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B2B operations generate enormous amounts of information—but finding the right answer, understanding what is happening, and knowing what to do next can still take time. OpenText™ Trading Grid Aviator brings AI directly into OpenText™ Business Network, helping users turn that operational complexity into accessible, actionable business intelligence. Embedded across
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The legal-AI startup is in talks to raise at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, including the new money, The Information reported. That is a 40% jump on the $11bn it set only five months ago, when it raised $200m. Lightspeed Venture Partners is keen to lead the round.
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OpenAI tested Astra, one of its upcoming models, over the past few days. In a post on Friday, it said the results were strong enough that it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities. So it is pausing some internal work on the model and scaling up security while testing continues.
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TL;DR KPMG finds 95% of organizations have an AI strategy but only 8% report established ROI. Profitalize CEO Jon Weberg argues the gap exists because companies buy AI as standalone tools rather than integrating it into connected operational infrastructure. His AI Synthesis framework treats AI as a unified system
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Security researchers at Zenity Labs uncovered a credential-stealing campaign on skills.sh, a public registry of add-ons for AI agents run by Vercel. They unveiled the research at the Black Hat conference. Attackers had cloned real skills into typosquatted look-alikes. One tainted family racked up over 1.7 million installs,
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TL;DR Clemson students built the Luminetta for BMW: a 1,212-lb solar EV with 1,700 cells that generates 31 miles of range daily. Energy-positive for a 12-mile commute. CES 2027. BMW challenged graduate students at Clemson University to build an electric vehicle that generates more energy than it
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TL;DR Paul King and Simon Farnaby pitched a droid-centered Star Wars film to Lucasfilm after Paddington 2. It had none of the franchise’s main characters. Lucasfilm passed. The idea may become something else. Paul King and Simon Farnaby, the directing and writing team behind Paddington 2, were approached
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TL;DR Disney+ and ESPN are beta testing AI search with small user groups. ESPN answers natural language sports queries. Disney+ recommends content by mood. Personal Intelligence connects Gmail and Calendar. US rollout. Disney is testing AI-powered search inside both ESPN and Disney+, the company announced on Wednesday. ESPN Search
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TL;DR NavVis raised €73.7M Series D led by The Jordan Company. Spatial twin platform has scanned 1B+ sqm. 1,500+ customers including BMW, VW, Toyota, Siemens. Expanding in US market. Partners with Nvidia, SAP, Autodesk. NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform, raised €73.7 million ($85 million) in
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TL;DR Bill Ackman says capitalism beats philanthropy at solving problems. Jeff Bezos made the same case. Ackman’s new Brain Research Institute uses nonprofit capital to spin out for-profit companies with equity for staff. Bill Ackman has spent close to $1 billion on philanthropy over two decades and concluded
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TL;DR Cloudflare launched Kitesurf, an agent-first browser on Workers. Uses 3-7x less CPU/memory than Chromium. Passes 215K+ WPT tests. Built in Rust/Wasm in 12 weeks. Free in beta via Browser Run. Will be open sourced. Cloudflare built a browser from scratch for AI agents and launched it
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