2026-07-30
DataBahn Raises $40M to Build an Agentic Control Layer for Enterprise Data
DataBahn has raised $40 million in Series B funding as it looks to expand the infrastructure enterprises use to prepare, govern and deliver data to artificial intelligence systems. Insight Partners led the round, with existing investors Forgepoint Capital, GTM Capital and S3 Ventures also participating. The investment brings the Dallas-based company’s total funding to $59 million, following a $1 [...]
2026-07-30
Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.
Every time a Mastercard gets tapped, the network has less than a tenth of a second to judge how likely the purchase is to be fraudulent. It made that call across 175 billion transactions last year. Now the buyer on the other side of that judgment is starting to change, and Greg Ulrich, the company's chief AI and data officer, spelled out the consequence for the VB Transform 2026 audience in M [...]
2026-07-30
‘It’s without a doubt one of the least detrimental privacy-focused solutions to your mobile experience’: I spent a month testing GrapheneOS — and it almost made me ditch my Android phone entirely
I spent a month testing the privacy-focused GrapheneOS, and it left me torn about its security solutions. [...]
2026-07-30
Simile Raises More Than $200 Million at a $2 Billion Valuation to Scale Human Behavior Simulations
Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation, providing the Palo Alto-based startup with substantial capital to develop artificial intelligence models designed to simulate how people make decisions. Greenoaks led the round, while existing investor Index Ventures increased its backing. Hanabi, Bain Capital Ventures, A*, Factory and CVS Health Ven [...]
2026-07-30
Altman Meets the Officials Designing Washington’s AI Cyber Tests
Sam Altman meets senior White House officials on July 30, 2026 to discuss voluntary government cybersecurity testing of advanced AI systems, two days before the administration's own deadline for designing that testing regime. An OpenAI spokesperson told Reuters that Altman will meet White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and White House science and tec [...]
