Patronus AI raised a $50 million Series B to build simulated digital environments for testing AI agents, but its own evidence still centers on revenue growth and customer demand rather than broad proof that agents can run long tasks reliably.

#Patronus AI #agent evaluation #AI benchmarks

June 26, 2026Read More →

Pax Silica Adds UAE And Qatar To 35-Country AI Supply Chain Push

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Pax Silica Adds UAE And Qatar To 35-Country AI Supply Chain Push

Pax Silica expanded to 35 countries including the UAE and Qatar, while a planned Pax Pass would use cargo verification and AI risk assessment for high-value AI supply-chain goods moving through Panama.

#Pax Silica #UAE #Qatar

June 26, 2026Read More →

BIS Says Stablecoins Fall Short On Trust In Money

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BIS Says Stablecoins Fall Short On Trust In Money

The Bank for International Settlements says stablecoins can support faster programmable payments, but current designs fall short on core money functions and create risks for financial integrity.

#stablecoins #tokenisation #central banks

June 26, 2026Read More →

EU Targets AWS And Azure For Cloud Gatekeeper Rules

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EU Targets AWS And Azure For Cloud Gatekeeper Rules

EU antitrust regulators said Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should fall under Digital Markets Act gatekeeper rules, extending Big Tech enforcement toward cloud infrastructure used for AI.

#Digital Markets Act #AWS #Microsoft Azure

June 26, 2026Read More →

NVIDIA Tests DFlash To Cut LLM Inference Bottlenecks

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NVIDIA Tests DFlash To Cut LLM Inference Bottlenecks

DFlash replaces sequential speculative drafting with block-diffusion token prediction on NVIDIA GPUs, aiming to raise throughput for latency-sensitive coding, reasoning and agent workflows without changing the target model output path.

#AI inference #block diffusion #Nvidia

June 25, 2026Read More →

Taktile Raises $110 Million For AI Decision Tools In Finance

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Taktile Raises $110 Million For AI Decision Tools In Finance

Taktile raised a $110 million Series C led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives as it pushes AI agents into underwriting, claims, fraud and compliance decisions at financial institutions.

#financial AI #Series C funding #Taktile

June 25, 2026Read More →

Circle And Nomura Set 2027 USDC Settlement Plan In Japan

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Circle And Nomura Set 2027 USDC Settlement Plan In Japan

Circle and Nomura plan a USDC-based corporate payment and digital asset settlement service in Japan as early as 2027, targeting foreign-exchange and cross-border supplier payments.

#Circle #Nomura #USDC

June 25, 2026Read More →

Amazon Commits $13 Billion For India AI And Cloud Capacity

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Amazon Commits $13 Billion For India AI And Cloud Capacity

Amazon said it will invest an additional $13 billion to expand AI and cloud infrastructure in India by 2030, including AWS data center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

#Amazon Web Services #India #AI infrastructure

June 25, 2026Read More →

Salesforce Makes Slackbot An Enterprise AI Agent

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Salesforce Makes Slackbot An Enterprise AI Agent

Salesforce rebuilt Slackbot as an AI agent for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, adding access to Salesforce records, Google Drive, calendars and Slack conversations.

#Salesforce #Slackbot #enterprise AI

June 25, 2026Read More →

Railway Raises $100 Million For AI-Native Cloud Buildout

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Railway Raises $100 Million For AI-Native Cloud Buildout

Railway raised $100 million in Series B funding led by TQ Ventures as the developer cloud platform expands its own data-center footprint and pitches faster deployment for AI-generated software.

#Railway #AI infrastructure #cloud infrastructure

June 25, 2026Read More →

Mistral OCR 4 Adds Audit Trail For Enterprise Documents

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Mistral OCR 4 Adds Audit Trail For Enterprise Documents

Mistral AI released OCR 4 with bounding boxes, block classification and confidence scores, pricing the document model from $4 per 1,000 pages for enterprise workflows.

#Mistral AI #OCR 4 #enterprise AI

June 25, 2026Read More →

Japan Clears Ripple RLUSD For Regulated Stablecoin Use

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Japan Clears Ripple RLUSD For Regulated Stablecoin Use

Japan’s Financial Services Agency approved Ripple’s RLUSD as an electronic payment instrument, allowing SBI VC Trade to offer the dollar-backed stablecoin to retail and institutional users.

#Ripple #RLUSD #Japan FSA

June 25, 2026Read More →