Data

Campfire Secures $65M to Transform AI Finance Operations

Insights Desk

Campfire announced a USD 65M series B funding, spearheaded by Accel and Ribbit. The fundraising was also backed by Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, and some elite business executives.

In just 12 weeks, the company’s net funding rose to USD 100 M, featuring momentum and adoption for AI-powered fintech solutions.

The development came into light amid stellar growth for Campfire, involving a 10x year-to-date revenue spur, supported by catalyzing demand from innovative businesses such as Decagon, Replit, and PostHog.

Campfire addresses a critical shift in the finance sector: lean teams are now automating manual processes to focus on analysis, insight, and strategic growth. By leveraging AI, finance teams are closing months up to five times faster and reclaiming up to 144 days annually to concentrate on leadership and expansion.

Proprietary Large Accounting Model (LAM) is crucial to Campfire’s innovation. It is the first AI model from the ERP circle trained distinctly on accounting insights. LAM offers more than 95% accuracy on activities such as variance analysis and reconciliations.

Sales & Marketing

WPP, Google Expand AI Partnership in Marketing

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WPP and Google expanded their collaboration to propagate AI and cloud technologies while generating crucial skills to revolutionize marketing dynamics.

The development aims to restructure how businesses perceive unified media, production, commerce, and experience. This soothes real-time personalization for countless users, exceeding traditional statistics of driving development.

WPP is committing USD 400M to Google as a part of the extended collaboration. The announcement was made in Mountain View during a meeting between WPP CEO Cindy Rose, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, and senior leadership from both companies.

The investment will support WPP’s market-leading efforts to embed AI into its services and further develop capabilities through WPP Open, the company’s AI-powered marketing platform.

“I’m incredibly excited about how our new and evolved partnership with Google will redefine what’s possible for our clients,”

said Cindy Rose, CEO of WPP.

“By delivering bespoke AI solutions and enabling hyper-relevant campaigns with unprecedented scale and speed, we’re accelerating innovation across every facet of marketing to drive unparalleled growth and impact.”      

“Our expanded partnership with WPP is built on a shared vision to harness the power of generative and agentic AI to transform business outcomes,”

said Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud.

“By enabling WPP to innovate on our AI-optimized technology stack, we are helping to create the future of marketing technology for brands today.”

“As an important partner to Google Marketing, WPP has been working closely with us on a number of AI tools and innovations built with Gemini — all focused on driving brand love and real business growth through truly helpful experiences that resonate with our billions of users around the world. I’m excited to continue exploring what marketing and storytelling looks like in this new era, together,”

said Lorraine Twohill, SVP, Global Marketing, Google.

Artificial Intelligence

Cortechs.ai Strengthens AI Imaging with ZepMed Deal

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Cortechs.ai, a leading provider of AI-powered neuroimaging software, has announced the acquisition of intellectual property from ZepMed, LLC, which includes its patented CT imaging technologies and flagship solution, NeuroAlign CT™.

This strategic move reinforces Cortechs.ai’s leadership in radiological innovation and broadens its portfolio of advanced solutions designed to empower clinicians across the globe.

“With this acquisition, we’re not just expanding our portfolio, we’re building on ZepMed’s foundation to elevate development and deliver even more powerful tools to our users,”

said Kyle Frye, CEO of Cortechs.ai.

“This is an exciting growth milestone as we continue to enhance the solutions trusted by healthcare professionals around the globe.”

ZepMed, known for its groundbreaking advancements in CT imaging, created NeuroAlign CT™, a Class II FDA-cleared software designed to automate the segmentation, alignment, and reformatting of head CT scans.

This technology enhances diagnostic precision and optimizes radiology workflows, enabling clinicians to identify subtle brain anatomy changes with improved accuracy, efficiency, and confidence.

“We at Zepmed are proud of what we built with NeuroAlign®, and we are excited to see it reach its full potential in the hands of Cortechs.ai,”

said Douglas Bates, MD, Co-founder of ZepMed.

“Cortechs’ support and development team will enhance user experience and add features, ensuring that the technology benefits more clinicians and patients worldwide.”

“This ownership strengthens our commitment to delivering AI-powered diagnostic solutions that span both neuroimaging and radiology,”

said Daniel Livschutz, Chairman of the Board for Cortechs.ai and Founding Partner of VILAS Ventures.

“As investors, we’re proud to support Cortechs.ai’s record growth, IP ownership and strategic expansion as market leaders. With the integration of ZepMed’s innovations, we’re not just adding capabilities, we’re architecting a continuum of care that spans surveillance, diagnosis, and risk. This positions Cortechs to complete the entire precision medicine value chain, moving beyond silos toward a multimodal ecosystem that better serves patients, clinicians, and payers alike. We’re excited to continue building the Cortechs.ai platform and look forward to the impact it will drive worldwide.”

IT Infra

IBM and Anthropic Partner to Enhance AI Software Workflows

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IBM and Anthropic have announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating enterprise-ready AI. The collaboration integrates Anthropic’s Claude—one of the world’s most advanced large language models (LLMs)—into IBM’s software portfolio to boost productivity while embedding security, governance, and cost controls throughout the software development lifecycle.

Claude will initially be incorporated into select IBM software products, beginning with IBM’s new AI-first integrated development environment (IDE), which features advanced task-generation capabilities tailored for enterprise software development and modernization.

The IDE is currently in private preview for select IBM clients. During early testing, over 6,000 IBM early adopters reported an average 45% boost in productivity, delivering significant cost savings while upholding code quality and security standards.

As organizations transition from AI experimentation to full-scale deployment, they require solutions that integrate smoothly with existing enterprise infrastructure and comply with stringent IT requirements.

IBM leverages its expertise in enterprise software delivery, hybrid cloud architecture, and regulated industries to ensure AI tools function effectively within the complex landscape of global business operations.

“IBM has been the backbone of enterprise technology for decades because we understand what it takes to deploy at scale in mission-critical environments,”

said Dinesh Nirmal, SVP, Software at IBM.

“This partnership enhances our software portfolio with advanced AI capabilities while maintaining the governance, security, and reliability that our clients have come to expect. We’re giving development teams AI that fits how enterprises work not experimental tools that create new risks.”

“Enterprises are looking for AI they can actually trust with their code, their data, and their day-to-day operations,”

said Mike Krieger, Chief Product Officer at Anthropic.

“Claude has become the go-to AI for developers at the world’s largest companies because of our focus on safety and reliability. This partnership with IBM lets us bring that same level of dedication to even more enterprise teams while building open standards that will make AI agents genuinely useful in business environments.”

Artificial Intelligence

Advancing Agentic AI: Accenture Teams with Gemini

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Accenture and Google Cloud announced that their strategic alliance is accelerating client transformation through Gemini Enterprise agentic AI solutions, building on the successful adoption of Google Cloud technologies across industries.

Accenture is expanding agentic AI capabilities with Gemini Enterprise, a platform designed to deliver the full potential of Google’s AI to every employee and workflow. Leveraging its cloud and AI expertise, engineering capabilities, and deep knowledge of Google Cloud, Accenture aims to drive operational efficiency and unlock business value using Google’s latest AI innovations.

“Working alongside Google Cloud, we’re dedicated to empowering our clients’ transformation using the cutting-edge AI capabilities of Gemini Enterprise,”

said Scott Alfieri, Accenture Google Business Group lead.

“We’re creating a foundation for innovation for our clients, on a strong digital core with seamless data and AI support. This means centralizing workflows, supercharging AI agent development, and driving adoption at scale—ultimately fueling long-term success and propelling businesses into the future.”

“With Gemini Enterprise, we are making it possible for every employee and workflow to benefit from the latest advancements in Google’s AI,”

said Victor Morales, VP of GSI Partnerships, Google Cloud.

“We’re combining our AI leadership with Accenture’s strategic expertise to help clients solve their most complex challenges and achieve measurable outcomes.”

Accenture is strengthening its commitment to agentic AI innovation with Google Cloud by expanding its joint Generative AI Center of Excellence (CoE) to include agentic capabilities.

Leveraging Google Gemini models and the new Gemini Enterprise, the CoE will equip clients with the tools and expertise to scale and orchestrate multi-agent AI systems that drive tangible business results.

Artificial Intelligence

IBM Enhances Software and Infrastructure for AI Adoption

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At TechXchange 2025, IBM’s annual event for developers and technologists, the company showcased new and upcoming product capabilities aimed at helping enterprises move beyond AI experimentation and achieve productivity gains across development, operations, and business workflows.

Drawing thousands of global attendees, TechXchange highlighted IBM’s latest innovations in agentic AI, hybrid cloud, quantum computing, and intelligent infrastructure.

Generative AI could generate trillions in economic value in the coming years, but many organizations struggle with adoption due to fragmented hybrid environments, data quality issues, and AI readiness gaps.

IBM’s latest offerings tackle these challenges with solutions designed for production-ready AI, real-time governance, and seamless integration across hybrid cloud ecosystems.

“AI productivity is the new speed of business. These features will help clients remove bottlenecks across their entire technology lifecycle,”

said Dinesh Nirmal, Senior Vice President of Products, IBM Software.

“With these enhancements across our portfolio, we’re giving customers capabilities that take developer productivity, agentic orchestration and infrastructure intelligence to the next level.”

At the heart of IBM’s agentic AI framework is watsonx Orchestrate, offering over 500 tools and customizable, domain-specific agents from IBM and its partners. Designed to be tool-agnostic and adaptable to any environment, Orchestrate enables scalable deployment and governance of AI agents.

Key features include AgentOps, a built-in observability and governance layer that provides full lifecycle transparency. With real-time monitoring and policy-based controls, AgentOps helps organizations assess and ensure agent reliability.

IBM also plans to bring these capabilities to the mainframe with the upcoming watsonx Assistant for Z. Purpose-built IBM Z agents will shift operations from reactive troubleshooting to proactive system management, leveraging conversational context to automate processes while ensuring security and compliance.

Building on the IBM z17 launch, this redesigned experience is designed to streamline workflows and boost productivity for mainframe users.