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MODULATE RAISES $25M TO BUILD THE AUDIO INTELLIGENCE LAYER FOR VOICE AI

Modulate raised $25M, led by Future Ventures [5], to build the understanding layer for voice AI. Transcripts drop the fraud, frustration, and abuse hiding in conversations. Velma, Modulate's audio-native model, catches them by orchestrating 100+ voice-specialized submodels running on raw audio. ✅ Stop fraud→ catch deepfakes with the #1-ranked detection model on Hugging Face ✅ Catch AI agent failures→ flag hallucinations and compliance violations in real time ✅ Keep customers→ spot churn and dissatisfaction signals ✅ Protect human and AI agents→ flag risk and abuse ✅ Build your foundation with it→self-serve APIs; top ranked Hugging Face Leaderboard STT API The funding brings more models, deployment options, and broadens the APIs for teams building with voice.

YOUR SALES TEAM COULD TAKE MORE MEETINGS, BUT THEY'RE TAKING NOTES INSTEAD

Some deals close in three meetings. Others take infinite meetings. Granola [5] makes sure you're present for each one. Granola is the AI notepad that transcribes straight from your computer - so you stay focused on the buyer, not your notes. >> Jump from call to call while follow-ups and CRM updates are drafted for you >> Tell Granola what matters and get great notes, not generic summaries >> Keep the whole team in the loop

MAKE ALL YOUR DATA AN AI ADVANTAGE

AI is only as good as the context you give it. At Elastic{ON} [5], Elastic engineers show you how to build AI agents with real-time context. Detect and respond to threats faster. And get more from your enterprise data — wherever it lives. Come for: * ACTIONABLE BLUEPRINTS: [6] Bring your biggest data challenges and leave with a clear plan and architectural blueprint you can deploy immediately. * REAL-WORLD CASE STUDIES: Hear how top global organizations are leveraging Elastic to run proactive anomaly detection and eliminate operational downtime. * HANDS-ON GUIDANCE AND NETWORKING: Collaborate with peers, swap battle-tested strategies, and get 1:1 guidance from Elastic product experts.

QUERY YOUR DATA WHERE IT LIVES AND START BUILDING ML.

Data pipelines sit in the critical path of every ML project. They're fragile, expensive, and coupled to schemas that break without warning. DATABRICKS DATA INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM [5] SKIPS THAT STEP WITH DATA FEDERATION: * QUERY FEDERATED SOURCES: Access Amazon Redshift through Unity Catalog without pipelines or duplication * APPLY DEVOPS TO ML: CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code with Databricks MLOps Stacks * UNIFY YOUR TEAM: One workspace for data engineers, scientists, and ML engineers

FIN RESOLVES SENSITIVE CUSTOMER QUERIES WITH FULL CONTROL AND COMPLIANCE

In the world of Financial Services support, the stakes are high and your customers' information is extremely sensitive. Fin is the best-performing AI Agent for Financial Services support, delivering the highest-quality responses in 45+ languages for your customers all around the world. Fin [6] resolves even the most complex queries like fraud claims, transaction disputes, account changes, and more.

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