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Riding off the high of yesterday’s catchup recap, Today’s News issue covers the news from the past week, so it’ll be short and sweet.
In this Issue:
Your Weekly Industry News Recap
The Raise Recap
Headliner: Google Invests Big to Keep Canada in the AI Race 🏁🌍
Google just dropped $13M into Canada’s AI future, launching the AI Opportunity Fund to supercharge local talent. 🇨🇦🚀 This fund will help train workers and build the next generation of AI experts as competition heats up globally. 🌎🔥 It’s not just about jobs—it’s about keeping Canada in the innovation game long-term. 💡🎯 With Google behind it, the race for AI talent is getting serious.
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Your Weekly Industry News Recap
AI Won’t Replace Humans—It’ll Replace Skills
Tech won’t take your job, but it’ll definitely expect you to learn new tricks. 🧠🔄
🔗 Read moreKovr AI Officially Debuts with Compliance Tech
A new player enters the AI compliance scene, promising smoother regulation handling. 🧾⚙️ 🔗 Read moreSnowflake Adds Agentic AI Products to Marketplace
The data giant is welcoming more AI-ready tools into its ecosystem. ❄️🤖
🔗 Read moreWorld Economic Forum Urges Responsible GenAI
WEF’s latest guidance calls for thoughtful product design and ethical guardrails. 🧭🛡️ 🔗 Read moreWhat’s the Real Cost of Building an AI Product?
Spoiler: It’s not cheap. This guide breaks down the time, talent, and tools you’ll need. 🧾💸 🔗 Read moreAmazon Forms New Agentic AI Group in R&D Lab
Amazon’s getting serious about AI agents—and they’ve spun up a whole new team to prove it. 🧪🤖 🔗 Read moreIBM Sets the Benchmark for Agentic AI
IBM’s new suite of tests shows which AI agents are ready—and which are just hype. 📊🧠 🔗 Read moreAI Agents Tapped for Banking Compliance
Banks are loving agentic AI for handling rules, reporting, and staying out of hot water. 🏦🤓 🔗 Read moreAnthropic Tool Diagnoses What Breaks Your LLM
Finally! A tool that shows exactly where your language model fails. 🔍💬
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The Filipino SEC Launches Innovation Chatbot in a surprising move from regulators
AI meets public service with this new chatbot rolling out under SEC. Easier discovery of compliance requirements means, easier understanding of the rules. It’s a curious next step, but one that may spark a bigger movement to ease-of-access for other regulators internationally! 🤖 🔗 Read more
Anitian Uses AI to Speed Up FedRAMP Compliance
FedRAMP’s slow process just got a major upgrade with automation from Anitian. 🧾⚡ 🔗 Read moreManufacturers Lean into AI for Uncertain Times
95% of manufacturers are investing in AI to stay agile and competitive. 🏭🔁
🔗 Read moreDo We Need an AI Moratorium?
Some experts say the world should hit pause before racing ahead with powerful models. ⏸️🧠 🔗 Read moreFrance’s H-Company Debuts 3 New Agentic Models
France is throwing its hat into the agentic AI ring with a bold product suite. 🇫🇷🤖
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This Week’s Raise Recap 📈💰
Solidroad Raises $6.5M to Reinvent Customer Service
This AI doesn’t replace reps—it coaches them in real time. Coaching bots are the new playbook. 🧑🏫🤖 🔗 Read moreFilament Syfter Grabs $4.8M to Tackle Financial Risk
Fintop led the round for this AI-powered fraud and compliance intelligence platform. 🕵️♂️💼 🔗 Read moreSema4 AI Adds $25M to Series A Extension
The health AI company is doubling down on scaling predictive analytics in medical workflows. 🧬📊 🔗 Read moreTrustifi Raises $25M to Secure Email with AI
Email security gets a boost with Trustifi’s “channel-first” AI platform for enterprise protection. 📬🛡️ 🔗 Read moreKiwi Raises $7.8M to Serve Underbanked Latinos
This AI-driven credit platform is helping underserved U.S. communities gain access to finance. 💳🧠 🔗 Read moreCompyl Closes $12M to Rethink Risk with AI
Governance, risk, and compliance just got smarter thanks to Compyl’s AI-powered engine. 🏛️📉 🔗 Read more
🔗 Read more (duplicate coverage)ThreatSpike Lands $14M to Boost Cybersecurity
ThreatSpike’s Series A is fueling its real-time monitoring tech to sniff out cyber threats. 🖥️🔐 🔗 Read moreSpeedata Raises $44M to Challenge Nvidia
Speedata is making custom chips to take on AI giants, and it just got serious funding to do it. 🖲️⚡ 🔗 Read moreVoxel Raises $44M to Prevent Workplace Accidents
Using computer vision, Voxel’s AI watches your warehouse to stop injuries before they happen. 📦👁️ 🔗 Read moreCiroos AI Raises $21M to Scale Ops AI
Stealth-mode no more—Ciroos is building tools to automate and optimize IT ops with agents. 🧠🛠️ 🔗 Read moreCybernetix Ventures Raising $100M for AI + Robotics Fund
Physical AI is having a moment, and Cybernetix wants to own it with a fresh $100M bet. 🤖💸 🔗 Read more
WHAT I’M STILL READING
Stay well, and see you next week!
-✌🏽 Sam