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The AI inference race moves beyond GPUs to reshape data center infrastructure

AI inference infrastructure is becoming a system-level challenge as organizations move generative and agentic applications into production. Graphics processing unit performance remains essential, but

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Velaura AI raises $110M to develop power-efficient AI chips

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Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, today announced that it has raised 110 million in funding. Seligman Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Samsung C

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Exclusive: Synthefy raises $6.5M for its number-crunching models trained on numerical data instead of words

A startup called Synthefy Inc. said today it’s going to for numbers what large language models did for words after raising 6.5 million in seed funding today. The funds will help to expand its new foun

Firefox updates Smart Window, a new in-browser AI assistant that can keep up with you

Mozilla Corp. rolled out updates today to its popular Firefox browser, updating an artificial intelligence assistant called Smart Window, currently in beta, that lets users check answers, summarize op

Fortinet’s Virtue AI acquisition rebalances the agentic AI security equation

Fortinet Inc. announced its intent to acquire Virtue AI Inc. Monday, and though the financial aspects are interesting, what’s more significant is how this will help businesses with their next big secu

Google partners with the aviation industry to prevent climate-warming contrails with AI

Google LLC today revealed it’s partnering with the U.K. government and the country’s aviation industry on a new initiative called Operation Blue Skies that aims to use artificial intelligence insights

Hypercubic raises $5.3M to map out and rewrite legacy COBOL apps with AI agents

An artificial intelligence startup called Hypercubic Inc. is taking on the problem of modernizing legacy applications written in the COBOL programming language after raising 5.3 million in seed fundin

Inference chip startup Etched raises 700M more at 21B valuation

A few weeks after closing a 300 million round backed by Nvidia Corp., Etched Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 700 million in funding. Investment firm Jane Street led the deal. It

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Neoclouds reshape traditional architectures to meet AI demands

The rise of neoclouds — AI-first cloud providers — is transforming enterprise infrastructure. The unique requirements of AI models and agents have paved the way for new collaborations between hardware

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Portnox adds Microsoft Defender integration to police AI agent access

Cloud-native access control company Portnox today unveiled expanded capabilities aimed at governing the artificial intelligence agents and other nonhuman identities now logging in to corporate network

AI cloud operator Groq raises $350M more in funding

Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised 350 million in additional funding. The Series A round was led by returning backer Disruptive. Grok stated that Nvidia Corp.

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Google pays $10M to get its hands on Spirit Airlines’ business data for AI training

Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC has won an auction to acquire massive volumes of internal business data from the bankrupt airline operator Spirit Airlines Inc. for a hefty 10 million price. A report by Blo

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Gravis Robotics gets $200M from SoftBank to retrofit excavators with self-driving AI systems

Gravis Robotics AG said today it has bagged 200 million in funding from SoftBank Group Corp. in what is the largest-ever Series A round for a construction robotics startup. The startup was founded in

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Hexaware bundles its AI services under a Zero Friction Enterprise framework

Hexaware Technologies Ltd. today introduced the Zero Friction Enterprise, a delivery framework that folds the information technology services company’s modernization, cybersecurity, engineering, opera

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Higgsfield raises 400M at 5.4 billion valuation to scale video and image generation platform

Higgsfield Inc., a generative artificial intelligence video and image creation platform for professionals, today announced that it has raised 400 million in early-stage funding, quadrupling the compan

On theCUBE Pod: AI bubble debate heats up and neocloud earnings challenge doubters

The debate over whether we are in an artificial intelligence bubble took a new turn this week. Despite the ballooning AI spending, Dave Vellante (pictured, right), chief analyst for theCUBE Research,

OpenAI leases 10-gigawatt AI data center campus from SoftBank’s SB Energy

OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has signed a 20-year lease for a sprawling data center cluster in Ohio. The campus is being built on the premises of a former uranium processing plant. The con

Palona raises $20M in funding to bring AI automation to brick-and-mortar businesses

Artificial intelligence startup Palona AI, which is building an intelligence operating layer for physical businesses, is ready to show what it can do after closing on a 20 million round of early-stage

Stripe reportedly finalizes deal to buy AI model router OpenRouter for more than $7B

OpenRouter Inc., which sells developers a single door into more than 400 artificial intelligence models, has agreed to terms to sell itself to Stripe Inc. for north of 7 billion, according to a report

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Did Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just make the AI buildout too big to fail?

Nvidia Corp. is no longer just selling technology. It is helping create a financial asset class around artificial intelligence compute. In our last Breaking Analysis, we argued that AI can be technolo

15 Aug 2026

Anthropic details unreleased Model 2, new alignment concerns in latest AI risk report

Anthropic PBC today revealed that it has developed an artificial intelligence model more capable than Claude Mythos 5. The company detailed the algorithm in the latest edition of its AI alignment repo

The AI party keeps roaring: Why it won’t end anytime soon

Yes, there’s an artificial intelligence bubble, no denying that anymore — so the question becomes, “Will it burst, and when?” You’d be forgiven for thinking it could happen soon, given the continuing,

Weak API controls are one of the biggest threats in the agentic AI era

Artificial intelligence agents are already running inside your enterprise workflows, whether you know it or not. International Data Corp. projects full agentic AI deployment across the enterprise by 2

Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3 with long-horizon coding, cybersecurity upgrades

Chinese artificial intelligence developer Z.ai Co. today debuted GLM-5.3, an open-source large language model that set records across several popular benchmarks. The LLM is based on an algorithm calle

Criminals have moved AI out of testing and into daily use, Flashpoint finds

A new report from threat intelligence company Flashpoint has found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, well past the experimental stage. The 2026 Global Threat Int

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding, AI agent projects

Google LLC today launched its most capable entry-level artificial intelligence model yet. Gemini 3.7 Flash is rolling out three weeks after its predecessor. Despite the short release cycle, Google eng

Mindgard raises $30M to handle security for AI models and applications

Mindgard Ltd., a leader in artificial intelligence cybersecurity, announced today that it raised 30 million in early funding to scale up its product in response to significant demand across the indust

Regal ties its voice AI agents into Five9’s contact center platform

Enterprise voice artificial intelligence company Regal Voice Inc. today unveiled an integration with Five9 Inc. that makes its autonomous AI voice agents available to customers of the contact center s

SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities

SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. SpaceXAI was known as xAI until last month. The Elon Musk-founded art

Writer launches major agentic AI improvements with Palmyra X6 flagship model

Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today announced the release of its next-generation flagship model, Palmyra X6, designed to deliver frontier-level performance for marketing and r

Again acquires Geno to advance biomanufacturing at scale with AI design

Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc. to combine the company’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing capabilities with Geno’s artificial intelligence

Agentic AI infrastructure shifts enterprise focus from model choice to platform control

As agentic AI infrastructure moves from experimentation into production, enterprises are confronting a more complex question than which model to use: how to control the cost, data exposure and infrast

Ahrefs launches AI agent workspace Letaido for marketers and agencies

Marketing intelligence company Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. today launched Letaido, an agent-powered marketing workspace built to take over the recurring research, reporting and monitoring work that fills up a ma

Apexon targets stalled AI pilots with three AgentRise additions

Santa Clara-based technology services firm Apexon Inc. today expanded AgentRise, its agentic artificial intelligence platform, with three new components. The additions are named AgentRise Polaris, Age

Blacksmith raises $45M to aid AI code validation as agentic development grows

Blacksmith Software Inc. today announced it has raised 45 million in new funding for its continuous integration service, which combines code development with cloud-based testing instead of on the deve

CodeRabbit bags $143M to help companies get a grip on the explosion of AI-generated code

CodeRabbit Inc., the creator of a popular tool that automatically reviews artificial intelligence-generated code, is becoming more ambitious after closing on its latest 143 million Series C round of f

Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that’s designed to understand sign language

Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across the world who are either deaf or hard of hearing with the launch of sign-l

Google launches five new Pixel devices, array of Gemini Intelligence features

Google LLC today expanded its Pixel consumer hardware line with a foldable handset, three smartphones and a smartwatch. The devices will ship with an upgraded version of the company’s Gemini Intellige

IBM inks $240M infrastructure deal with AI-optimized cloud operator Together AI

IBM Corp. will provide infrastructure to artificial intelligence startup Together AI Inc. as part of a 240 million deal announced today. The partnership comes a few weeks after the latter company rais

Nebius shares jump 34% on continued AI infrastructure demand

Shares of Nebius Group NV closed 34% higher today after it reported second-quarter earnings that topped expectations across the board. The Netherlands-based company operates a cloud platform optimized

Palo Alto Networks to run OpenAI cyber models inside customer networks

Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year

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Skan AI raises $63M to give AI agents a map of enterprise work

Process intelligence company Skan AI said today it raised 63 million in a Series C round to help further develop a platform that records how enterprise work actually gets done and feeds that record to

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Anthropic to start watermarking Claude-generated text, images

Anthropic PBC has announced plans to embed an invisible watermark in text and images generated by Claude. The Register reported the change today, citing a help desk article published on Monday. It app

Blumira launches Hearth, an AI command center that spans rival security tools

Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today launched Hearth, a vendor-agnostic artificial intelligence command center that lets security teams investigate and act across their existing too

Exclusive: ZeroDrift applies small language model to prevent AI-generated compliance violations

“This investment is guaranteed to return 12% annually.” A claim like that in an email from an investment adviser is a regulatory disaster. Regulations prohibit financial firms from promising returns a

FriskAI launches with $3.6M to show enterprises what their AI agents are doing

Runtime intelligence startup FriskAI Inc. launched today with 3.6 million in pre-seed funding to give enterprises a record of what their artificial intelligence agents actually do once they go into pr

Frontier AI raises the cybersecurity bar: Why prediction must become prevention

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword when it comes to cybersecurity. It is giving defenders new ways to sift through vast amounts of telemetry, identify anomalous behavior and automate rout

Google’s Gemini AI app passes 1 billion monthly active users

Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. The company announced the milestone t