India’s Sarvam attemps to be a full-stack AI player

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Instacart has acquired Arpalus, a startup that has developed an artificial intelligence system that lets workers record product levels in stores using a smartphone app, the grocery technology company announced Thursday. Terms of the deal were…

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Opendoor completed its acquisition of Doma’s closing and escrow operations on July 20, 2026. The deal combines Doma’s automated title decisioning technology with Opendoor’s existing closing infrastructure, creating a larger platform for title and escrow services serving home purchases and refinances. The company says the next phase is to scale this infrastructure across more lenders…

Syntetica, a Paris-based DeepTech company advancing technology to recycle complex textile waste, today announced a €26.1 million ($30 million) Series A funding round to enable the company’s first commercial demonstration facility in partnership with Michelin. The round was led by the Ecotechnologies 2 fund managed on behalf of the French government by Bpifrance, with participation…

Applications are open for the Google for Startups Accelerator: South Africa, a three-month programme designed to support 15 growth-stage, AI-driven South African startups with equity-free funding, technical mentorship and access to Google’s advanced AI technologies.  The programme forms part of Google’s plan to support 50 South African startups between 2024 and 2028. Each selected startup…

eBay and three former executives will pay $55.7 million as part of a settlement with a Massachusetts couple targeted with a bizarre harassment and cyberstalking campaign in 2019, as reported earlier by CNBC. The settlement will resolve a lengthy legal saga that revealed how eBay’s former executives sent live insects, a bloody pig mask, a…