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Eastworlds, an embodied AI accelerator within the Virtuals Protocol ecosystem, has partnered with Unitree Robotics to deploy over 30 Unitree G1 humanoid robots across Southeast Asia for retail, hospitality, and security …
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is preparing an initial public offering and chasing a $71bn valuation, weeks after closing its first-ever outside round at roughly $50bn, Bloomberg reported. The Hangzhou-based company is seeking …
Axivus BankSocial has admitted Axivus Corp. as the first startup partner in its Converge AI Accelerator program, the company announced July 15, 2026. Axivus Corp. was founded by undergraduates from Duke University and th…
IBM shares plunged 11.2% on February 23 after Anthropic unveiled Claude Code, a tool that automates COBOL code modernization, threatening a key revenue stream for IBM's consulting business. Bitcoin dropped 5% to $64,000 …
Anthropic-backed Ode, led by CEO Chris Taylor, launched on May 4 with $1.5 billion in committed capital from Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and others, betting that the real value in enterprise AI lies in…
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport has quietly assembled a 19-company portfolio focused on AI and cybersecurity since closing the $32 billion sale of Wiz to Google Cloud, completing at least 10 investments in the first half of 2026…
A production-grade template for multi-agent LangGraph systems has been released on GitHub by developer brescou. The template includes a hardened FastAPI API, domain packs, Helm and Terraform stubs, CI, and observability,…
Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani warns that headline return figures for bitcoin miners pivoting into AI colocation can be misleading, citing Core Scientific's 12-year, $10 billion deal with CoreWeave as a case where cus…
Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that compresses large AI models to run on a phone, as the company seeks to run more of Siri's work locally. PrismML CEO Babak Hassibi told CNBC that Apple and other compani…
Anaconda has acquired Kilo Code, an AI development platform used by over 3 million developers that orchestrates nearly 10 trillion tokens per month, to give enterprises visibility and control over AI usage and data. Anac…
Most AI initiatives fail to scale due to a lack of clearly defined organizational priorities, according to Chrysoula Malogianni, a Forbes Councils Member writing for Forbes Innovation. Successful AI adoption requires ali…
OpenAI's first hardware product will be a portable, screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The device, built with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, will compete wit…
Rime, a San Francisco startup building text-to-speech models for live phone calls, raised $24 million in Series A funding led by M13, with participation from Twilio Ventures, Corazon Capital, and Unusual Ventures. The co…
Anthropic, in collaboration with Blackstone, launched Ode, a new initiative to embed engineers within enterprises and accelerate AI adoption. The move signals a strategic shift toward AI implementation, with prediction m…
Global private equity deployment in technology collapsed from roughly 30% of total value last year to just over 10% in the first quarter of 2026, according to EY, as investors concluded they could not underwrite the spee…
Anthropic and Blackstone have launched Ode, a $1.5-billion AI implementation joint venture that acquires Fractional AI to help enterprises deploy AI, betting that the next trillion-dollar business lies in implementation …
ASML posted Q2 revenue of €9.33 billion, beating the €8.80 billion consensus, and raised its full-year 2026 guidance to €43-45 billion — up 16% at the midpoint — on 'extremely strong' AI chip demand from TSMC, Samsung, a…
DeepSeek's annualized revenue has hit $400 million to $500 million, the first concrete revenue disclosure from the Hangzhou-based AI lab, per The Information on July 14. The lab is also in the midst of a fundraising roun…
A founder's hands-on test of six AI video generators found that no single tool wins for all marketing use cases, with OpenAI's Sora delivering the most cinematic output but lacking brand consistency, Google's Veo 3 gener…
Dutch construction robotics startup Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures to deploy more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first time, in the United States. The Am…