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Today — 27 December 2025StartupHub.ai

FINNY AI platform for advisors raises $17M Series A

27 December 2025 at 04:07

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FINNY, an AI platform automating lead generation for financial advisors, secured $17 million in Series A funding to scale its proprietary data intelligence engine.

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Goldman Sachs leads $100M Neural Concept funding round

27 December 2025 at 02:06

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Neural Concept’s physics-aware AI platform is accelerating product development for major OEMs like GM and Safran, cutting years off design cycles.

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ClickUp acquires Codegen to build ‘Super Agent’ AI workforce

26 December 2025 at 14:46

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ClickUp is betting on autonomous AI, acquiring code generation platform Codegen to create Super Agents capable of building software and managing projects end-to-end.

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AI Wins Optimization Contest, Costs $1,300 to Beat Humans

26 December 2025 at 14:33

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Sakana AI's ALE-Agent won the AtCoder Heuristic Contest 058, proving that scaled AI inference can match or surpass top human performance in complex optimization.

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ChatGPT prompt injection is so bad they built an AI attacker

26 December 2025 at 14:26

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To secure its browser agent, ChatGPT Atlas is now relying on an automated, reinforcement learning-trained attacker to find sophisticated prompt injection exploits.

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Google Gemini 3 Redefines AI Reasoning and Efficiency

23 December 2025 at 23:17

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Google Gemini 3 and Gemini 3 Flash represent a pivotal moment for AI, delivering unprecedented reasoning, multimodal understanding, and efficiency across diverse applications.

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Nano Banana Pro Uses Reshape Google’s Creative AI Tools

23 December 2025 at 22:18

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Google's Nano Banana Pro, powered by Gemini 3 Pro, is now deeply integrated across its product suite, fundamentally reshaping visual content creation for users and developers.

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Google Gemini 3 Redefines Frontier AI Capabilities

23 December 2025 at 21:17

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Google's Gemini 3 models represent a pivotal shift, elevating AI from a mere tool to a truly intelligent utility capable of complex reasoning.

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The Fiserv-Mastercard Strategy in Agentic Commerce and Agentic Payments

23 December 2025 at 16:12

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Fiserv and Mastercard have expanded their partnership to operationalize agentic commerce at scale, positioning Fiserv as one of the first major processors to adopt Mastercard’s Agent Pay Acceptance Framework. This move establishes a critical infrastructure on-ramp for agentic payments, allowing AI agents to initiate transactions through secure, programmable rails. The partnership builds on previous collaborations regarding stablecoin adoption and […]

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Ask Photos Transforms Personal Photo Discovery

23 December 2025 at 09:17

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Google Photos' 'Ask Photos' feature leverages AI to allow natural language queries, fundamentally changing how users find and interact with their digital memories.

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Google’s AI-First Year in Search 2025

23 December 2025 at 08:17

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Google's Year in Search 2025 demonstrates a strategic pivot, embedding AI as the foundational layer across its entire product ecosystem, from Search to Gemini.

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The Infrastructure Shift: How AI Power Density is Redefining Equinix Data Centers

21 December 2025 at 23:45

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The fundamental architecture supporting the global internet is undergoing a profound transformation, driven not by the exponential growth of data packets, but by the sheer energy demands of artificial intelligence. This shift is vividly illustrated by Equinix, the digital infrastructure giant, as it navigates the chasm between its legacy connectivity hubs and its new generation […]

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AI’s Dual Reality: Safety Theater and the Autonomous Arms Race to AGI

21 December 2025 at 21:19

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“I worry a lot about the unknowns.” This sentiment, expressed by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, encapsulates the pervasive anxiety defining the current era of artificial intelligence development. The rapid ascent of powerful large language models has simultaneously unlocked immense potential and unveiled profound risks, forcing tech leaders to grapple publicly with the consequences of building […]

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Beyond Benchmarks: Why AI Needs a Human-Centered Scoreboard

21 December 2025 at 01:15

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The current race to build ever more capable artificial intelligence models often prioritizes technical benchmarks over the nuanced reality of human interaction. Andrew Gordon, Staff Researcher in Behavioral Science, and Nora Petrova, AI Researcher, both from Prolific, contend that this focus creates a significant disconnect. In a recent interview, they meticulously dissected the flaws in […]

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The Infinite Software Crisis: Reclaiming Simplicity in an AI-Driven World

20 December 2025 at 21:15

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The advent of artificial intelligence, rather than solving the perennial challenges of software development, risks amplifying them into an “Infinite Software Crisis.” This was the central tenet of Jake Nations’ compelling presentation, an Engineering lead at Netflix, who illuminated how AI-generated code, if unchecked, can lead to architectures as convoluted as the conversations that spawned […]

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Agentic AI Demands Unified Oversight: Taming Shadow AI with Zero Trust

20 December 2025 at 16:17

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The shift from conversational AI to “agentic” artificial intelligence, where systems actively perform tasks rather than merely chat, introduces a profound new layer of operational risk. As Sabrina Kopecki, an AI Technical Specialist at IBM, articulated in her recent presentation, the danger is no longer just “what it thinks, it’s what it does,” a concern […]

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OpenAI’s Trillion-Dollar Ambition: A Catalyst for the Stalled Data Center Trade

20 December 2025 at 05:15

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The artificial intelligence sector, a growth narrative once lauded with unwavering enthusiasm, recently experienced a “rough ride” on Wall Street, as Jim Cramer observed on Mad Money. This period of investor trepidation, where the market seemed to have “decided it was done” with the AI data center theme, has now given way to a cautious […]

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AI’s 2026 Horizon: Hype, Reality, and the Race for Real-World Impact

20 December 2025 at 04:18

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The artificial intelligence landscape, as dissected by Sarah Guo and Elad Gil on No Priors Ep. 144, is less a monolithic surge and more a complex tapestry of rapid adoption, nascent research, and looming market corrections. Their 2026 forecast, augmented by insights from industry leaders like Jensen Huang and Bryan Johnson, paints a picture of […]

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Enterprise Systems Face Imminent LLM Stress, Wedbush Advisor Warns

20 December 2025 at 03:46

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The era of broad, undifferentiated enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is poised to give way to a more selective and demanding landscape, according to Rick Sherlund, Senior Advisor at Wedbush Investment Banking. Speaking on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” Sherlund underscored a pivotal shift from consumer-facing AI novelties to deep enterprise integration, a […]

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Google AI Tips: A Year of Ubiquitous Intelligence

20 December 2025 at 03:17

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Google's 2025 AI tips reveal a strategic shift towards ubiquitous, multimodal, and agentic AI integration across its entire product ecosystem.

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AI’s Resurgent Momentum: Hardware, Hyperscalers, and the Quest for Sustainable Growth

20 December 2025 at 03:15

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The recent resurgence in the artificial intelligence trade underscores a critical shift in investor sentiment: while the promise of AI remains undeniable, the market is maturing, demanding robust fundamentals and clear long-term visibility. On a recent segment of CNBC’s “Fast Money,” Melissa Lee moderated a discussion with market strategists Tim Seymour, Mike Khouw, Steve Grasso, […]

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AI’s Next Wave: Avocado, Garlic, and 2026’s Shifting Economy

20 December 2025 at 02:45

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Artificial intelligence remains the undisputed “most important theme, trend in this market,” a sentiment underscored by Adam Crisafulli, founder and president of Vital Knowledge, during a recent discussion on CNBC’s “Closing Bell Overtime.” His insights, shared with co-hosts Frank Holland and Sara Eisen, painted a picture of 2026 as a year defined by the next […]

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Gemini Transforms New Year Resolutions with AI Planning

20 December 2025 at 02:19

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Gemini AI is now equipped to transform New Year resolutions into actionable, personalized plans through advanced prompting, scheduled actions, and app integration.

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2026: The AI Revolution’s Monetization Inflection Point

20 December 2025 at 02:15

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The true financial impact of the artificial intelligence revolution is on the cusp of a significant acceleration, with 2026 poised to be a pivotal inflection point for monetization across software, cybersecurity, and infrastructure. This bold assertion comes from Dan Ives, Global Head of Tech Research at Wedbush Securities, who recently spoke with CNBC’s ‘Closing Bell’ […]

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