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Artemis secured $70 million in combined seed and Series A funding to help improve the advancement of autonomous AI agents that would take centre stage as upgrades to outdated, rule-based defence systems that involve fighting machine-speed attacks. The funding also saw the participation of a number of remarkable investors, including 1st Round Capital, Brightmind and others, along with Felicis as the lead investor and a couple of other industry veterans as the co-investors.

Global financial stability is facing a “new and unprecedented” threat, according to a chorus of international finance ministers and central bankers gathered this week for the IMF and World Bank spring meetings. The source of their anxiety is not a failing economy or a geopolitical conflict, but a specific artificial intelligence model: Claude Mythos, the latest “frontier” model developed by the San Francisco-based firm Anthropic.

Nas.com, an AI-enabled digital business platform launched by creator Nuseir Yassin, who is also the creator of the “Nas Daily” brand with 70 million followers, announced the closing of a $27m series A funding round. Led by Khosla Ventures, the funding will help it become part of the evolution of the “solo economy”. Attending the round were 500 global and strategic investors: Shuo Wang, Stanley Tang, Scott Adelson, and Tim Ferriss.

Loop Secures Major Investment To Advance Supply Chain AI Loop has raised $95 million in a new Series C funding round. The investment was led by Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund. Additional participation came from 8VC, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, and Tao Capital Partners. The round strengthens Loop’s position as a rising force in AI-driven supply chain intelligence. The raise arrives during a period of global disruption within logistics.

Slash Financial Reaches Unicorn Status With $100 Million Raise Slash Financial just pulled in $100 million in its Series C, with Ribbit Capital leading the way. Now, the company’s worth sits at $1.4 billion—officially making it a fintech unicorn. Khosla Ventures and Goodwater Capital were right there too, pitching in alongside Ribbit. Plus, longtime backers like New Enterprise Associates and Y Combinator showed up for another round. Altogether, Slash has now raised over $160 million.

Cadence Strengthens AI Partnerships For Engineering And Robotics Cadence has expanded its AI and robotics partnerships with Nvidia. The announcement was made at its CadenceLIVE event. The company also introduced new integrations with Google Cloud to support advanced chip design workflows. These developments mark a significant step in how engineering teams design, test and deploy complex systems.

The forex market in 2026 is fast, global, and highly competitive. Prices can react in seconds to central bank signals, inflation data, employment reports, and sudden shifts in market sentiment. For many traders, especially beginners, keeping up manually is difficult. That is why more people are turning to AI forex trading bots. These tools are designed to help traders analyze the market, follow rules more consistently, and reduce the pressure of making every decision by hand.

The European Commission has announced that it started formal talks, as of Wed., 15 April 2026, with the United States’ leading AI safety firm platform known as ‘Anthropic‘ on its latest innovative model, Claude Mythos. The discussions are centered on its unique cyber defense potential and the systemic threat it might hold.

As it was establishing itself as the leader in modern student transportation, Zum announced that it is receiving a strategic investment of $100 million from TPG, allowing Zum to accelerate its nationwide rollout of the Zum Connected Mobility Experience (Zum CMX™), an integrated platform aimed at reinventing the $50 billion student mobility industry. This latest round makes a total of $430 million raised in equity by Zum now, and the market cap estimate rises to ~1.7 billion.

Accel has closed a $5 billion fund. The new funds announced this week will be used to make high-conviction bets on AI and late-stage companies around the world, opening a new page for the firm that made early investments in Facebook, Spotify, and Slack.