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Kana emerges from stealth with $15M to build flexible AI agents for marketers
Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.
This former Microsoft PM thinks she can unseat CyberArk in 18 months
Though crowded, the identity management market seems eager for new solutions, and Venice is finding traction.
Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI
Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers’ confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.
OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills
OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.
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Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises
The creative company’s monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.
World Labs lands $200M from Autodesk to bring world models into 3D workflows
The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs’ models can work alongside Autodesk’s tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.
India’s Sarvam wants to bring its AI models to feature phones, cars and smart glasses
The company is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline.
Heron Power raises $140M to ramp production of grid-altering tech
Tesla alumni Drew Baglino raises a large round to build a giga-scale factory, this time at his own startup.