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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Charter marketplace and flight-sharing exchange FlyJets' JetGPT™ goes live, in tandem with fall and winter flight-sharing opportunities....

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Helm.ai, the foundation-model software company for physical AI, today announced that it has signed $70 million in commercial contracts over a 12-month period, spanning global automotive OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and industrial automation companies. The company is on a path to operating breakeven as it carries production-bound automotive programs toward the start of production. This combination of commercial scale and capital efficiency differentiates Helm.ai...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM), the all-in-one AI GTM platform, today announced that it has been positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Account-Based Marketing Platforms. This marks the third consecutive year that ZoomInfo has been named a Leader in this research. To them, ZoomInfo’s position reflects its continued investment in account-based marketing, GTM Studio and its broader strategy to connect data, intelligence, AI and workflows across...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OKSI and Qualcomm Government Technologies, Inc. (QGOV), a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., today announced a collaboration to deploy OKSI's OMNISCIENCETM autonomy software portfolio on Qualcomm technologies. OMNISCIENCE delivers AI/ML-enabled capabilities through computer vision — including visual navigation, object detection and recognition, mission execution and more — purpose-built to bring autonomy to unmanned platforms operating in complex, communicati...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Behavox, the AI-native controls platform for financial institutions, today announced an $8 million commitment with UK sovereign cloud and AI platform Civo. The agreement secures dedicated UK GPU capacity to process highly sensitive customer data locally. Behavox's customers – global banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity traders and insurers – trust it with some of their most sensitive data, including employee communications and trading records. Under the commitm...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WOI.eco expands venture operations across five markets through venture studios and ecosystem infrastructure in the UAE, India, Kenya, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, under the leadership of founder and chair Shafi Shoukath. The organisation treats unsolved national problems as an undiscovered market map, with an emphasis on identifying people who understand those problems in detail and building companies around their knowledge. The standard way to start a c...

VANCOUVER, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZoomInfo (NASDAQ: GTM) announced today that it has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS). The achievement builds on ZoomInfo's record in responsible AI. The ISO/IEC 42001 certification was issued by Schellman, a well-established, accredited certification body, following an independent, multi-stage assessment. The certification marks an important achievement in ZoomInfo’s ongoing investment in secure,...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Polygrade emerges from stealth with $6.3M to bring AI-native claims management to the warranty industry, from triage through contractor payment....

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Siena, the AI-driven customer experience platform trusted by hundreds of leading consumer brands to automate customer interactions and turn them into meaningful relationships, today announced the close of a $17 million Series A led by York IE, with participation from Joyance Ventures and existing investors Aglaé Ventures and Sierra Ventures. This investment brings Siena’s total funding to $29.7 million. Siena began with an empathic AI customer service agent and is exp...

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI safety lab Hirundo uncovered Communist Party censorship and bias in Qwen, the leading Chinese AI model, and is releasing a Westernized version....