The AI glossary 2025 demands of anyone in a product meeting, a pitch, or a boardroom has grown into something closer to a second language than a corporate cheat sheet. The acronyms have multiplied, the concepts have deepened, and some of the standards governing how AI systems talk to each other have, for the first time, become genuinely settled.Start with the foundation that underpins almost everything else. A large language model, or LLM, is the engine inside ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, and Microsoft Copilot: a deep neural network built from billions of numerical parameters, trained on vast bodies…
Author: Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi
Funke Adeyemi spent a decade in corporate banking and fintech before moving to business journalism. She started in trade finance at a major UK bank, moved to a payments company scaling into African markets, and spent her last role leading partnerships at a cross-border remittance platform. She writes about business strategy, fintech, digital banking, and the corporate news that moves markets. She is interested in how companies actually make money rather than how they describe making money in investor presentations. Funke lives in South London. She reads earnings calls the way other people listen to podcasts, and finds them about as reliable.
The Dune keypad meeting controller from San Francisco and Bangalore-based startup Project Mirage aims to solve one of remote work’s most persistent small frustrations: every video-conferencing app buries its mute button somewhere different, and muscle memory never quite catches up.The device is a three-key aluminium keypad roughly the size of a stick of gum. It plugs directly into a MacBook’s USB-C port, draws power from the laptop, and needs no separate battery or charger. Project Mirage, founded by Apoorv Shankar in 2025, builds each unit to the dimensions of a specific Mac model, so it sits flush against the chassis…
The Pegasus spyware hacking of a sitting European Parliament investigator, confirmed while he was actively probing the tool’s abuse by governments, has sharpened calls for the European Commission to impose binding limits on surveillance software across the bloc. Citizen Lab, the University of Toronto’s digital rights research unit, confirmed that Stelios Kouloglou, a Greek journalist and former politician, had his iPhone compromised in October 2022 and at least twice during March 2023. Kouloglou served as a substitute member of the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee from 24 March 2022 to 18 July 2023, making him the first member of that body…
The Anthropic Samsung custom chip conversation is still in its earliest stages, but it signals something harder to ignore: one of the world’s best-funded AI labs is now serious about breaking its dependence on existing silicon suppliers. The Information reported that Anthropic has been in contact with Samsung to explore a collaboration on a bespoke chip, with the two companies yet to settle on what the chip will do, how it will fit into a server, or how much processing power it will need. Anthropic, when asked for comment, was careful not to confirm or deny the Samsung talks. A…
Magnify Ventures Fund II has closed at $46.6 million, with Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures returning as a key limited partner after anchoring the firm’s debut vehicle three years ago. The San Francisco-based early-stage firm, founded in 2021 by Joanna Drake and Julie Wroblewski, invests in what its founders call the care economy: technology built around the rhythms of household life, family finance, health at home, and the needs of an ageing population. Fund II will direct capital into AI tools for households, health and home systems, and fintech infrastructure for families. Inside the Magnify Ventures Fund II Thesis The…
The Bhavin Turakhia Neo AI platform launched internally in April, and it rests on a pointed argument: software built before the generative AI era cannot be retrofitted into something genuinely intelligent. It has to be thrown out and rebuilt. Turakhia, the 46-year-old Indian serial entrepreneur behind companies including Directi, Radix, Titan, and banking software firm Zeta, is putting $30 million of his own money behind that argument. The new venture, Neo, is an enterprise work platform that combines project management, documents, file storage, and AI into a single product, bootstrapped entirely on personal capital before any outside investors are brought…
The Together AI Series C round, announced on Wednesday, handed the AI neocloud $800 million at an $8.3 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $1.3 billion and cementing its position as one of the more heavily capitalised players in the open-source AI infrastructure market, according to Quartz. Aramco Ventures led the round, with participation from Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Nvidia, March Capital, Pegatron, SentinelOne’s S Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and others, Reuters reported. From $3.3bn to $8.3bn in Sixteen Months Together AI’s previous round, a $305 million Series B led by General Catalyst and Prosperity7 Ventures, the…
The Venice AI Series A marks an unusual milestone: a privacy-first AI platform, two years old and already profitable, closing its first outside equity raise at a $1 billion valuation. The $65 million round was led by crypto-focused venture firm Dragonfly, with Coinbase Ventures, North Island Ventures, and others participating. Venice offers access to more than 200 AI models, hosting open-source versions on its own data centres and routing queries to closed-source models from providers including OpenAI and Anthropic. User inputs are encrypted and decrypted on the client side, routed through an external proxy, and, according to Venice AI’s official…
The Vinton Cerf Google retirement, confirmed at an academic conference last week, brings to a close one of technology’s longest-running careers. Cerf, 81-year-old architect of the protocols that made the modern internet possible, will leave his role as vice president and chief internet evangelist at Google after more than two decades at the company. The announcement came not from a corporate press release but from a conference room. Dave Patterson, the UC Berkeley professor best known for co-developing RISC processor architecture, introduced Cerf during a video-linked appearance at the Open Frontier conference hosted by the Laude Institute. ‘Vint… has been…
The Clicks Communicator hands-on video released this week offers the clearest look yet at a device that London-based startup Clicks Technology believes can carve out a market the big manufacturers long abandoned: the physical keyboard smartphone. Priced at $499 at retail, with an early-bird reservation price of $399 available now, the Communicator runs Android 17 with 5G connectivity, according to the company’s official product page. That puts it squarely in the premium tier, not the nostalgia novelty category. What the Clicks Communicator Hands-On Reveals The new video presents pre-production hardware and internal software as a preview ahead of a planned…
