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Charles Lamanna, the Microsoft executive who oversees Microsoft 365 and the platform behind Copilot, says most business software will end up running behind AI agents rather than in front of users. That’s bad news for a lot of apps.

Molly Liu and Aman Puri are tackling the U.S. accounting shortage from another angle — a global one, that is. On Monday, they announced that their AI-powered talent marketplace Mavi, founded in 2023, has officially emerged from stealth. The service helps connect and onboard U.S. companies with top AI-proficient global financial and accounting talent within…

An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate. They expect it to work reliably. And they quickly find out whether it solves a big enough problem to become part of how they work — or becomes another AI experiment they…

Korea’s defense-tech cluster had a defining week — ADSYSTEM raised a Series A for its low-observable drones, Flex System filed for a KOSDAQ IPO, and StepLab partnered with US-based SRI on space-domain-awareness technology. Wrtn Technologies named its IPO underwriters, and Korean capital showed up in an overseas megadeal for the fifth straight week, this time

El-Sisi meets Orange CEO; Group unveils training grants for around 200,000, €25M startup support – EgyptToday

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Pulse Mix16:56 – 23 September 2026 Andrey Berezin leads Euroinvest Development while investing across venture capital and technology

With 2.5% profit margins and the harsh reality of atting on low-carbon technology. That includes partnering with Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures on sustainable arcraft

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