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Databricks Buys Tecton for Real-Time AI
Generative-AI Reshapes Real-Estate Workflows
Apate AI Raises Seed to Fight Scams with Bots
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NEWS UPDATES
Databricks Buys Tecton for Real-Time AI
Databricks will acquire feature-store pioneer Tecton (about $900 million) and fold its low-latency pipelines into the Lakehouse and Agent Bricks stack. Deal terms weren’t disclosed, but integration starts this quarter.
Lakehouse + Tecton means faster rollouts of fraud detection, recommender, and voice assistant solutions without additional MLOps vendors. Review your data-engineering spend—platform consolidation could lower total cost.
Generative-AI Reshapes Real-Estate Workflows
Consultants now peg gen-AI’s real-estate upside at $110-180 billion a year. Live pilots cover listing copy, virtual staging, lease summaries, and predictive maintenance, moving from test to production.
These data-heavy, document-rich workflows mirror challenges in insurance, logistics, and retail. Borrow the playbook—start with summarisation and visual-upgrade pilots that drive fee income.
Apate AI Raises Seed to Fight Scams with Bots
Sydney startup Apate AI closed a $2.5 million seed round to deploy voice, WhatsApp, and SMS bots that tie up scammers. Major banks and telcos are piloting the service.
Off-loading first-line scam engagement frees human agents and feeds fraud-rule training sets. A rare security AI that pays for itself—consider a proof-of-value with call-centre KPIs.
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Useful Resources
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Streamline enterprise search using Slack’s prompt templates (link)
Build AI-orchestrated workflows with Zapier’s step-by-step guide (link)
Compare Lovable, Cursor, and Replit before choosing a coding IDE (link)
STRATEGIC AI DECISION
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💰 Funding
Upstage raised $45M Series B to expand enterprise-grade gen-AI globally.
Casca raised $29M Series A to replace legacy lending with AI underwriting.
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Designing a Team Productivity Uplift Blueprint
You are a pro team-productivity architect hired to lift output without burnout. Audit the current week using [WORK_EVIDENCE] to surface the top three frictions in time use, handoffs, and context switching. Redesign rituals for a [TEAM_CONTEXT] with clear focus blocks, async rules, meeting limits, and a “stop doing” list. Add one automation or delegation change, run a 2-week experiment with the owner and daily check, and forecast the gain in [PRODUCTIVITY_GOAL].
Work Evidence: [Insert here]
Team Context: [Insert here]
Productivity Goal: [Insert here]
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