As AI-powered search tools reshape how businesses are discovered online, India-founded startup Gushwork is helping companies capture customers from platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — with early traction that is beginning to draw investor support. The two-year-old startup said Thursday it had raised $9 million in a seed round led by Susquehanna International…
Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic acquired coding agent engine Bun in December to help scale Claude Code. Vercept had created tools for more complex agentic tasks, including its…
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Joseph Stiglitz just dropped a stark verdict on the economy, and he isn’t sugarcoating it. “Uh, not great right now, and the prospects are that it’s going to get worse,” he said during a recent CNBC interview. What concerned him more was the policy framework, especially tariffs…
When edtech company Preply became a unicorn earlier this year, employees in its Kyiv office celebrated with cake — because that’s what you do, even in the middle of a war. In the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, Ukrainian startups have done more than survive: They are still building and growing.…
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