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After a sleepy summer, the money came back with a vengeance: European startup funding reached €15.8 billion in September, almost five times the total for August. That is according to the latest monthly report from the industry publication Tech.eu, released last Friday. In August, European tech companies had raised just €3.2 billion. Over the same…

Hundreds of French supermarkets have suffered refrigeration disruption in a cyberattack that forced retailers to discard food and raised concerns about the security of connected equipment used across the grocery sector.

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European defense startups are forecast to raise a record $10.5 billion of funding this year, roughly four times the $2.6 billion raised a year earlier and led by investments in firms developing drone technology which tracks data on venture capital funding

Regions Financial (RF) raised its dividend 13% to $0.30 quarterly, yielding 4.4%, while KeyCorp (KEY) has held flat at $0.205 since November 2022.

As companies move past generic chatbot trials, a new investment fund is betting on AI tools that prove their worth inside real business workflows.

Customer data, AI agents and core CX platforms are all coming under pressure. This week saw OpenAI expand its investigation into agents accessing third-party systems and data, 40 million McDonald’s records exposed, and an AI agent breaching a customer support platform

FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to run robots it does not build. Europe’s biggest robotics rounds this year funded machine makers, and the nearest European answer to FieldAI was reported at about a third of its valuation.

Vt. (WCAX) – The Scott administration is rolling out new artificial intelligence tools to identify vulnerabilities in state IT infrastructure, but legislative watchdogs say they were left in the dark about the state’s contract with an AI vendor

Two Google alumni have closed an $11.3 million fund to back early-stage AI startups, betting that the era of enterprise AI experimentation is ending and that customers will increasingly pay only for products that prove their worth.