Tuesday, August 19, 2025

News

RoundUp
Here is AITech365’s Weekly Roundup of the top news from global markets. In this fast-paced world, breaking down information helps readers grasp the nuances that follow the news. In Automation in AI news this week… aiOla Raises $25M for Voice AI Expansion aiOla, a leading deep tech voice & conversational AI lab,...
Accenture
Accenture and Microsoft Corporation are deepening their collaboration by co-investing in the development of advanced generative AI-driven cybersecurity solutions. This joint effort aims to help organizations strengthen their defenses against evolving cyber threats, simplify technology environments, and optimize operational costs. The move comes in response to findings from Accenture’s State...
Vellum
Vellum, a leading enterprise-grade platform for building, testing, and deploying mission-critical AI solutions, announced it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Leaders Fund, with additional participation from Socii Capital as well as returning investors Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Pioneer Fund, and Eastlink...
Token Security
Token Security, a recognized leader in Non-Human Identity (NHI) security, has announced two groundbreaking innovations designed to help enterprises effectively discover, manage, and secure the rapidly growing ecosystem of AI agents and machine identities. The company has introduced its AI Discovery Engine for NHIs and launched the Token AI...
Diligent Robotics
Diligent Robotics, pioneers of socially-intelligent, AI-native humanoid robots deployed at scale in human environments, announced two former Cruise executives are joining its leadership team: Rashed Haq as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Todd Brugger as Chief Operating Officer (COO). With deep technical and commercial go-to-market expertise in autonomous vehicles...
Harmonic
Harmonic, the artificial intelligence lab leading the development of Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), announces a $100 million Series B funding round at a nearly $900 million post-money valuation. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins with significant participation from Paradigm. Additional investors included Ribbit Capital and existing backers including Sequoia...
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean GradientAI Platform enables customers to create AI applications with their own data by combining state-of-the-art foundation models to add generative AI capabilities like agent builder and serverless inference to their applications DigitalOcean Holdings, the simplest scalable cloud for digital native enterprises, announced the general availability of its DigitalOcean GradientAI™...
NimbleEdge
NimbleEdge, the on-device AI platform built for performance, privacy, and portability, announced the global launch of its on-device agentic AI platform, ‘DeliteAI’. It is the first open-source infrastructure that enables developers to build, deploy, and run fully customized AI-native experiences directly on smartphones without relying on the cloud. With the...
TandemAI
Combined Firm, Known as TandemAI, Will Build on Synergies of Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Computational Platforms for Small Molecule and Peptide-Based Therapeutics TandemAI, a company transforming drug discovery with state-of-the-art AI and physics-based technologies integrated with full wet lab capabilities, and Perpetual Medicines, which is advancing a computational design-synthesis platform...
Liquid AI
Next-generation Edge models outperform world-leading competitors and are now available as open source on Hugging Face Liquid AI announced the launch of its next-generation Liquid Foundation Models (LFM2), setting new standards in speed, energy efficiency, and quality in the edge model class. This release is based on Liquid AI's first-principles...