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Bret Taylor’s Sierra Acquires French AI Startup Fragment in Third Deal This Year

Sierra, the AI customer service agent company founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, has acquired Fragment, a Y Combinator-backed French startup specialising in AI

Signit Closes $15M Funding Round to Expand AI-Powered Contract Management Across Saudi Arabia

Saudi digital signatures and contract management platform Signit has closed a $15 million Series A round led by Raed Ventures, with participation from STV, Seedra

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 With Agentic Capabilities as Company Eyes Unified “Super App”

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on Thursday, describing it as its most capable and intuitive model to date. Co-founder and president Greg Brockman said the model represented

Google Embeds Gemini AI Across Workspace to Automate Spreadsheets, Docs, and Email

Google announced a significant AI overhaul of its Workspace productivity suite at Cloud Next this week, introducing a new system called Workspace Intelligence that draws

GRAI Announces $9M in Funding to Let Fans Remix Music With AI — With Artists’ Permission

AI music startup GRAI has raised $9 million in a seed round co-led by Khosla Ventures and Inovo VC, with participation from the a16z Scout

Afresh Secures $34M to Scale AI Across the Grocery Industry — Driving Fresher Food, Stronger Margins, and Less Waste

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Afresh, the AI platform for grocery, announced $34 million in new funding to accelerate its expansion. The round was co-led

X Launches Grok-Powered Custom Timelines as AI Reshapes Social Media Feeds

X has introduced Grok-powered Custom Timelines, allowing Premium subscribers to pin curated feeds across more than 75 topic categories directly to their home tab. The

Commission Makes €63.2M Available to Support AI Innovation in Health and Online Safety

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Seven Digital Europe Programme calls worth €63.2 million have opened to support artificial intelligence (AI) in health, digital health, digital

Sinai.ai Raises $1.45M to Transform Books Into AI-Powered Interactive Experiences

Sinai.ai, an adaptive reading platform, has closed a $1.45 million pre-seed round led by KAUST Innovation Ventures and DisrupTech Ventures, with participation from Maza Ventures

AcuityMD Lands $80M in New Funding to Fuel AI Innovation in Medical Device (MedTech) Industry

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — AcuityMD, the AI platform for MedTech, announced $80 million in new funding to elevate its platform with advanced artificial intelligence

Pudu Robotics Raises Nearly USD $150M in New Funding, Exceeds $1.5B Valuation

Insider Brief Pudu Robotics has raised nearly USD $150 million in a new funding round, pushing its valuation above USD $1.5 billion. The latest round

OpenAI Partners With Infosys to Deploy AI Coding Tools Across Global Enterprise Clients

OpenAI has partnered with Indian IT giant Infosys to integrate its AI tools, including coding assistant Codex, into Infosys’s Topaz AI platform. The deal targets

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