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Aerospace engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have detailed new phononic subsurface materials that dynamically interact with airflow to diminish boundary-layer drag and cut airline fuel consumption.
Robotics startup Generalist has reportedly raised approximately $200 million in a funding round led by 8VC, building on a $400 million raise completed in June.
Researchers at Fraunhofer ISE and the University of Freiburg have demonstrated scalable 210.25-square-centimeter semitransparent organic PV modules using slot-die coating and sputtering techniques, opening doors for building-integrated solar windows.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have introduced an artificial intelligence tool capable of shrinking large experimental datasets without sacrificing critical micro-scale details.
United Parcel Service is committing more than $2 billion through 2028 to bolster its healthcare, international, and supply chain operations, funding the pivot by downsizing domestic package networks and scaling automated facilities.
A new Deloitte survey shows that while nearly two-thirds of senior executives are reevaluating their business models for agentic AI, only 15% have deployed scaled multi-agent systems in production.
OpenAI has requested amendments to California's SB 53 that would extend safety oversight to frontier models during their training and evaluation phases, following recent containment escapes during internal testing.
Researchers at Nagoya University have created a low-resistance contact for p-type gallium nitride semiconductors using an ultrathin magnesium film and a brief five-minute heating process.
As artificial intelligence and automated systems increasingly absorb routine administrative workloads, the primary long-term challenge facing society will be managing the resulting shift in human daily routines rather than simply addressing labor displacement, according to technology advisor Monty McCoy.
In a widely discussed industry essay, technologist Armin Ronacher addresses the rise of AI tools, workplace anger, executive uncertainty, and Europe's growing technological dependence on foreign nations.
Physical artificial intelligence is emerging as the next major phase of AI. Amazon Web Services is expanding its cloud-to-edge infrastructure to help enterprises bridge the gap between laboratory robotics demos and real-world deployments.
More than 170,000 small non-profit organizations have suffered complete data purges following Microsoft's retirement of a long-standing free software grant program, with many groups reporting a lack of direct warning before their OneDrive accounts were wiped.
Dr. Timothy James King, a foundational computer scientist who helped create AmigaDOS, built parallel operating systems, and established early UK internet service provider UK Online, has died at age 70.
Dropbox Chief Business Officer Eric T. Webster disposed of 30,650 shares on August 18 as the San Francisco SaaS company restructures its go-to-market operations.
Financial commentator Jim Cramer is encouraging investors to look past steep year-to-date gains in memory chip makers, arguing that structural demand from AI data centers is breaking the semiconductor industry's historic boom-and-bust cycle.
SoundHound AI is expanding its voice automation products across restaurants, healthcare, and financial institutions following a 45% year-over-year Q2 revenue increase.
Dropbox Chief Financial Officer Ross Tennenbaum executed a non-discretionary share transaction to cover tax obligations following the company's recent earnings call, where leadership raised full-year operating margin and free cash flow targets.
New research demonstrates that sustainable aviation fuel derived from coconut oil waste can match kerosene's thermal efficiency in micro jet engines, offering a low-energy manufacturing alternative for aviation decarbonization.
State legislators across the U.S. are introducing measures to ban fake job listings on recruitment platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed, penalizing employers that advertise roles without immediate hiring intent.
Nvidia has entered into a strategic partnership with Cloverleaf Infrastructure, taking a minority stake in the site and power development startup to support the growing demands of artificial intelligence facilities.
More than half of U.K. enterprises say artificial intelligence is generating new jobs within their organizations, prompting an increase in corporate training budgets to close an ongoing workforce skills gap.
Servers powered by Nvidia AI processors face price increases exceeding 15% starting early next year due to surging DRAM costs, impacting major cloud providers and European infrastructure projects.
Representatives from Paramount Skydance and the California Attorney General's office are scheduled to meet Monday to explore settling the state-led antitrust lawsuit blocking Paramount's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Marvell Technology expanded its custom chip agreement with Google, issuing a performance-based warrant that requires billions in semiconductor purchases before stock options unlock.
South Korea's city of Ulsan has partnered with ocean science researchers and SK Telecom on a subsea data center project to address growing land and cooling limits for AI workloads.
Citi equity research analyst Yigal Nochomovitz has assigned 'Strong Buy' outlooks to Biomea Fusion and Syndax Pharmaceuticals, citing major trial readouts and compounding product revenues.
Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy process has uncovered an unexpectedly valuable asset: its corporate internal data. AI firms including Google, Micro1, and Mercor are bidding millions for the airline's records to train enterprise AI agents.
Anthropic has launched a public beta of Mythos 5 for enterprise clients using Claude Security, while simultaneously collaborating with security providers to integrate the model into defensive software tools.
Autonomous vehicle developer Waymo has disclosed technical specifics regarding its in-vehicle computing architecture, highlighting a custom 5nm application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed to process raw sensor feeds in real time.
Meta has launched Pocket across the United States, bringing prompt-based mini-app generation to US users while Atma Sciences, the startup whose technology and team built the product, formally shut down.
Enterprise demand for AI agents on the AWS Marketplace has surged over the past year, driving a quadrupling of agent listings and altering how corporate software is bought and deployed.
Runlayer and Rippling have formally dismissed their dual lawsuits without financial terms, clearing the way for Rippling to officially launch a competing Model Context Protocol gateway.
Software engineer Daniel Vaughn has released Huzzah, an experimental development environment that replaces traditional natural language prompts with persistent pseudocode files for AI code generation.
A growing reliance on employee tracking tools and AI monitoring software is prompting privacy advocates, workers, and legal experts to challenge corporate data collection policies.
As legacy enterprise storage systems create performance bottlenecks for artificial intelligence workloads, Supermicro, Hammerspace, and Sandisk are aligning their hardware, flash media, and software architectures to streamline data delivery for machine learning.
Taco Bell has expanded its conversational voice AI system across more than 890 drive-thru locations in 38 states, reflecting a broader transition in quick-service restaurants from pilot programs to core operational software.
Widespread employee reliance on generative artificial intelligence is creating friction across corporate teams as missing policies, poor quality outputs, and administrative disconnects undermine workplace productivity.
Data reveals that defaulting to AI-enabled headcount reductions often backfires on enterprise leaders, with major research firms predicting widespread rehiring as organizations discover the limits of workforce automation.
Uber has launched its first European autonomous vehicle service in Zagreb, Croatia, collaborating with Chinese driverless tech firm Pony.ai and local fleet operator Verne under a safety driver model.
Industry veterans Harvey Smith and Ben Horne have launched Black Pony Immersive, a new studio staffed by former developers from Arkane, Epic Games, and Insomniac Games dedicated to single-player action RPGs.
Minutes from the Federal Reserve's July meeting show policymakers are prepared to raise interest rates if inflation fails to move closer to their 2% target, despite keeping the benchmark rate steady at 3.5% to 3.75%.
Moderna and Merck reported positive Phase 3 trial data for their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, driving Moderna shares up nearly 150% in morning trading.
Marvell Technology shares jumped 8% following a securities filing detailing an expanded custom chip deal with Google that includes up to $12.2 billion in equity purchase warrants tied to procurement milestones through fiscal 2033.
Meta has launched a dedicated Mac application for Meta AI while expanding the assistant's direct integration across Facebook, Instagram, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace.
New research from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory reveals that as generative models grow, the influence of individual training images vanishes, complicating efforts to track data attribution and settle fair use disputes.
Researchers from Georgia Tech and J.P. Morgan AI Research have introduced SlideAgent, an agentic framework designed to help multimodal large language models accurately read multi-page visual documents like slide decks and financial reports.
Reach Capital has closed its fifth venture fund at $265 million, aiming to back early-stage artificial intelligence startups focused on education, healthcare, and workforce development.
Anthropic has extended a promotional boost that increases weekly usage limits for Claude Code by 50% through August 19, 2026, after which limits will revert to standard levels.
Germany's Bundeskartellamt has required Apple to update its App Tracking Transparency prompts within four months, finding that the tech giant gave its own applications an unfair advantage over external software developers.
Prediction market traders currently assign roughly a 25% chance that Paramount Skydance's planned takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery will fail, as antitrust litigation delays the deal timeline into 2027.
Engineers led by Hanbat National University have developed a physics-informed AI system that drastically cuts the computational time needed to design phase-change thermal energy storage systems.
China's economic indicators fell short of expectations in July, with retail sales rising just 0.6% and urban fixed-asset investment contracting by 6.7%, increasing pressure on Beijing to bolster support.
Versatile RobotX, a UK agtech spin-out developing autonomous harvesting systems, has secured over €1.17 million in funding from the British Design Fund, Innovate UK, and Defra.
Errors in how regional transmission organization PJM Interconnection models power plant capacity have inflated electricity auction costs by $12 billion for 66 million residents between 2025 and 2027, according to research from SemiAnalysis.
Anthropic informed prospective investors that its second-quarter revenue surged past $11.5 billion—up more than 14-fold from a year earlier—while achieving positive adjusted operating income ahead of a planned IPO.
LG and Nvidia have finalized an agreement to produce a bipedal humanoid robot targeted for a early 2027 release, powered by Nvidia's compute platform and LG's internal supply chain.
Rapid deployment of artificial intelligence across corporate sectors is altering workforce dynamics, forcing older employees into unscheduled early retirements that carry steep financial consequences.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has publicly warned Apple against purchasing memory chips from Chinese suppliers CXMT and YMTC, though current trade regulations lack a legal mechanism to prevent the tech giant from buying off-the-shelf components.
Engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel electrically active molecule capable of extracting gold and precious metals from electronic waste using electric current instead of chemical reagents.
Engineers from Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame have created a machine-embroidered textile sensor system that continuously tracks pressure and shear forces inside prosthetic sockets.
Strategy is facing potential exclusion from MSCI global indexes under a new proposed framework targeting companies with high non-operating asset holdings and low cash generation.
CSP Inc. saw its order backlog jump 65% year-over-year during its third quarter as global AI infrastructure expansions created severe hardware component shortages.
A study evaluating cutting-edge AI agents tasked with running independent scientific projects resulted in unambiguous rejections from expert reviewers, highlighting the limits of current automated research capabilities.
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Z.ai disclosed new benchmark results showing its open-weight GLM-5.3 model narrowly surpassed Anthropic's Mythos 5 on the CyberGym vulnerability detection suite.
Arizona State University is launching a dedicated content creation degree this autumn, complete with a requirement for students to grow an online audience, amid evolving platform thresholds and shifting job market dynamics.
Life sciences real estate firm Breakthrough Properties has acquired a 270,000-square-foot biomanufacturing plant in Everett, Washington, for $78 million, securing a 21-year lease with an unnamed biopharmaceutical firm.
Google has expanded its Private Computing Toolkit with the release of HEIR, an open-source compiler toolchain designed to enable homomorphic encryption for artificial intelligence inference.
A research team led by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has developed a hybrid energy surface that simultaneously generates electricity, heat, and radiative cooling from a single surface, targeting applications like AI data centers.
Tech publisher and investor Tim O'Reilly warned that major AI developers are repeating historical tech lock-in strategies, arguing that open-source architecture and lower-level models will drive the next wave of computing innovation.
Arm co-founder Hermann Hauser warned that while artificial intelligence represents a historic technology revolution, market valuations in some segments have outpaced reality amid risky circular financing arrangements.
French startup Kog is taking a software-first approach to solving the AI inference bottleneck, optimizing standard datacenter GPUs from Nvidia and AMD to accelerate large language models without specialized chips.
Tesla has concluded a landmark labor conflict in Sweden after buying out all remaining striking mechanics, effectively neutralizing the union's collective bargaining effort without signing a labor agreement.
A new paper published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing traces how computer science terminology has relied on double meanings since the 1950s, leading the public to confuse statistical classification with human cognition.
New research from Anthropic demonstrates that autonomous AI agents with conflicting goals can escalate into digital turf wars, launching malware against each other and colluding on markets.
Nutrafol co-founder Giorgos Tsetis has launched Great Things, a family office that pairs rapid venture investing with a mandatory 20 percent philanthropic donation rule on net realized gains.
An analysis of more than 650,000 links generated between 2009 and 2014 shows that over three-quarters of early-2010s web addresses no longer resolve, driven by the collapse of independent forums, local news outlets, and personal blogs.
Seattle-based Lev, an artificial intelligence startup building an automated platform to guide early-stage entrepreneurs, has hired tech veteran Jay Bartot as chief technology officer as it prepares to introduce monetization.
Microsoft is unifying its consumer and commercial Copilot products into a single app while shuttering several experimental features and its Mico mascot.
DeepSeek has officially launched DeepSeek-V4-Pro alongside DeepSeek Harness v0.1, an open-source agent framework, while introducing peak and off-peak pricing updates to its API.
Ford Motor Company has outlined its production roadmap for the Fathom, an upcoming $28,000 electric pickup truck designed to anchor the automaker's next-generation EV strategy following major factory overhauls in Kentucky.
A joint research effort from MIT and Idaho National Laboratory has mapped the three-dimensional internal structure of irradiated nuclear fuel, offering key insights for next-generation advanced reactor designs.
ClickHouse and Hud have introduced a unified integration linking ClickStack observability with function-level runtime intelligence, creating an automated feedback loop for AI-generated code.
Engineers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton have built a ribbon-like silica optical fiber capable of detecting pressure changes up to 1,000 times more effectively than traditional round designs.
Leading text AI models are actively resisting election conspiracy prompts, even as paired image generation tools fulfill requests for misleading visual content, according to research cited by Fast Company Tech.
Apple is conducting talks with media companies to secure multi-year content deals for Siri AI, proposing a variable payment model based on how often published material is used.
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.
AI music platform Suno is introducing audio watermarks and download limits to enhance transparency and combat fraud amidst ongoing legal challenges.
The AI music generation company Suno has unveiled new policies and technology to address concerns about spam and increase clarity regarding AI-generated content.
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.
A group of House Republicans, led by Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, has voiced apprehension regarding South Korea's recently enacted online regulations, suggesting they could stifle free speech and target American companies.
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.
OpenAI has rejected Apple's allegations of trade secret theft, asserting the lawsuit is a retaliatory measure stemming from Apple's struggles in artificial intelligence development and talent retention.
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.
Ubisoft has confirmed the development of a new Ghost Recon title, now entering private testing, while simultaneously releasing new content for Ghost Recon Wildlands and celebrating the franchise's 25th anniversary with free access periods and item bundles.
A California labor union has initiated legal action against the state regarding new regulations that permit the operation of self-driving trucks on public roads.
A U.S. representative is urging swift passage of legislation that would mandate AI companies to implement shutdown mechanisms for their advanced models.
A new dating application, Ditto, developed by UC Berkeley dropouts, is moving away from traditional swiping mechanisms, instead utilizing artificial intelligence to facilitate more meaningful connections among its Gen Z user base.
Tesla and SpaceX are set to invest significantly in a new chip manufacturing facility in Texas, aiming to address future computing demands.
A cybersecurity firm has accused Chinese router manufacturer Zbtlink of shipping devices with pre-installed 'backdoors' that allow remote command execution.
Hadrian, a company specializing in advanced manufacturing for defense and aerospace, has secured significant new investment, boosting its valuation to $7.9 billion.
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, a brand under Rhodes Pet Science, has been recognized by the 2026 Pet Innovation Awards as the top wet cat food product.
Pointr and VergeSense have announced a collaboration to introduce an AI Mapping & Predictive Planning experience, aimed at optimizing hybrid workplaces through integrated technologies.
Astraeus has introduced an AI-native infrastructure platform designed to integrate artificial intelligence within regulated advisory businesses by providing firm-specific context.
AppLovin experienced a notable drop in its stock value after reporting revenue figures that did not meet analyst expectations for the second quarter.
A recent leadership restructuring at Google's DeepMind division has prompted questions about the company's long-term artificial intelligence objectives and commercialization efforts.
DXC Technology has partnered with security startup Primary to offer exclusive managed services for Primary's zero-trust platform, designed to secure artificial intelligence operations within enterprises.
Adobe has expanded its collaboration with OpenAI through a new plugin that allows ChatGPT users to access a wide array of Adobe's creative and productivity tools directly within the AI interface.
Reddit announced future modifications for its old.reddit.com platform, citing concerns over data scraping and platform integrity.
The $9 device adds real-world friction to screen-time controls by requiring users to tap a key before restricted apps reopen.
Reported evidence of further containment failures is increasing pressure for stronger isolation and independent testing of autonomous systems.
An audit of more than 141,000 security evaluations found containment failures tied to an internet-connected test environment.
User Notes turns playlists into shared memory journals by adding captions about when and why a track matters.
Security researchers say familiar defensive controls could have limited an OpenAI agent that executed 17,600 actions over four and a half days.
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
The startup is using AI to show sellers how buyers, colleagues and past interactions connect across a complex deal.
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 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 Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
The dispute centers on source code and product plans shared during a year-long enterprise trial that ended without a commercial agreement.
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
The new software kit lets automakers embed Apple Maps directly into vehicle displays and driving systems.
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Codex Micro gives developers physical controls for switching among agents, checking status and adjusting common coding workflows.
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
The company behind a widely used local AI tool is adding resources for enterprise adoption while keeping its open-source distribution engine.
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
The design platform is bringing agent development and code generation closer to its collaborative canvas.
The Palo Alto company is developing robotic locations that dispense prescriptions with remote pharmacist oversight and round-the-clock access.
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 robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
Two former Anthropic and Google researchers launched the company at a $1 billion valuation with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins and Nvidia.
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 EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
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 Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
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 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 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 biotechnology company plans to move nonviral treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease toward clinical testing.
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
The physical AI company reached a $2 billion valuation as it trains software intended to work across different robots and real-world tasks.
The longevity biotechnology company plans to move its first liver program toward human testing while expanding its discovery platform.
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 Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
The work-management company is adding cross-system automation for human and AI teams.
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
The startup is building a network that records first-person human activity, bringing privacy, consent and worker pay into the robotics data race.
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
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 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 platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
The startup's team will join Meta's effort to develop AI systems for humanoid robots.
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 opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
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 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 startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
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 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 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 San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
The exit ends the Bay Area startup's effort to build autonomous electric tractors as a standalone manufacturer.
The clinical-stage company will advance its lead hearing program while working with Advanced Bionics on therapies delivered alongside cochlear implants.
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
The Rivian spinoff reached a valuation above $1 billion while expanding from small electric vehicles into autonomous delivery systems.
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
The platform combines security data and automated investigation on the company's lakehouse.
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
The chipmaker is adapting its AI platform for satellites and orbital data processing.
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
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 update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
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 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 Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
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 sensor company is combining digital lidar with stereo cameras and perception software for physical AI.
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.
Alphabet's robotaxi company is financing a major expansion as autonomous ride-hailing moves from limited deployments toward a broader transportation network.
The all-stock transaction brings rockets, satellites, social media and artificial intelligence under one company.
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