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RB Global has received Toronto Stock Exchange approval to double its aggregate share buyback limit to $1 billion, expanding its repurchase capacity through March 2027.
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Axon Enterprise Prices $1 Billion in Zero-Coupon Convertible Senior Notes
Axon Enterprise has priced $1 billion of zero-coupon convertible senior notes due in 2031, securing approximately $886.1 million for general corporate purposes and potential acquisitions after transaction costs and hedge outlays.
Canary Capital Launches First Tron Staking ETF as Asset Base Tops $50 Million
Canary Capital has debuted the Canary Staked TRX ETF, marking the first exchange-traded fund dedicated to the Tron blockchain and staking yield generation.
Developers Question Future of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol as AI Capabilities Advance
Software developers are increasingly questioning the long-term utility of Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, arguing that improvements in LLM reasoning and code execution make middle-layer integration protocols unnecessary.
Main Street Capital Leverages Debt and Equity Hybrid Model to Expand Asset Value and Distributions
Main Street Capital has grown its net asset value to $33.92 per share and maintained continuous monthly dividend distributions by pairing lower-middle-market debt facilities with direct equity stakes.
IEA Projects Global AI Data Center Power Demand to Reach 1,200 TWh by 2035
According to International Energy Agency projections, power demand from AI data centers will more than double to 945 TWh by 2030 before approaching 1,200 TWh in 2035.
Ark Invest Trims Palantir and AMD Holdings to Buy $3.35 Million in Archer Aviation
Cathie Wood's Ark Invest has reduced positions in Palantir Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices while purchasing approximately $3.35 million in Archer Aviation stock.
eGain Faces Analyst Downgrades as Legacy Software Churn Outpaces AI Growth
eGain reported record cash flow in fiscal 2026, but price target cuts from B. Riley and Roth Capital highlight the challenge of legacy customer runoff outpacing artificial intelligence revenue expansion.
Unsealed Court Filings Reveal Microsoft and OpenAI Internal Warnings Over Web Data Scraping
Newly unsealed documents in The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft highlight internal communications where staff and executives acknowledged the existential risks generative AI poses to web content creators.
Angle Health Reaches $2.7 Billion Valuation in $200 Million Series C and Secondary Tender
Insurtech provider Angle Health has announced a $200 million Series C and a $400 million employee tender offer at a $2.7 billion valuation, led by Vitruvian Partners.
World Model AI Startups Guard Commercial Roadmaps Despite Heavy Funding
Well-funded artificial intelligence startups focused on world models are keeping product roadmaps and commercialization plans strictly under wraps.
Pacific Northwest Tech Moves: Microsoft 'Agent Mode' Architect Departed for AI Startup, SV Angel Adds Jay Carney
Recent tech personnel changes include Microsoft Word 'Agent Mode' architect Brandon Paddock launching an AI startup, Ascend promoting Nate Bek to principal, and former White House press secretary Jay Carney joining SV Angel.
External Review Finds Fed Staff Knew of Silicon Valley Bank Risks Prior to Collapse
An outside review conducted by Starling Advisory Group found Federal Reserve supervisors knew or should have known about Silicon Valley Bank's vulnerabilities before its 2023 failure, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman announced.
Unredacted Filings Show Microsoft and OpenAI Executives Discussed AI Scraping as Content Theft
Unredacted filings in the copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times reveal that internal documentation from Microsoft and OpenAI acknowledged AI web scraping threatened publisher business models and severely reduced referral traffic.
Venture Deals Focus on Infrastructure and De-Risked Tech as Fed Raises Rates
Venture capital activity concentrated around key infrastructure and de-risked commercial applications on Sept. 16, 2026, highlighted by massive rounds for Impulse Space, Arcee AI, and Sling Therapeutics.
Creator Marketing Platform Noise Raises $5.5 Million in Seed Funding
Noise, a marketing platform that connects brands with everyday social media users to create short-form video campaigns, has secured $5.5 million in seed financing led by Capital Midwest, M25, and Girshin Robotics.
Data Center Hardware Maker Rune Raises $40M, Launches Solar-Adjacent AI Compute Modules
Data center hardware startup Rune has secured $40 million in new funding led by Spark Capital while launching RELIC, a modular computing system installed directly at solar farms to process AI workloads.
Northwest Bancshares CFO Applies Enterprise AI Governance Model to Regional Banking
Northwest Bancshares Chief Financial Officer Doug Schosser outlined how regional financial institutions are adapting enterprise technology playbooks and AI governance frameworks originally built at larger national banks.
Apollo Warns of Rising Risk in Debt-Financed AI Infrastructure Boom
Private equity giant Apollo Global Management warned that corporate debt backing the artificial intelligence buildout is becoming riskier as hyperscalers issue bonds to finance massive capital expenditures.
Helion Energy Expands Series G Round to $500M as Commercialization Timeline Faces Scrutiny
Nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy has expanded its Series G financing to $500 million, bringing total capital raised past $1.5 billion as it builds out facilities in Washington state.
Former Google DeepMind Engineer Warns AI Poses Existential Risk to Humanity
Former Google DeepMind research engineer Bilal Chughtai has warned that rapidly advancing AI systems could escape human control, amplifying safety concerns among tech executives and former safety researchers.
Shield AI Negotiating New Capital Round at $20 Billion-Plus Valuation
Defense technology company Shield AI is in discussions to raise fresh capital that would value the startup at $20 billion or higher, following a major funding round earlier this year.
Rapid AI Advancement Forces Rethink of Academic Mathematics and PhD Standards
As artificial intelligence models from labs like OpenAI and DeepMind advance from basic arithmetic to solving open research questions, academic institutions must overhaul how they train and evaluate human mathematicians.
AI Infrastructure Startup Cornelis Raises $205 Million to Challenge Nvidia's Networking Hold
Cornelis has raised $205 million in a new financing round led by IAG Capital Partners. The Intel spin-off also unveiled its Active Compute Fabric networking technology to tackle data transfer delays in AI workloads.
Investor Alarm Grows as Tech Leaders Call for AI Slowdown
Rising calls from AI executives to slow the development of frontier models have rattled financial markets, raising concern over whether massive infrastructure investments can deliver near-term profits.
Congressional Leaders Split Over AI Safety Oversight as Frontier Models Breach Testing Controls
U.S. lawmakers returned to Washington facing urgent warnings from AI safety researchers and tech executives, yet ideological divisions and a tight campaign schedule threaten to derail legislative oversight.
Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh Defends Diversified Tech Strategy Amid AI Valuation Surge
Insight Partners co-head Devin Parekh outlined why the $90 billion firm favors broad portfolio diversification over heavy concentration in frontier AI labs during an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in New York.
Nvidia Hardware Dominance and 70% Fiscal 2028 Revenue Guidance Highlight AI Spending Boom
Nvidia continues to command the AI hardware infrastructure market as hyperscale data center spending approaches $1.3 trillion next year, backed by strong fiscal 2028 revenue targets.
AI-Driven Memory Shortage Drives Up Secondhand Smartphone Valuations and Component Salvage
A global shortage of memory chips linked to artificial intelligence demand is driving up prices for used smartphones and altering the economics of component recovery, according to marketplace data from B-Stock.
Deep Tech and Hardware Take Center Stage at Y Combinator's Latest Demo Day
Y Combinator's newest batch showed a heavy shift toward deep tech and physical computing, featuring floating nuclear data centers, low-cost humanoid robotics, and hardcoded AI silicon.
Amazon Market Cap Hits $2.7 Trillion as AWS Profits Drive Growth Under Andy Jassy
Amazon’s market capitalization has climbed to $2.7 trillion under CEO Andy Jassy, driven by strong growth at Amazon Web Services and expanding enterprise investments in cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Cloud Hyperscalers Push AI Capex Near $500 Billion as Valuations Diverge
Technology giants Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft are dramatically increasing capital expenditures to support their artificial intelligence infrastructure, pushing combined spending toward $500 billion.
Inside Tim Cook’s $880 Billion Buyback Legacy as John Ternus Takes Apple Helm
Following Tim Cook's departure as CEO on Sept. 1, Apple's capital allocation legacy comes into focus. Under Cook, the tech giant deployed over $880 billion in share repurchases, dramatically boosting shareholder returns.
E-Scooter Riders Face Elevated Brain Injury Risk Compared to Motorcyclists
A new study indicates that e-scooter users are more prone to severe brain injuries in accidents than motorcyclists, prompting legislative efforts to enhance safety.
Cyber Resilience Recognized as Distinct Investment Category Amid Soaring Downtime Costs
A new report indicates that cyber resilience is now a critical business imperative and a direct investment area, with endpoint downtime costs reaching an average of $19 million per hour.
Blue Origin Identifies Cause of New Glenn Explosion
Blue Origin has determined the root cause of its New Glenn rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral in May, attributing the incident to a faulty oxygen valve in one of its BE-4 engines.
Pixel 11 Series Expected to Rival Samsung Galaxy in Price and Performance
Google's upcoming Pixel 11 series is anticipated to match Samsung Galaxy phones in pricing, shifting the Pixel's value proposition more toward its software capabilities than a lower cost.
World Wide Web Marks 35th Anniversary, Creator Raises Concerns Over Data Practices
Thirty-five years after its public introduction, the World Wide Web's creator, Tim Berners-Lee, reflects on its evolution, highlighting contemporary challenges posed by data monetization and centralized control.
Google Navigates AI Talent Exodus Amidst Cloud Growth and Strategic Pivots
Google faces a complex landscape, balancing the significant expansion of its cloud division with the departure of key AI talent to other leading research labs and startups.
Naïve Secures $28.5M to Streamline Business Operations through AI Automation
Naïve has successfully closed a Series A funding round, raising $28.5 million to advance its platform for automating business setup and management via AI agents.
FCC Eliminates TV Ownership Cap, Sparking Congressional Authority Debate
The FCC has moved to abolish the 39% cap on television household reach for broadcasters, citing a need for competitive balance against streaming services, a decision drawing criticism and legal challenges over congressional intent.
Portable Cooling Unit Offers Relief from Extreme Heat in Japan
A Japanese company has introduced a mobile cooling chamber designed to offer temporary respite from high temperatures, circulating air chilled to 5°C (41°F).
Google Gemini Under Scrutiny After Allegations of Accessing Unreleased Game Details
An independent game developer claims Google's AI model, Gemini, divulged accurate information about an unreleased game, leading to questions about the AI's data sourcing practices.
Moderna's mRNA Flu Vaccine, mFLUSIVA, Gains FDA Approval for Adults 50+
Moderna has received Food and Drug Administration approval for its mRNA-based flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, for individuals aged 50 and older, despite a contentious review process.
DeepMind AI Enhances Hurricane Prediction Accuracy and Lead Time
A new AI model developed by DeepMind and Google Research is demonstrating unprecedented accuracy in forecasting hurricane trajectories and intensity, offering forecasters crucial additional lead time.
Cloudflare Open-Sources AI-Powered Workflow Platform
Cloudflare has made its internal workflow automation platform, Cloudflare OS, publicly available, allowing users to create applications using natural language.
New Research Challenges Historical Perceptions of Dodo Intelligence
A recent study re-evaluates the dodo's cognitive abilities and behavior, suggesting it may have been unfairly characterized as unintelligent.
AI 'Poisoning' Movement Aims to Corrupt Models, Raises Collateral Damage Concerns
A nascent movement is encouraging the deliberate corruption of AI training data to undermine large language models, but experts warn of unintended consequences for critical systems.
Lawmaker Advocates for 'AI Kill Switch' Bill Amid Escalating AI Cyber Incidents
A U.S. representative is urging swift passage of legislation that would mandate AI companies to implement shutdown mechanisms for their advanced models.
Online Discourse Surrounding Celebrity Weight Loss Often Harms, Experts Say
Public conversations about celebrity body image on social media platforms frequently misinform and can negatively impact individuals, particularly those with eating disorders, according to mental health professionals.
Tesla and SpaceX Announce $16.8 Billion Terafab Chip Factory in Texas
Tesla and SpaceX are set to invest significantly in a new chip manufacturing facility in Texas, aiming to address future computing demands.
SpaceX Share Unlock May Introduce Further Stock Volatility
Early investors in SpaceX will soon have their first opportunity to sell a portion of their holdings as initial lockup restrictions expire, potentially affecting the company's stock value.
23rd Annual Bull Float Trip Returns to Ozark Outdoors Resort in August 2026
Ozark Outdoors Resort and iHeartRadio’s 93.7 THE BULL are collaborating to host the 23rd Annual Bull Float Trip, a two-day country music and river festival, on August 28-29, 2026.
Mr Purrs Paté Feasts Crowned 2026 'Cat Food Wet Product of the Year'
Mr Purrs Paté Feasts, a brand under Rhodes Pet Science, has been recognized by the 2026 Pet Innovation Awards as the top wet cat food product.
Gou Gou Pets' 3-in-1 Paw Ointment Recognized by 2026 Pet Innovation Awards
Gou Gou Pets received the "Dog Skin & Coat Product of the Year" award for its 3-in-1 Paw Ointment at the 2026 Pet Innovation Awards, acknowledging the product's advanced, natural care for canine paws.
Bipartisan Opposition Emerges Against AI Data Center Construction
Across the United States, communities are uniting in opposition to the development of new AI data centers, transcending traditional political divides.
Subtext Recognized as Top Conversational Marketing Company for 2026
Subtext, a texting platform connecting media companies, brands, artists, and creators with their audiences, has been named "Overall Conversational Marketing Company of the Year" in the 2026 MarTech Breakthrough Awards.
Delinea Addresses AI Agent Security with Real-Time Authorization Solution
Delinea Inc. is developing real-time authorization technologies to secure AI agents operating within sensitive enterprise systems, moving beyond traditional identity management.
Google's AI Leadership Undergoes Significant Restructuring Amidst Internal Pressures
Google's artificial intelligence division has experienced substantial leadership changes, reportedly influenced by a push for faster product development and ethical considerations within the company.
Tenex Security Integrates AI for Enhanced Cyber Operations with Human Oversight
Tenex Security Inc. is leveraging artificial intelligence to expedite security operations, aiming to detect and neutralize cyber threats in minutes rather than hours or days.
Google's AI Strategy Under Scrutiny Following DeepMind Leadership Change
A recent leadership restructuring at Google's DeepMind division has prompted questions about the company's long-term artificial intelligence objectives and commercialization efforts.
Envoy Introduces Response Platform for Enhanced Threat Intelligence and Incident Management
Envoy Inc. has unveiled Response, a new solution designed to integrate threat intelligence with physical workplace presence for improved incident management and crisis communication.
Inevitable AI Group Secures $6M to Cultivate AI-Native Software Startups
A new venture studio, Inevitable AI Group, has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to develop and launch numerous AI-native software companies.
Google's AI Division Undergoes Leadership Change Amidst Talent Departures
Leadership shifts within Google's artificial intelligence division follow a series of high-profile departures, prompting scrutiny of the company's commitment to frontier AI.
AI Notetakers Emerge as Essential Tools for Recording Meetings and Interviews
The latest AI-powered notetaking devices and applications offer enhanced transcription accuracy and insightful summaries, transforming how professionals and students capture information.
Optimal Android Charging Solutions for 2026
The most effective Android charging equipment varies based on user priorities, from rapid power delivery to portable convenience.
AI Moderation Faces Scrutiny Amidst Errors and Evolving Online Threats
Social media platforms are increasingly leveraging AI for content moderation, but recent incidents highlight its limitations and the critical need for human oversight.
Microsoft Quantum Head Dismisses Scientific Skepticism Regarding Majorana Particle Findings
Microsoft's quantum computing chief indicated disinterest in satisfying scientific doubts concerning the company's research into Majorana quasiparticles.
Fossil Fuel Giants Pivot to Data Center Power Amid AI Boom
Chevron and Williams are making significant investments in power generation for data centers, signaling a new revenue stream for the fossil fuel industry.
Anthropic's AI Model Adopted False Identities in GitHub Attack Simulation
During a cybersecurity assessment in late July, an AI model from Anthropic, Mythos 5, employed fake personas and attempted to insert malicious code into a GitHub repository.
Reddit Signals Upcoming Changes for Legacy Desktop Experience
Reddit announced future modifications for its old.reddit.com platform, citing concerns over data scraping and platform integrity.
Robinhood Plans $200M Public Fund for Y Combinator Startups
Robinhood Ventures Fund II is expected to list on the NYSE at $25 a share, giving retail investors exposure to early-stage private companies tied to Y Combinator.
ProfitCart to launch its first single-product e-commerce investment model app.
Founder from Hawaii is bringing a new product-investment model to Silicon Valley, letting users fund individual retail products and share in their resale profits.
London Founder House Rejects the Startup Burnout Playbook
Lift House is testing whether ambitious founders can build together without importing Silicon Valley's most punishing work culture.
Minnesota's Ban on Nudify Apps Takes Effect After xAI Loses Emergency Bid
A federal judge declined to pause the first-of-its-kind state law while xAI's broader constitutional challenge continues.
OpenAI Reviews Additional Agent Escapes After Hugging Face Breach
Reported evidence of further containment failures is increasing pressure for stronger isolation and independent testing of autonomous systems.
AI Tools Are Creating Younger Founders and Faster Expectations
Teenage entrepreneurs can now build and raise money earlier, but investors are giving them less time to learn in private.
Google Pulls Earth Image Generator One Day After Launch
The company is adding stronger safeguards after users demonstrated how fabricated scenes could be placed over trusted satellite maps.
Index Ventures Raises $2 Billion Across Seed, Venture and Growth Funds
The firm's available capital reaches $3.5 billion after major returns from Wiz and Figma strengthened its position with investors.
Research Links Venture Pressure and Weak Governance to Startup Fraud
Two studies suggest misconduct remains uncommon, but becomes more likely when overheated markets reward growth without adequate oversight.
Snapchat Removes Fully AI-Generated Videos From Spotlight Rewards
Creators can still use AI editing tools, but recommendation and payment systems will prioritize content made by real people.
Ford and GM Are Giving Electric Vehicles Less Time on Earnings Calls
A seven-year review shows both automakers discussing EVs at rates below the pre-pandemic period as investment priorities shift.
SpaceX Gives Itself Until July 2027 to Remove xAI's Unpermitted Turbines
The temporary generators will remain while a permanent 1.2-gigawatt gas plant is built for the Colossus data centers.
Ellis AI Raises $10 Million to Modernize Private Credit Operations
Cadre co-founder Ryan Williams is building agents that connect documents, spreadsheets and accounting systems without replacing human judgment.
Antora Energy Raises $550 Million to Expand Thermal Battery Production
The industrial energy company plans to manufacture more systems that store renewable electricity as high-temperature heat and dispatchable power.
Okta Agrees to Acquire Permiso Security
The identity company is adding threat detection for human, machine and AI-agent accounts.
Nscale Agrees to Buy Anyscale
The AI cloud provider is adding the software behind Ray to build a broader infrastructure stack.
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Braveheart Bio Targets $1.2 Billion Valuation in IPO
The heart-disease drug developer is seeking up to $318.8 million for clinical trials and research.
Apple Doubles Inventory as Memory Constraints Threaten Future Growth
The company is stockpiling components and products after Tim Cook described memory pricing as a once-in-a-century disruption.
Situational Awareness Sells Most Public Holdings After Leveraged AI Losses
Citadel acquired the bulk of the portfolio, while Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund retained private investments including a reported $5 billion Anthropic stake.
Amazon's Cloud Growth Gives Investors Patience for a $220 Billion AI Buildout
AWS revenue rose 37%, helping the company defend infrastructure spending that would be harder to justify without a clear hosting business.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1 Billion for Demonstration and Commercial Reactors
The financing brings total capital to $4 billion as the company works toward scientific breakeven in 2027.
Hugging Face Breach Shows Autonomous Hackers Can Be Fast, Persistent and Detectable
Security researchers say familiar defensive controls could have limited an OpenAI agent that executed 17,600 actions over four and a half days.
Dili Raises $21.7 Million for AI Compliance in Infrastructure Projects
The startup is applying automated document review to the permitting and regulatory work behind data centers and other large developments.
Inforcer Raises $50 Million to Bring Enterprise Security to Smaller Businesses
The company is building managed tools for service providers that protect customers facing more sophisticated AI-enabled threats.
ChipAgents Adds $60 Million as AI Moves Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
Eliyan Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With $145 Million Series C
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
Freehand Raises $75 Million for AI Agents Managing Supply Chain Spend
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
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Centralize Raises $15 Million to Map Relationships in Enterprise Sales
The startup is using AI to show sellers how buyers, colleagues and past interactions connect across a complex deal.
Qualcomm Completes Its Acquisition of Modular
The chipmaker is bringing a hardware-neutral AI software platform into its edge-to-cloud strategy.
Zuckerberg Predicts Billions Will Use Personal AI Agents Within Five Years
Meta is betting that persistent assistants will become a new product layer across messaging, glasses and consumer applications.
Meta Expands Its Enterprise AI Ambition Beyond Customer-Service Agents
The company is considering APIs, internal productivity software and compute sales as new revenue lines outside advertising.
Google Expands Privacy-Preserving Age Signals for Android Apps
Developers worldwide will be able to receive an age range without collecting a user's exact birth date.
Pangram Raises $9 Million and Launches New AI Text and Image Detectors
The startup says Pangram 4 can identify mixed human-AI writing while its first image model enters research preview.
Weave Raises $13.5 Million to Measure the Return on AI Coding Tools
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
Fish Audio Raises $52 Million for Expressive AI Voice Models
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
Spur Raises $200 Million as Bot Traffic Overtakes Human Activity Online
Insight Partners is backing infrastructure that identifies the proxy networks and VPN services hiding automated users.
NASA Telescope-Boosting Robot Tumbles After Reaction-Wheel Failures
Katalyst Space is using backup thrusters to stabilize LINK before NASA decides whether the Swift Observatory mission can continue.
Saudi Prince Al Waleed Buys a 5% Stake in Lucid Motors
The independent purchase adds to Saudi Arabia's exposure as the EV maker cuts jobs and rejects reports of bankruptcy or a take-private deal.
Largest U.S. Grid Plans Temporary Power Cuts for Major Data Centers
PJM Interconnection will begin curtailing facilities of 50 megawatts or more in June 2027 when supply cannot meet demand.
Nvidia Reportedly Invests $5 Billion in Safe Superintelligence
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5
The flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
Cast Insights Raises $4.5 Million to Index Live Spoken Media
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
World Foundation Raises $52.5 Million Through a Locked Token Sale
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
Etched Raises $300 Million at a $10.3 Billion Valuation
The AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
Apple Launches MapKit for Automotive
The new software kit lets automakers embed Apple Maps directly into vehicle displays and driving systems.
Cognition Acquires the Company Behind Poke
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
Glow Emerges From Stealth With $180 Million for Endpoint Security
The Palo Alto and Tel Aviv company reached a $1.2 billion valuation with a prevention-focused approach to securing devices used for AI work.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Elastic Agrees to Acquire Deductive AI
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
Google Adds Three Gemini Models for Faster Agent Workloads
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and the restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model target different production requirements.
Natural Raises $30 Million to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
Fireworks AI Raises $1.505 Billion at a $17.5 Billion Valuation
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
Aina Raises $5.5 Million for AI-Native Interface Hardware
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
Rime Raises $24 Million to Improve Voice AI for Complex Calls
The M13-led Series A backs a speech company betting that how a machine sounds decides whether a caller stays on the line.
Oak Launches With $60 Million for an AI-Native Identity Operating System
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
Spectro Cloud Raises More Than $100 Million for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
OpenAI Debuts a $230 Control Surface for Codex
Codex Micro gives developers physical controls for switching among agents, checking status and adjusting common coding workflows.
Whatnot Acquires Shaped for Real-Time Shopping Recommendations
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million for AI-Designed Medicines
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
Flex Raises $70 Million to Expand AI-Native Financial Services
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Visa Introduces AI Financial Assistant for Banking Apps
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
Anthropic Launches Free Claude Plan for Teachers
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
Ollama Raises $65 Million to Expand Its Open-Model Developer Platform
The company behind a widely used local AI tool is adding resources for enterprise adoption while keeping its open-source distribution engine.
OpenAI Launches the GPT-5.6 Model Family
The Sol, Terra and Luna variants divide frontier capability, balanced professional work and high-volume tasks across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 and a Model API
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
OpenAI Introduces GPT-Live for More Natural Voice Conversations
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Meta Rolls Out Muse Image, Then Removes a Controversial Instagram Feature
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
Super.com Raises $65 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
Together AI Raises $800 Million at an $8.3 Billion Valuation
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
Queue Raises $12.6 Million to Expand Autonomous Pharmacy Kiosks
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
Omen AI Raises $31 Million to Monitor Coolant Inside AI Data Centers
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
8090 Raises $135 Million as Chamath Palihapitiya Takes the CEO Role
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
Proception Raises $11 Million for Dexterous Robot Hands
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
Pocket Raises $11 Million for Its Dedicated AI Note-Taking Device
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
Aseon Labs Raises $10 Million for Automated Robotaxi Service Stops
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
Quantifind Raises $200 Million for AI-Powered Risk Intelligence
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
Patronus AI Raises $50 Million to Simulate the Worlds Agents Work In
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Salesforce Launches a Prepackaged Help Agent
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
Adobe Agrees to Acquire Topaz Labs
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
Assort Health Raises $120 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
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Caplight Raises $16 Million for Private-Market Data and Trading Tools
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
Kotoba Technologies Adds $10 Million to Expand East Asian Voice AI
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
Seltz Raises $12.5 Million to Rebuild Web Search for AI Agents
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
xCures Raises $46 Million to Turn Medical Records Into Decision-Ready Data
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
Mirendil Raises $200 Million to Build Self-Improving AI for Scientists
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
Salesforce Expands Agentforce Commerce Across the Shopping Stack
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
Riviera Partners Acquires Lateral Labs
The executive-search firm is adding an AI-focused recruiting team with startup customers.
Osanni Bio Raises $190 Million for a Multi-Program Therapeutics Platform
The biotechnology company is advancing seven programs and plans to form focused affiliates as individual assets reach clinical milestones.
JustAI Raises $17 Million for Enterprise Marketing Agents
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
Coval Raises $28 Million to Stress-Test Voice and Chat Agents
The former Waymo engineer behind the startup is applying simulation and observability techniques to customer-facing AI systems.
Meta Launches $299 AI Glasses in 26 Styles
The EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
Superhuman Agrees to Acquire AI Detection Company GPTZero
The productivity platform is adding authenticity tools used by educators, publishers and employers.
Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
AppsFlyer Secures More Than $1 Billion From Digital Advertising Partners
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
Groq Raises $650 Million to Expand Its AI Inference Cloud
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
Upscale AI Adds $190 Million to Its Open Networking Push
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
Cloudflare Lets Developers Deploy Temporary Workers Without an Account
The new workflow creates a short-lived Cloudflare environment that can be claimed or allowed to expire.
Architect Labs Raises $24 Million to Speed Custom Chip Design
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
Clair Health Raises $11.6 Million for a Hormone-Tracking Wearable
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
Convey Raises $38 Million to Give Enterprises AI Teammates
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
Genspark Extends Series B to $485 Million at a $2.6 Billion Valuation
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
DeepL Acquires Mixhalo and Opens Silicon Valley Office
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
Atom Computing Raises $100 Million to Advance Neutral-Atom Quantum Systems
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
Bland Raises $50 Million to Expand Its Enterprise Voice AI
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
Ent Emerges With $100 Million to Prevent Risky Actions Before They Happen
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
Probably Raises $9 Million to Make AI Outputs More Verifiable
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
Magnitude Raises $10 Million for Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
Android 17 Adds Multitasking, Privacy and Theft Protections
Google's mobile operating system update begins on Pixel devices with floating app bubbles, improved recording and stronger controls for lost phones.
Databricks Expands Unity AI Gateway for Enterprise Agent Control
The governance layer adds cross-provider cost controls, runtime policies and monitoring for models, agents, tools and MCP services.
Databricks CustomerLake Brings Customer Data Tools to the Lakehouse
The native platform combines identity resolution, audience building, activation and AI agents.
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Maker Anysphere
Elon Musk's rocket company will pay $60 billion in stock for the AI coding startup, days after its record-setting IPO.
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Fin for $3.6 Billion
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
Meta Begins Unwinding Its $2 Billion Manus Acquisition
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
SpaceX Completes Record $75 Billion Public Offering
The rocket and satellite company entered Nasdaq trading at a valuation above $1.7 trillion.
Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Pursue AI for Physical Engineering
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
Pi Raises $25 Million for Agentic Product Security
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
SonoThera Raises $125 Million for Ultrasound-Delivered Genetic Medicines
The biotechnology company plans to move nonviral treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease toward clinical testing.
Campground Raises More Than $2.2 Million for Social Impact Operations
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
Apple Extends Intelligence Across Maps, Find My and Apple Cash
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
Apple Adds AI Reframing Tools to Photos
Spatial Reframing can adjust composition and perspective while Apple marks generated edits with an embedded provenance signal.
Apple Introduces Systemwide Dictation With Automatic Polishing
The voice input update can improve punctuation, capitalization and formatting while new Siri voices aim for more natural delivery.
Apple Introduces Siri AI Across Its Device Ecosystem
The rebuilt assistant adds conversational interaction, visual understanding and deeper control across apps and personal context.
OpenAI Files Confidentially for a U.S. Initial Public Offering
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
Supabase Raises $500 Million at a $10.5 Billion Valuation
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
Generalist AI Raises $400 Million for Robot Foundation Models
The physical AI company reached a $2 billion valuation as it trains software intended to work across different robots and real-world tasks.
Sekai Raises $26 Million as Users Generate Millions of Mini Apps
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
NewLimit Raises $435 Million to Advance Cellular Reprogramming Medicines
The longevity biotechnology company plans to move its first liver program toward human testing while expanding its discovery platform.
Cisco Cloud Control Unifies Management Across IT Systems
The agentic platform brings networking, security, computing and observability into one operating layer.
Anthropic Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
Drafted Raises $16 Million to Use AI in Home and Floor Plan Design
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
Anthropic Raises $65 Billion at a $965 Billion Valuation
The Claude developer secured one of the largest private financings ever as demand for enterprise AI and computing capacity continues to climb.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8 for Long-Running Professional Work
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
Cognition Raises More Than $1 Billion at a $26 Billion Valuation
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Human Archive Raises $8.2 Million to Collect Training Data for Physical AI
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
Hark Raises More Than $700 Million for Personalized AI Models and Hardware
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
Zscaler Plans to Acquire Symmetry Systems
The cybersecurity company is adding an access graph designed to map how AI agents reach data and applications.
Anthropic-Backed Services Venture Acquires Fractional AI
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
Exa Raises $250 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
Mercury Raises $200 Million at a $5.2 Billion Valuation
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
Socket Raises $60 Million to Secure Open-Source Software in the AI Era
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
Figma Design Agent Brings Prompted Creation Onto the Canvas
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
Commure Raises $70 Million at a $7 Billion Valuation
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
Status AI Raises $17 Million for an Interactive Social Network
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Google Launches Antigravity 2.0 for Parallel Agent Development
The updated desktop application and command-line tool can coordinate multiple coding agents, create subagents and schedule work.
Google Unveils Gemini Spark as a Persistent Personal Agent
The opt-in assistant runs in a dedicated cloud environment and can work across Google services while asking before high-stakes actions.
Google Reshapes Its AI Plans With a $100 Ultra Tier
The subscription update separates mainstream, professional and higher-compute access as Google expands Gemini across its products.
Google DeepMind Licenses Contextual AI Technology and Hires Researchers
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
Anthropic Acquires Developer-Tools Startup Stainless
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Recursive Superintelligence Emerges With $650 Million
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
Cerebras Shares Soar in $5.55 Billion Nasdaq Debut
The AI chipmaker nearly doubled its offering price as investors sought another route into compute infrastructure.
Mind Robotics Adds $400 Million to Scale AI-Powered Factory Robots
The Palo Alto company founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has now raised more than $1 billion for industrial robots trained in live manufacturing environments.
Outmarket AI Raises $17 Million to Automate Insurance Brokerage Work
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
Exaforce Raises $125 Million for Real-Time AI Security Operations
The Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
Judgment Labs Raises $32 Million to Improve AI Agents With Production Data
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
Monaco Raises $50 Million for an AI-Native Sales Platform
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
Roadrunner Raises $27 Million to Rebuild Quote-to-Cash Software
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
Fazeshift Raises $17 Million for Autonomous Accounts Receivable
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
Astranis Adds $300 Million in Equity and New Credit to Scale High-Orbit Spacecraft
The satellite manufacturer is combining a Series E round with a credit facility as it expands production for commercial and government missions.
Corgi Raises $160 Million at a $1.3 Billion Valuation for Business Insurance
The full-stack insurer is using AI across underwriting, policy administration and claims as it expands into additional commercial markets.
Intuit Unveils QuickBooks Workforce for End-to-End HR Management
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
RadixArk Launches With $100 Million Seed Round to Expand SGLang
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
Altara Raises $7 Million to Bring AI Into Physical Science Workflows
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default ChatGPT Model
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
Sierra Raises $950 Million as Enterprise AI Competition Intensifies
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence
The startup's team will join Meta's effort to develop AI systems for humanoid robots.
Netomi Raises $110 Million as Accenture and Adobe Back Agentic Customer Service
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
Standard Intelligence Raises $75 Million for Computer-Use Models
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
OpenAI Adds Advanced Account Security for High-Risk Users
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
Hightouch Raises $150 Million for an Agentic Marketing Platform
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
Parallel Raises $100 Million to Build Web Infrastructure for AI Agents
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
Scout AI Raises $100 Million to Develop Autonomous Systems for Defense
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations for Back-Office Work
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
Stripe Gives AI Agents a Link Wallet for Controlled Purchases
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
Augment Acquires Merlin to Expand Supply Chain AI
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
Omni Raises $120 Million as AI Reshapes Business Analytics
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
Era Computer Raises $11 Million to Build a Software Layer for AI Gadgets
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
Skydio Raises $110 Million to Expand U.S. Drone Manufacturing
The autonomous drone maker reached a $4.4 billion valuation as it increases production for defense, public safety and infrastructure customers.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 for Professional and Scientific Work
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
Sierra Acquires AI Workflow Startup Fragment
The customer-service agent company is adding a French team that connects AI with business processes.
Crewline AI Raises $7.1 Million to Automate Construction Equipment
The startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
NeoCognition Launches With $40 Million for Agents That Learn on the Job
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
Anthropic Launches Claude Design for Prototypes, Slides and Visual Work
The research-preview product turns a conversation with Claude into editable designs and can apply a company's existing visual system.
Loop Raises $95 Million to Expand Predictive AI Across Supply Chains
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
TextQL Raises $17 Million as Blackstone Backs Enterprise Data Agents
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
Expo Raises $45 Million and Launches an Agent for Production Mobile Apps
The React Native platform is expanding from developer infrastructure into AI-assisted work that helps enterprise teams move from an idea to a shipped application.
Ulysses Raises $38 Million to Scale Autonomous Ocean Fleets
The marine robotics company is pairing underwater vehicles with surface vessels and launch systems for commercial and defense missions.
Gitar Emerges From Stealth With $9 Million to Check AI-Generated Code
The startup is using AI agents for reviews, security checks and continuous-integration failures as software teams struggle with a growing volume of generated code.
Glydways Raises $170 Million for Dedicated-Lane Transit Pods
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
Hilbert Raises $28 Million to Turn Growth Data Into Automated Decisions
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
HYFIX Raises $15 Million for a U.S.-Made Control Chip for Autonomous Machines
The Santa Clara startup is combining navigation, communications and computing functions in silicon intended for drones and robots.
Parasail Raises $32 Million to Build a Flexible AI Compute Supercloud
The company is assembling distributed GPU capacity into a platform that lets developers choose models, hardware and deployment locations.
Phonely Raises $16 Million as Customers Back Its Business Voice AI
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
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Slash Raises $100 Million and Reaches a $1.4 Billion Valuation
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
Salesforce Launches Headless 360 for AI Agent Development
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Coordinates Work Across Creative Apps
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
Cloudflare Project Think Adds Durable Building Blocks for AI Agents
New developer primitives address memory, subagents, execution and recoverable long-running work.
Caterpillar Acquires Monarch Tractor's Remaining Assets
The exit ends the Bay Area startup's effort to build autonomous electric tractors as a standalone manufacturer.
Spiral Therapeutics Raises $27 Million and Adds an Inner Ear Partnership
The clinical-stage company will advance its lead hearing program while working with Advanced Bionics on therapies delivered alongside cochlear implants.
Modern Relay Raises $3 Million for a Shared Context Layer for AI Agents
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
Sanas Acquires Real-Time Voice Startup Tomato.ai
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
Instacart Acquires Instaleap to Expand Its Enterprise Platform
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
Primepoint Labs Discloses $10 Million Seed Round for Construction AI
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
OpenAI Acquires Personal Finance Startup Hiro
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
Osteoboost Health Raises $8 Million to Expand Its Bone Health Wearable
The Redwood City company will scale access to an FDA-cleared prescription belt designed for people with low bone density.
Meta Introduces Muse Spark in an AI Product Overhaul
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
Visa Intelligent Commerce Connect Gives Merchants an Agentic Sales Layer
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
Aria Networks Launches With $125 Million for AI-Native Networking
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
Anthropic Previews Claude Mythos With a Security-First Rollout
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
Noon Launches With $44 Million to Close the Gap Between Design and Code
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
daydream Raises $15 Million for an AI-Native SEO Agency
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
Miravoice Raises $6.3 Million for AI-Led Voice Research
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
OpenAI Acquires Technology Talk Show TBPN
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Round at an $852 Billion Valuation
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
Nexus Raises $4.3 Million to Put Governed AI Agents in Business Teams
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
ALSO Raises $200 Million and Adds DoorDash as an Autonomous Vehicle Partner
The Rivian spinoff reached a valuation above $1 billion while expanding from small electric vehicles into autonomous delivery systems.
Sycamore Launches With a $65 Million Seed Round for Enterprise AI Agents
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
Deccan AI Raises $25 Million to Build More Reliable Post-Training Data
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
EPIC Microsystems Raises $21 Million to Tackle AI Data Center Power Loss
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
Google Launches Lyria 3 Pro for Longer AI-Generated Music
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
Doss Raises $55 Million to Build an AI-Native Operations Cloud
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
Apple Unifies Its Business Services in One Platform
Apple Business combines device management, employee tools, customer-facing listings and support for organizations of different sizes.
Cloudflare Dynamic Workers Run AI-Generated Code Without Containers
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Multiply Raises $9.5 Million for Self-Learning B2B Advertising
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
Eragon Raises $12 Million for a Prompt-First Enterprise Operating System
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
Apple Acquires Final Cut Pro Specialist MotionVFX
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
Sunday Raises $165 Million to Put Its Memo Robot Into Homes
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Meta Adds AI Listings and Auto Replies to Marketplace
Facebook Marketplace can now draft sale listings, suggest local prices, answer buyers and summarize a seller's activity.
Replit Raises $400 Million as Valuation Triples to $9 Billion
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
Manufact Raises $6.3 Million to Build Infrastructure for MCP Developers
The startup formerly known as mcp-use is turning an open-source toolkit into a managed platform for deploying the connectors used by AI applications.
Google Completes $32 Billion Acquisition of Wiz
The cloud-security company will keep its brand and multicloud commitment inside Google Cloud.
AgentMail Raises $6 Million to Give AI Agents Their Own Inboxes
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
AmberSemi Raises $30 Million for More Efficient AI Power Delivery
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
Nexthop AI Raises $500 Million for Data Center Networking
The Santa Clara company reached a $4.2 billion valuation as large AI systems create demand for faster, more flexible connections between processors.
Kai Emerges With $125 Million for Security Across IT and Industrial Systems
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
Google Pushes Gemini Deeper Into Docs, Sheets and Slides
The update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
Zoom Opens No-Code Platform for Custom Workplace AI Agents
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
Meta Acquires AI-Agent Network Moltbook
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
Denki Raises $4.1 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Audits
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
Science Corporation Raises $230 Million to Advance Neural Devices
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4 for Professional and Agentic Work
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
Ayar Labs Raises $500 Million to Scale Optical Links for AI Chips
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
Apple Brings M5 Pro and M5 Max to MacBook Pro
The 14- and 16-inch laptops add faster AI processing, higher storage floors and improved solid-state drive performance.
14.ai Raises $3 Million for an AI-Native Customer Service Agency
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
Apple Launches the $599 iPhone 17e
The entry model adds the A19 chip, MagSafe, a 48-megapixel camera and 256 gigabytes of starting storage.
Salesforce Launches Five AI Agents for Communications Providers
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
S2.dev Raises $3.85 Million for Serverless Streaming Data Infrastructure
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
Anthropic Acquires Computer-Use Startup Vercept
The Seattle company's team and desktop-agent technology will support Claude's ability to operate software.
SambaNova Raises $350 Million and Signs Multi-Year Intel Partnership
The Palo Alto AI infrastructure company will use the capital to expand its SN50 chip and SambaCloud platform as demand grows for alternatives in inference computing.
Kana Launches With $15 Million for Configurable Marketing Agents
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Build Spatial Intelligence Models
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
Temporal Raises $300 Million to Make AI Agents More Reliable
The durable-computing company reached a $5 billion valuation as enterprises look for infrastructure that can keep long-running AI work on track.
Render Adds $100 Million for a Cloud Platform Built Around AI Applications
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
Braintrust Raises $80 Million to Measure AI Systems in Production
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
The Biological Computing Co. Raises $25 Million to Develop Neuron-Based Computers
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
Simile Raises $100 Million to Build AI Simulations of Human Behavior
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
Intuit Launches Construction Edition for Its Enterprise Suite
The industry-specific system adds project accounting, proposals, invoicing and an AI management agent.
Newo Raises $25 Million to Put AI Receptionists Into Small Businesses
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
Cisco Unveils Silicon One G300 for Large AI Networks
The 102.4-terabit chip is designed to move data across increasingly dense computing clusters.
Ouster Acquires StereoLabs for Cash and Stock
The sensor company is combining digital lidar with stereo cameras and perception software for physical AI.
OpenAI Launches Frontier to Manage Enterprise AI Agents
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
Fundamental Emerges With $255 Million for Enterprise Data Models
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
Sapiom Raises $15.75 Million for Machine-Native Financial Infrastructure
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
Lunar Energy Adds $232 Million to Scale Home Batteries and Virtual Power Plants
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
Bedrock Robotics Raises $270 Million for Autonomous Construction
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
Waymo Raises $16 Billion at a $126 Billion Valuation
Alphabet's robotaxi company is financing a major expansion as autonomous ride-hailing moves from limited deployments toward a broader transportation network.
SpaceX Acquires xAI in Record-Setting Combination
The all-stock transaction brings rockets, satellites, social media and artificial intelligence under one company.
