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Solink raised more than $100M led by Vertu Capital, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures joining. Its AI turns existing cameras in shops, restaurants and warehouses into data on theft, service and safety. It covers 35,000 locations in 65 countries.
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FuriosaAI, a Seoul-based maker of AI inference chips, has raised $620m in a Series D round. The round values it at about $2.9bn. South Korea’s National Growth Fund put in $280m, making it the largest investor. The company announced the round in a press release and a blog post.
Olivier Pailhès, who co-founded Aircall in Paris in 2014, has returned as its chief executive. He replaces Scott Chancellor and takes over a business phone company that now sells AI voice agents. Aircall announced the change on Thursday in a press release.
Serval has raised $150m in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the San Francisco company at $3bn. That is three times the $1bn valuation it reached in December, when it raised $75m. Serval announced the round on Thursday in a blog post and a press release.
SuperMe just raised $20 million to let you pester AI clones of Silicon Valley’s savviest people about your career.
Ads in YouTube’s free version are only becoming more prevalent, users on Reddit say.
The Joshua Kushner-led Thrive Holdings is acquiring ADT in an all-cash deal valued at $7.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027 and will take ADT private, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.
OpenAI has reorganised its Model Spec, the public rulebook for its AI, around five values led by faithfulness to human intent. It adds guidance on context and human agency, drops most style rules and renames the model GPT. OpenAI admits its models do not yet fully follow it.
Voice AI company Deepgram is buying Daily, the maker of Pipecat, an open-source framework for building voice agents. Pipecat will stay open source and free under its existing BSD V2 licence. The companies are also setting up an independent Pipecat Foundation.
Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will work with 25 more small businesses in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after federal agency PrairiesCan added C$2.5M. Total federal support is now C$5.6M, and the programme has helped 30 firms since 2024.
Alphabet’s quarterly filing, published on Thursday, puts its future payments for computing, energy and data centres at more than $1tn. These Alphabet commitments do not appear on its balance sheet, the filing says. Davey Alba reported the figures for Bloomberg.
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