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Aircall co-founder Olivier Pailhès returns as CEO to push AI voice agents

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. Pailhès was Aircall CEO from its founding until 2023 and has stayed on […]

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Deepgram buys Pipecat maker Daily and keeps the voice AI framework open

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. Deepgram announced the deal on Thursday in a blog post, on the day of […]

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Canada adds C$2.5M to help 25 more Prairie firms adopt AI with Amii

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. Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, will help 25 more small businesses in Canada’s Prairie provinces […]

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Serval raises $150m at $3bn valuation to replace ServiceNow with AI agents

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. Co-founder and chief executive Jake Stauch spoke […]

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Alphabet’s AI commitments pass $1tn, its quarterly filing shows

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. Chief financial officer Anat Ashkenazi had given the $1tn-plus total on Wednesday’s earnings call, Bloomberg […]

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Alphabet shares fall 12% after Google says AI Mode searches earn less

By 9:35am in New York on Thursday, Alphabet had lost $511bn in market value, Julia Love and Davey Alba reported for Bloomberg. The shares were down more than 12%. It was the company’s biggest market value loss on record. A close more than 9.77% lower would be Alphabet’s worst reaction to results since its 2004 […]

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Solink raises over $100M to turn security cameras into business data

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. Solink, an Ottawa startup that turns shops’ security cameras into a source […]

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ServiceNow shares fall a record 25% after its bookings outlook misses

ServiceNow shares fell as much as 25% to $112.37 after markets opened in New York on Thursday. It was the biggest intraday drop since the company went public in 2012, Brody Ford reported for Bloomberg. The stock was on course for its worst day on record, according to Dow Jones Market Data cited by MarketWatch. […]

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Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon tops AI rankings, but only cyber defenders get it

Google has released Gemini 4 Carbon, its newest frontier AI model, to a small group of cyber defenders. It arrives two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon reached paying users. Koray Kavukcuoglu, senior vice president at Google DeepMind and Google’s chief AI architect, announced it in a Google blog post on Wednesday. Carbon ranks first on […]

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Orange Cyberdefense joins Mistral design partner programme for Large 4

Orange Cyberdefense will use Mistral AI’s latest model to help test clients’ systems for weaknesses, investigate breaches and speed up responses to cyberattacks. The French security firm joined the design partner programme for Mistral Large 4 on Thursday, becoming the first European managed security services provider to take part. The Orange unit plans to introduce […]

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