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- OpenAI open-sources teen safety policies for developers amid mounting lawsuits over ChatGPT deathsby Ana Maria Constantin on 24 March 2026 at 19:55
OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give the developers who build on top of its models the tools to avoid creating the same problem. The company announced on Tuesday that it is […]
- BlueConic joins Databricks Marketplace to bring real-time marketing decisions to the lakehouseby Cristian Dina on 24 March 2026 at 19:33
Enterprises have spent years and considerable fortunes building data lakehouses, training models, and unifying customer records inside platforms like Databricks. The harder problem, it turns out, is not building the intelligence but deploying it, getting a prediction out of a data warehouse and […]
- Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes globalby Alina Maria Stan on 24 March 2026 at 19:02
A cow wearing a GPS collar doesn’t sound like a $2 billion idea. But for the ranchers who have strung virtual fences across 60,000 miles of American pastureland in under two years, it apparently is. Halter, the New Zealand-born agtech company, announced on Monday that it has raised $220 million […]
- Energy Vault acquires 175 MW battery project in Texas as it bets on AI-driven power demandby Alina Maria Stan on 24 March 2026 at 18:36
In the sprawl north of Dallas, where data centres are multiplying and the Texas grid groans under record demand, Energy Vault has placed a new bet on battery storage, and on the idea that the companies powering AI’s insatiable appetite for electricity will need far more of it, far faster. The […]
- BNESIM on the evolving role of AI in travel eSIM as connectivity adapts to accelerating innovation cyclesby Callum Turner on 24 March 2026 at 17:20
BNESIM, a global connectivity provider specializing in travel eSIM and digital communications, acknowledges the far-reaching influence artificial intelligence is having across industries. Operating in a space defined by constant movement, both in terms of people and technology, the company […]
- Tony Siu on building AI-enabled developer communities through servitude leadership and human connectionby Callum Turner on 24 March 2026 at 15:26
Tony Siu, founder of Coffee & Code Philadelphia and an AI engineer and community builder, aims to advance a model of ecosystem development that blends human connection with the thoughtful use of AI. His approach reflects a community-first, servitude-leadership philosophy where participation, […]
- Pagaya just proved Wall Street will buy AI-underwritten auto loans twiceby Alina Maria Stan on 24 March 2026 at 14:28
Three years ago, institutional investors took a leap of faith when they purchased bonds backed by auto loans that an algorithm had selected. Now Pagaya Technologies is asking them to do it again, with the very same loans. The Israeli-founded, New York-headquartered fintech announced on Monday that […]
- Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflowsby Allison Steffens Herrera on 24 March 2026 at 13:55
The YC Fall 2025 startup, founded by a former Agicap GM and a former Apple Pay engineer, converts screen recordings of finance workflows directly into computer agents, no API integration required. 14 Peaks led the round, with Cohen Circle and 20VC participating. The CFO’s software stack is both […]
- NeuReality taps former Google AI director to steer its inference operating system into the marketby Ana Maria Constantin on 24 March 2026 at 13:45
When Jensen Huang told 30,000 attendees at GTC last week that the future data centre is a “token factory,” he was describing a world that a small Israeli startup has been quietly building toward for months. NeuReality, the Caesarea-based company behind the NR-NEXUS inference operating system, […]
- Zevero raises $7M as sustainability reporting shifts from annual obligation to continuous data infrastructureby Alina Maria Stan on 24 March 2026 at 13:33
The London-based carbon management platform, which has doubled its customer base and grown ARR 400% year-on-year, now has $14M in total funding and is pushing into Asia-Pacific and continental Europe, backed by Spiral Capital, Gazelle Capital, and Deep 30. For most companies, carbon reporting has […]
