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The cybersecurity industry has spent years adding new layers of protection around applications, cloud infrastructure, and internet-facing services. But as organizations adopt more cloud providers, CDNs, web application firewalls and network technologies, a different problem is emerging: managing all of those systems together. That challenge is now attracting investor attention. Huskeys has raised a $27 […]

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AEREDIUM has launched AERSeal, a security product for smart contracts. It exists to stop a single compromised private key from handing an attacker control of a contract. Smart contracts often rely on one private key to authorise sensitive operations. Those include minting assets, upgrading the contract, or changing administrative settings. If someone steals that key, […]

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The enterprise feature backlog is where good user requests go to wait. That wait is about to get much shorter, not because product teams got faster, but because the missing feature can now be generated at request time and discarded thirty seconds later. A support team lead opens her helpdesk application and asks: “Show me […]

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In 2026, the way we talk about AI is beginning to change. Two years ago, every boardroom argument circled the same question: which model do we bet on? Today, that question barely registers. Frontier systems have converged so tightly that, according to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, leading models gained roughly 30 percentage points in a […]

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After years of promise, the machine economy is finally taking shape. AI agents are getting wallets and are now able to make decisions on behalf of owners. For investors, this is a potentially exciting opportunity. Early movers in this space will be able to take advantage of opportunities as they become available. The biggest news […]

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Every productivity tool on the market right now is telling you the same thing: AI will replace what you do. Cut the middleman. Automate the humans. Do more with less. Filip Pesek disagrees. “The best AI tools still come with a human who knows how to think,” says the founder of DonnaPro, Europe’s premium executive […]

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For years, advertisers have been trying to connect digital campaigns with what happens inside physical stores. Perion’s latest acquisition is aimed at closing that gap, extending its advertising infrastructure from channels such as connected TV and digital out-of-home into the point of purchase. Perion, an advertising technology company operating in North America and Israel, announced […]

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As artificial intelligence pushes security operations toward greater speed and automation, the central challenge is becoming less about whether AI can investigate threats and more about whether organizations can trust it to act. SiliconANGLE first reported on Mate Security’s Gamebooks, a new architectural layer designed to give AI agents room to reason and adapt while […]

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Retail investors who lean on social media for guidance answered just 42% of a basic investment knowledge quiz correctly. The same group rated its own knowledge as high 63% of the time. Both figures come from FINRA Foundation research published in April 2026, drawn from the 2024 National Financial Capability Study. Together they describe the […]

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Liner, a South Korean AI search startup, has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding as it seeks to turn its consumer research platform used by millions into an enterprise AI business. LB Investment led the Series C round, joined by returning investors InterVest, Atinum Investment and CJ Investment. New funding participants included Korea Development […]

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