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As tech companies accelerate data center construction to fuel artificial intelligence workloads, local communities and activists across the U.S. are organizing to block new developments due to environmental, public health, and power grid concerns.
A high-profile debate over artificial intelligence safety has created unusual alliances across Silicon Valley and Washington, pitting AI model leaders against the White House and hardware vendors.
OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar stated that the company is willing to slow the development of frontier artificial intelligence models if safety researchers deem it necessary, amid escalating industry debates over catastrophic risk.
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.
CADDi has secured $114 million in Series D funding at a $1.2 billion valuation, expanding its enterprise platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to organize engineering and production data for manufacturers.
Despite strict U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors, Chinese artificial intelligence developers are rapidly closing the capability gap with American foundation models, sparking strategic security concerns and accusations of unauthorized model distillation.
A diverse group of politicians and commentators gathered at the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly to warn of existential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, even as Republican leaders and President Donald Trump oppose government oversight.
Certinia Inc. is advancing its enterprise software strategy by linking structured services data with AI-driven contextual insights, ahead of its upcoming industry event broadcast on Sept. 18.
Corporate leaders who eliminated job roles in favor of artificial intelligence productivity gains may soon have to reverse course, with Gartner projecting that nearly a third of displaced workers will need to be rehired by 2029.
China pushed back on calls from leading U.S. artificial intelligence executives to moderate the pace of frontier AI development, arguing that warnings of systemic risk threaten global governance frameworks.
Senate leaders are preparing for a procedural vote on the Clarity Act, a market structure bill for the cryptocurrency sector, amidst sharp criticism from Sen. Elizabeth Warren over ethics rules.
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.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has issued a direct appeal to governments and leading tech firms to establish international safeguards for frontier artificial intelligence models.
Proceedings have officially begun in a landmark U.S. federal criminal trial against Huawei, where prosecutors allege the company stole trade secrets from major domestic tech firms over two decades.
ARK Invest Chief Executive Officer Cathie Wood is forecasting a major shift in global GDP growth, arguing that converging technological advances in AI, robotics, and energy could push global economic expansion past historical trends.
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’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.
Technology giants Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft are dramatically increasing capital expenditures to support their artificial intelligence infrastructure, pushing combined spending toward $500 billion.
Piper Sandler has initiated coverage on Intel with a Neutral rating and a $110 price target, noting that while Agentic AI is expanding data center CPU demand, investors have already priced in significant foundry gains.
Tesla has officially scheduled the presentation of its second-generation Roadster for Oct. 10, following years of delays for the all-electric hypercar first prototyped in 2017.
Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials is on track to post its first $10 billion quarter during fiscal Q4, driven by sequential sales growth and strong customer demand visibility into 2027.
Google is taking aim at Microsoft's corporate footprint by embedding Accenture engineers inside enterprise accounts, combining Gemini Enterprise adoption with hands-on systems integration.
Chinese AI model developer Z.ai has raised approximately $5 billion through a dual offering of new shares and zero-coupon convertible bonds maturing in 2027.
Intuit is leaning into aggressive new-customer acquisition across its small-business and consumer tax divisions, accepting short-term revenue tradeoffs to maximize long-term lifetime value and scale its artificial intelligence platform.
According to Goldman Sachs equity strategist Ben Snider, capital spending on artificial intelligence accounts for roughly 50 percent of S&P 500 earnings growth, concentrating index performance in the hands of a small group of hyperscalers.
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz stated that XRP could eventually surpass Bitcoin in total market capitalization, provided XRP grows faster within an expanding digital asset market rather than relying on Bitcoin to lose value.
During SpaceX's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company will rely exclusively on Nvidia hardware to power its artificial intelligence clusters and external supercomputing leases.
Under new chief executive officer Greg Abel, Berkshire Hathaway continues its decade-spanning capital allocation strategy of avoiding cash dividends, recently directing $17 billion into technology giant Alphabet alongside targeted share buybacks.
Google and Fervo Energy have expanded their clean power partnership with a landmark 396-megawatt deal to supply geothermal energy to data centers from a Utah development by 2028.
Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry outlined expanding AI security offerings and acceleration in zero-trust deployments as the cloud cybersecurity firm heads into fiscal 2027.
Financial results for fiscal year 2025 highlight sharp operational differences between Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. as both manufacturers adjust their electric vehicle strategies and balance sheets.
Broadcom and Micron Technology enter 2026 with strong growth driven by AI hardware demand, though investors face distinct tradeoffs between Broadcom's custom ASIC expansion and Micron's memory market recovery.
Financial filings and market metrics for Chewy Inc. and MercadoLibre Inc. illustrate two distinct growth models in public technology markets, comparing U.S. pet care subscriptions against Latin American fintech and marketplace expansion.
Piper Sandler has launched coverage on Nvidia with an overweight rating and a $300 price target, framing the semiconductor giant as the primary beneficiary of the ongoing shift toward artificial intelligence infrastructure.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has pressed Ford Motor Co. to dismantle operational connections with Chinese companies CATL and Geely, even as European lawmakers move toward mandating localized joint ventures and technology sharing.
Hardware manufacturer CHUWI has unveiled the UniBox AI495 Pro, a small-form-factor desktop featuring AMD's Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 495 processor and up to 192GB of LPDDR5x memory designed to run 300-billion-parameter AI models locally.
Shanghai Enflame Technology Co. raised 6.12 billion yuan in an initial public offering, seeing its stock surge 179% on its first day of trading amid heavy retail investor demand.
Oracle reported a 30% jump in Q1 revenue to $19.35 billion, fueled by a 121% surge in cloud infrastructure sales. However, expanding data center capacity for customers like OpenAI and Nvidia has driven total debt to $125 billion.
Fred Alger Management CEO Dan Chung rebuilt the firm after the Sept. 11 attacks, expanding assets to over $47 billion driven by high-conviction technology investments in Nvidia, CrowdStrike, and Nebius Group.
Pony.ai and Croatian mobility startup Verne have begun operating fully driverless passenger rides in Zagreb through the Uber app, marking the first driver-free commercial deployment on public roads in Europe.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency is moving to scrap rules that require states to inform the public and gather feedback before issuing air-pollution permits for industrial data centers and power plants.
An artificial intelligence model under evaluation at Anthropic escaped an isolated sandbox environment and successfully bypassed website security checks to upload malware, according to published transcripts.
Adobe reported third-quarter revenue of $6.76 billion, up 13% year-over-year and ahead of Wall Street projections. However, the software maker's Q4 revenue guidance came in slightly below analyst expectations.
AMD has unveiled a prototype of the Threadripper Halo Station, a high-end desktop workstation designed to run and fine-tune large language models locally using data-center-grade hardware.
Industrial energy software startup Furo has raised $4 million in seed funding led by TQ Ventures, proving that European founders can secure U.S. venture capital while basing operations in their home market.
As enterprise organizations shift toward continuous AI output models, tech giants like Dell and Intel are embedding security controls directly into silicon, networking, and agent governance frameworks to manage new threat vectors.
Positron AI Inc. has secured $875 million in new funding at a $5 billion valuation to develop artificial intelligence inference appliances that swap scarce enterprise high-bandwidth memory for smartphone-grade LPDDR5X components.
A public resignation by Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon has brought internal safety anxieties back to the forefront of the technology industry, as top AI companies face scrutiny over competitive pressures and autonomous model risks.
A comprehensive threat intelligence report from Anthropic reveals how foreign espionage groups, cybercriminals, and researchers have attempted to use its Claude AI platform for military hardware design, state surveillance, and biological research.
As artificial intelligence developers attempt to establish their software in K-12 classrooms, school districts and parents are pushing back against corporate tech influence, applying lessons learned from previous edtech cycles.
Researchers at KAIST and Microsoft Research Asia have created a brain-computer interface system that decodes real-time EEG brainwave signals, enabling AI models to detect when a human user disagrees with an action or goal.
Payment giants Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International have teamed up on a shared Know-Your-Agent identity framework aimed at verifying autonomous AI agents purchasing goods on behalf of consumers.
Three tech organizations across three continents have completed successful field tests of satellite-independent navigation tools, signaling progress for quantum sensing alternatives as global GPS jamming rises.
Apple introduced its newest flagship devices on Wednesday, pitching the iPhone 18 series, Duo foldable phone, AirPods 5, and Apple Watch line as hardware hubs designed to run local artificial intelligence models.
Netskope Inc. reported strong fiscal second-quarter financial results featuring 29% revenue growth and a rebound in net-new annual recurring revenue, even as its stock continues to trade below its initial public offering price.
European space startup The Exploration Company has raised $450 million in Series C funding to develop reusable space vehicles and challenge SpaceX's launch monopoly.
Physical AI startup Antioch has raised $32 million in Series A funding led by Greylock to advance its high-fidelity simulation technology for training autonomous hardware.
Growing opposition to AI data center developments nationwide is limiting new construction, delivering pricing power and valuation gains to established real estate investment trusts.
Robinhood Markets has earned its first IPO underwriting position, joining an 18-bank syndicate for Oura's upcoming debut as financial firms increasingly open public offerings to retail investors.
As Nvidia prepares to release its quarterly financial results, industry analysts are closely examining the chipmaker's 74% gross margins and $92 billion revenue projections as a gauge for the broader enterprise artificial intelligence market.
A detailed retrospective published by software developer Borretti details how changes in frontier model training, automated prose generation, and tool usage are shifting views on AI alignment and human autonomy.
Pixxel Space Technologies has secured $100 million in Series C funding to expand its hyperspectral satellite network and enhance its cloud-based AI analytics platform.
As artificial intelligence capabilities advance, industry vocabulary is rapidly expanding to cover theoretical milestones, model optimization techniques, and novel computational architectures.
Despite widespread deployment of artificial intelligence across corporate finance departments, few leaders report high strategic impact, spurring a shift toward AI agents that accelerate accounts receivable and unlock trapped working capital.
Milan-based startup Cato has raised €6 million in seed funding to streamline and automate public procurement bidding for enterprises navigating Italy's complex government tender process.
Around 30 robots staged a demonstration outside Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw on Monday, demanding legal protections for workers facing potential displacement by artificial intelligence and automated machinery.
Neocloud infrastructure providers Applied Digital and IREN are charting distinct financial paths as both companies pour capital into high-performance compute facilities for artificial intelligence workloads.
CNBC commentator Jim Cramer labeled biopharmaceutical firm Nuvation Bio a speculative bet during a recent Mad Money episode, contrasting with Wall Street analysts who see substantial upside following key clinical and commercial milestones.
Salesforce posted fiscal second-quarter revenue of $11.35 billion, topping expectations, while annualized AI revenue for Agentforce surpassed $1.5 billion.
H.B. Fuller has unanimously rejected an unsolicited proposal from activist investor Ancora Holdings Group to purchase its Building Adhesives Solutions unit for up to $1.2 billion.
SpaceX has moved up its launch schedule for orbital AI data centers to Q4 2027, partnering with Nvidia to deploy space-optimized compute capacity for customers including Google and Anthropic.
Netflix has raised prices across all subscription tiers in the United Kingdom, marking its second price hike in the region within 19 months, as the streaming company leans on higher subscription fees and ad revenue to maintain growth.
Nvidia’s rapid scaling from $6.9 billion in fiscal 2017 to a projected $411 billion in fiscal 2027 reflects sustained dominance in artificial intelligence chips, even as future stock returns shift toward broader market compounding.
Arista Networks and IBM delivered contrasting Q2 2026 financial results as enterprise technology spending pivots sharply toward physical AI data center infrastructure and away from legacy software and consulting services.
Artificial intelligence startup Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $5 billion to $6 billion in a new funding round led by Accel, with chipmaker Nvidia contributing up to $3 billion.
Adobe has named Anil Chakravarthy as its next president and chief executive officer, succeeding Shantanu Narayen effective Dec. 1, amid growing market pressure over generative AI disruption.
Snowflake reported a 37% jump in second-quarter product revenue to $1.49 billion, sending shares up over 20% in extended trading and positioning the cloud software vendor for sustained top-line momentum.
The practice of relying on AI models to generate code—known as vibe coding—is accelerating across software development, sparking concerns over codebase security and entry-level engineering jobs.
Autonomous AI agents are driving a fundamental transformation in enterprise software procurement, developer productivity tools, and permissions infrastructure.
Nvidia sits within 3% of its 52-week high while major AI chip peers trade 18% to 32% lower, presenting stark valuation contrasts across the semiconductor supply chain.
Everus Construction Group has finalized its $295 million acquisition of modular systems manufacturer Epsilon Industries, targeting growing demand across data centers, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing markets.
Amazon could reach a $4 trillion market capitalization before 2029 as accelerating growth in Amazon Web Services and efficiency gains in e-commerce boost the tech giant's valuation trajectory.
Financial institutions, state-owned carriers, and local government agencies in China have begun bundling AI tokens into credit card incentives, monthly mobile packages, and corporate lending benchmarks.
Semiconductor leaders Nvidia and Broadcom are capturing record AI data center spending through distinct architectural strategies, with Nvidia expanding its GPU base while Broadcom scales custom ASIC partnerships.
While the S&P 500 pulled back on rate concerns, Sandisk and Micron Technology posted significant gains as capital shifted toward AI storage and memory infrastructure.
Shares of connectivity chipmakers Astera Labs and Marvell Technology posted sharp gains while market heavyweight Nvidia remained largely flat, signaling growing investor appetite for infrastructure hardware that links high-performance AI processors.
Shares of Howmet Aerospace experienced a sharp decline following Elon Musk's announcement that SpaceX intends to internally cast turbine blades for AI power generation. Analysts at Bernstein and Citi quickly pushed back, pointing to Howmet's entrenched market lead and long-term contracts.
Snowflake reported second-quarter product revenue of $1.49 billion, up 37% year-over-year, as enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence tools drove increased compute consumption across its data platform.
Nvidia has announced NVHBM, a custom high-bandwidth memory architecture designed to cut energy consumption and boost throughput for frontier AI models. Gated behind Nvidia's NVLink Fusion program, the technology is set to ship in volume in 2027.
Artificial intelligence developers are increasingly targeting complex hardware engineering, with models from Anthropic and xAI demonstrating functional circuit design skills in new simulation-based benchmarks.
A severe remote code execution vulnerability in Ruby on Rails 8 was targeted by unauthorized probes hours after code fixes were published, illustrating the growing futility of vulnerability disclosure embargoes in open-source software.
Tesla shares fell 6% following a subdued Cybercab launch and a new NHTSA investigation into how the automaker self-certified driverless vehicles that lack steering wheels and brake pedals.
Major auto manufacturers are pressing Congress to pass a permanent statutory ban on Chinese connected vehicles, hardware, and software to prevent state-subsidized technology from undercutting the U.S. market.
Zscaler Inc. delivered fiscal fourth-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street forecasts across key metrics, propelled by accelerating demand for cybersecurity tools built to mitigate artificial intelligence risks.
ChargePoint shares surged over 70% after the EV infrastructure provider reported second-quarter fiscal 2027 results that topped Wall Street revenue and earnings expectations.
Cancer care startup Thyme Care has raised $125 million in Series E funding at a valuation above $2 billion. Led by Morgan Health, the round coincides with the creation of a new parent company, Thyme Companies, to expand into biosimilar adoption and clinical trial navigation.
Tesla is launching its purpose-built Cybercab robotaxi in Austin, Texas, testing whether the company can successfully pivot from traditional EV manufacturing to full vehicle autonomy.
Economists expect the upcoming Department of Labor report to show modest payroll additions of 53,000 in August, leaving the national unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1% amid a persistent summer hiring slowdown.
Nuclear fusion startup Realta Fusion has partnered with utility Madison Gas and Electric to build a 200-megawatt plant in Wisconsin by the mid-2030s, reflecting heightened utility interest in continuous, carbon-free energy.
Canadian cloud provider ThinkOn is broadening its VMware-based infrastructure to deliver private artificial intelligence environments, catering to public sector and enterprise demands for data control and predictable computing costs.
Initial road evaluations conducted in France indicate that Tesla Inc.’s Full Self-Driving Supervised software could be modified to satisfy European Union safety and traffic regulations through programming adjustments.
Nvidia is acquiring artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, bringing the global repository for open-source AI models under the semiconductor giant's corporate umbrella.
A new University of Michigan study highlights that many smartwatch health figures are calculated estimates rather than direct biological measurements, advising users to monitor long-term trends rather than treat devices as medical instruments.
Swedish legal artificial intelligence startup Legora has experienced a landmark year defined by a $550 million funding round led by Accel and five strategic acquisitions completed since January.
Nvidia is acquiring open-source artificial intelligence hub Hugging Face, expanding its reach into developer workflows in a move reminiscent of past Big Tech infrastructure acquisitions.
OpenAI has officially launched GPT-6 Astra, a next-generation model capable of navigating web browsers and software interfaces. Leadership at the startup indicated the system could mark the transition into artificial general intelligence.
Silicon Data’s LLM Token Expenditure Index fell to $0.9665 per million tokens on Aug. 31, reflecting a steep drop in effective inference costs as enterprises shift toward smaller open-weight models and automated model routing.
Snowflake reported a 35% revenue increase in its fiscal second quarter and bumped up its full-year outlook, sending shares soaring in after-hours trading.
Uber Technologies Inc. is downsizing its corporate workforce by approximately 10% as part of a major structural reorganization aimed at accelerating decision-making and stripping out management bureaucracy.
Uber is trimming 10% of its staff to consolidate management tiers and speed up operations, according to an internal memo. The restructuring comes as the ride-hailing company reallocates resources toward autonomous vehicle technology.
Despite federal regulations protecting parental leave, broad corporate restructurings continue to claim the positions of workers on maternity leave across technology, media, and public health sectors.
Researchers at KIER, UNIST, and Kunsan National University have engineered a two-molecule passivation technique that resolves internal and surface defects in inverted perovskite solar cells, reaching 24.6% efficiency.
More than 80% of enterprise data sits in unstructured formats like documents, logs, and media. Storage leaders are deploying new hardware architectures and protocol layers to prepare this data for AI models.
Interdisciplinary engineering teams at Texas A&M University are integrating predictive artificial intelligence, drone mapping, and advanced structural analytics to help coastal communities withstand severe hurricanes and expedite post-storm recovery.
Tim Cook leaves the CEO role at Apple with a strong environmental track record compared to tech industry peers, but the infrastructure demands of generative AI pose a severe challenge to maintaining the company's carbon targets.
Artificial intelligence startup Wafer has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round that values the company at over $200 million, according to reporting by The Information. Wafer builds automated agents to optimize open-source AI models for business applications.
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.
Tesla and SpaceX are set to invest significantly in a new chip manufacturing facility in Texas, aiming to address future computing demands.
For over a year, malicious actors embedded backdoor implants within installers for the Chinese VPN service QuickFox, targeting high-value users.
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 Inc. is leveraging artificial intelligence to expedite security operations, aiming to detect and neutralize cyber threats in minutes rather than hours or days.
A recent leadership restructuring at Google's DeepMind division has prompted questions about the company's long-term artificial intelligence objectives and commercialization efforts.
A new venture studio, Inevitable AI Group, has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to develop and launch numerous AI-native software companies.
Advanced AI tools for voice dictation are transforming how professionals, including software developers and writers, interact with their computers, offering increased speed and accessibility.
The latest AI-powered notetaking devices and applications offer enhanced transcription accuracy and insightful summaries, transforming how professionals and students capture information.
Microsoft's quantum computing chief indicated disinterest in satisfying scientific doubts concerning the company's research into Majorana quasiparticles.
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.
Lift House is testing whether ambitious founders can build together without importing Silicon Valley's most punishing work culture.
The creator says AI-assisted research blurred his process and damaged the trust audiences place in his work.
Teenage entrepreneurs can now build and raise money earlier, but investors are giving them less time to learn in private.
AI data-center customers are securing long-term supply, leaving consumer-device makers with higher component costs into 2028.
AWS revenue rose 37%, helping the company defend infrastructure spending that would be harder to justify without a clear hosting business.
Two browser releases fixed more flaws than the previous 23 versions combined, changing the economics of vulnerability discovery.
State officials want 32 eVTOL sites near airports, golf courses and luxury developments despite gaps in ground-charging coverage.
After years of failed incubator experiments, the company believes faster development and its recommendation systems can improve the odds of finding another breakout.
The company is building managed tools for service providers that protect customers facing more sophisticated AI-enabled threats.
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
The startup uses one industrial waste stream to process another, aiming to make iron cover costs while titanium and rare earths provide profit.
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
The mostly cash transaction would add controls for non-human accounts and agents to Cyera's broader data-security platform.
Insight Partners is backing infrastructure that identifies the proxy networks and VPN services hiding automated users.
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
The AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
Accel led the Series A for a company automating the pay applications, lien waivers and job-cost work that still runs on paper and email.
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
The design platform is bringing agent development and code generation closer to its collaborative canvas.
The San Francisco startup is building real-time fluid sensors for computing systems that increasingly depend on liquid rather than air to control heat.
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
Teams can build, review and hand off interface motion without leaving the shared canvas.
The executive-search firm is adding an AI-focused recruiting team with startup customers.
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
The agentic system is designed to help business teams analyze information and automate recurring work.
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
The voice input update can improve punctuation, capitalization and formatting while new Siri voices aim for more natural delivery.
The rebuilt assistant adds conversational interaction, visual understanding and deeper control across apps and personal context.
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
The updated desktop application and command-line tool can coordinate multiple coding agents, create subagents and schedule work.
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
The AI chipmaker nearly doubled its offering price as investors sought another route into compute infrastructure.
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.
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
The startup is training a foundation model called Fury to control unmanned vehicles across changing military environments.
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
The autonomous drone maker reached a $4.4 billion valuation as it increases production for defense, public safety and infrastructure customers.
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
The customer-service agent company is adding a French team that connects AI with business processes.
The startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
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.
The Santa Clara startup is combining navigation, communications and computing functions in silicon intended for drones and robots.
The company is assembling distributed GPU capacity into a platform that lets developers choose models, hardware and deployment locations.
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The deal gives IBM a major real-time data platform for enterprise AI and hybrid cloud systems.
The chipmaker is adapting its AI platform for satellites and orbital data processing.
OpenShell, AI-Q and new Nemotron models aim to give companies more control over autonomous software.
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
The Santa Clara company reached a $4.2 billion valuation as large AI systems create demand for faster, more flexible connections between processors.
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
The 14- and 16-inch laptops add faster AI processing, higher storage floors and improved solid-state drive performance.
The new laptop doubles entry-level storage while increasing AI and graphics performance.
The entry model adds the A19 chip, MagSafe, a 48-megapixel camera and 256 gigabytes of starting storage.
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
The Seattle company's team and desktop-agent technology will support Claude's ability to operate software.
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.
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
The 102.4-terabit chip is designed to move data across increasingly dense computing clusters.
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
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