Anthropic in talks to invest $200m in private equity venture to push Claude deeper into enterprise
Anthropic in talks to invest $200m in private equity venture to push Claude deeper into enterprise

In short: Anthropic is in negotiations to anchor a new joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Permira that would embed Claude across private equity portfolio companies, investing roughly $200m of its own capital into a vehicle that …

Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows
Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows

The YC Fall 2025 startup, founded by a former Agicap GM and a former Apple Pay engineer, converts screen recordings of finance workflows directly into computer agents, no API integration required. 14 Peaks led the round, with Cohen Circle and 20VC part…

Starling launches an AI banking assistant that actually does things
Starling launches an AI banking assistant that actually does things

The UK challenger bank is rolling out Starling Assistant to personal account holders today, billing it as the UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant. It can set up savings goals, organise bill payments, and even quiz you on your own spending, all fr…

Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn
Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn

For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard’s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer in milliseconds; settlement follows on a separate, slow…

Ramp buys Stockholm fintech Billhop to crack open European market
Ramp buys Stockholm fintech Billhop to crack open European market

The $32 billion US spend management platform acquires a licensed payments provider to launch corporate cards and finance tools in the UK and EU this summer. The corporate spend management market just shifted its centre of gravity. On 13 March 2026, Ram…

Clarity as strategy
Clarity as strategy

CuraeSoft, a software studio developing practical solutions for professional services firms, observes that among growing consultancies and service-based organizations, many leaders operate without clear visibility into the profitability of their work. …

Nvidia’s Q4 results could make or break confidence in the AI hardware market
Nvidia’s Q4 results could make or break confidence in the AI hardware market

Nvidia has become shorthand for the AI market itself. In the years since generative models reshaped computing, the company’s GPUs have powered everything from large-scale training clusters to real-time inference infrastructure. That dominance helped Nv…