Braid raises €34.13 million for branded mobile connectivity platform
The Hague-based Braid raised €34.13 million ($38 million) in Series A funding led by Octopus Ventures, EU-Startups reported. The Dutch company's API lets enterprises sell eSIM mobile plans under their own brands through more than 600 carriers.
TamilEOT releases open models for detecting when Tamil callers finish speaking
Researchers released TamilEOT, an open dataset and two models that detect whether a Tamil telephone caller has finished speaking or is pausing.
ADNOC signs multiyear AI deployment agreement with OpenAI and G42
ADNOC announced a multiyear agreement with OpenAI and G42 on November 2 to develop and deploy AI agents that connect operational, capital and commercial decisions across its energy business.
Seamoretech secures €1.1 million for brine recovery technology
Porto-based Seamoretech secured €1.1 million in the first closing of its seed round, bringing its total funding to €3 million. Rypples, 7Seas Capital and Crédito Agrícola participated.
Sophos reports Aur0ra attackers used AI agents to gain network privileges
Aur0ra ransomware operators used AI agents to navigate victim networks, collect credentials and obtain domain administrator access, Sophos found, Help Net Security reported.
MOSAIC preprint reports better task performance with 72% fewer backbone parameters
Researchers report that MOSAIC, an architecture for learning from multiple types of input, improved average macro-F1, a classification performance measure, by 7.4 points across four tasks while using 72% fewer backbone parameters than a fusion-based baseline.