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Toronto-based Blue J, which develops AI tools for tax research, has raised $176M in a Series E funding round led by JMI Equity, valuing the company at more than $700M, or over C$1bn. Existing investors Oak HC/FT and Sapphire Ventures also participated, alongside Intrepid Growth Partners.
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Anthropic is adding Claude Sheets, a video call assistant and a data dashboard tool to Claude, many in beta for paid users, Bloomberg reported. The tools compete with backers Microsoft and Google. Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot can also put their apps inside Claude.
Oura is buying Counsel Health, an AI-native primary care company, for $625m in cash. The deal puts Counsel’s medical AI and its doctors inside the Oura app, Oura said on Tuesday. Ring wearers will go from a health insight to a chat with an AI, then to a physician.
Adobe wants you to embrace using your favorite AI agent to handle administrative editing so that you can create more.
The company also has a new whiteboard app.
As participants talk, Claude can draft the plan being discussed, map out a timeline on a whiteboard, answer questions in the meeting chat, and access connected work apps to retrieve information, such as last year’s figures.
For years, Anthropic has been known for its focus on enterprise and coding tools that attract high-flying corporate clients, inspiring competing frontier labs - like OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and Meta - to copy its strategies. Earlier this year, Claude Code went through its own particular hype cycle.
Reddit is turning what its users say about products into AI-made reviews. It says it will not take a cut when people buy through them. Reddit Reviews started testing on Tuesday and summarises talk about around 10,000 products, the company said in a blog post.
San Francisco-based Zacua Ventures has closed its second fund at $135m, more than doubling the $56m it raised for its first vehicle in 2024. Zacua invests in early-stage start-ups developing technology for what it calls the physical industries.
Goldman Sachs analysts expect Anthropic’s revenue to reach about $685B by 2030, Bloomberg reported. Goldman is one of the banks leading Anthropic’s IPO, which began marketing on Tuesday at a value of up to $1.4T and is due to price on 18 November.
IMAX and Meta have signed an agreement to make Meta’s VR Glasses the first VR device with IMAX Enhanced certification. IMAX will also bring an updated app to the glasses when they launch in spring 2027, the companies said on Tuesday.
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