UiPath pushes deeper into financial services with WorkFusion acquisition
UiPath pushes deeper into financial services with WorkFusion acquisition

UiPath, the Romanian unicorn, has agreed to buy WorkFusion, bringing a specialist in AI agents for financial-crime compliance into its fold as part of a broader push into agentic automation for the banking sector. The deal closed in UiPath’s first quar…

One-third of consumers reject AI on their devices, with most saying they simply don’t need it — latest report highlights privacy fears and potential costs among other real-world concerns

A report from consumer firm Circana has shown that two-thirds of those opposed to AI believe it isn’t useful on their devices, while a third weren’t interested at all in the technology.

Capalo AI raises €11M to expand battery storage optimisation

Finnish sustainable technology company Capalo AI hascompleted an €11 million Series A funding round to support the expansion of itsAI-powered virtual power plant across Europe and to scale the optimis…

AWS revenue continues to soar as cloud demand remains high 

AWS recorded its best quarter, in terms of revenue growth, in 13 quarters in Q4 2025 as AI drives AWS adoption.

OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees.

This is the most misunderstood graph in AI
This is the most misunderstood graph in AI

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Every time OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic drops a new frontier large language model, the AI community holds its breath. It doesn’t exhale until METR, an AI…

Plato closes $14.5M round to scale AI tools for distributors

Plato, an AI-based operating system forwholesale distributors, has closed a $14.5 million seed funding round led byAtomico, with participation from existing investors including Cherry Ventures.The dis…

Qontext closes $2.7M pre-seed round to develop a context layer for AI

Berlin-basedQontext, which is developing an independent context layer for AI, has secured$2.7 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by HV Capital, withparticipation from Zero Prime Ventures a…

ElevenLabs raises $500M, says building towards IPO

Hyped AI-audio generator ElevenLabs has raised $500m in a Series D funding round, valuing it at $11bn, with its CEO saying it is building towards an IPO. The $11bn valuation marks more than a tripli…