Author: Utsav

UK-Based Benford Is Taking Financial Audits Into the Software Age Why Financial Auditing Is Ripe for a Technology Overhaul Financial auditing remains one of the most important processes in modern business, but much of the experience for finance teams still revolves around gathering documents, answering repetitive questions, uploading evidence, and managing requests between auditors and companies. Benford believes the problem is not a lack of audit software, but the way the entire service is structured. Instead of building another tool for traditional audit firms, the London-based company is building the audit firm itself around technology. Its model starts with direct…

RankNexus: The AI Search Visibility Platform Trying to Automate Your Entire SEO Workflow RankNexus: SEO + AI-Search Visibility Platform SEO has traditionally meant optimising websites for search engines, tracking rankings, fixing technical problems, building content, and waiting for the results. The rise of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode has added another layer: brands now need to understand whether AI systems are mentioning them, what sources those systems cite, and why competitors appear in answers instead. RankNexus, built by marketing company Creative Nexus, positions itself as a full-stack SEO, AEO, and GEO platform that brings both sides together. The…

Goodfire: Inside the Fight Against AI Reward Hacking AI Models Can Produce the Right Answer for the Wrong Reason Modern AI systems are remarkably capable, but their internal decision-making remains difficult to inspect. A model can produce a correct answer while relying on an unexpected shortcut, or appear to follow a goal while actually finding a way around the objective it was trained to pursue. This becomes particularly important with reward hacking, where an AI system discovers a strategy that maximises its training reward without accomplishing what its developers actually intended. Goodfire, a public benefit corporation founded in San Francisco…

Agnikul Is Printing the Future of Rockets Inside Chennai-Based Agnikul Cosmos Rockets have largely been designed as highly specialised machines where changing the configuration can require significant engineering and manufacturing work. Agnikul Cosmos is pursuing a different philosophy: build the launch vehicle around the satellite rather than forcing every satellite to fit the same rocket. Incubated at IIT Madras and headquartered in Chennai, the company designs, manufactures, tests, and launches orbital-class vehicles for micro and nanosatellites. Its flagship Agnibaan is designed for low Earth orbit missions and can be configured according to payload requirements. The company has already demonstrated part…

Construction platform Spotable raises €4 million to digitise the building supply chain worldwide Ghent scaleup Spotable started out eighteen months ago with software for small roofing companies. Today it sells its technology to contractors, distributors and international building material manufacturers, and raises €4 million in seed funding to continue its growth in Europe and the United States. A roofer loses eight hours per project on average to manual measuring and quoting. Many quotes are still made in Excel, and producing one means a tradesman has to visit every new site in person, with no guarantee he’ll land the job. “Software…

Inside SigTuple’s AI-Powered Approach to Medical Diagnosis The Problem With Traditional Medical Microscopy For decades, microscopy has remained a fundamental part of diagnosing diseases from blood, urine, and other biological samples. Yet the process of examining samples under a microscope is still highly manual. A laboratory professional must prepare the sample, locate relevant regions, examine cells, classify abnormalities, and interpret what they see. As diagnostic volumes increase, this creates challenges around turnaround time, consistency, workload, and access to specialist expertise.SigTuple was founded in Bengaluru in 2015 with the goal of addressing this bottleneck by automating microscopic analysis. The company points…

Equal AI Wants to Put an AI Assistant Between You and Every Call Spam calls have become an unavoidable part of using a phone, but the problem extends beyond obvious scams and telemarketing. Delivery agents, financial service providers, recruiters, sales teams, and unfamiliar numbers can all interrupt the day, forcing people to answer calls simply to discover whether they matter. Equal AI is approaching the problem by allowing its AI assistant to answer calls on a user’s behalf. Instead of simply identifying the caller, Equal can communicate with them, understand their intent, and tell the user who called, why they…

French Legal Tech Startup Legapass is Solving the Digital Mortality Crisis The Digital Afterlife Has Become a Legal Problem Death used to leave behind physical assets that could be inventoried, valued, and transferred through established legal processes. Today, a person’s estate can also contain cryptocurrency, online accounts, investment platforms, digital documents, passwords, intellectual property, and access credentials. Finding and transferring these assets can become considerably harder when family members or notaries do not know they exist. Legapass is tackling this problem by creating technology designed to help individuals organise their physical and digital wealth while helping professionals identify assets that…

Top 10 AI Compliance Tools to Watch Why AI Compliance Has Become a Core Business Function The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is creating new requirements for organizations responsible for security, risk, privacy, and regulatory compliance. Companies now need to understand where AI is being used, what risks individual systems create, which regulations apply, and how evidence of compliance is maintained. At the same time, established frameworks such as SOC 2 remain important for demonstrating controls around security, availability, confidentiality, and related trust criteria. AI compliance platforms are increasingly bringing these activities into centralized workflows, combining regulatory intelligence, risk assessments,…

HUAWEI Mate XT ULTIMATE DESIGN Is the World’s First Tri-Fold Smartphone Now HUAWEI Mate XT ULTIMATE DESIGN: Full Specs and Features HUAWEI Mate XT ULTIMATE DESIGN takes the foldable smartphone concept a step further by introducing a three-part folding design that transforms one device into three different screen configurations. Huawei describes it as the world’s first commercial tri-fold smartphone, and its defining feature is a large flexible OLED display that folds through two hinges. In single-screen mode, the device provides a 6.4-inch display for conventional smartphone use. Opening one section expands the screen to 7.9 inches, creating more room for…