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Bengaluru-based FinBox, which provides B2B digital lending infrastructure, risk intelligence, and orchestration tools, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiati…

Digital credit infra startup FinBox raises $40 million from WestBridge Capital, others
FinBox, a digital credit infrastructure platform, secured $40 million in a funding round led by WestBridge Capital, with participation from A91 Partners and Aditya Birla Ventures. The company intends to utilise the funds to develop AI-driven solutions and expand its product offerings. Founded in 2017, FinBox enables enterprises and financial institutions to integrate financial services into their ecosystems.

Disproportionate Voices: Participation Inequality and Hostile Engagement in News Comments
Sangbeom Kim, Seonhye Noh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16040 https://

Disproportionate Voices: Participation Inequality and Hostile Engagement in News Comments
Digital platforms were expected to foster broad participation in public discourse, yet online engagement remains highly unequal and underexplored. This study examines the digital participation divide and its link to hostile engagement in news comment sections. Analyzing 260 million comments from 6.2 million users over 13 years on Naver News, South Korea's largest news aggregation platform, we quantify participation inequality using the Gini and Palma indexes and estimate hostility levels with a…

Moonvalley, which is developing "ethical" AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/moonva…

Moonvalley Rises $84 Million Funding Round From Comcast, CAA and More
AI research start-up Moonvalley announced $84 million in funding led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation by CAA and Comcast.

Immutable Digital Recognition via Blockchain
Zeng Zhang, Xiaoqi Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18750 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18750

Immutable Digital Recognition via Blockchain
The process integrates the decentralised management and centralised operation models, aligning them with the national policy directives. The developed solution enables the full utilisation of blockchain technology's advantages while also fostering community participation. Consequently, it establishes a secure, legal, reliable, and dynamic electronic certification system.

Moonvalley, which is developing "ethical" AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/moonva…

Moonvalley Rises $84 Million Funding Round From Comcast, CAA and More
AI research start-up Moonvalley announced $84 million in funding led by existing investor General Catalyst, with participation by CAA and Comcast.

Incentives for Digital Twins: Task-Based Productivity Enhancements with Generative AI
Catherine Wu, Arun Sundararajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08732 https://

Incentives for Digital Twins: Task-Based Productivity Enhancements with Generative AI
Generative AI is a technology which depends in part on participation by humans in training and improving the automation potential. We focus on the development of an "AI twin" that could complement its creator's efforts, enabling them to produce higher-quality output in their individual style. However, AI twins could also, over time, replace individual humans. We analyze this trade-off using a principal-agent model in which agents have the opportunity to make investments into training an AI twin…