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Okta Agrees to Acquire Permiso Security
The identity company is adding threat detection for human, machine and AI-agent accounts.
Nscale Agrees to Buy Anyscale
The AI cloud provider is adding the software behind Ray to build a broader infrastructure stack.
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Adobe Acquires AI Video Startup Reframe in Cash-and-Stock Deal
The three-year-old company had raised $58 million and shipped its first paid product in January.
ChipAgents Adds $60 Million as AI Moves Deeper Into Semiconductor Design
The Silicon Valley startup says autonomous software agents can shorten expensive chip-development cycles, with verification emerging as an early target.
Eliyan Reaches $1 Billion Valuation With $145 Million Series C
The Santa Clara startup is building chiplet and licensing technology designed to move data faster between AI processors, memory and networking systems.
Freehand Raises $75 Million for AI Agents Managing Supply Chain Spend
The San Francisco company is expanding autonomous teams that handle procurement, supplier coordination, invoices and payments for large enterprises.
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Centralize Raises $15 Million to Map Relationships in Enterprise Sales
The startup is using AI to show sellers how buyers, colleagues and past interactions connect across a complex deal.
Qualcomm Completes Its Acquisition of Modular
The chipmaker is bringing a hardware-neutral AI software platform into its edge-to-cloud strategy.
Weave Raises $13.5 Million to Measure the Return on AI Coding Tools
The San Francisco startup says engineering teams need better productivity measures than token use, lines of code or enthusiasm for the latest assistant.
Apple Launches Klarna-Backed Leasing for iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watch
Apple Upgrade replaces two existing U.S. payment programs and lets eligible customers return, buy or exchange a device at the end of the lease.
Fish Audio Raises $52 Million for Expressive AI Voice Models
The Palo Alto startup is expanding tools for creators and enterprises while facing the harder task of preventing unauthorized voice cloning.
Nvidia Reportedly Invests $5 Billion in Safe Superintelligence
The chipmaker's strategic partnership with Ilya Sutskever's research lab couples new capital with access to Vera Rubin computing systems.
AI Agents Move From Demo to Deployment, Slowly
The companies with real production usage share one thing: narrow scope.
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Product Launch Roundup: Fourteen Releases Worth Your Attention
Developer tooling dominated the month, but the most interesting launches were in healthcare.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5
The flagship model targets demanding coding, analysis and computer-use work at unchanged Opus pricing.
Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star
The image-generation company is adding a consumer product team as it prepares standalone applications.
Cast Insights Raises $4.5 Million to Index Live Spoken Media
The San Francisco startup turns television, radio, podcasts and livestreams into searchable signals for companies that need faster narrative tracking.
World Foundation Raises $52.5 Million Through a Locked Token Sale
The financing will support World ID infrastructure, but the transaction is a crypto-token sale rather than a conventional venture equity round.
Etched Raises $300 Million at a $10.3 Billion Valuation
The AI chip startup plans to scale production and customer deployments as it builds specialized hardware for high-volume inference.
Apple Launches MapKit for Automotive
The new software kit lets automakers embed Apple Maps directly into vehicle displays and driving systems.
Cognition Acquires the Company Behind Poke
The maker of coding agent Devin is adding a proactive assistant built around text messaging.
Glow Emerges From Stealth With $180 Million for Endpoint Security
The Palo Alto and Tel Aviv company reached a $1.2 billion valuation with a prevention-focused approach to securing devices used for AI work.
OpenAI Launches Presence for Managed Enterprise Agents
The product combines voice and chat agents with policies, guardrails, evaluations and a Codex-powered improvement process.
Elastic Agrees to Acquire Deductive AI
The observability company is adding an AI investigation system for production incidents.
Google Adds Three Gemini Models for Faster Agent Workloads
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and the restricted 3.5 Flash Cyber model target different production requirements.
Natural Raises $30 Million to Build Payment Rails for AI Agents
The young fintech company wants autonomous software to pay vendors while businesses retain policy controls and an auditable record.
Fireworks AI Raises $1.505 Billion at a $17.5 Billion Valuation
The model infrastructure company says annual recurring revenue has passed $1 billion as customers deploy more specialized AI systems.
Aina Raises $5.5 Million for AI-Native Interface Hardware
The startup founded by former Ultrahuman hardware executive Apoorv Shankar is developing physical controls intended to direct AI agents.
Rime Raises $24 Million to Improve Voice AI for Complex Calls
The linguistics-led startup is training speech systems to handle specialized vocabulary, varied accents and real-time customer conversations.
Oak Launches With $60 Million for an AI-Native Identity Operating System
The Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup wants one continuously updated graph for employees, software accounts, service identities and AI agents.
Spectro Cloud Raises More Than $100 Million for Enterprise AI Infrastructure
The Kubernetes management company added Goldman Sachs and strategic investors as businesses move AI systems from pilots into production.
OpenAI Debuts a $230 Control Surface for Codex
Codex Micro gives developers physical controls for switching among agents, checking status and adjusting common coding workflows.
Whatnot Acquires Shaped for Real-Time Shopping Recommendations
The live-commerce marketplace is forming an applied AI research group around Shaped's ranking technology.
Chai Discovery Raises $400 Million for AI-Designed Medicines
The molecular design startup reached a $3.8 billion valuation while expanding partnerships with major drugmakers.
Flex Raises $70 Million to Expand AI-Native Financial Services
The business finance platform reached a reported valuation near $1.2 billion and launched a global product using stablecoin payment rails.
Visa Introduces AI Financial Assistant for Banking Apps
Banks can offer spending insights, natural-language answers and card controls under their own brands.
Anthropic Launches Free Claude Plan for Teachers
Verified U.S. K-12 educators can receive a year of premium access and teaching-focused tools.
Ollama Raises $65 Million to Expand Its Open-Model Developer Platform
The company behind a widely used local AI tool is adding resources for enterprise adoption while keeping its open-source distribution engine.
OpenAI Launches the GPT-5.6 Model Family
The Sol, Terra and Luna variants divide frontier capability, balanced professional work and high-volume tasks across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 and a Model API
The multimodal model targets coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks.
OpenAI Introduces GPT-Live for More Natural Voice Conversations
The new generation of speech models powers ChatGPT Voice and gives developers tools for lower-friction real-time interactions.
Meta Rolls Out Muse Image, Then Removes a Controversial Instagram Feature
The image model adds conversational creation and editing across Meta AI, Instagram and WhatsApp, but its first week also exposed limits around consent.
Agave Raises $15 Million to Bring AI Into Construction Financials
The startup is adding automation to a data layer that connects the accounting, project and payment systems used by contractors.
Super.com Raises $65 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The savings platform is expanding a membership that combines travel deals, cash back and financial tools for cost-conscious consumers.
Figma Acquires Team Behind AI App Builder Bud
The design platform is bringing agent development and code generation closer to its collaborative canvas.
Together AI Raises $800 Million at an $8.3 Billion Valuation
The open-model infrastructure company plans to expand training and inference services as enterprises seek alternatives to closed AI platforms.
8090 Raises $135 Million as Chamath Palihapitiya Takes the CEO Role
The enterprise software startup is expanding an AI-native development platform built around requirements, oversight and audit trails.
Proception Raises $11 Million for Dexterous Robot Hands
The robotics startup introduced its first commercial hand and closed a seed round after settling a trade-secret dispute with Tesla.
Pocket Raises $11 Million for Its Dedicated AI Note-Taking Device
The hardware startup is betting that a simple recorder with free transcription can hold a place beside phones and software-only meeting assistants.
Aseon Labs Raises $10 Million for Automated Robotaxi Service Stops
The startup plans parking-space-sized pods that can inspect, clean and charge autonomous vehicles inside their operating areas.
Quantifind Raises $200 Million for AI-Powered Risk Intelligence
The profitable software company plans to expand tools that help banks and governments investigate financial crime and third-party risk.
Patronus AI Raises $50 Million to Simulate the Worlds Agents Work In
The AI testing company is moving beyond fixed benchmarks with models that generate changing environments for training and evaluation.
Salesforce Launches a Prepackaged Help Agent
Agentforce Help Agent is designed to deploy across service channels in minutes and charge customers only for completed resolutions.
Adobe Agrees to Acquire Topaz Labs
The creative-software company is adding specialized AI models for image and video enhancement.
Assort Health Raises $120 Million at a $1.2 Billion Valuation
The healthcare startup is expanding AI agents from phone scheduling into a broader operating system for the patient journey.
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Caplight Raises $16 Million for Private-Market Data and Trading Tools
BlackRock and Fin Capital are backing infrastructure that helps investors price, analyze and transact in shares of private companies.
Kotoba Technologies Adds $10 Million to Expand East Asian Voice AI
The San Francisco and Tokyo company is developing low-latency speech models for Japanese, Korean and Chinese applications.
Seltz Raises $12.5 Million to Rebuild Web Search for AI Agents
The startup is creating its own crawler, index and retrieval models for software that asks longer questions and consumes structured results.
xCures Raises $46 Million to Turn Medical Records Into Decision-Ready Data
The Oakland company is expanding technology that structures fragmented patient information for clinical care, research and regulatory evidence.
Salesforce Expands Agentforce Commerce Across the Shopping Stack
Shopper, Buyer and Merchant agents connect storefronts, messaging, order management and outside AI channels.
Figma Motion Adds Native Animation Tools to Product Design Files
Teams can build, review and hand off interface motion without leaving the shared canvas.
Riviera Partners Acquires Lateral Labs
The executive-search firm is adding an AI-focused recruiting team with startup customers.
JustAI Raises $17 Million for Enterprise Marketing Agents
The company is building software that continually personalizes campaigns, tests changes and adjusts marketing decisions across customer channels.
Coval Raises $28 Million to Stress-Test Voice and Chat Agents
The former Waymo engineer behind the startup is applying simulation and observability techniques to customer-facing AI systems.
Meta Launches $299 AI Glasses in 26 Styles
The EssilorLuxottica partnership broadens Meta's wearable lineup with prescription support and Muse Spark-powered assistance.
Superhuman Agrees to Acquire AI Detection Company GPTZero
The productivity platform is adding authenticity tools used by educators, publishers and employers.
Baseten Raises $1.5 Billion at a $13 Billion Valuation
The AI infrastructure company is using its fourth financing in 18 months to expand model inference services for enterprise customers.
AppsFlyer Secures More Than $1 Billion From Digital Advertising Partners
The marketing measurement company brought Google, Meta, Moloco and Unity into a strategic financing that values the business at $2.7 billion.
Groq Raises $650 Million to Expand Its AI Inference Cloud
The chip company is rebuilding and scaling its cloud business after a major licensing and talent agreement with Nvidia.
Upscale AI Adds $190 Million to Its Open Networking Push
The semiconductor startup reached a $2 billion valuation and $500 million in total funding as it develops alternatives for connecting AI data centers.
OpenAI Launches Patch the Planet for Open-Source Security
The initiative combines AI-assisted vulnerability research with expert review to find, validate and repair flaws in widely used software.
Cloudflare Lets Developers Deploy Temporary Workers Without an Account
The new workflow creates a short-lived Cloudflare environment that can be claimed or allowed to expire.
Architect Labs Raises $24 Million to Speed Custom Chip Design
The Palo Alto startup is using AI to help companies define specialized processors before the expensive physical design and manufacturing stages.
Clair Health Raises $11.6 Million for a Hormone-Tracking Wearable
The Stanford-founded startup plans to ship a wellness wristband that infers hormone patterns without blood draws while it pursues clinical validation.
Convey Raises $38 Million to Give Enterprises AI Teammates
The startup wants agents to own recurring business outcomes across existing applications instead of stopping after a single generated response.
Genspark Extends Series B to $485 Million at a $2.6 Billion Valuation
The agentic workspace company added $100 million and appointed a chief revenue officer as it pursues larger business customers.
DeepL Acquires Mixhalo and Opens Silicon Valley Office
The translation company is combining voice AI with ultra-low-latency audio for events and meetings.
Bland Raises $50 Million to Expand Its Enterprise Voice AI
The San Francisco startup is investing in its own speech models and the infrastructure required to run large volumes of automated business calls.
Ent Emerges With $100 Million to Prevent Risky Actions Before They Happen
The security startup is building an intent-aware workspace designed to evaluate what people and AI agents are trying to do before a system allows it.
Probably Raises $9 Million to Make AI Outputs More Verifiable
The startup is building validation software that checks model responses before errors reach users in high-precision workflows.
Magnitude Raises $10 Million for Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management
The cybersecurity startup is deploying AI agents to evaluate vendors and software dependencies as enterprise supply chains become harder to map.
Databricks Expands Unity AI Gateway for Enterprise Agent Control
The governance layer adds cross-provider cost controls, runtime policies and monitoring for models, agents, tools and MCP services.
Databricks Genie One Turns Company Data Into an AI Coworker
The agentic system is designed to help business teams analyze information and automate recurring work.
Databricks CustomerLake Brings Customer Data Tools to the Lakehouse
The native platform combines identity resolution, audience building, activation and AI agents.
Databricks LTAP Combines Transactions and Analytics on One Data Layer
The new architecture aims to reduce the copies and pipelines separating operational applications from analysis.
SpaceX Agrees to Buy Cursor Maker Anysphere
The $60 billion stock deal would place one of the fastest-growing coding tools inside SpaceX's AI business.
Databricks Agrees to Acquire Security Platform Panther
The data company is adding an AI security-operations center to its expanding lakehouse strategy.
Facebook Adds AI Mode and New Creative Tools
Meta is using public social content to answer searches while expanding AI-assisted photo, video and profile editing.
Salesforce Agrees to Buy Fin for $3.6 Billion
The planned acquisition would add a fast-growing customer-service agent to Agentforce.
Meta Begins Unwinding Its $2 Billion Manus Acquisition
The operational separation follows a Chinese order that turned a strategic AI deal into a cross-border test.
Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Pursue AI for Physical Engineering
The secretive company led by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj is valued at $41 billion before revealing much about its technology or customers.
Pi Raises $25 Million for Agentic Product Security
The San Francisco and Tel Aviv company wants security agents to find and help fix software risks throughout the development lifecycle.
SonoThera Raises $125 Million for Ultrasound-Delivered Genetic Medicines
The biotechnology company plans to move nonviral treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and polycystic kidney disease toward clinical testing.
Campground Raises More Than $2.2 Million for Social Impact Operations
The Oakland company is building software to manage applications, participants, payments and reporting for programs serving communities.
Apple Extends Intelligence Across Maps, Find My and Apple Cash
The services update adds richer navigation, flexible location sharing, visual bill splitting and expanded media experiences.
Apple Adds AI Reframing Tools to Photos
Spatial Reframing can adjust composition and perspective while Apple marks generated edits with an embedded provenance signal.
Apple Introduces Systemwide Dictation With Automatic Polishing
The voice input update can improve punctuation, capitalization and formatting while new Siri voices aim for more natural delivery.
Apple Introduces Siri AI Across Its Device Ecosystem
The rebuilt assistant adds conversational interaction, visual understanding and deeper control across apps and personal context.
OpenAI Files Confidentially for a U.S. Initial Public Offering
The ChatGPT maker joined Anthropic in a high-stakes race to bring frontier AI companies to public markets.
Supabase Raises $500 Million at a $10.5 Billion Valuation
The open-source database platform is financing faster growth as AI agents generate more applications and infrastructure demand.
Generalist AI Raises $400 Million for Robot Foundation Models
The physical AI company reached a $2 billion valuation as it trains software intended to work across different robots and real-world tasks.
Sekai Raises $26 Million as Users Generate Millions of Mini Apps
The prompt-to-app startup says its community creates games, quizzes and interactive experiments at a rate of about one every half-second.
OpenAI Extends Codex With Tools for More Professional Roles
New plugins, skills and workflow features move the coding agent beyond software development into research, analysis and business operations.
Cisco Cloud Control Unifies Management Across IT Systems
The agentic platform brings networking, security, computing and observability into one operating layer.
ZoomMate Launches as an Agentic Assistant for Workplace Tasks
The product combines enterprise search, generated deliverables and actions across connected applications.
Anthropic Confidentially Files for U.S. IPO
The Claude developer moved ahead of OpenAI as frontier AI companies prepare for public scrutiny.
Drafted Raises $16 Million to Use AI in Home and Floor Plan Design
The Y Combinator startup is turning sketches and ideas into editable plans and three-dimensional views for homeowners and design professionals.
Anthropic Raises $65 Billion at a $965 Billion Valuation
The Claude developer secured one of the largest private financings ever as demand for enterprise AI and computing capacity continues to climb.
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.8 for Long-Running Professional Work
The model focuses on sustained tasks, calibrated uncertainty and more reliable reasoning.
Asana Acquires No-Code Agent Builder StackAI
The work-management company is adding cross-system automation for human and AI teams.
Cognition Raises More Than $1 Billion at a $26 Billion Valuation
The maker of Devin says enterprise usage is climbing as software teams give cloud agents a larger share of development work.
Hark Raises More Than $700 Million for Personalized AI Models and Hardware
Brett Adcock's new lab reached a $6 billion post-money valuation before releasing its first products to the public.
Zscaler Plans to Acquire Symmetry Systems
The cybersecurity company is adding an access graph designed to map how AI agents reach data and applications.
Anthropic-Backed Services Venture Acquires Fractional AI
The applied engineering firm will become the operating core of a new enterprise AI implementation company.
Exa Raises $250 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
The San Francisco startup reached a $2.2 billion valuation by selling web search and content retrieval directly to software developers.
Mercury Raises $200 Million at a $5.2 Billion Valuation
The business-banking technology company is growing alongside a new wave of AI startups while pursuing approval for a national bank.
Socket Raises $60 Million to Secure Open-Source Software in the AI Era
The software supply-chain company reached a $1 billion valuation as faster code generation increases the number of outside packages entering applications.
Google Expands Universal Cart and AI Tools for Retailers
The commerce update connects shopping across Search and Gemini while giving merchants new visibility and checkout controls.
Google Tests Gemini-Built Ads Inside AI Search
Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers and new shopping formats move sponsored content deeper into generated search experiences.
Figma Design Agent Brings Prompted Creation Onto the Canvas
The beta assistant can generate and revise interface directions while using a team's design context.
Commure Raises $70 Million at a $7 Billion Valuation
The Mountain View healthcare technology company is expanding AI systems for revenue, clinical documentation and practice operations.
Status AI Raises $17 Million for an Interactive Social Network
The consumer startup wants to replace passive scrolling with role-playing, fictional characters and user-created story worlds.
Google Brings Agentic Tasks Into Search
New Search agents can continue monitoring information and assemble interactive results instead of returning only a list of pages.
Google Launches Antigravity 2.0 for Parallel Agent Development
The updated desktop application and command-line tool can coordinate multiple coding agents, create subagents and schedule work.
Google Unveils Gemini Spark as a Persistent Personal Agent
The opt-in assistant runs in a dedicated cloud environment and can work across Google services while asking before high-stakes actions.
Google Adds Voice Workflows and a New Pics App to Workspace
The I/O update lets users speak to Gmail, Docs and Keep while introducing an AI image creation and editing workspace.
Google Reshapes Its AI Plans With a $100 Ultra Tier
The subscription update separates mainstream, professional and higher-compute access as Google expands Gemini across its products.
Google DeepMind Licenses Contextual AI Technology and Hires Researchers
The $80 million to $90 million arrangement moves more than 20 employees without a formal company purchase.
Anthropic Acquires Developer-Tools Startup Stainless
The deal brings widely used SDK and MCP-server infrastructure inside the Claude platform.
Recursive Superintelligence Emerges With $650 Million
Richard Socher's new laboratory is pursuing AI systems that can improve their own research process, backed at a reported $4.65 billion valuation.
Cerebras Shares Soar in $5.55 Billion Nasdaq Debut
The AI chipmaker nearly doubled its offering price as investors sought another route into compute infrastructure.
Mind Robotics Adds $400 Million to Scale AI-Powered Factory Robots
The Palo Alto company founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has now raised more than $1 billion for industrial robots trained in live manufacturing environments.
Outmarket AI Raises $17 Million to Automate Insurance Brokerage Work
The vertical software company is connecting agency data with AI workflows for policy checks, proposals and other document-heavy tasks.
Exaforce Raises $125 Million for Real-Time AI Security Operations
The Bay Area cybersecurity startup is building agents that investigate attacks with a live knowledge graph rather than simply sorting alerts after they arrive.
Judgment Labs Raises $32 Million to Improve AI Agents With Production Data
The San Francisco startup wants to turn logs, tool calls and user interactions into a continuous feedback system for agent developers.
Monaco Raises $50 Million for an AI-Native Sales Platform
The San Francisco startup is trying to replace disconnected sales tools with a system that carries context from prospecting through a closed deal.
Roadrunner Raises $27 Million to Rebuild Quote-to-Cash Software
The young San Francisco company is starting with an AI-assisted alternative to the configuration and approval systems used for complex deals.
Android Intrusion Logging Gives Spyware Investigators Better Evidence
The opt-in Pixel feature stores encrypted security records so targeted users can share evidence of a suspected compromise.
Googlebook Brings Android, ChromeOS and Gemini Into a New Laptop Line
Google is working with major PC manufacturers on AI-native notebooks scheduled for the fall.
Fazeshift Raises $17 Million for Autonomous Accounts Receivable
The finance software startup is expanding AI agents that handle invoicing, reconciliation, collections and other repetitive cash workflows.
Astranis Adds $300 Million in Equity and New Credit to Scale High-Orbit Spacecraft
The satellite manufacturer is combining a Series E round with a credit facility as it expands production for commercial and government missions.
Anthropic Gives Managed Agents Time to Learn From Past Work
The Dreaming research preview reviews completed sessions and writes memory updates intended to reduce repeated mistakes.
Intuit Unveils QuickBooks Workforce for End-to-End HR Management
The platform connects recruiting, payroll, time tracking, benefits and performance for smaller employers.
RadixArk Launches With $100 Million Seed Round to Expand SGLang
The Palo Alto startup is commercializing infrastructure around a widely used open-source engine for running and serving advanced AI models.
Altara Raises $7 Million to Bring AI Into Physical Science Workflows
The San Francisco startup wants to organize fragmented research and manufacturing data across semiconductors, batteries and advanced materials.
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.5 Instant the Default ChatGPT Model
The faster model emphasizes factual accuracy, concise answers and personalization for everyday use.
Sierra Raises $950 Million as Enterprise AI Competition Intensifies
The customer-experience software company is valued above $15 billion as it races to make AI agents a standard interface for large brands.
Meta Acquires Assured Robot Intelligence
The startup's team will join Meta's effort to develop AI systems for humanoid robots.
Netomi Raises $110 Million as Accenture and Adobe Back Agentic Customer Service
The San Francisco company is positioning its AI platform for regulated, high-volume service environments where errors can be costly.
Standard Intelligence Raises $75 Million for Computer-Use Models
The six-person startup is training AI to learn digital tasks from video, with efficiency and safety becoming the key tests for its approach.
OpenAI Adds Advanced Account Security for High-Risk Users
The opt-in setting combines stronger sign-in and recovery protections with phishing-resistant hardware authentication from Yubico.
Google Expands AI Max to Shopping and Travel Ads
The update adds campaign automation, an AI Brief for advertiser guidance and new controls for regulated messaging.
Hightouch Raises $150 Million for an Agentic Marketing Platform
The San Francisco company more than doubled its valuation to $2.75 billion as it expanded from moving customer data to helping agents run campaigns.
Parallel Raises $100 Million to Build Web Infrastructure for AI Agents
The company reached a $2 billion valuation as it expands tools that help automated systems search, retrieve and organize online information.
Salesforce Launches Agentforce Operations for Back-Office Work
The platform uses configurable agents and process blueprints to coordinate manual workflows across teams and systems.
Stripe Gives AI Agents a Link Wallet for Controlled Purchases
The payments company is introducing scoped credentials and human review for software-driven spending.
Augment Acquires Merlin to Expand Supply Chain AI
The all-equity deal brings wholesale-distribution expertise into Augment's AI operations platform.
Omni Raises $120 Million as AI Reshapes Business Analytics
The San Francisco company reached a $1.5 billion valuation by combining chat, spreadsheets and code with a governed layer for company data.
Era Computer Raises $11 Million to Build a Software Layer for AI Gadgets
The startup wants hardware makers to connect glasses, jewelry and home devices to models and multimodal services without building the entire stack.
Skydio Raises $110 Million to Expand U.S. Drone Manufacturing
The autonomous drone maker reached a $4.4 billion valuation as it increases production for defense, public safety and infrastructure customers.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5 for Professional and Scientific Work
The new model emphasizes coding, research, computer use and sustained execution across complex tasks.
Sierra Acquires AI Workflow Startup Fragment
The customer-service agent company is adding a French team that connects AI with business processes.
Crewline AI Raises $7.1 Million to Automate Construction Equipment
The startup is beginning with autonomous road rollers that can be retrofitted onto machines already operating at construction sites.
NeoCognition Launches With $40 Million for Agents That Learn on the Job
The new research lab wants software agents to build specialized expertise from experience instead of remaining fixed after training.
Adobe CX Enterprise Brings Agentic AI to Customer Operations
The new system connects marketing data, content, analytics and automated work across the customer lifecycle.
Anthropic Launches Claude Design for Prototypes, Slides and Visual Work
The research-preview product turns a conversation with Claude into editable designs and can apply a company's existing visual system.
Loop Raises $95 Million to Expand Predictive AI Across Supply Chains
The logistics technology company is broadening its platform from transportation payments into operational and financial decisions across the supply chain.
TextQL Raises $17 Million as Blackstone Backs Enterprise Data Agents
The analytics startup is using strategic capital to expand software that lets employees ask questions across fragmented company data in ordinary language.
Expo Raises $45 Million and Launches an Agent for Production Mobile Apps
The React Native platform is expanding from developer infrastructure into AI-assisted work that helps enterprise teams move from an idea to a shipped application.
Ulysses Raises $38 Million to Scale Autonomous Ocean Fleets
The marine robotics company is pairing underwater vehicles with surface vessels and launch systems for commercial and defense missions.
Gitar Emerges From Stealth With $9 Million to Check AI-Generated Code
The startup is using AI agents for reviews, security checks and continuous-integration failures as software teams struggle with a growing volume of generated code.
Glydways Raises $170 Million for Dedicated-Lane Transit Pods
The San Francisco mobility company is preparing pilot networks that place small autonomous vehicles on narrow, reserved lanes.
Hilbert Raises $28 Million to Turn Growth Data Into Automated Decisions
The a16z-backed startup wants consumer businesses to move from dashboards and recommendations to actions tied to measurable financial results.
HYFIX Raises $15 Million for a U.S.-Made Control Chip for Autonomous Machines
The Santa Clara startup is combining navigation, communications and computing functions in silicon intended for drones and robots.
Parasail Raises $32 Million to Build a Flexible AI Compute Supercloud
The company is assembling distributed GPU capacity into a platform that lets developers choose models, hardware and deployment locations.
Phonely Raises $16 Million as Customers Back Its Business Voice AI
The phone-automation startup says contact-center operators invested alongside venture firms after deploying its agents in live customer service work.
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Slash Raises $100 Million and Reaches a $1.4 Billion Valuation
The business-banking startup is expanding beyond its early base of online merchants as competition among fintech platforms accelerates.
Salesforce Launches Headless 360 for AI Agent Development
The company is exposing platform capabilities through tools, skills and a controlled experience layer that agents can use across different interfaces.
Adobe Firefly AI Assistant Coordinates Work Across Creative Apps
The conversational agent can plan and complete tasks using Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Adobe tools.
Cloudflare Project Think Adds Durable Building Blocks for AI Agents
New developer primitives address memory, subagents, execution and recoverable long-running work.
Caterpillar Acquires Monarch Tractor's Remaining Assets
The exit ends the Bay Area startup's effort to build autonomous electric tractors as a standalone manufacturer.
Spiral Therapeutics Raises $27 Million and Adds an Inner Ear Partnership
The clinical-stage company will advance its lead hearing program while working with Advanced Bionics on therapies delivered alongside cochlear implants.
Modern Relay Raises $3 Million for a Shared Context Layer for AI Agents
The Barcelona and San Francisco company is building a governed graph that lets employees, software and agents work from the same organizational knowledge.
Sanas Acquires Real-Time Voice Startup Tomato.ai
The speech-technology company is expanding its ability to embed voice transformation into communications systems.
Instacart Acquires Instaleap to Expand Its Enterprise Platform
The grocery technology company gains fulfillment software and retailer relationships across nearly 30 countries.
Primepoint Labs Discloses $10 Million Seed Round for Construction AI
The San Mateo startup is teaching software to connect drawings, specifications and other building documents before missing details become costly field problems.
OpenAI Acquires Personal Finance Startup Hiro
The small acquihire adds financial-planning product experience while Hiro prepares to close its consumer service.
Osteoboost Health Raises $8 Million to Expand Its Bone Health Wearable
The Redwood City company will scale access to an FDA-cleared prescription belt designed for people with low bone density.
Meta Introduces Muse Spark in an AI Product Overhaul
The first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs powers a redesigned Meta AI experience and can coordinate parallel subagents.
Visa Intelligent Commerce Connect Gives Merchants an Agentic Sales Layer
A single integration is designed to expose catalogs, payments and order workflows to AI shopping agents.
Aria Networks Launches With $125 Million for AI-Native Networking
The startup is building software intended to let data-center networks adapt automatically to changing AI workloads.
Anthropic Previews Claude Mythos With a Security-First Rollout
The general-purpose frontier model is initially limited to selected cybersecurity partners rather than a public API release.
Noon Launches With $44 Million to Close the Gap Between Design and Code
The startup connects a visual design canvas directly to a product's codebase so teams can work from the same components and constraints.
daydream Raises $15 Million for an AI-Native SEO Agency
The San Francisco company pairs software agents with growth specialists as brands adjust to search results shaped by traditional engines and AI answers.
Miravoice Raises $6.3 Million for AI-Led Voice Research
The startup is using conversational agents to conduct structured phone interviews and turn long-form responses into research data.
OpenAI Acquires Technology Talk Show TBPN
The unusual media purchase gives OpenAI a daily program with a large audience across technology and finance.
OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Round at an $852 Billion Valuation
The financing gives the San Francisco AI company an extraordinary capital base, while placing equal pressure on revenue growth, infrastructure execution and product focus.
Nexus Raises $4.3 Million to Put Governed AI Agents in Business Teams
The Brussels and San Francisco startup wants nontechnical employees to deploy agents across existing systems without giving up enterprise controls.
ALSO Raises $200 Million and Adds DoorDash as an Autonomous Vehicle Partner
The Rivian spinoff reached a valuation above $1 billion while expanding from small electric vehicles into autonomous delivery systems.
Sycamore Launches With a $65 Million Seed Round for Enterprise AI Agents
Former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath is building a control layer for companies that want autonomous agents without giving up security, governance or oversight.
Deccan AI Raises $25 Million to Build More Reliable Post-Training Data
The Mountain View startup is combining expert labor, evaluations and software infrastructure to improve AI systems after their initial training.
Google Expands Search Live to More Than 200 Markets
The camera-and-voice search experience now supports real-time multilingual conversations wherever AI Mode is available.
EPIC Microsystems Raises $21 Million to Tackle AI Data Center Power Loss
The San Jose chip startup is betting that a shorter, vertical path for electricity can remove a growing bottleneck inside high-performance AI systems.
Google Launches Lyria 3 Pro for Longer AI-Generated Music
The music model can create structured tracks of up to three minutes and is available across developer, enterprise and creative products.
Doss Raises $55 Million to Build an AI-Native Operations Cloud
The startup is connecting inventory, procurement and orders with accounting systems instead of asking physical-goods businesses to replace everything.
Apple Unifies Its Business Services in One Platform
Apple Business combines device management, employee tools, customer-facing listings and support for organizations of different sizes.
Google TV Adds Gemini Visual Answers and Sports Briefs
The television interface can now show richer responses, narrated topic explorations and quick updates for sports fans.
Databricks Enters Security Market With Lakewatch Agentic SIEM
The platform combines security data and automated investigation on the company's lakehouse.
Cloudflare Dynamic Workers Run AI-Generated Code Without Containers
The open beta creates isolated V8 workers at runtime for agent-driven applications.
Databricks Acquires SiftD.ai for Its Lakewatch Security Platform
The small team brings large-scale search and detection experience from Splunk into an agentic SIEM.
Littlebird Raises $11 Million for a Context-Aware Desktop Assistant
The startup is building an AI memory that reads on-screen text, prepares meeting notes and retrieves information from a user's daily work.
Multiply Raises $9.5 Million for Self-Learning B2B Advertising
The startup combines AI agents with human media experts to turn sales conversations and customer data into targeted campaigns.
Eragon Raises $12 Million for a Prompt-First Enterprise Operating System
The startup wants employees to direct business software through natural language while agents work across data and applications.
IBM Completes $11 Billion Confluent Acquisition
The deal gives IBM a major real-time data platform for enterprise AI and hybrid cloud systems.
Apple Introduces AirPods Max 2 With the H2 Chip
The updated headphones add stronger noise control, Adaptive Audio, Conversation Awareness and Live Translation support.
Nvidia Launches Toolkit for Long-Running Enterprise AI Agents
OpenShell, AI-Q and new Nemotron models aim to give companies more control over autonomous software.
Apple Acquires Final Cut Pro Specialist MotionVFX
The purchase brings a large catalog of video effects, templates and editing tools inside Apple.
Sunday Raises $165 Million to Put Its Memo Robot Into Homes
The Mountain View robotics company reached a $1.15 billion valuation with a plan to begin real household deployments in the fall.
Meta Adds AI Listings and Auto Replies to Marketplace
Facebook Marketplace can now draft sale listings, suggest local prices, answer buyers and summarize a seller's activity.
Replit Raises $400 Million as Valuation Triples to $9 Billion
The San Francisco software creation platform is expanding the idea that people can move from a natural-language prompt to a working, deployed application.
Manufact Raises $6.3 Million to Build Infrastructure for MCP Developers
The startup formerly known as mcp-use is turning an open-source toolkit into a managed platform for deploying the connectors used by AI applications.
Google Completes $32 Billion Acquisition of Wiz
The cloud-security company will keep its brand and multicloud commitment inside Google Cloud.
AgentMail Raises $6 Million to Give AI Agents Their Own Inboxes
The San Francisco startup is treating email as basic infrastructure for autonomous software that needs identity, context and two-way communication.
AmberSemi Raises $30 Million for More Efficient AI Power Delivery
The Dublin, California semiconductor company plans to commercialize a component that moves power vertically toward high-performance processors.
Nexthop AI Raises $500 Million for Data Center Networking
The Santa Clara company reached a $4.2 billion valuation as large AI systems create demand for faster, more flexible connections between processors.
Kai Emerges With $125 Million for Security Across IT and Industrial Systems
The San Jose startup is developing agentic cybersecurity software meant to connect defenses across corporate networks and operational technology.
Google Pushes Gemini Deeper Into Docs, Sheets and Slides
The update can assemble drafts from company information, build spreadsheets and create presentations with broader Workspace context.
Zoom Opens No-Code Platform for Custom Workplace AI Agents
Businesses can build agents that work across meetings, documents and outside enterprise applications.
Meta Acquires AI-Agent Network Moltbook
The viral forum's founders are joining Meta Superintelligence Labs after a brief and controversial rise.
OpenAI Agrees to Acquire AI Security Platform Promptfoo
The open-source testing company will strengthen security evaluation for enterprise agents in OpenAI Frontier.
Denki Raises $4.1 Million to Bring AI Agents Into Financial Audits
The Y Combinator company is targeting evidence collection and compliance work that still depends heavily on spreadsheets, tickets and manual review.
Science Corporation Raises $230 Million to Advance Neural Devices
The brain-computer interface company is preparing its PRIMA vision-restoration system for commercialization while funding a broader clinical pipeline.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.4 for Professional and Agentic Work
Thinking and Pro versions arrive across ChatGPT, Codex and the API with an emphasis on complex knowledge tasks and tool use.
Ayar Labs Raises $500 Million to Scale Optical Links for AI Chips
The semiconductor startup is moving its co-packaged optics technology toward volume production as data centers demand faster, more efficient connections.
Apple Brings M5 Pro and M5 Max to MacBook Pro
The 14- and 16-inch laptops add faster AI processing, higher storage floors and improved solid-state drive performance.
Apple Updates MacBook Air With M5 Chip and More Base Storage
The new laptop doubles entry-level storage while increasing AI and graphics performance.
14.ai Raises $3 Million for an AI-Native Customer Service Agency
The startup is selling an operated support function rather than software alone, putting automation performance directly on its own team.
Apple Launches the $599 iPhone 17e
The entry model adds the A19 chip, MagSafe, a 48-megapixel camera and 256 gigabytes of starting storage.
Salesforce Launches Five AI Agents for Communications Providers
Agentforce for Communications targets telecom sales, service, billing and field operations with industry-specific workflows.
S2.dev Raises $3.85 Million for Serverless Streaming Data Infrastructure
The Y Combinator startup is making its streaming platform generally available as AI developers look for simpler ways to process live data.
Anthropic Acquires Computer-Use Startup Vercept
The Seattle company's team and desktop-agent technology will support Claude's ability to operate software.
Harbinger Acquires Autonomous Driving Company Phantom AI
The commercial vehicle maker gains driver-assistance software and a new licensing relationship with ZF.
SambaNova Raises $350 Million and Signs Multi-Year Intel Partnership
The Palo Alto AI infrastructure company will use the capital to expand its SN50 chip and SambaCloud platform as demand grows for alternatives in inference computing.
Kana Launches With $15 Million for Configurable Marketing Agents
The repeat founders behind Rapt and Krux are building AI tools that fit into existing marketing systems and keep people in the approval loop.
World Labs Raises $1 Billion to Build Spatial Intelligence Models
Fei-Fei Li's company is financing AI systems that generate and reason about three-dimensional environments for creative and industrial uses.
Temporal Raises $300 Million to Make AI Agents More Reliable
The durable-computing company reached a $5 billion valuation as enterprises look for infrastructure that can keep long-running AI work on track.
Render Adds $100 Million for a Cloud Platform Built Around AI Applications
The Series C extension values the developer platform at $1.5 billion as more teams need persistent infrastructure for applications and agents.
Braintrust Raises $80 Million to Measure AI Systems in Production
The observability startup reached an $800 million valuation as companies seek better ways to test and improve applications built on language models.
The Biological Computing Co. Raises $25 Million to Develop Neuron-Based Computers
The Mission Bay startup is building laboratory systems that use living neurons for AI workloads, an ambitious alternative to conventional silicon.
Simile Raises $100 Million to Build AI Simulations of Human Behavior
The Stanford-rooted startup wants digital populations to help organizations test decisions before they affect customers, workers or markets.
Apple Buys Full Rights to Severance
The reported deal moves future production of the hit series inside Apple Studios.
Intuit Launches Construction Edition for Its Enterprise Suite
The industry-specific system adds project accounting, proposals, invoicing and an AI management agent.
Newo Raises $25 Million to Put AI Receptionists Into Small Businesses
The voice platform is expanding through software and telecom partners that can distribute automated front-desk service at scale.
Cisco Unveils Silicon One G300 for Large AI Networks
The 102.4-terabit chip is designed to move data across increasingly dense computing clusters.
Ouster Acquires StereoLabs for Cash and Stock
The sensor company is combining digital lidar with stereo cameras and perception software for physical AI.
OpenAI Launches Frontier to Manage Enterprise AI Agents
The new platform connects agents to company data and tools while adding identity, permissions, evaluation and governance across different agent providers.
Fundamental Emerges With $255 Million for Enterprise Data Models
The company is applying foundation-model techniques to tables and relational data, an area where text-focused AI systems often struggle.
Sapiom Raises $15.75 Million for Machine-Native Financial Infrastructure
The startup is building authorization and payment tools that let AI agents purchase APIs, data and computing services under defined controls.
Lunar Energy Adds $232 Million to Scale Home Batteries and Virtual Power Plants
The Mountain View company plans to expand domestic manufacturing and coordinate more residential batteries as electricity demand strains the grid.
Bedrock Robotics Raises $270 Million for Autonomous Construction
The company founded by former Waymo leaders is moving its self-driving system from supervised job sites toward operator-less heavy equipment.
