Merck and Mastercard are seeing real agentic AI results. Both say the plumbing came first.

Merck cut a drug discovery cycle by 33% and ships compliant marketing 80% faster. Mastercard is rethinking fraud disputes.

Sigma Computing seals $80M funding round as it pivots toward ‘agentic analytics’

Cloud-native data analytics startup Sigma Computing Inc. has closed on an $80 million Series E funding round that doubles its ...
The Next Web

Sigma Computing doubles valuation to $3 billion in Series E as agentic analytics race heats up

The San Francisco analytics company hit $200 million ARR in April, doubling year over year. Sigma Agents, its no-code AI product, became the fastest-adopted feature in the company's history.

Sigma Raises $80 Million Series E, Doubles Valuation to $3 Billion

New investors include Princeville Capital, Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, and Workday Ventures. The round comes after Sigma surpassed $200 Million ARR and announced more than 100% year-over ...
InfoWorld

Why it’s so hard to create stand-alone Python apps

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...
TheServerSide

OpenAPI, Swagger and Python

The OpenAPI specification, and the Swagger suite of tools built around it, make it incredibly easy for Python developers to create, document and manually test the RESTful APIs they create. Regardless ...
CNBC

3. Databricks

Founders: Ali Ghodsi (CEO), Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Launched: 2013 Headquarters: San Francisco Funding: $20 billion Valuation: ...
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Write Python like it’s 2025

11 tips for speeding up Python programs Don’t let slow code leave you behind in 2025. Here’s what you need to keep in mind when optimizing Python apps. Get started with the free-threaded build of ...