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The hire signals a fresh push to win corporate spending on AI customer service tools as Crescendo scales across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The funding will help Vapi scale its voice AI platform as enterprise demand surges and more than 1 billion calls flow through its agents.
The London startup will use the cash to expand in the US as its AI matching tool gains traction with engineers and employers.
Backers are betting open-source AI will gain ground as Featherless.ai uses fresh capital to serve more enterprises and hardware architectures.
The launch signals Dreame’s push beyond robot vacuums, with new appliances designed to share its bionic robotic arm system across the home.
Trust is emerging as a selling point for finance software as Sage warns that opaque AI can leave CFOs answerable for costly errors.
The customer experience software provider is courting UK and European brands as it passes USD $100 million in annual recurring revenue.
Engineering teams can now keep decisions, fixes and costs in one place as CodeRabbit brings its AI agent into Slack.
Missed calls at small firms are becoming a bigger revenue risk as Newo expands its AI receptionist tools beyond the US and into Europe.
The surge underscores how quickly AI use is spreading, while economists say official data still misses its impact on jobs and output.
Backed by Shine Capital, the London edtech aims to deepen US college growth and widen its AI tools as 13 million learners use it globally.
The test could show whether space systems can swap value directly in orbit, reducing reliance on ground stations for future satellite networks.
Access to phone calls could improve for millions of hard-of-hearing Americans as Rogervoice brings its captioned app to the US market.
The hardware observability startup is expanding its leadership bench as it targets aerospace, defence and autonomy customers with software for physical systems.
Mid-market firms could cut procurement bottlenecks as Spendflo's Flo AI automates buying, contracts and invoices across existing systems.
Australian professionals now have two purpose-built recording tools that turn meetings and calls into summaries, notes and action items.
The funding will help Astor expand its AI adviser for retail investors as younger savers increasingly turn to social media for tips.
The funding will help the San Francisco startup expand software that cuts phone calls, referrals and prior authorisations for understaffed specialty clinics.
Adoption of AI agents in business is creating a new infrastructure bottleneck as companies struggle to coordinate systems across clouds and partners.
The new robot is aimed at factory and warehouse tasks that have long resisted automation because conditions, inputs and handling change constantly.