More listening isn’t the same as better listening
More listening isn’t the same as better listening

Most large companies already listen to their employees. In mid-September 2026, Remesh, an AI-powered employee listening platform, surveyed 107 HR leaders in the US and UK on its own platform. And 80% said their organization had a formal listening progr…

Whop raises $200M at $5.1B valuation after shipping three products in three months
Whop raises $200M at $5.1B valuation after shipping three products in three months

Palo Alto-based Whop has closed a $200 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital and Shopify Ventures at a $5.1 billion valuation, and plans to open offices in Europe and Colombia, Bloomberg reported. 2The company said the capital will fund its expansion…

Hyphenate raises $45M Series A following 86x revenue growth
Hyphenate raises $45M Series A following 86x revenue growth

The first wave of finance AI helped teams work faster. The next is taking responsibility for the work itself. Hyphenate is the autonomous finance platform for the office of the CFO. It announced a $45 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners. B C…

Black Ore launches its AI tax preparation platform for small firms
Black Ore launches its AI tax preparation platform for small firms

Black Ore, the AI platform for financial services, launched Black Ore for Small Firms. It is a version of its Tax Autopilot platform built for small and mid-sized accounting practices. The announcement was made at Intuit Connect in Las Vegas. Black Ore…

Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers
Colare launches with $2.5M to help hardtech hire the right engineers

San Francisco startup Colare has launched with $2.5M in pre-seed funding from Afore Capital, Garage Capital and Acadian Ventures. It tests hardware engineering candidates with simulations of real tasks, aiming to save senior engineers’ interview time. …

What makes a fax HIPAA compliant in the AI era
What makes a fax HIPAA compliant in the AI era

HHS has never told healthcare to stop faxing. Its guidance says the Privacy Rule permits physicians to disclose PHI to another provider by fax for treatment, as long as reasonable and appropriate safeguards are in place. Take two identical referral for…

Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API
Hindsight puts up to $1M behind its AI content moderation as Google shuts down Perspective API

Starting January 1, any moderation pipeline calling Perspective will fail. Google’s Jigsaw unit shuts the service down on December 31, ending one of the most widely used tools for scoring online comments for toxicity. For platforms, publishers, marketp…

Your enterprise has more AI than you think, and security can’t see it all
Your enterprise has more AI than you think, and security can’t see it all

Over the years, enterprises have been in an all-out sprint to adopt the latest and greatest AI models. In that sprint, the average AI stack has grown quickly to include an array of platforms. These include developer tools, AI agents, employee-used serv…

What happens when AI takes over the entry-level work?
What happens when AI takes over the entry-level work?

Finance professionals used to learn their jobs by doing the work themselves. They processed invoices, reconciled accounts, investigated exceptions, chased approvals, and gradually developed the judgment needed to handle more complex situations. The wor…

QED Science is building a better filter for scientists buried in papers
QED Science is building a better filter for scientists buried in papers

AI agents can read dozens of scientific papers in minutes. So why are researchers still struggling to keep up? Because finding papers was never the hardest part of the job. The hard part is deciding which ones are worth reading, and whether the science…