This week in Neo4j saw significant funding, with the company closing an $80 million Series E round led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. The funding will help Neo4j continue to deliver customer success with graph-powered business applications, including AI and machine learning systems. The company also released a new monitoring tool designed specifically for Neo4j administrators, called Halin. Additionally, the community featured Roland Guijt, a freelance software developer and trainer who updated his popular Pluralsight course on Graph databases and Neo4j to version 3.x. Other notable releases include gREST, a RESTful API development framework, and the neo4j-graphql.js library, which now includes new features for specifying type definitions. The community also discussed various use cases, including graph-enabled artificial intelligence and machine learning systems, as well as upcoming book releases, such as Graph-Powered Machine Learning by Dr. Alessandro Negro.