For most enterprise companies, AI is either a promise that has yet to deliver or a security risk. The effort of Lithuania’s most famous entrepreneur duo to solve that conundrum has garnered attention – and funding.
Just months after Nexos.ai came out of stealth with an $8 million funding round led by Index Ventures, Nord Security co-founders Tomas Okmanas and Eimantas Sabaliauskas have…
YC alum Cercli, an AI-powered Rippling for MENA, raises oversubscribed $12M Series A
October 22, 2025
In a region long defined by fragmented enterprise systems, outdated compliance tools, and HR software that rarely talks to finance, Cercli is building a unified alternative for MENA businesses with AI at its core.
The Dubai-based startup, founded by ex-Careem operators Akeed…
Adobe launches a foundry service that builds custom generative AI models for enterprises
October 21, 2025
Creative design giant Adobe is beefing up the products it offers businesses to include custom generative AI models.
Adobe launched Adobe AI Foundry on Monday, a new offering that allows enterprises to work with the company to build custom generative AI models trained on…
Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh had just moved to London a few days before our call, splitting his time between there and Dubai.
After nearly a decade in the U.S., including a stint at Scale AI, he’s bringing that experience to his next venture: 1001 AI , a company creating AI infrastructure for critical industries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
The startup recently raised a $9 million…
The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick
October 21, 2025
Lee Roberts meets me at the University Club of San Francisco on a Friday morning, hours before his football team will lose to Cal in heartbreaking fashion – a fumble at the goal line, because little about the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly…
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SK Telecom’s AI unit offers staff voluntary retirement program just weeks after launch
October 20, 2025
South Korean telco giant SK Telecom is making big changes at its new AI division, AI CIC, just weeks after it was launched. Staff employed by the unit are being offered a voluntary retirement program as part of a broader effort to bring together the company’s various…
Following backlash over an increase in “AI slop” taking over users’ feeds, Pinterest on Thursday added new tools that let users limit how much AI-generated content they see on the platform.
Users can now personalize their feeds to restrict generative AI…
General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips
October 17, 2025
Medal, a platform for uploading and sharing video game clips, has spun out a new frontier AI research lab that’s using its trove of gaming videos to train and build foundation models and AI agents that can understand how objects and entities move through space and time – a concept known as spatial-temporal reasoning.
Called General Intuition, the startup is betting that Medal’s…
