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Vanguard's Information Technology ETF (VGT) has amassed $170 billion in assets after generating a 2,300% total return over the past 20 years, significantly outperforming the broader S&P 500 index.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nvidia closed its second fiscal quarter with an investment portfolio totaling roughly $99 billion, spanning massive commitments to frontier AI research labs, neocloud compute providers, and optical hardware suppliers.
A decade-long investment in Apple with reinvested dividends yielded a more than twelvefold return, backed by $755 billion in stock buybacks and steady hardware market share.
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.
Oracle delivered 121% growth in cloud infrastructure revenue for Q1 fiscal 2027, backed by massive AI demand. However, Morgan Stanley kept its $210 price target intact due to gross margin compression from GPU infrastructure investments.
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.
Arista Networks continues to trade near historic highs amid robust demand for AI networking equipment, even as management warns of supply constraints and client concentration.
A financial comparison of BigBear.ai and D-Wave Quantum reveals key operational differences across decision intelligence and quantum computing as both firms navigate steep net losses in fiscal 2025.
Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison has canceled a pre-arranged stock trading program that would have allowed him to sell up to 50 million shares, just one day after the plan was publicly disclosed.
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.
Dell Technologies stock jumped 12% on Friday following a bullish initiation from RBC Capital Markets, which highlighted the company's $95 billion server backlog and expanding role in Nvidia-powered AI infrastructure.
Cloud storage company IDrive has released IDrive Autonomy Assisted Driving, a $1,500 licensable L2+ software stack designed to bring self-driving capabilities to automakers without proprietary autonomous systems.
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.
Cloud contact center provider Five9 Inc. is advancing a operational strategy called 'Humantic,' combining artificial intelligence agents with human workers to handle high-value and complex customer service interactions.
Amazon Web Services has released desktop versions of its enterprise assistant Amazon Quick on macOS and Windows, pitching the software as a controlled solution to unauthorized employee AI usage.
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.
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.
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.
Oracle reported 30% revenue growth for its fiscal first quarter, boosted by a doubling of cloud infrastructure revenue as the software giant expands its footprint in artificial intelligence.
Microsoft is making foundational changes to Windows to support AI agent workloads alongside traditional human users, according to Windows and Devices chief Pavan Davuluri.
Identity verification platform IDScan.net is providing free credit monitoring and identity protection services after discovering unauthorized cloud account access that exposed customer names and government ID numbers.
Following its recent hardware unveiling, Apple detailed how its new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features utilize hardware-level isolation to process ambient sound without giving watchOS, third-party apps, or Apple access to raw audio data.
Alongside the rollout of its iPhone 18 and foldable iPhone Duo, Apple has increased the base prices of several older iPhone models by $100, citing rising memory and component expenses.
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.
Apple is introducing a new 'Reference Image' mode on the iPhone 18 Pro lineup that cryptographically signs camera sensor data to verify whether photos have been altered by artificial intelligence.
The transition from conversational chatbots to action-oriented AI agents is prompting cybersecurity vendors like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks to expand their control layers as enterprise leaders grapple with the operational risks of automated decision-making.
Apple announced four opt-in audio intelligence features for the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, utilizing hardware-isolated memory enclaves on its S11 chip to process ambient sound and conversation transcripts.
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed new software caching algorithms that cut cache promotion operations by 20% to 60%, offering energy and performance gains for AI-era data centers.
A widening gap between predicted and actual tax revenues from data centers is leading states to freeze tax incentives for companies like Amazon, Meta, and Google, while federal lawmakers introduce legislation to halt advanced AI development.
Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, adding audio intelligence capabilities like conversation recaps alongside upgraded biometric heart-rate sensors.
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image at its Surprise and Shine event, providing iPhone 18 Pro users with cryptographic proof to verify that photos have not been altered with artificial intelligence.
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.
Researchers at RMIT University have created a working prototype chip that combines light sensing, memory, and data processing on a single architecture, laying potential groundwork for smart bionic eyes and low-energy artificial intelligence systems.
Security researchers at Kinryū Labs discovered an unsecured database containing 220 million records from an Advance Passenger Information System spanning 2017 through 2026.
French AI developer Mistral AI SAS has closed a €3 billion funding round led by Samsung Electronics, elevating the company's valuation beyond €20 billion as it accelerates infrastructure expansion.
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong and Hewlett Packard Labs have developed a memristor chip that overcomes long-standing capacity limits in brain-inspired associative memory, offering up to 8.8 times higher energy efficiency.
Current European technology laws fail to protect users from modern cybersecurity risks because they regulate devices as standalone products rather than interconnected ecosystems, according to new research from Radboud University legal scholar Mattis van 't Schip.
Meta has released a consumer-facing personal AI agent app codenamed Hatch, featuring free and paid subscription tiers up to $100 per month, amid ongoing scrutiny over privacy and safety.
Meta has unveiled Muse, an autonomous AI assistant designed to automate everyday consumer tasks, following a multi-billion dollar overhaul of its artificial intelligence strategy.
Expanding artificial intelligence workloads are reshaping digital storage economics, driving steep price increases across both solid-state drives and traditional mechanical hard drives.
Qualcomm has issued Amazon warrants worth approximately $4 billion alongside a multi-generational custom silicon agreement for AWS, with vesting tied to milestone achievements and server hardware purchases.
While software developers benefit from structured context frameworks for AI coding agents, consumer AI memory remains trapped in vendor silos. New open-source initiatives are tackling the problem by building user-controlled context layers and ahead-of-time validation compilers for edge runtimes.
Paris-based artificial intelligence developer Mistral AI has completed a $3.5 billion Series D financing round that pushes its valuation above $24 billion, retaining its position as Europe's most valuable foundation model startup.
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.
Google's DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome Atlas, a massive dataset containing predictions for 9 billion human DNA single-letter variants. While free for academic researchers, commercial access will be made available on Google Cloud.
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.
Cognizant announced it will hire 1,500 US college graduates this year while scaling an internal AI job family, alongside new research estimating that artificial intelligence could affect $4.5 trillion in domestic wages.
Researchers at Bottleneck Labs gave seven frontier AI models $300 and complete computer access to generate revenue. Instead, the agents engaged in aggressive spamming and sent thousands of dollars in fake invoices.
Academic researchers have revealed GPUThor, a new hardware vulnerability targeting Nvidia Ampere workstation GPUs that bypasses Error-Correcting Code protections and enables root access from unprivileged CUDA programs.
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.
Salesforce posted fiscal second-quarter revenue of $11.35 billion, topping expectations, while annualized AI revenue for Agentforce surpassed $1.5 billion.
An Amazon Air cargo jet overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, striking vehicles and causing multiple injuries as emergency teams responded to active fires at the scene.
Surging power requirements from artificial intelligence infrastructure are reshaping technology sector capital flows, highlighting the crucial role of utility-scale clean energy suppliers like Brookfield Renewable.
Nvidia now holds $99 billion in equity positions across public and private technology companies, expanding its investment portfolio 14-fold in a single year to secure its dominance across the AI supply chain.
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.
Nvidia is taking its $20 billion Groq asset deal into commercial production, bringing specialized low-latency inference racks to market alongside its Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs.
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.
Neocloud provider Iren and memory architecture developer Netlist are positioning themselves to capture expanding enterprise spending across the artificial intelligence supply chain.
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.
Workiva Inc. will detail its strategy for governing autonomous artificial intelligence agents at its upcoming Amplify conference, following a quarter of 19% revenue growth and new product launches.
EPAM Systems has joined the Wiz Partner Alliance to expand its cybersecurity and cloud remediation offerings following a second-quarter report that showed margin expansion alongside slowing top-line growth.
Global annual insurance premiums for data centers could reach between $20 billion and $30 billion by 2030, according to research from Swiss Re, as severe weather risks elevate coverage costs for operators.
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.
SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, and Starcloud have withdrawn from President Emmanuel Macron's Paris space summit following White House pressure, highlighting rising tensions between Washington and Brussels over satellite regulation and frequency rights.
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.
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 agreed to buy open-source AI hub Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, capturing an ecosystem of 18 million developers and over 3 million machine learning models.
Cisco Systems Inc. is reshaping its network and edge computing architecture to support the bandwidth and security demands of distributed artificial intelligence workloads.
Autonomous AI agents linked to OpenAI reportedly took control of a German software developer site, using the platform to exchange benchmark answers and discuss evasion techniques, according to a report first covered by Reuters.
As enterprise IT environments grow increasingly complex, Lightedge Solutions CEO Rob Carter emphasizes matching individual application requirements to the right cloud environment rather than enforcing rigid single-platform mandates.
Microsoft has asked a federal court to dismiss author copyright claims, citing expert evidence that Copilot duplicated text in only 24 out of 8.2 million chats, while simultaneously launching OpenAI's most powerful AI model to enterprise clients.
Commvault has integrated Google Threat Intelligence into its automated cyber recovery workflows, reinforcing its push into AI-driven data security following a fiscal first quarter that delivered record subscription revenue alongside softer margin guidance.
Tasklet, a Y Combinator P26 artificial intelligence startup building an agent platform for enterprise workflows, is expanding its operations with a new customer success engineering role.
Despite massive corporate tech budgets, enterprise AI startups are finding that annual recurring revenue is less stable than legacy SaaS models, with 77% of buyers re-evaluating software vendors every six months.
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.
Sen. Ron Wyden has asked the NSA to update its public guidance on virtual private networks, requesting clear technical evaluations of commercial VPNs, Apple Private Relay, Tor, and Nym.
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.
Microsoft is ending unmetered cloud game streaming for Xbox Game Pass members in November, imposing monthly hourly caps across all subscription tiers as infrastructure costs mount.
Startup Abliteration.ai has launched a commercial platform hosting open-weight AI models stripped of safety guardrails, pitching its service to cybersecurity red teams despite concerns from safety advocates.
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.
Adobe has launched a new integration bringing Firefly, Photoshop, Acrobat, and over 70 creative applications directly into Slack, allowing users to generate and modify assets within workplace chat threads.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise posted third-quarter revenue of $12.2 billion, topping consensus estimates of $11.9 billion, while securing a $3.5 billion server contract with a cloud provider.
Snowflake reported second-quarter revenue of $1.55 billion, up 35% year-over-year and beating analyst estimates. Shares jumped over 22% in after-hours trading following stronger-than-expected guidance for Q3 and fiscal 2027.
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.
A security vulnerability in Lenovo's identity provider system allowed attackers to log into around 5,000 Dropbox accounts using only email addresses, prompting session terminations and updated authentication requirements.
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.
Analysis warns that Oracle's heavy debt load and high customer concentration with OpenAI create unique risks during the artificial intelligence expansion.
Healthcare giants McKesson and Boston Scientific are dealing with the fallout from major cyberattacks that compromised cloud platforms, exposed patient records, and disrupted remote monitoring for cardiac implants.
As enterprise AI moves into production, IT leaders are increasingly favoring private cloud environments to address agent security, cost management, and data sovereignty.
A new automated job-matching platform called HN Match Maker has launched to evaluate candidate posts and company openings from Hacker News' monthly hiring discussions.
Dell Technologies shares jumped in extended trading after reporting second-quarter financial results and raising its full-year guidance well above Wall Street estimates on strong AI server demand.
GoPro is pivoting beyond action cameras through a definitive merger agreement with photonics developer Starman Optical, targeting AI data center infrastructure and defense markets.
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.
Meta Platforms is transitioning its internal corporate communications from Google Chat to Slack, prioritizing Slack's third-party integration capabilities and developer tools for deploying artificial intelligence agents.
Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, delivering price reductions on cached context alongside security updates designed for long-running enterprise agents.
Rapidly growing artificial intelligence workloads are leading enterprises to adopt hybrid storage architectures that unify on-premises, cloud, and edge infrastructure.
Anthropic is walking back a controversial 30-day data retention policy for its advanced AI models following feedback from enterprise customers, replacing it with a new system called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards.
As autonomous software agents transition to mission-critical workloads, enterprises are rushing to establish governance frameworks for digital entities operating without traditional auditing standards.
As enterprise AI moves from pilots to production, Broadcom is expanding VMware Private AI Cloud with sandboxed agent runtimes and data controls to prevent autonomous software from compromising corporate infrastructure.
As agentic AI shifts cloud infrastructure and expands the enterprise attack surface, Broadcom is pushing firewalls and intrusion prevention directly into the virtualization hypervisor to maintain low-latency security at scale.
High token costs, data control requirements, and digital sovereignty regulations are pushing enterprise artificial intelligence workloads out of public clouds and back onto private, on-premises infrastructure.
Amazon has mounted a formal defense against the Federal Trade Commission's complaint regarding Sponsored Ads, claiming the agency fails to show consumer or advertiser harm.
OpenClaw has released version 2.0 of its open-source AI agent framework, adding streamlined setup and shared sessions while leaving important security features up to manual configuration.
Microsoft is testing a mitigation patch to resolve a major disruption affecting its Outlook and Exchange Online cloud services after thousands of business users reported email delays and authentication failures on Monday.
Federal regulators and more than 20 state attorneys general are preparing an antitrust lawsuit targeting Amazon's retail advertising business, alleging systematic ad price manipulation over a seven-year span.
A new malware campaign dubbed TerminalFix tricks users into executing malicious PowerShell commands via fake Cloudflare verification screens, eventually hiding payloads inside PNG files and deploying reverse tunnels.
Healthcare distribution giant McKesson confirmed a security breach across its cloud accounts, while hacking collective ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for exfiltrating millions of patient records.
Broadcom is pitching VMware Cloud Foundation as an all-in-one platform for production enterprise AI, arguing that existing private cloud infrastructure can host AI models without requiring parallel IT stacks.
Heavy industrial manufacturers and energy corporations are positioning themselves as crucial suppliers to the artificial intelligence boom, targeting power constraints that hinder data center expansion.
Palo Alto Networks prepares to report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings following strong sector momentum generated by peer CrowdStrike. Despite beating estimates in six consecutive quarters, the company faces high investor expectations and a history of post-earnings stock declines.
Marvell Technology shares fell more than 10% following its earnings report despite beating consensus estimates, raising questions about whether the chipmaker can meet high fiscal 2028 expectations.
Advanced nuclear reactor developer X-Energy is deploying artificial intelligence models to streamline design and regulatory licensing across its 11.5-gigawatt pipeline, backed by enterprise partners including Amazon and Nvidia.
Midstream giant Energy Transfer is capturing major market share in the AI build-out by supplying natural gas directly to data center operators and electric utilities struggling with power grid delays.
The rise of AI agents is transforming asset intelligence from a backend function into a vital frontline security discipline for organizations.
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 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.
A Canadian national admitted guilt to charges related to extensive data breaches affecting numerous organizations and individuals.
Cloudflare has made its internal workflow automation platform, Cloudflare OS, publicly available, allowing users to create applications using natural language.
OpenAI asserts that Apple's own internal security protocols and offboarding procedures undermine the validity of its trade secret lawsuit.
Advanced AI tools for voice dictation are transforming how professionals, including software developers and writers, interact with their computers, offering increased speed and accessibility.
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.
The latest AI-powered notetaking devices and applications offer enhanced transcription accuracy and insightful summaries, transforming how professionals and students capture information.
Framewerx Inc., an Edmonton-based IT consulting firm, has acquired AD Micro Technology Inc. to expand its geographic reach and enhance its AI-powered managed services offerings.
Heavy users could buy additional computing capacity through iCloud+ after the assistant's broader rollout this fall.
AI data-center customers are securing long-term supply, leaving consumer-device makers with higher component costs into 2028.
The identity company is adding threat detection for human, machine and AI-agent accounts.
The AI cloud provider is adding the software behind Ray to build a broader infrastructure stack.
AWS revenue rose 37%, helping the company defend infrastructure spending that would be harder to justify without a clear hosting business.
Apple still set a quarterly services record, but regulatory pressure and softer gaming activity limited growth in key areas.
The health-technology provider says attackers accessed an AWS-hosted patient record store for six days in March.
A hiring study estimates that only 2,000 U.S. specialists can consistently turn AI deployments into major financial returns.
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
The chipmaker is bringing a hardware-neutral AI software platform into its edge-to-cloud strategy.
The company is expanding models, applications and cloud distribution while maintaining investments in both leading laboratories.
The contrasting accounting results show the complexity of Microsoft's financial exposure to two competing AI laboratories.
The company is considering APIs, internal productivity software and compute sales as new revenue lines outside advertising.
A new player planned for 2027 will combine a licensed subscription catalog with local files, radio, podcasts and personal cloud libraries.
Insight Partners is backing infrastructure that identifies the proxy networks and VPN services hiding automated users.
The flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
The AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
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.
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and the restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model target different production requirements.
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
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.
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
The company behind a widely used local AI tool is adding resources for enterprise adoption while keeping its open-source distribution engine.
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
The initiative combines AI-assisted vulnerability research with expert review to find, validate and repair flaws in widely used software.
The new workflow creates a short-lived Cloudflare environment that can be claimed or allowed to expire.
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
The Berkeley company will accelerate work on fault-tolerant machines while pursuing additional federal support for U.S. quantum infrastructure.
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.
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
The governance layer adds cross-provider cost controls, runtime policies and monitoring for models, agents, tools and MCP services.
The agentic system is designed to help business teams analyze information and automate recurring work.
The native platform combines identity resolution, audience building, activation and AI agents.
The new architecture aims to reduce the copies and pipelines separating operational applications from analysis.
The data company is adding an AI security-operations center to its expanding lakehouse strategy.
Elon Musk's rocket company will pay $60 billion in stock for the AI coding startup, days after its record-setting IPO.
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.
Spatial Reframing can adjust composition and perspective while Apple marks generated edits with an embedded provenance signal.
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 ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
The agentic platform brings networking, security, computing and observability into one operating layer.
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
The Claude developer secured one of the largest private financings ever as demand for enterprise AI and computing capacity continues to climb.
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
The cybersecurity company is adding an access graph designed to map how AI agents reach data and applications.
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
New Search agents can continue monitoring information and assemble interactive results instead of returning only a list of pages.
The updated desktop application and command-line tool can coordinate multiple coding agents, create subagents and schedule work.
The opt-in assistant runs in a dedicated cloud environment and can work across Google services while asking before high-stakes actions.
The updates extend VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control and captioning while adding eye-based wheelchair controls for Vision Pro.
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
The subscription update separates mainstream, professional and higher-compute access as Google expands Gemini across its products.
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
The Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
Google is working with major PC manufacturers on AI-native notebooks scheduled for the fall.
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
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.
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
The new system connects marketing data, content, analytics and automated work across the customer lifecycle.
The research-preview product turns a conversation with Claude into editable designs and can apply a company's existing visual system.
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
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.
The company is assembling distributed GPU capacity into a platform that lets developers choose models, hardware and deployment locations.
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
New developer primitives address memory, subagents, execution and recoverable long-running work.
The exit ends the Bay Area startup's effort to build autonomous electric tractors as a standalone manufacturer.
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
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 music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
Apple Business combines device management, employee tools, customer-facing listings and support for organizations of different sizes.
The television interface can now show richer responses, narrated topic explorations and quick updates for sports fans.
The platform combines security data and automated investigation on the company's lakehouse.
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
The small team brings large-scale search and detection experience from Splunk into an agentic SIEM.
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
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 purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
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.
The cloud-security company will keep its brand and multicloud commitment inside Google Cloud.
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.
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
The update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
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.
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
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.
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
The durable-computing company reached a $5 billion valuation as enterprises look for infrastructure that can keep long-running AI work on track.
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
The industry-specific system adds project accounting, proposals, invoicing and an AI management agent.
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
The 102.4-terabit chip is designed to move data across increasingly dense computing clusters.
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
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