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A fragmented data estate creates confusion long before AI enters the picture, and AI only raises the stakes, says Nathi Dube, director for innovation at PBT Group.

The company is raising the funds after a shareholder restructuring that left it no longer wholly owned by Ant.

We wasted thousands on our marketing efforts. To stop bleeding the budget, we shifted to a two-track strategy for real ROI. A work-in-progress.

Running a creative agency or consulting firm is harder than ever. Client demands keep rising quickly. At the same time, operating budgets stay tight. Leaders often guess whether individual projects The post COR Raises $30M To Boost AI-Driven Profitability For Agencies And Consultancies appeared…

XRC Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Pano Anthos understands the scale of the issue of AI governance with the insurance industry dropping or excluding AI risk, as companies struggle to manage their internal architectures against outside programs.

Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises TechCrunch

Dwelly Raises Fresh Capital To Scale AI Property Platform Dwelly raised $170 million to support its AI-first property management approach. The funding was co-led by EQT Growth and General Catalyst, The post Dwelly Raises $170M to Accelerate AI-Led Property Management appeared first on Ventureburn.

Applications are open for the Google Africa Applied AI Lab, which aims to provide AI entrepreneurs and researchers with technical support and early access to Google AI models.

Octopusbot banks $1M to weaponise AI grain forecasts 7 months early, helping farmers beat market chaos.

Nvidia Corp. has committed to invest $5 billion in Ilya Sutskever’s artificial intelligence startup Safe Superintelligence Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, marking one of the chipmaker’s largest funding deals of the AI boom.

As organizations continue to invest in hybrid work, cloud applications, digital workplace initiatives, and now generative AI tools, many IT leaders are turning to digital employee experience (DEX) platforms to better understand how technology affects employee productivity and satisfaction.

Superstat bags $3.5m to drag amateur sport analysis into the AI era, then bolts for Austin.

Fishcluster is putting AI and underwater robots inside Nigerian fish ponds. Feed is over 75% of what farms spend. Yet, nobody can see whether the fish are eating or wasting it. Today the startup exits stealth mode, with 4 of the country's biggest farms and $1m in commitments.

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps.

Among a range of factors leading to a wave of tech sector layoffs in 2026 is the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and automation. Companies are reconfiguring their workforces to leverage AI for increased efficiency and reduced operating costs.

Administration will also overhaul how US government funds federal research by supporting individual scientists and AI over universities The US will spend $5bn to tackle longstanding scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, ⁠the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday.

AI's impact on American life isn't just at work. It's also at home, where it's helping with dinner and bedtime, learning our routines, overhearing arguments and never clocking out. Why it matters: The AI debate has largely focused on jobs and productivity.

The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.

AI-powered robotics in Europe: Live demonstrations and strategic debate Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/24/2026 - 14:32 02 September 2026 The European Parliament will host a gathering of policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, alongside live demonstrations of cutting-edge robots, to set the…

Venture capital investments exceeded R16 billion over the last decade, with AI emerging as the next major growth driver for South African start-ups.

Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs Reuters

Frontier AI models are getting scary good at breaking rules in ways their creators didn't anticipate. Why it matters: Forget AGI and superintelligence timelines. Today's models are already slipping past guardrails, carrying out sophisticated, multistep cyberattacks and. in at least one case.

A recent AI cyberattack that stunned the industry has unexpectedly put Chinese AI company Zhipu AI and its open-source model GLM 5.2 in the spotlight. OpenAI has acknowledged for the first time that one of its AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment during an internal cybersecurity…

The vendor has attracted notable funding as AI-related cybersecurity concerns rise.

The launch comes eight months after Fusepay launched its digital payments platform in Seychelles, and raised $350,000 in pre-seed funding in August 2025.