-End Project Management
Bitrix24 launches a full‑lifecycle AI‑powered project management platform that embeds intelligence directly into planning, execution, and reporting. The solution replaces fragmented AI add‑ons with a unified workspace that combines task management, Gantt/Kanban views, chat, video calls, and CRM. AI CoPilot...
By SD Times
News•Dec 18, 2025
OpenAI Now Accepting ChatGPT App Submissions From Third-Party Devs, Launches App Directory
OpenAI announced that third‑party developers can now submit apps for inclusion in a new ChatGPT App Directory, accessible from the sidebar and chat interface. The submission process went live on December 17, with approved apps slated to roll out to users...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 18, 2025
Worried About Ransomware? IDrive Launches New Salesforce Backup Tool for Greater Data Protection
IDrive has launched a dedicated Salesforce Backup service that provides unlimited storage and granular recovery for both standard and custom Salesforce data. Priced at $20 per user per year, the solution includes daily automated backups, AES‑256 encryption, and ransomware‑ready point‑in‑time...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
5 Things Businesses and Users Should Remember when Using AI Chatbots
The article warns that AI chatbot conversations are often stored long‑term, exposing sensitive personal data. It argues that superficial redaction is insufficient; true privacy requires permanent data removal and explicit retention policies. Transparency about data handling and minimizing collected information...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
From Experiment to Infrastructure: What’s Next for AI?
AI agents dominated 2025 with a record 433 deals, outpacing med‑tech and spreading across cybersecurity, supply‑chain, sales and customer service. Executives at Box and Omnea say firms are shifting from wild experimentation to intentional, outcome‑driven AI strategies, while Bloom & Wild treats...
By Sifted
News•Dec 18, 2025
Endra Closes $20M Seed Round Amid Surging Demand in Construction Supercycle
Endra, a Stockholm‑based AI‑powered platform for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) design, closed a $20 million seed round led by Notion Capital, with participation from Norrsken VC. The funding follows a €3 million pre‑seed and will finance international expansion and product development....
By Tech.eu
News•Dec 18, 2025
From A&E to SOC: What Cyber Defenders Can Learn From Emergency Healthcare
Illumio’s Raghu Nandakumara likens SOC triage to emergency‑room care, warning that current alert overload hampers cyber defence. He notes SOC analysts face more than 2,000 alerts per day, often making decisions with fragmented data, leading to burnout and missed threats....
By Silicon Republic
News•Dec 18, 2025
Report: All-Island Coordination Needed to Unlock Tech Scale-Up Opportunities
A joint report by Scale Ireland and QUBIS reveals that Ireland and Northern Ireland’s tech ecosystems operate in isolation, limiting access to finance and creating regulatory friction. Founders cite a €1.1 billion funding gap and complex tax rules as major scaling...
By Silicon Republic
News•Dec 18, 2025
NHS Tech Supplier Probes Cyberattack on Internal Systems
DXS International, a supplier of NHS digital tools, disclosed a cyber‑attack that targeted its office servers early Sunday. The breach was quickly contained by the company’s IT team, and frontline clinical services, including the ExpertCare platform used by roughly 2,000...
By The Register
News•Dec 18, 2025
HoneyBook CRM Review 2026
HoneyBook’s 2026 review highlights a user‑friendly CRM tailored for creative professionals and small service‑based businesses. The platform combines contact management, invoicing, contracts, scheduling, and automated workflows into a single, intuitive interface. Pricing is tiered from $16 to $66 per month,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
Swedish Startup TrialMe Is Fixing the Data Gap that Keeps Women Out of Clinical Trials
Swedish startup TrialMe has launched a mobile platform that connects women with clinical trials, aiming to close the long‑standing gender data gap in medical research. The app digitises pre‑screening, sends personalised trial notifications, and offers point‑based rewards, thereby cutting recruitment...
By Tech.eu
News•Dec 18, 2025
CIOs Name AI Adoption as Top Imperative: Survey
A Rimini Street survey of 4,300 C‑suite executives found that 46 % of CIOs rank AI adoption and automation as their top priority for the next five years. Executives also cite cybersecurity, compliance, and cost optimization as near‑term goals. However, ROI...
By CIO Dive
News•Dec 18, 2025
AI-Generated Code Contains More Bugs and Errors than Human Output
A new CodeRabbit study finds AI‑generated pull requests contain 1.7 times more issues than human‑written code, averaging 10.83 problems versus 6.45. The defects span critical and major categories, with security, logic and performance errors notably higher. While AI reduces spelling...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 18, 2025
Enterprise AI Coding Grows Teeth: GPT‑5.2‑Codex Weaves Security Into Large-Scale Software Refactors
OpenAI released GPT‑5.2‑Codex, an agentic coding model built on GPT‑5.2 with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities. The model achieved top scores on Capture‑the‑Flag, CVE‑Bench (87%) and a 72.7% pass rate on Cyber Range tests, demonstrating improved long‑horizon code understanding. Enterprise users can...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 17, 2025
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Dec 17, 2025
The SaasRise mastermind will pause its calls for two weeks, returning on January 7 2026. The session highlighted a shift toward holistic, multi‑channel marketing systems, emphasizing omnipresence across paid ads, outbound email, and content. CEOs received tactical advice on ABM data sourcing...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 17, 2025
Now There's a Robot App Store because We All Want Our Bots to Kick Like Bruce Lee
Unitree has introduced the world’s first Robot App Store, initially offered in beta for its $13,500 G1 humanoid robot. The marketplace hosts a handful of pre‑built routines such as Funny Actions, Twist Dance, and a Bruce Lee martial‑arts sequence, and allows...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
JP Morgan’s AI Adoption Hit 50% of Employees. The Secret? A Connectivity-First Architecture
JPMorgan Chase rolled out an internal LLM‑powered assistant suite two‑and‑a‑half years ago, and adoption surged to over 60% of its 250,000‑plus workforce without mandates. The rapid, organic uptake stemmed from a connectivity‑first architecture that embeds AI into existing data, CRM,...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 17, 2025
PayPal User Beware - Experts Warn Subscriptions Being Abused to Send Fake Purchase Emails
Scammers are abusing PayPal’s Subscriptions feature to inject phishing messages into legitimate PayPal emails. They modify the customer‑service URL and use a Google Workspace mailing list to forward the fake notice to many recipients. The forwarded emails bypass standard SPF...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
AWS Systems Targeted by Crypto Mining Scam Using Hijacked IAM Credentials
AWS reported a wave of crypto‑mining attacks that exploited stolen high‑privilege IAM credentials to spin up massive EC2 and ECS workloads. Threat actors quickly launched GPU‑heavy auto‑scaling groups and malicious Fargate containers, even enabling termination protection to keep instances alive....
By TechRadar
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI Blindness Is Costing Your Business: How to Build Trust in the Data Powering AI
AI blindness – the failure to verify data fitness for AI – is costing businesses billions as inaccurate outputs drive poor decisions. Research shows only 42% of executives fully trust AI‑generated insights, highlighting a widening trust gap. Legacy data tools,...
By TechRadar
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News•Dec 17, 2025
Small Business Tech Tips: A Guide to Getting More Done with Zoom Workplace [Sponsored]
Zoom Workplace bundles phone, chat, meetings, whiteboard and AI Companion into a single platform aimed at small businesses. The AI Companion, included at no extra cost, can generate meeting summaries, draft emails, schedule appointments and extract insights from calls. By...
By Tech.eu
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI Agents Fail 63% of the Time on Complex Tasks. Patronus AI Says Its New 'Living' Training Worlds Can Fix...
Patronus AI, backed by $20 million, unveiled Generative Simulators—a dynamic training architecture that creates adaptive, continuously evolving environments for AI agents. The platform aims to replace static benchmarks, which have struggled to predict real‑world performance, by generating on‑the‑fly challenges and feedback....
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 17, 2025
‘A Missed Opportunity’: What Does the Autumn Budget Mean for UK Startups?
The Autumn Budget introduced modest tweaks to the UK startup tax regime, notably expanding the EMI share‑scheme and doubling investment limits under the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). While the EIS increase was praised as a positive surprise, the reduction of...
By Sifted
News•Dec 17, 2025
AI Is Moving to the Edge – and Network Security Needs to Catch Up
Small and mid‑size businesses are rapidly deploying AI at the edge, moving workloads from centralized data centers to retail stores, clinics, and remote sites. This shift delivers real‑time insights, resilience, and faster deployment but strains network bandwidth and security controls....
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 16, 2025
SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind Call Recap Dec 16, 2025
The SaasRise Enterprise Mastermind call on Dec 16, 2025 dissected the year‑end slowdown in the UK, high churn, and a 50‑60% pipeline drop, urging SaaS leaders to double‑down on enterprise accounts and multi‑year contracts. Participants debated whether slipping product‑market fit or macro‑economic...
By SaasRise
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News•Dec 16, 2025
How Clay Reached $100M ARR and a $3B Valuation: Five Secrets to Success
Clay, a B2B SaaS startup, vaulted from near‑zero to over $100 million in annual recurring revenue and a $3 billion valuation in under five years. The growth stemmed from five disciplined decisions: a razor‑thin ideal customer profile, a frictionless product‑led trial, a...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 16, 2025
Pornhub Cyberattack Sees some Premium Members Data Stolen - Here's What We Know so Far
Pornhub disclosed that a supply‑chain breach of Mixpanel, a third‑party analytics provider, exposed some Premium‑member activity data. The compromised information includes emails, viewing timestamps, and video metadata, but passwords, payment details, and government IDs were not taken. Mixpanel has denied...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 16, 2025
Soundcloud Confirms Data Breach - User Info Stolen, Here's What You Need to Know
SoundCloud disclosed a cyber‑attack that compromised roughly 20% of its user base, about 28 million accounts, exposing email addresses and publicly visible profile data. The breach is attributed to the ShinyHunters ransomware group, which reportedly focuses on data exfiltration rather than...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 16, 2025
Google Tests an Email-Based Productivity Assistant
Google has introduced CC, an experimental email‑based productivity assistant powered by Gemini, through its Google Labs program. The service delivers a daily “Your Day Ahead” email that aggregates tasks, calendar events, and key updates from Gmail, Drive, and Calendar. Users...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Dec 16, 2025
Amazon Says Russian Hackers Behind Major Cyber Campaign to Target Western Energy Sector
Amazon’s security team has identified a sustained Russian GRU‑linked cyber campaign that has been compromising misconfigured edge devices in Western critical infrastructure, especially the energy sector, since 2021. The attackers, including the group known as Curly COMrades, exploit virtualization features such...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 16, 2025
Adobe Firefly Now Supports Prompt-Based Video Editing, Adds More Third-Party Models
Adobe has rolled out a major update to its Firefly AI platform, introducing a prompt‑based video editor that lets users modify clips with text instructions and a new timeline interface. The update also integrates third‑party generative models, including Black Forest...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Dec 16, 2025
With 91% Accuracy, Open Source Hindsight Agentic Memory Provides 20/20 Vision for AI Agents Stuck on Failing RAG
Vectorize.io’s open‑source Hindsight memory architecture outperforms traditional retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) by organizing agent knowledge into four specialized networks. The system achieved a record 91.4% accuracy on the LongMemEval benchmark, dramatically boosting multi‑session recall, temporal reasoning, and knowledge‑update scores. Hindsight’s TEMPR...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 16, 2025
Zoom Says It Aced AI’s Hardest Exam. Critics Say It Copied Off Its Neighbors.
Zoom announced that its federated AI system achieved a 48.1% score on the Humanity's Last Exam, surpassing Google’s Gemini 3 Pro benchmark. The approach routes queries to multiple external models and selects the best output via a proprietary Z‑scorer. Critics...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 16, 2025
Zencoder Drops Zenflow, a Free AI Orchestration Tool that Pits Claude Against OpenAI’s Models to Catch Coding Errors
Zencoder unveiled Zenflow, a free desktop AI orchestration tool that coordinates multiple AI agents—such as Claude and OpenAI models—to plan, implement, test, and review code in structured workflows. The platform replaces ad‑hoc prompting with repeatable sequences, spec‑driven development, multi‑agent verification,...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 15, 2025
Talk About a Snappy Attack - Popular Photo Booth Maker Allegedly Leaves User Images at Risk
A security flaw on Hama Film’s website allowed anyone with the URL to download user photos from its photo‑booth network across the US, UAE and Australia. Researchers accessed more than 1,000 images from Melbourne booths, discovering the pictures remained publicly...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 15, 2025
Korean AI Startup Motif Reveals 4 Big Lessons for Training Enterprise LLMs
Korean startup Motif Technologies released Motif-2-12.7B-Reasoning, an open‑weight model that outperforms many larger U.S. and European counterparts on benchmark tests. The company also published a reproducible training recipe that isolates the real drivers of reasoning performance in enterprise LLMs. Four...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 15, 2025
This Week in SaaS - Dec 9 - 15, 2025
December’s SaaS roundup featured a wave of AI‑centric funding, with Saviynt, Harness and PolyAI raising $700 M, $240 M and $86 M respectively, pushing total capital inflows above $1.3 billion. Major M&A moves included Veeam’s $1.7 B acquisition of Securiti AI and Azul’s purchase of...
By SaasRise
News•Dec 15, 2025
Zoom Brings Its AI Assistant to the Web with Access to Free Users
Zoom launched AI Companion 3.0 on its web platform, extending the assistant to free users with limited usage. Basic‑plan members receive three AI‑enhanced meetings per month and up to 20 in‑meeting queries, while a $10 add‑on removes caps. The assistant now...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Dec 15, 2025
Your Email App Isn't the Weak Link but Your Cloud Configuration Probably Is
Recent analyses reveal that email clients are rarely the root cause of data breaches; instead, 99 % of cloud security failures stem from customer misconfigurations and human error. Attackers typically gain footholds through phishing, credential reuse, or unsecured endpoints before ever...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 15, 2025
Microsoft Is Back in Court in the UK over Unfair Cloud Licensing Claims
Microsoft is back before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal after Dr Maria Luisa Stasi filed a proposed class‑action alleging the firm’s Windows Server licensing scheme penalises customers who run workloads on rival clouds such as AWS and Google Cloud. The complaint says Microsoft...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 15, 2025
Why Agentic AI Needs a New Category of Customer Data
Twilio argues that the data infrastructure behind most enterprises was built for batch‑oriented marketing, not the millisecond‑level, context‑rich interactions demanded by agentic AI. Conversational AI needs a new category of customer data—real‑time conversational memory that captures tone, intent, and sentiment...
By VentureBeat
News•Dec 15, 2025
WhatsApp’s Biggest Market Is Becoming Its Toughest Test
WhatsApp’s Indian operations face a regulatory overhaul as the government requires all messaging apps to stay continuously linked to an active SIM and to log out web sessions every six hours. The move aims to curb cyber‑fraud, which cost India...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Dec 12, 2025
5K Monitors Are Finally Going Mainstream? Asus Unleashes ROG Strix True 5120p Monitor with 90-Day Adobe Creative Cloud Subs, but...
Asus has launched the ROG Strix XG27JCG, a 27‑inch 5K monitor that packs a 5120 × 2880 Fast IPS panel and an over‑clockable 180 Hz refresh rate. The display adds Asus’s ELMB 2 dual‑strip backlight for reduced motion blur, a 97% DCI‑P3 color gamut,...
By TechRadar
News•Dec 12, 2025
Former Accenture Employee Charged by DoJ for Cloud Security Fraud
The U.S. Justice Department has indicted Hilmer, a former Accenture product manager, for allegedly deceiving federal customers about the security of Accenture's cloud platform. The indictment alleges false representations that the platform met FedRAMP standards, enabling the company to secure...
By TechRadar