Acquisition
Salesforce Bets Big On AI Customer Service with $3.6 Bn Fin Acquisition
Fin’s flagship AI Agent is designed to resolve customer queries end-to-end across multiple channels, including live chat, email, WhatsApp, SMS, phone, and Slack.
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Funding
AutoVRse raises $2.4 Mn to Accelerate Industrial AI Transformation Platform
The funding will help AutoVRse strengthen product development, expand integrations, and scale operations in North America, Europe, the GCC, and India.
Funding
Equal AI Raises $30 Mn Series B To Scale India’s AI Assistant For Everyday Needs
Equal AI said its consumer AI platform has crossed more than one million monthly active users and 350,000 daily active users.
Startups
Landeed Launches Terra, an AI-Powered Property Intelligence Platform for India’s Real Estate Ecosystem
Built on a corpus of over 773 million land and property documents, Terra covers primary-source data across 26 states and four union territories.
Acquisition
Salesforce to Acquire m3ter to Expand AI-Driven Consumption-Based Billing Capabilities
The acquisition will bring advanced metering, rating, and mediation capabilities into Agentforce Revenue Management.
AI News
Apna Launches India’s First AI Interview Prep Lounge to Help Job Seekers Build Career-Ready Skills
The initiative brings AI-powered career preparation directly into a physical learning environment, making advanced interview support accessible to job seekers.
Indian IT
TCS Names Soumen Roy to Lead New AI-Focused GCC Business Unit
TCS GVIC will provide end-to-end services covering the entire GCC lifecycle — from strategy and setup to scaled operations and AI-led transformation.
Developer's Corner
New Relic Launches Open-Source AI Coding Observability Tool to Bring Visibility to AI-Assisted Development
New Relic’s new solution extends production-grade monitoring into the coding phase itself, turning previously untracked AI usage into a measurable and controlled enterprise workflow.
Acquisition
Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build AI-Era Developer Stack Around Vite
The acquisition brings VoidZero’s suite of developer tools, including Vite, Vitest, the Rust-based Rolldown bundler, and the Oxc toolchain, into Cloudflare’s ecosystem.
Opinion
Anthropic Warns AI May Soon Help Create Its Own Successors, But Critics See Hype
In a new research blog post, the startup explores the concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI), the idea that advanced AI systems could eventually help design, train, and improve future generations of AI.
AI Startups
AI Startup Wordsworth Shuts Down Despite Six-Figure Revenue
The startup had raised an $800,000 angel SAFE round in early 2024.
Internet
AI Bots Overtake Humans Online for the First Time, Says Cloudflare CEO
The company's real-time traffic dashboard currently shows that bots account for 57.5% of global internet traffic, while humans make up just 42.5%