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PhotonPay Closes $40 Million Series C Led by Blockchain Capital
PhotonPay announced the close of a $40 million Series C round on October 29, 2026, led by Blockchain Capital to scale its stablecoin-focused Financial OS.
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Orange Cyberdefense Mistral AI Partnership Deploys Large 4 Model for Cybersecurity Services
Orange Cyberdefense became the first European MSSP in Mistral AI’s Design Partner program on October 29, 2026, securing early access to a cybersecurity-optimized version of the Large 4 model.
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Deepgram Daily acquisition expands voice agent infrastructure through Pipecat integration
Deepgram acquires Daily, the company behind the Pipecat voice AI framework, on October 29, 2026, to build an integrated voice agent platform.
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ICANN new gTLD 2026 Applications Reach 1,615 on Reveal Day
ICANN published 1,615 applications for the New gTLD Program 2026 Round on October 7, 2026, from 481 entities after the spring submission window.
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Salesforce Braze Acquisition Reaches $5.66 Billion in Cash Deal
Salesforce agreed on October 20, 2026 to buy Braze for $5.66 billion, adding real-time engagement capabilities to its Marketing Cloud platform.
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Google TPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Set for 2027 Availability
Oracle and Google announced a multi-year partnership to bring Google Tensor Processing Units to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure starting in 2027.
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Parloa SAP Solution Extension Delivers SAP Conversational Agent Management Platform
Parloa announced on October 26, 2026, that its Agent Management Platform is now sold as an SAP Solution Extension for agentic customer interactions across SAP systems.
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Liquid AI LFM3 Family Launches Six Open-Weight 2B Multimodal Models
Liquid AI released the LFM3 family of six open-weight models on October 27, 2026, each built from a shared 1.7B backbone and optimized for local deployment on consumer and edge devices.
