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Google DeepMind Features Hirundo’s Security-Hardened Gemma 4 Model – Outperforms LLMs 170x Its Size on Security

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Google DeepMind has featured Hirundo’s security-hardened variant of Gemma 4 in its Gemmaverse – the official showcase for the Gemma open-model ecosystem. The feature validates Hirundo’s weight-level machine unlearning approach as a production-grade solution to one of the most persistent vulnerabilities in enterprise AI deployments: prompt injection attacks. The hardened model is built on Google’s Gemma 4 E4B instruction-tuned base. At 4 billion parameters, it...
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University of Manchester Techbio Spin-Out Secures £5 Million to Deploy Quantum Physics, AI Modelling, and Highly Automated Labs to Power Next Gen Enzyme Engineering

MANCHESTER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperagen, a Manchester-based techbio company using AI and quantum physics to engineer better enzymes faster, has closed a £5 million seed funding round led by PXN Ventures with participation from Imperagen’s existing investors IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone. The raise brings Imperagen's total funding to £8.5 million and will accelerate research and development, expand its wet lab capabilities, and build out its go-to-market function over the next 18 mon...
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Payman AI Selected for ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator

DURANGO, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Payman AI, a fintech building AI agents for community banks, announced its selection to the Independent Community Bankers of America’s (ICBA) ThinkTECH Accelerator Program, which kicks off at the ICBA Center for Innovation in Atlanta. “Agentic banking will redefine how customers interact with their money, turning friction into seamless execution,” said Tyllen Bicakcic, co-founder and CEO of Payman AI. “By participating in the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator, we’re cr...
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Daversa Named to Forbes’ America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms List for Fifth Consecutive Year

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Daversa has been named to Forbes’ America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms list for the fifth consecutive year. Based on more than 18,000 survey recommendations from recruiters, HR leaders, and candidates, the list recognizes firms setting the standard across the industry. Daversa operates alongside founders and investors building the most ambitious companies of this generation across frontier AI, defense, enterprise software, digital health, and consumer. These...
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Stephens Group Announces Exit of IMA Financial Group Via Equity Recapitalization Led by Oak Hill Capital, New Mountain Capital, and HarbourVest

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Stephens Group, LLC (“Stephens Group”) announced today that it has exited its investment in IMA Financial Group, Inc., a North American insurance brokerage firm specializing in risk management, employee benefits and investment advisory services, via the completion of an equity recapitalization transaction. Oak Hill Capital and New Mountain Capital are each taking minority positions, with additional participation from HarbourVest and a select group of prominent insti...
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Sverica Capital Management Announces Sale of WinWire to NTT DATA

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sverica Capital Management LP (“Sverica”) announced today that its Fund V portfolio company, WinWire Holdings, LLC (“WinWire” or the “Company”), has entered into a definitive agreement to be sold to NTT DATA. This transaction marks the culmination of a successful five-year partnership with WinWire, during which the Company more than doubled in size, reinforced its position as a leading Microsoft services partner, and emerged as a differentiated provider of AI-led...
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A Experian expande ecossistema de parceiros do Agent Trust com a Akamai para impulsionar o comércio confiável baseado em IA

COSTA MESA, Califórnia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A Experian anunciou hoje que a Akamai Technologies se juntou ao seu crescente ecossistema de parceiros, projetado para impulsionar ainda mais o comércio seguro e confiável baseado em IA por meio da estrutura Experian Agent Trust™, juntamente com a parceira Skyfire, que apoia a inovação emergente em pagamentos. À medida que os agentes de IA começam a pesquisar, decidir e realizar transações de forma autônoma, eles introduzem um desafio fundamental para as...
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Riassunto: Experian amplia l'ecosistema di Agent Trust Partner con Akamai per promuovere il commercio affidabile basato sull'AI

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experian oggi ha annunciato che Akamai Technologies è entrata a far parte del suo ecosistema di partner in espansione, progettato per promuovere ulteriormente il commercio sicuro e affidabile, basato sull'intelligenza artificiale attraverso lo schema Experian Agent Trust™, assieme al partner Skyfire che supporta l'innovazione emergente dei pagamenti. Man mano che iniziano a svolgere ricerche, prendere decisioni ed effettuare transazioni in autonomia, gli age...
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Experian 携手 Akamai 扩展智能代理信任合作生态,加速可信 AI 商业应用发展

美国加利福尼亚州科斯塔梅萨--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(美国商业资讯)-- Experian 今日宣布,Akamai Technologies 已正式加入其不断扩大的合作伙伴生态体系。该生态体系基于 Experian Agent Trust™ 框架构建,旨在进一步推动安全、可信的 AI 驱动商业发展;与此同时,合作伙伴 Skyfire 也将协同支持新兴支付创新的发展。 随着 AI 智能代理逐步具备自主搜索、决策与交易能力,企业正面临一项核心挑战:当一项行为不再由人类直接发起时,如何确保其可信性。若无法在人类与 AI 智能代理之间建立经过验证的关联,自主商业生态将衍生出欺诈、身份冒用以及未经授权交易等新型风险。Experian Agent Trust 正是在这一背景下推出,旨在为智能代理驱动的交互建立可靠的身份认证、责任追溯与信任基础。 Experian 首席创新官 Kathleen Peters 表示:“随着 AI 智能代理在数字商业中的作用不断扩大,信任、安全与性能也必须同步实现规模化提升。缺乏可信基础,智能代理商业便无法真正走向规模化发展。此次将 Akamai 纳入我们的...
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Experian incorpora a Akamai a su red de socios para impulsar un comercio seguro basado en IA

COSTA MESA, California--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Experian anunció hoy la incorporación de Akamai Technologies a su red de socios para seguir impulsando un comercio seguro basado en inteligencia artificial mediante el marco Experian Agent Trust™, junto con Skyfire, socio que acompaña el desarrollo de nuevas innovaciones en pagos. A medida que los agentes de IA comienzan a buscar, decidir y realizar transacciones de forma autónoma, surge un desafío clave para las empresas: cómo confiar en una acción cuan...