Ascentra Labs raises $2 million to help consultants use AI instead of all-night Excel marathons

While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemothâ [...]

Europe’s Deep-Tech Paradox

Europe does not suffer from a shortage of capital. What it lacks is the legal courage and analytical competence required to direct that capital toward the areas where it can create the greatest long-t [...]

5 ways VPNs have surprised us this year

Looking back at a year of innovation [...]

Databricks: 'PDF parsing for agentic AI is still unsolved' — new tool replaces multi-service pipelines with single function

There is a lot of enterprise data trapped in PDF documents. To be sure, gen AI tools have been able to ingest and analyze PDFs, but accuracy, time and cost have been less than ideal. New technology fr [...]

Can Deckorators Deal Boost UFP Industries' Position in Outdoor Living?

Can UFPI's Deckorators deal unlock growth in outdoor living as capacity, innovation and product differentiation expand? [...]

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spen [...]

MIT researchers and beauty brand Amorepacific made a wearable patch that analyzes skin aging

Researchers at MIT have been working with the South Korean beauty company Amorepacific for the past few years to develop a wearable "electronic skin" platform that can provide real-time insi [...]

This is the "worst-selling Microsoft product of all time" - and there's a good reason you've probably never heard of it

Microsoft’s OS/2 for Mach 20 sold just eleven copies, revealing how innovation without practical value can lead to total market failure. [...]

Human-centric IAM is failing: Agentic AI requires a new identity control plane

The race to deploy agentic AI is on. Across the enterprise, systems that can plan, take actions and collaborate across business applications promise unprecedented efficiency. But in the rush to automa [...]