AI news and funding updates from the last 24 hours(28th March 2025):

✅ Accops & pi-labs

- News: The two companies have joined forces to fight deepfake-enabled identity fraud.

- Details: Their partnership combines facial authentication with AI-powered deepfake detection for real-time verification. This solution is aimed at protecting businesses, financial institutions, and government agencies by analyzing facial inputs to block synthetic identities in scenarios such as vKYC and virtual hiring.

✅ 2am VC

- News: The venture capital firm has launched its second fund to invest in 30 Indian startups.

- Details: With 60% earmarked for initial investments and the remainder for follow-on rounds, 2am VC is expanding its early-stage investment portfolio, building on their previous $10 million fund and investments in 47 companies.

✅ Yutori

- News: A new startup, Yutori, has been founded by ex-Meta AI executives to develop autonomous AI personal assistants.

- Details: The company secured $15 million in funding led by Radical Ventures, with its first product—an "AI chief-of-staff"—set for a closed beta launch this spring.

✅ Twin & Qonto

- News: AI startup Twin has partnered with fintech Qonto to introduce Invoice Operator, an automation tool.

- Details: This AI agent streamlines invoice retrieval for business customers by handling diverse website complexities with OpenAI’s CUA model, offering a user-friendly, minimal-technical-expertise solution.

✅ Other News

- India’s Indigenous AI Initiative:

- News: In response to concerns over the long-term accessibility of open-source AI models, India is spearheading the development of its own large language model under the IndiaAI mission.

- Details: With support from a significant government budget, this initiative leverages diverse national datasets and resources like AI Kosha and Compute Portal, aiming to ensure strategic autonomy in AI within ten months. The move also follows concerns raised by OpenAI’s shift towards closed-source models.

- AI Web-Crawling Bots & Developer Countermeasures:

- News: AI web-crawling bots are overwhelming websites, particularly in the open-source sector, prompting creative defenses by developers.

- Details: Solutions such as Anubis employ proof-of-work and other inventive tactics, including misleading bots with fake content, highlighting both the challenges posed by aggressive AI scraping and the community’s resilience in fighting back.

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