It’s easy to get lost in the doom loop around AI—job loss, deepfakes, copyright battles, the slow erosion of critical thinking. No shortage of headlines there. But in all the talk of AI’s existential risk, it’s just as easy to overlook its existential opportunity: the chance to fundamentally reshape how we solve some of our […]
AI agent sprawl is coming — how can enterprises keep them all in line? If you caught that viral clip of an AI tool running dozens of X accounts at once, you saw more than a stunt — you saw the future. Enterprises are now betting big on AI agents — bots that can perceive, […]
“The people who always see a door, and if there isn’t a door, draw a door, and it turns into one, because they can manifest it through sheer will —that type of thing is what I look for.” Asking venture investor Kanyi Maqubela to describe the throughlines that render his hodge-podge-y gamut of investments at […]
How sales and marketing teams can tap into AI to predict pricing pushback. A priority of Future Nexus, like many firms, is exploring where we can put AI to work on real business challenges. How to price products, build better workflows, and scale without outsourcing the work that defines us (critical thinking in writing, anyone?). […]
Hi there and welcome to Funded, where we spotlight the early-stage bets on the future of tech. This week, we’re looking at Paraform’s $20 million Series A, a sharp counterpoint to the wave of AI-first recruiting tools focused on outreach automation and resume screening. Paraform is doubling down on the value of human expertise, and […]
As a massive omnibus makes its way through the US Congress amid massive cuts to government programs, care-adjacent fintechs weigh their options–and futures In its current iteration, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — an all-encompassing omnibus projected to add $2.4 trillion to the US budget deficit over the coming decade — includes substantial cuts […]
AI startups are dumping per-seat pricing from the SaaS era in favor of outcome- or usage-based models. The terms “customer support for financial services” and “sweepstakes” don’t typically go hand in hand, but, alas, here we are: In May, London-based Gradient Labs, which builds AI agents for customer support teams in financial services, announced the […]
Federal judge William Alsup has issued what might be the most significant legal precedent for the AI era yet: AI training is fair use, meaning Anthropic didn’t violate copyright law by training its AI on books — so long as those books were purchased legally. It calls to mind the landmark decision in favor of […]
As emerging countries take on a more prominent role in shaping the global agenda, the need to strengthen a movement that has advanced significantly over the past decade becomes even more evident: strategic cooperation among these nations. In two weeks, at the 17th BRICS Summit, rising economies will gather for another round of collaboration. It […]
Hi there and welcome to Funded, where we spotlight the early-stage bets on the future of tech. Today, we look at Payabli, a Miami-based payments infrastructure company that supplies APIs for payment acceptance and issuance solutions, as well as operations tools. The co announced a $25 million Series B round this week led by Fika […]