Techmeme: New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M (Golan Hazani/CTech)

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Golan Hazani / CTech:

New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M — Move expands company's offerings amid growing threats to connected medical devices. — Cynerio — Axonius — Cybersecurity — Acquisition

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At TrustCon 2025, trust and safety professionals expressed anxiety over the industry's retreat, but no leaders condemned platforms' rollback of safety policies — In 2023, I asked whether we had reached peak trust and safety. Noting the huge number of layoffs at tech companies that year …

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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:

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Ryan Lawler / Axios:

April, which provides tax tools that embed directly into financial apps, raised a $38M Series B led by QED Investors, bringing its total funding to $78M

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Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu:

Berlin-based Buena, which is building AI-powered software to automate property management tasks, raised $58M, including a Series A led by GV — Buena has acquired 20+ firms since 2023, with triple-digit growth and a product-first approach targeting 30,000 under-digitised players.

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Josh Noble / Financial Times:

The English Premier League recently signed deals with Adobe and Microsoft to offer AI-powered tools to fans, including those playing the Fantasy Premier League — Football body's turn to Big Tech aims to cement dominance after it made €2.1bn in overseas broadcast deals last season

Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg:

Dubai-based Qlub, which offers contactless payment services to restaurants, raised $30M co-led by Shorooq and Cherry Ventures, taking its total funding to $72M — Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback — A Dubai-based restaurant payments platform …

More: Forbes ME. LinkedIn: qlub, Nicolas Parasie, and Filip Felician Dames

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:

Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software to transform manual processes in military logistics, raised a $24M Series A by Human Capital — Silicon Valley is doubling down on defense as geopolitical tensions rise and appetite for modernizing warfare grows.

More: Washington … and Rune Technologies

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Jason Del Rey / Fortune:

NYC-based Courtyard, which sells “mystery packs” of collectible cards and comic books that customers can resell on its marketplace, raised a $30M Series A — COURTYARD — I admit it, I have a soft spot for sports cards. Over the past year, an embarrassingly steady stream …

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Reuters:

Huawei debuts the CloudMatrix 384 AI computing system, which outperforms Nvidia's most advanced GB200 NVL72 system on some metrics, according to SemiAnalysis — China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that one industry expert has said rivals Nvidia's most advanced offering …

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