Larridin has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Pelion Ventures, bringing its total financing to $47 million. The company measures how AI spending translates into work across employees and software agents, targeting enterprises seeking clearer evidence of return on their AI investments. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Gradient Ventures participated alongside new investors GFT, W23, Thayer, DG Daiwa Ventures, Alumni Ventures, and Cougar Capital. In its November 2…

Microsoft and Lumen Technologies announced an expanded co-selling collaboration on November 2, 2026, focused on connecting the data, applications and infrastructure used for enterprise AI workloads and broadening access to Lumen networking capabilities through Azure and Microsoft Marketplace. Microsoft and Lumen said enterprise AI initiatives often rely on data and applications distributed across public clouds, private data centers, offices and partner environments, while the connecting…

Physician reviewers preferred AI-generated discharge summaries over their human-authored counterparts in 95% of the hospitalizations evaluated in a Stony Brook University study. The retrospective analysis focused on 60 Internal Medicine admissions lasting seven to 21 days, where extended treatment and large volumes of clinical notes make the handoff to outpatient care especially demanding. The findings, published in npj Digital Medicine, suggest that large language models could help clinicians…

ON1 released Photo RAW 2027 for Mac and Windows on November 2, 2026, adding a new RAW processing engine, revised NoNoise AI models and an AI Culling Assistant available only in the MAX edition. Both Photo RAW 2027 and Photo RAW MAX 2027 run as standalone applications and share the core editing, AI and organizational tools. The release follows 10 free updates to Photo RAW 2026. ON1 said members of its advisory board, who serve as beta testers, used the new version before it shipped and that…

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Most AI systems are built to interpret information or generate an answer. 42AI is pursuing a different question: how will a particular person respond when circumstances change? The company has emerged from stealth with what it calls a Behavioral World Model, positioning human behavior as a distinct prediction problem for enterprise AI. The Tel Aviv company says it has raised $62.5 million to date and is starting in financial markets. Its launch puts an ambitious proposition in front of…

Sarah Webb is COO and Co-Founder of LawVu, bringing a background in engineering and software leadership that includes roles at LOVEFiLM and Amazon. She joined LawVu as CTO in 2015 and became COO in 2020, combining experience across technology, operations, security, and governance. Her work focuses on helping legal teams connect their data and workflows while balancing AI innovation with enterprise risk. LawVu provides a legal operating system for in-house legal teams, bringing intake, matters…

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