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SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Every team building agentic products faces the same tradeoff: the models smart enough to run a task end to end are the ones that make the monthly bill flinch-worthy. Agnes 2.5 Pro Alpha ends that choice — the first Agnes AI text model on Artificial Analysis, the independent leaderboard, where its image and video models already rank top ten. Agnes AI is based in Singapore and trains its models in-house. On the Intelligence Index v4.1, which blends nine evaluations, it...

CALGARY, Alberta--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Helcim Raises $53 Million Series C With Participation From Curql Fund...

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experian today announced the launch of the Experian Credit Cards app on ChatGPT....

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sequel.io launches its Agentic Engagement Cloud, using first-party audience intelligence and AI agents to turn webinar engagement into pipeline....

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Formic opens Oakland facility, expanding Full Service Automation for U.S. manufacturers and reinforcing the Bay Area as a physical AI hub....

PARK CITY, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Guardrail Technologies, the leading provider of AI security and governance software for enterprises building with AI, today released The AI Cyber-Disclosure Gap Report, the first study to measure how S&P 500 companies describe their use of artificial intelligence against how they document managing its cybersecurity risk. The first of its kind, the report is what Guardrail intends to make an ongoing benchmark, revisited on a recurring basis as filings update...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cota Capital, an investment firm focused on early-stage technology companies addressing Net New challenges in the enterprise, today announced that Daniel Karp has joined the firm as a Partner. Karp will focus on backing technical founding teams building the next generation of enterprise infrastructure, from company inception through scale.Karp brings a combination of venture investing, corporate development, product, engineering, and hands-on company-building expe...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Superstep Capital invests in independent Google Cloud consultancy Zencore, which launches ZenAI Factory, an agentic AI framework for enterprises....

PORTLAND, Ore. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InPipe Energy Inc., a U.S.-based renewable energy and smart water infrastructure company, and BluePath Finance, Inc., a leading financier of sustainable infrastructure, today announced a strategic collaboration designed to help address the capital barrier that has historically slowed clean energy adoption across America’s water systems. Under the collaboration, BluePath expects to own qualifying InPipe-sourced distributed hydropower systems and t...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Emerald AI Raises $150 Million Series A at $1.05 Billion Valuation to Scale Power-Flexible AI Data Centers...