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Salesforce acquired AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion to enhance its Agentforce enterprise platform. Fin's AI agent resolves customer queries across multiple channels, and the deal is expected to close in…
Elon Musk's xAI is rebranding Grok Tasks into Grok Automations, adding reusable skills and a model selector to enable full workflow automation. The upgrade, rolling out alongside Grok Build CLI and a plugin marketplace, …
BUZZ HPC, a subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies, announced plans to build a CAD $3.5 billion AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area with 320 MW capacity to house over 100,000 GPUs. The facility, one of Canada's l…
Adani Group and Jabil Inc. announced a strategic alliance to build a vertically integrated AI and data centre infrastructure manufacturing platform in India, targeting a global market opportunity of more than USD 3 trill…
Voyager Technologies opened a 140,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Long Beach, California, in March 2026, using agentic AI to compress defense electronics production from years to weeks. The facility, nicknamed …
Adani Enterprises and Jabil Inc. announced a partnership to create a vertically integrated AI and data center infrastructure manufacturing platform in India, targeting gigawatt-scale production of AI racks and advanced h…
NewCore emerged from stealth with $66 million in funding to build an identity-security platform that governs both human employees and autonomous AI agents under one architecture. The Tel Aviv and San Francisco-based star…
Sarvam AI, a Bengaluru-based startup founded in August 2023, raised $234 million in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with HCLTech contributing $150 million, valuing the company at $1.5 billion and making…
Sarvam AI raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, becoming India's newest AI unicorn. HCLTech led the round with $150 million, joined by Bessemer Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Peak XV Partners. The fund…
A critical analysis argues that most companies do not face winner-take-all dynamics and should not rush AI adoption, as the urgency is often manufactured by investors and influencers. The piece suggests that true AI-nati…
NewCore, an identity security startup co-founded by Zohar Alon, Amihai Neiderman, and Erez Yarkoni, emerged from stealth on June 15 with $66 million in seed funding to secure a workforce that includes humans, machines, a…
Salesforce acquired AI customer service agent Fin for $3.6 billion on June 15, 2026, to address Agentforce's slow deployment times. Fin resolves 76% of support queries end-to-end and serves 30,000 companies, filling a ga…
PhoenixAI, rebranded from CelerData, raised $80 million in Series B funding to develop an AI agent database. The startup aims to handle unpredictable, real-time queries from AI agents that traditional analytics stacks ca…
Toronto startup Databiomes launched Ctrlvox, an AI model that moderates toxic voice and chat content in video games on consumer CPUs without GPUs or cloud inference. The customizable plugin for Epic Games' Unreal Engine …
Cloudflare announced that key members of Ensemble AI are joining the company to accelerate AI infrastructure development. Ensemble AI, founded in 2023, focuses on making large AI models faster and more cost-effective thr…
Twilio CFO Aidan Viggiano detailed a multi-year turnaround that restored Wall Street confidence, involving workforce cuts, strategic focus on AI integration, and making the Segment unit profitable. The company's gross pr…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted that Micron will surpass Meta in market value, identified power supply shortages as the tech industry's biggest hurdle, and stated that AI's role is shifting from answering quest…
Salesforce acquires Fin, the customer-service AI company formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6bn to integrate its autonomous support agent technology into Salesforce's Agentforce platform. The deal, expected to close in Q…
Salesforce announced it will acquire Fin, an AI agent developer, in a deal valued at $3.6 billion, marking a major investment in AI-powered enterprise tools.
Salesforce is reportedly in talks to acquire AI customer service agent company Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, continuing its aggressive AI acquisition spree that already includes Informatica and Convergence.ai. The …