Tootfinder

Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1ahbbcbfe

Zenity raises $125 million Series C as AI agent security startup accelerates global expansion
Israeli cybersecurity company reaches $185 million in total funding as enterprises race to secure autonomous AI agents. 

Podcasting platform Riverside launches AI tools to turn videos into newsletters, draft a first cut of a recording, create social media content, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/podcasting-platform-rivers…

Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game | TechCrunch
Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/03/horizon3-hits…

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual pentesting.

Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Nvidia says RTX Spark offers up to 20 CPU cores and a Blackwell GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores, capable of "100 FPS 1440p gaming" or running 120B-parameter models (Jeffrey Kampman/Tom's Hardware)

Nvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 – new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory
Over 30 laptops and 10 desktops coming this fall with "the most efficent platform ever built"

In the wake of CEO Tobi Lutke endorsing an electoral system in which votes are allocated based on how much income tax you pay, e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that customers can put in promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off any order on any store that uses the platform.
https://

I looked at #Ceph code today, #AMA.
( https://github.com/ceph/ceph )

GitHub - ceph/ceph: Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform - ceph/ceph

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

AraOwl — Test your web knowledge
Test and sharpen your web platform knowledge with quizzes built straight from MDN Web Docs. Study anywhere — quizzes work fully offline once installed.
🧑‍💻 https://araowl.schalkneethling.com

AraOwl — Test your web knowledge
Test and sharpen your web platform knowledge with AraOwl — quizzes built from MDN Web Docs that work fully offline as an installable app.

Being on OnlyFans might seem like the antithesis of anonymity in a world of screenshots and digital footprints, but many on the platform still feel unseen.

Indeed
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/28/still-on-x-ask-yourself-why-platform-twitter-malign-actors-misinformation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

If you’re still on Elon Musk’s X, ask yourself this: why?
Some argue that quitting the platform formerly known as Twitter cedes the space to malign actors. But it’s an open sewer, beyond redemption, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

DRM-free digital media is amazing and I'm grateful for every platform that sells it 🙂‍↕️

AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣
I am very excited to announce my new platform and products!
1) The @… newsletter, made to promote all the good work being done on the #energytransition! See the welcome note at

TT#1: Welcome to Transition Times!
What this new site is all about, and why I’m doing it.

"Feldfunktionen in einem Word-Dokument in festen Text umwandeln"
https://www.deroutlooker365.de/das-loesungsvideo-nr-957-feldfunktionen-in-einem-word-dokument-in-festen-text-umwandeln/

Happy CI!
I pulled the trigger and cut over completely, we are no longer building with GitHub Actions at all.
Clean build with 45-74 warnings depending on platform, no asan/ubsan reports on the (admittedly limited) test suite, no static analysis errors, and 210 static analysis warnings - which while not ideal, is much better than the several thousand we had at the start.
This means there is now a window in which pull requests don't have CI checks (since we only run the …

"Phone Case Brand Designs Autonomous Floating Plastic Collection Platform to Combat Ocean Waste"
#Oceans #Plastic #Plastics

Phone Case Brand Designs Autonomous Floating Plastic Collection Platform to Combat Ocean Waste
According to a release from parent company RHINOSHIELF, the squadron of AI-driven drones identify pollution hotspots in real time.

That time in 2014 when I won a chicken coop in a raffle, but there were no ziptrucks available and it didn't fit in my friend's car - so I biked it home. I just happened to be wearing a #Seattle #DisasterReliefTrials t-shirt at the time.

ThreatLocker raised a $190M Series F led by Elephant as it looks to extend its zero-trust enterprise security platform to protect against AI-related risks (Kyle Alspach/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/security/2026/threatlocker-lands-190m-in-n…

ThreatLocker Lands $190M In New Funding: 5 Key Things To Know
ThreatLocker announced Wednesday it has raised $190 million in a new round of funding to further extend its zero trust security platform and expand internationally.

> Subject line: "FIFA - FAP - CONFIRMATION". Yes, FIFA's Agent Platform is officially called FAP. I cannot make this up. FAP CONFIRMATION. Moving on.
https://bobdahacker.com/blog/fifa-hack

GitLab is laying off 350 staff, or 14% of its workforce, as it pivots to become an AI-focused enterprise software development platform, and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnin…

➡️ Ghost - Website & Newsletters
#bookmarks

Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.

Fair warning - I'm starting to share some political stuff. 😎 Here's a good profile on the leader of the national Libertarian Party, Evan McMahon. I wish him well.
https://reason.com/2026/05/29/the-libertarian-partys-new-leader-has…

New Libertarian Party Chair Evan McMahon has no interest in playing kingmaker
"There's no deals that can be made for a cabinet position when you're sacrificing our set of principles in our platform," says Evan McMahon.

"[H]e came across something called “Dynamic Control Platform for Overseas Personnel.” It was a futuristic dashboard — like something from the movie “Minority Report” — that appeared to track foreigners in the northern Chinese city of Zhangjiakou."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/world/asia/china-surveillance-foreigners-database.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.khtF.stlDJiDcjqVJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Analytical investigation of metal distribution from e-cigarette aerosols to lung deposition using multi-platform mass spectrometry https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00216-026-06487-1

Analytical investigation of metal distribution from e-cigarette aerosols to lung deposition using multi-platform mass spectrometry - Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
E-cigarettes are promoted as a safer alternative to conventional tobacco, yet emerging evidence indicates they may expose users to harmful metals. While prior research has focused on nicotine and organic constituents, the bioaccumulation and spatial distribution of toxic metals in lung tissue remain poorly understood. In this study, a multi-platform analytical approach combining ICP-MS, GC-ICP-MS, GC-MS, and LA-ICP-MS/MS was employed to characterise the elemental and organic composition of refi…

Google I/O showed how the industry has seized upon LLMs as the "future" of software. But that couldn't be further from the truth! It is an intensification of the old way. The same features as before, only MORE and FASTER.
It's the same mediocre vision execs have had for 40 years: give customers more tasks to do on your platform, sell them tools to solve the problems you created.
But the conditions that made this business model possible are collapsing.

AI is not the future of software development, but the last dying gasp of the past
The industry has been building careers and business models around solving the very problems it created. But the conditions that once made this possible are breaking down.

Research Paper: »Platform Collective Behavior as Democratic Infrastructure: Beyond Causal Effects in the DSA Era«
> The article concludes that #DSA access is necessary but insufficient for fully assessing platform influence on #democracy.
30 Jun 2026, Anja Bechmann, Department of Media and Journalism, Aarhus University, Denmark:
👉 #DigitalServicesAct

New media sites on the left have found growing audiences; Drop Site News co-founder Ryan Grim says his two-year-old site has 800K free and 60K paid subscribers (Ali Swenson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/democratic-

How progressive media is boosting insurgent Democrats before midterms
More progressive Americans are swearing off traditional media. They’re turning to independent podcasts, social media and digital news for information. This shift could impact Democratic primaries by promoting progressive candidates. The rise of alternative media has been fueled in part by declining trust in institutions. Drop Site News co-founder Ryan Grim says progressive politicians have sought out his platform to reach voters. In Michigan, a Senate primary is testing its influence, with pr…

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Scan Their Faces to Keep Getting Care https://www.404media.co/headway-therapy-facial-scan-biometric-data-identity-verification/

Decentralized Social Media: What Creators Need To Know About Web3 Platforms
Most people don’t think about where their social media actually lives.
And if that doesn’t sit right with you, you’re not alone. That’s a little too much power for a small group of people to wield.
Here’s the good news: A different kind of social media is starting to grow in the background. One built on openness, transparency, and user control instead of central control.

"AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn"
#AI

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

At a liquor store, bar, or casino, getting carded is part of the cost of entry.
Now the internet is carding people, too
—and the companies doing the carding are cashing in.
New laws and platform rules are pushing games, social platforms, AIproducts, and adult sites to replace birthday boxes
(the fields where you enter your DOB)
with identity checks.
What was once a compliance tool for sellers in age-restricted industries is becoming infrastructure for the i…

The Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. These Startups Are Making Millions From It
Age-verification systems are increasingly sophisticated. They're lucrative for the businesses creating them, too.

from my link log —
SUNSPOT: an implant in the SolarWinds Orion build process.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/sunspot-malware-technical-analysis/
saved 2021-01-12

SUNSPOT Malware: A Technical Analysis | CrowdStrike
In this blog, we offer a technical analysis of SUNSPOT, malware that was deployed into the build environment to inject this backdoor into the SolarWinds Orion platform.

GitHub's repo name suggestion is still the most unhinged part of the platform:

An update on the status of the race for my House seat: When I last posted about it, the 2 Dems interested in running for it were Jason Quinno and Tom Brennan. However, they have decided to run for the floterial instead, so now Nate Giffard is running for my seat. I met him today, and he seems good. Since he is now the only Dem running for the seat, I'd like to officially endorse him for the position. He's running on a platform of housing, general affordability, and civil rights. Here's a link to his website:
#NHPolitics

LinkedIn introduces a "seems like AI slop" button to allow users to report a post they think is AI-generated (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.

It's been a hard days night and I've been sleeping like a Twig
#CatsOfMastodon

Trump Media's new paid data API debuts, for "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths"; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/01/trump-media…

Trump Media's new paid data service goes live, giving clients faster access to Trump’s posts
Trump Media and Technology Group's new paid data service launched Aug. 1, selling faster access to top Truth Social posts from President Donald Trump and more.

Big Tobacco stapt in het Nederlandse wietexperiment | Investico Onderzoeksjournalisten
#wiet

European grid and system operators have launched a pan-EU grid hosting capacity overview: Capacitypedia.
https://www.tsodsoplatform.eu/capacitypedia

Capacitypedia | TSO-DSO Cooperation Platform

Nanoscope Therapeutics: vision improvement with optogenetic therapy in macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa https://nanostherapeutics.com/2026/07/10/nanoscope-therapeutics-to-present-at-20…

Nanoscope Therapeutics to Present at 2026 American Society of Retina Specialists Annual Scientific Meeting - Nanoscope Therapeutics
Our multi-characteristic opsin (MCO) platform is the first to demonstrate an ability to restore vision to retinal disease patients with severe vision loss in clincial trials. Nanoscope has developed MCO-010, the first and only broad spectrum, fast response and ultra-sensitive optogenetic technology for vision restoration that is gene-agnostic.

With less than two months until the launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace #Roman Space Telescope, engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the observatory for its trip to space: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/2026/07/09/nasas-roman-launch-preparations-proceed/ - inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, technicians used large cranes to carefully lift Roman and place it onto a specialized work platform, known as the Pantheon.

No business platform with built in spellcheck, please stop trying to convert or autocorrect
`2026-06-10`
into
`June 10, 2026`
Everyone recognizes the #ISO8601 #datetime #format as

RE: https://ohai.social/@MarciaW/116741480982403283
“In late May 2026, Rome Pride organizers delivered a clear and courageous message: there will be no platform for complicity with genocide. Italy’s only Jewish LGBTQ organization, Keshet Italia, was barred fr…

Nvidia says its Vera Rubin computing platform is ramping into "full production", with first systems expected to ship in the fall, after a March announcement (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/01/nv

Nvidia ramps up production of Vera Rubin, the foundation of the next generation of AI factories - SiliconANGLE
Nvidia ramps up production of Vera Rubin, the foundation of the next generation of AI factories - SiliconANGLE

I'll be working a bit more on the @… build system tomorrow, using the Allwinner D1 as a test platform.
Ferris says hi!

bitcoin_alpha: Bitcoin Alpha trust network (2017)
A network of who-trusts-whom relationships among users of the Bitcoin Alpha platform. Each directed edge (i,j,w) represents the rating of user j by user i, in which i assigns j a weight w on a scale of -10 (total distrust) to 10 (total trust) in steps of 1.
This network has 3783 nodes and 24186 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Signed, Timestamps

Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/05/28/fonoa-110m-pwc-tax-platform-buy…

Exclusive: Fonoa raises $110M, buys PwC tax platform
Global tax compliance is becoming real-time, creating risk for cross border sellers.

"Culturally Grounded Gamification in Higher Education: A Custom Audio-Quiz for Teaching Kazakh Traditional Music"
https://doi.org/10.28945/5750
"This study examines how a culturally embedded, gamified digital audio quiz platform can improve student engagement and learning in higher educa…

Ukrainian hackers claim to have breached the Russian Glaz/Groza combat control system, gaining access to data and internal materials linked to the platform.
They posted the files at https://drive.proton.me/urls/RQPY6YNC50#hIDatVjesTH9

Proton Drive
Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.

➡️ Openness, transparency and reach: Public institutions should embrace the Fediverse
https://blog.elenarossini.com/openness-transparency-and-reach-three-reasons-why-public-institutions-should-embrace-the-fediv…

Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse
An article making the case that the Fediverse is a fantastic communication platform for public institutions - because of its openness, transparency and reach.

Forbes unveils Forbes Creator, which uses TikTok, Instagram, and events to push video-led coverage fronted by six creators, with flexible, case-by-case payments (Alyssa Mercante/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/forbes-tests-a-creator-led-audie…

Forbes tests a creator-led audience play to grow off-platform reach 
Forbes is yet another publisher tapping creators and their audiences to drive off-platform growth – with a slightly different structure.

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/nvidia-ai-push-cosmos-3-world-model

Nvidia expands AI push with Cosmos 3 world model
The chip giants aims to become a platform for physical AI.

Mastodon, the open, decentralized alternative to Big Tech apps like X and Threads, is betting that email could help solve the open social web’s biggest problem:
audience growth.
With the software’s latest release, the social networking platform is introducing email newsletters,
a feature that will allow writers to send their posts directly to subscribers’ inboxes, even if those subscribers don’t have or want a Mastodon account.
The feature provides a way for creators …

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web | TechCrunch
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.

Facebook plans to test a full-screen "immersive video" player when users open the app, replacing the newsfeed, in select international markets this year (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Facebook Is Testing if People Want to Swap Their Feed for “Immersive Video”
The social platform says it will test a video-first look for users when they open the app in select countries, potentially bringing it to the U.S. next year.

Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a $20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating (Cailey Gleeson/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/u

Upside secures $20M series A to expand healthcare-focused housing platform
Upside, a scalable housing stability platform,

Intercontinental Exchange agrees to acquire electronic fixed-income trading platform MarketAxess for ~$6B in cash, a 33% premium, set to close in H1 2027 (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…

Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will this weekend headline a faith rally on the National Mall in Washington DC
hosted by a private foundation operating in partnership with the White House,
which includes speakers that experts have characterized as Christian nationalist or extremist.
"Rededicate 250", billed as the faith-based component of America’s semiquincentennial, features speakers including
a Detroit pastor who has called the Democratic platform “demon…

Milan-based social travel startup WeRoad raised a $58M Series C led by Airbnb, taking its total funding to ~$100M, to expand into the US, starting in Austin (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/airbnb-b…

Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M to take its group travel platform to the US | TechCrunch
WeRoad, the Milan-based group travel startup, has raised a $58 million Series C round led by Airbnb as it prepares for its first major expansion outside

Academic papers and conference materials offer a deep dive into China's all-CPU LineShine, which pairs custom 304-core Arm CPUs with HBM to top the Top500 (Timothy Prickett Morgan/The Next Platform)
https://www.nextplatform.com/hpc/2026/06/2

A Deep Dive On China’s “LineShine” All-CPU, Exaflops-Class Supercomputer

Asana acquires StackAI, a no-code platform for building AI agents, for $75M as part of Asana's broader AI pivot; PitchBook: StackAI raised ~$20M (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/asana-acquires-no-code-agent-builder-stack-ai/

Asana acquires no-code agent-builder Stack AI | TechCrunch
Asana will incorporate Stack AI into its growing suite of AI workflow tools.

Walmart integrates its US and international ad operations into one framework and rebrands Sam's Club Member Access Platform to Sam's Club Connect (PYMNTS)
https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2026/walmart-rebrands-sams-club-ad…

Walmart Rebrands Sam’s Club Ad Program Amid Wider Advertising Shift | PYMNTS.com
Walmart is integrating its advertising operations into one framework amid growing ad revenue. The retail giant on Monday (June 22) announced plans to

Triomics, which is building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists automate data-heavy tasks, raised a $22M Series B, following a $15M Series A in 2024 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/triomics-nabs-22m-to-b…

Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers | TechCrunch
The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures.

BYD announces the Xuanji A3 chip, which it calls China's most powerful chip for ADAS and the centerpiece of its new laptop-sized central computing platform (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-28/byd…

OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/05/openai-self-serve-ad-platform

OpenAI launches self-serve ad platform
The new platform makes it easier for a broader set of advertisers to buy ads on ChatGPT.

Amazon MGM Studios announces the GenAI Creators' Fund, greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video, and launches an AI production platform with AWS (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/amazon-mgm-studios-…

Amazon MGM Studios Greenlights Three AI Series for Prime Video Under New GenAI Creators’ Fund
Amazon MGM Studios unveiled the GenAI Creators’ Fund, which will provide funding and access to AI production tools built on AWS, and announced deals for projects from Albie Hecht and Jorge Gutierrez.

Filings: a group of major music publishers has agreed to end a copyright infringement dispute with X over the use of their music on the social media platform (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m

Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/blueskys-interim-ceo-toni-schneider-drops-the-interim/

Bluesky's interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the 'interim' | TechCrunch
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.

Crypto exchange BitMart says it plans to wind down its trading platform on January 31, 2027, ending 9 years of operation, and has stopped accepting new orders (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/2

BitMart to shut down after nine years, exchange token crashes 58%
Users have a month to close trades and six months to withdraw funds, and the exchange gave no specific reason for the closure.

Meta plans to expand using off-platform data, such as online purchases, to personalize content feeds and AI responses; it was previously used just to serve ads (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/946744/meta-website-activity-personalize-feeds

Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
Meta will soon start using data shared by other businesses, such as the games you play or the purchases you’ve made, to personalize its feeds across Instagram and Facebook.

For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/books/audiobook-piracy-youtube.html

Publishing’s Latest Piracy Problem: Audiobooks on YouTube
Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

Utah-based ecommerce tech company Redo raised an $81M Series B at a $1.25B valuation led by Smash Capital, with participation from Pelion and Cervin (David Politis/Utah Money Watch)
https://www.utahmoneywatch.com/draper-utah

Draper, Utah-based Redo Raises $81 Million in a Series B Round of Funding at a $1.25 Billion Valuation
The Utah eCommerce-technology company started with returns. Now it is raising growth capital to build a broader AI-powered platform for brands trying to own more of the customer relationship. 25 June 2026 - DRAPER, Utah - Another Utah technology company has crossed into mythical "unicorn" status, a stage where a

New York-based Jedify, whose platform connects to enterprises' knowledge sources via APIs to build a "context graph" for AI agents, raised a $24M Series A (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/jedi

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business | TechCrunch
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

Aryon Security, whose platform lets companies set security strategy, which it translates into enforceable policies that can't be ignored, raised a $29M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/06/1…

Exclusive: Cloud security provider Aryon Security locks up $29M
Aryon could look to raise again in a year.

Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Mateo Quiros/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-rese…

Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
A look at the built-in computer use tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Stepful, an AI-powered online training platform for healthcare workers, raised a $55M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $105M (Heather Landi/Fierce Healthcare)
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-te

Stepful banks $55M to scale AI-powered medical training to boost the workforce pipeline
Healthcare staffing shortages are a near-universal problem for healthcare providers. | The company currently works with more than 35 major healthcare systems and has graduated over 32,000 practice-ready healthcare workers since its founding.

For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/books/a

Publishing’s Latest Piracy Problem: Audiobooks on YouTube
Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/newsletter-platf…

Newsletter platform Beehiiv now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI | TechCrunch
Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics

Interfax: Russia restored access to Roblox after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements; Russia had banned Roblox in December (Andrey Lemeshko/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

MoonPay acquires DFlow, a platform that facilitates trading on the Solana blockchain, sources say for $100M in stock; DFlow had raised $7.5M across two rounds (Jack Kubinec/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/moonpay-acquires-solana-100m-all-stock/
…

MoonPay acquires Solana trading infrastructure platform in $100M all-stock deal
The deal represents MoonPay’s sixth acquisition in the past 18 months

Abstract Security, which offers an in-stream threat detection platform, raised a $25M extension to its $15M Series A, bringing its total funding to $48.5M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/07/23/abstract-securit…

Abstract Security raises $25M Series A extension, recurring revenue up 380% - SiliconANGLE
Abstract Security raises $25M Series A extension, recurring revenue up 380% - SiliconANGLE

The UK's HMRC tax authority announces a 10-year, £175M deal with London-based Quantexa to use its AI tech to identify fraud incidents and fix tax return errors (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v9ld262n4o

HMRC announces 10-year contract with British AI company Quantexa
Quantexa, a financial data platform, won the £175m contract to spot fraud and tax return errors.

Akamai acquires Israeli cybersecurity startup LayerX Security, which develops a browser-based platform to secure employee use of AI tools, for ~$205M in cash (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/byinuqxkme

Akamai acquires Israeli AI browser security startup LayerX for $205 million in cash
Deal expands Zero Trust strategy as enterprises struggle to control AI use. 

NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a $22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures (Sofia Chesnokova/Tech Funding News)
https://techfundingnews.com/linqalpha-raises-22m-avp-ai-research-plat…

Goldman and MIT-founded LinqAlpha bags $22M: Can it compete with AlphaSense's $1.74B head start? — TFN
Goldman and MIT-founded LinqAlpha has raised $22 million in Series A funding to expand its AI research platform for hedge funds and asset managers.

A look at "YouTube whisperers" like Paddy Galloway and Mario Joos, a booming class of advisers that help popular YouTube creators grow their audiences (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/10/youtube-advisors-mrbeast-top-creators-platfor…

Meet the YouTube whisperers, a booming class of advisors behind MrBeast and other million-dollar channels
A burgeoning group of YouTube strategists are charging big money to YouTubers who want to expand their popularity.

Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/for-palantir-ai-is-…

Carlyle agrees to sell US data center power and infrastructure platform Copia to EQT; sources: the deal values Copia at $2.6B, a fivefold return for Carlyle (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a66c1d90-682b-480a-8fc3-fb7b7e2f1873

Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked legitimate, influential accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/…

Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda
The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic.

An analysis of 1M social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250 words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% (Max Spero/Pangram Labs)
https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

Meta plans to expand the use of off-platform data, such as e-commerce purchases, from serving ads to personalize content feeds and AI responses (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/946744/meta-website-activity-personalize-feeds

Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
Meta will soon start using data shared by other businesses, such as the games you play or the purchases you’ve made, to personalize its feeds across Instagram and Facebook.

Siemens expects Xcelerator revenue to more than double in 2026, aiming to make the platform an industrial app store integrating software and hardware offerings (Marilen Martin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Businesses have started using Kalshi to hedge business risks; Kalshi says institutional trading volume on its platform has grown 800% since November 2025 (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Prediction Markets’ Next Major Bet: Wall St. Traders
Platforms like Kalshi let millions wager on sports and pop culture. They’re now hoping institutions will use them for big-ticket trading like hedging.

A hack of Instructure's Canvas locked out students at schools and universities across the US in the middle of finals period; some US colleges postponed exams (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/canvas-outage-college-studen…

Canvas outage wreaks havoc for students during college finals
Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage tied to a cyberattack that knocked down Canvas. The online platform manages exams, course notes, lecture videos and grades. The disruption hit in the middle of finals period for many colleges, a high-stress time when students and instructors rely heavily on the platform. Instructure is the parent company of Canvas and says the platform is available again to most users as of late Thursday. A threat analyst at the cybersecu…

Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…

Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an $80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a $3B valuation (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/sigma-computing-series-e-80-million-3-b…

Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/07/15/feathery-lands-30m-to-rewire-financial…

Feathery lands $30m to rewire financial services workflows
Feathery, an AI operating and decisioning platform for financial services firms, has secured $30m in funding as it expands its technology across the insurance and wealth management sectors. The funding includes a recently completed Series A round backed by Portage Ventures, Index Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Erie Strategic Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures. […]

Sources: Alibaba is in talks to buy Chinese fresh grocery delivery platform Pupu for $1.5B, in a bid to better compete with food delivery rivals like Meituan (Cathy Chan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Limitless Labs, which is developing an AI platform to automate CNC manufacturing, raised a $20M Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjod1pr11me

Limitless Labs raises $20 million Series A to bring AI into the factory floor
Israeli startup targets automation of CNC manufacturing workflows.

Hypha, which extracts data from private-market documents to create workflows for underwriting, portfolio monitoring, and asset management, raised a $50M seed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/06/11/hypha-ai-private-markets-seed

Exclusive: Private markets platform Hypha raises $50M seed
Private credit firms still rely on spreadsheets and email.