THE NEWSROOM
SA AI startup Verascient raises $1.2m funding to help companies build better teams
Cape Town's Verascient raised ZAR19.5M ($1.2M) in an oversubscribed round to build AI agents that give companies shared organisational knowledge.
Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents
Headlong is a lightweight "microharness" for running persistent AI agents, published by Laude and surfaced on Hacker News this week.
Revolut launches AI unit as proclaims virtues of proprietary AI
Revolut has launched Revolut Research, a dedicated AI unit, and unveiled PRAGMA, a proprietary finance foundation model built with Nvidia.
Nexedge Capital Nets $20 Mn To Scale HNI Wealth Management Platform
Nexedge Capital raised $20M in its first funding round, co-led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment and Elev8 Venture Partners, to expand its HNI wealth management platform in India.
Show HN: I made ActivityLine: CPU, GPU, RAM and Network in one menu bar line
ActivityLine is a macOS menu bar app that displays CPU, GPU, RAM, and network usage in a single adaptive line with per-app attribution.
Android Google is rolling out Motion Assist in Android 17, an anti-motion-sickness feature that mirrors Apple's Motion Cues, starting with select Pixel phones.
Show HN Developer and music producer ShawWang launched onlymusic.ai, an AI music generator with prompt preprocessing and artist-style translation aimed at non-technical users.
Four Bayer, Corteva, Syngenta, and BASF now hold 56% of the global commercial seed market; Italian growers are building a patent-free seed-sharing network in response.