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LiveKit, a developer of infrastructure software for real-time AI voice and video applications, has announced the raise of $100 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation. The round, which comes ten months after LiveKit's previous fundraise, was led by Index Ventures with participation of existing investors including Altimeter Capital Management, Hanabi Capital and Redpoint Ventures.

Founded in 2014, Zipline developed its own drone delivery ecosystem, including the logistics software, launch and landing systems, and the aircraft. The company got its commercial start in 2016 using its autonomous drones to deliver blood in Rwanda. Today, Zipline's drones deliver food, retail, agriculture, and health products in five African countries, several cities in the United States, and Japan.

Payroll deductions will provide some money for Social Security benefits for decades. However, that payment system and its financials will be strained. The "covered workers per OASDI beneficiary" could also change over the next few decades. Among the reasons are the rate at which people die, the age at which people begin taking their payments, inflation, tax rates, and the taxation of the benefits themselves. Eventually, even fertility rates and the pace at which people are born could have an effect.

California lawmakers have been told over the past two decades that it needs to improve how it oversees charter schools, but the state has not yet made significant changes to its laws and policies about how to hold a charter school accountable while it's operating. Those shortfalls have cost the state, which has seen recent cases of fraud and other improper spending by certain charter school networks.

In its first full year operating all electrified trains, Caltrain reported a 57% jump in ridership in 2025, marking its strongest performance since the COVID-19 pandemic as long-term funding uncertainty threatens the agency's future. According to its fiscal year 2025 report, which ended in June, Caltrain averaged 760,386 riders per month, rebounding to 65.2% of pre-pandemic levels from 36.1% at the start of the year.

It wasn't like two months ago, but constant,

The Barbican Centre a Brutalist landmark that has housed world-class performances, exhibitions, and cinema since 1982 is heading into a major transformation. After more than four decades of heavy use, the building and its surroundings have begun to show their age. Leaking tiles, outdated infrastructure and a notoriously confusing layout have all contributed to calls for a full-scale overhaul. In response, the centre's management backed by the City of London Corporation has launched the ambitious Barbican Renewal programme. The aim is not just to repair

"I just [didn't] have the money or the time to build a big open-world game like that," he said. "You know, it's either a passion project you spent 10 years on, or you just need a bunch of money to be able to hire people and resources."

Lluis Faus will serve as strategic advisor and interim chief content officer. As the former CEO of vLex, which he and his brother founded in 2000, he brings decades of experience in legal research and content innovation to his new role overseeing Clio's content strategy. Ed Walters takes on the position of vice president, legal innovation and strategy. Walters was chief strategy officer at vLex and, before that, cofounder and CEO of Fastcase, which he founded in 1999.

Under the government's Climate Action Plan 2019, councils were mandated to select an area of their county where methods to reduce carbon emissions are trialled, known as a Decarbonising Zone. These include energy efficiency, biodiversity and other low-carbon initiatives which, if successful, could be rolled out on a wider scale. Designated zones include the Aran Islands in Galway, the Dingle Peninsula in Kerry, and Ballymun and Ringsend/Poolbeg in Dublin.

CEO Lyndon Stickley said Bournemouth offered an ideal base for the company's next phase. "We needed a dynamic environment that could scale with us and house the South Coast's next unicorn - and we found it at Patch," he said. Stickley added that iplicit fills a "critical gap" in the mid-market, where around 100,000 UK organisations remain reliant on ageing, on-premise finance systems.

Subject to funding for the extension being agreed, TfL expects to issue the formal construction tender in June 2026, with construction to start in 2028. If construction starts in 2028, then the expected opening date would be 2033. Once the extension opens, TfL currently expects to be able to run trains: Every 8-10 minutes to/from Thamesmead (and Beckton Riverside) Every 8-10 minutes to/from Beckton Together, these services would provide a train every 4-5 minutes between Canning Town and Gallions Reach.

Rad is nothing without its people and wants to ensure that all employees are taken care of and provided for to the fullest extent feasible. Executive leaders are hopeful that a viable solution will be found to ensure that Rad team members remain gainfully employed for the foreseeable future. However, to be fully transparent, despite our collective efforts, it is possible that this may not happen, and Rad may be forced to cease operations.

The chair of the BBC, Samir Shah, struck a defensive tone in his interview to explain the mess the broadcaster has found itself in. The impression was of an organisation under siege rather than one confidently self-correcting. Mr Shah will be busy. He must find a new director general after Tim Davie resigned. Gone too is the CEO of news, Deborah Turness. Both resigned after an exhausting rightwing campaign which cried bias at every turn and was energised by an absurd transatlantic attempt

This isn't just a shining example for the South Bay, Freeman said. This is a shining example across the United States of what we can accomplish when we choose to work together. We see the value in changing lives. We see the suffering that's on the streets and now's the time to do something about it.

"desperate need"

LangChain raised $125 million at a $1.25 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. TechCrunch reported in July that the provider of a popular open source framework for building AI agents was raising fresh funds at a valuation of at least $1 billion. The deal was led by IVP, as we previously reported. New investors CapitalG and Sapphire Ventures joined in, as did existing investors Sequoia, Benchmark, and Amplify.

Indian quick commerce startup Zepto said it has raised $400 million in a funding round led by a new investor, California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), a U.S.-based pension fund. The round, which is a mix of primary and secondary investment, also has participation from existing investors, including Avenir, Avra, Lightspeed, Glade Brook, The Stepstone Group, and Nexus Venture Partners. After this funding, the company plans to go public next year.

Romi Gubes knew her idea sounded outlandish: a small audio-only device that could sit in a senior's home and detect everything from falls to early signs of cognitive decline. "It was like science fiction," she told Business Insider. "When we came up with this idea, everyone thought we were crazy." But what seemed far-fetched in 2019 is now a multimillion-dollar reality. Gubes's startup Sensi.AI just raised $45 million in Series C funding, BI learned exclusively.

You view something on an Instagram Reel or a Snapchat post and you go to a website and then purchase. That doesn't have to happen that day.

On Friday Supabase announced that it raised a fresh $100 million Series E on a $5 billion valuation, led by Accel and Peak XV. This is just four months after closing its $200 million Series D on a $2 billion valuation, led by Accel, with Coatue. And that Series D was just seven months after raising an $80 million Series C led by Sequoia spinoff Peak XV and David Sacks' Craft Ventures at an undisclosed valuation.

THE FAI have lodged their pre-budget submission with government for the support of League of Ireland academies with the football organisation looking for an initial amount of €4.45m per annum for two years that will create a total of 81 new jobs in clubs around the country before a jump to €8m annually with the hope of creating 340 full and part-time jobs to kickstart an industry.

On Wednesday, Enterprise AI model-maker Cohere said it raised an additional $100 million - bumping its valuation to $7 billion - in an extension to a round announced in August. The August round was an oversubscribed $500 million round at a $6.8 billion valuation, the company said at the time.

At a police commission meeting last month, leaders warned this would be the necessary course of action. "We have to be able to answer 911 calls. That's the bare minimum. Everything else is a luxury. We don't like it. I'll tell you right now, the chief is not happy that he has to do it. We have to do this," said Deputy Chief Lisa Ausmus.

In an industry that has long sidelined women's voices, filmmakers Rachel Noll James and Sienna Beckman are rewriting the narrative.

"For an education institution, we see AI as a material that can be shaped,"

Replit has raised a $250 million round, valuing the company at $3 billion. Unlike other fast-growing vibe coders, Replit has not been running to VCs every few months, though we'll see if that changes. Its last raise was in 2023 when it raised about $100 million that valued the company at $1.16 billion post-money. Replit has now raised a total of about $478 million, PitchBook estimates.