Microsoft Corp. has developed a new large language model that it says is significantly more efficient than leading open-source alternatives. The company’s artificial intelligence research group detailed the algorithm on Thursday.…
Startup Reflection AI Inc. today made the weights of Beam, its first large language model, available on Hugging Face. The company also released technical resources that will enable developers to customize the algorithm. Originally…
Data protection and cyber resilience have emerged as foundational control layers for enterprise AI. This was one of the clear messages from the discussion at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas earlier this year. Cyber recovery…
Software development startup RapidCanvas Inc. today announced that it has raised $29 million in funding. Vertex Ventures SEA & India led the Series B round with contributions from Hitachi Ventures, Accel, Peak XV Partners, Valley Capital…
For two decades, security and data resilience have been neighbors who share a fence but rarely a budget. Security kept bad actors out, while resilience brought the business back when they got in. Agentic artificial intelligence is tearing…
Most financial institutions today don’t suffer from a lack of customer data; the problem is how to turn the data they have into something useful. The challenge lies in sifting through CRM logs, channel interactions, transaction streams and…
Vinci4D Inc. is bringing a new approach to semiconductor design grounded in fundamental physics equations. The company provides simulation software for chip designers, offering an alternative to traditional simulation methods, including…
Knowledge graphs are becoming a critical context and reasoning layer for agentic AI, helping enterprises connect data and ground agents in key areas of business expertise. For diversified financial services companies such as Raymond James…
Physics AI is bringing a new approach to semiconductor engineering, where increasingly complex designs make physical behavior harder to predict. Advanced accelerators combine multiple chips, memory and packaging components, creating…
Artificial intelligence agentic collaboration platform for multi-agent systems Thenovi AI Ltd., also known as Band, announced Thursday the launch of Band for Developers, a platform and new desktop application that allows software engineers…
The drumbeat over how safe artificial intelligence is — or more to the point, isn’t — just keeps louder. In the wake of weeks of incidents involving rogue agents, with likely more to come, more government officials are calling for…
A startup called North Cloud Holdings Inc. says it’s going to help companies prevent the costs of cloud computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure spiraling out of control after raising $60 million in funding today. The Series B…
The artificial intelligence search engine startup Perplexity AI Inc. is shifting its focus to AI agent security in the wake of several high-profile incidents that saw autonomous systems escape from secure environments and go on to wreak…
Enterprise IT is moving beyond traditional monitoring as AI-driven observability helps organizations manage complex infrastructure and respond to incidents faster. At this week’s LogicMonitor Elevate event in Chicago, the focus was on…
Data center hardware startup Mueon Corp. today announced that it has raised $65 million in funding. Semiconductor-focused fund Maverick Silicon led the Series A round. It was joined by Intel Corp.’s venture capital arm, Oregon Venture…
At the enterprise level, agentic AI has become less of a prospective tool for businesses, evolving into a valuable asset for many organizations. As more companies shift from the experimentation phase and begin to scale agentic AI use…
Months of speculation over the future of data security company Varonis Systems Inc. ended today when Thoma Bravo-owned cybersecurity firm Proofpoint Inc. agreed to buy it for about $6.3 billion in cash. Bloomberg first reported in June…
Ramp Business Corp., a provider of corporate credit cards and business software, today announced that it has raised $1.85 billion in late-stage funding. Dragoneer led the Series G round. Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Sands Capital and…
Meta Platforms Inc. today released open weights for its Muse Spark artificial intelligence model, which had been proprietary since its April debut. The release, called Muse Spark Open, is built for coding and long-running agent work. Meta…
For the fourth straight year, Stack Overflow’s Developer Survey has found that PostgreSQL tops the list of the database management systems developers prefer — and the favorability ratings even ticked up from last year. If it seems odd that…
Simulation is a hardware engineer’s best friend, adept at finding issues in product designs and avoiding a disastrous deployment. Yet the process of orchestrating simulations has required specialized skills and lots of time. A Silicon…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. today posted better-than-expected financial results for the third quarter, but its shares nevertheless dropped 2%. The dip is tied to a broader selloff in artificial intelligence stocks. Investors…
Intelligent operations begin with a business question: What should artificial intelligence help an enterprise accomplish? As agents take on more work, organizations need an operating model that connects their actions to customer outcomes…
Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of customizable Nemotron 3.5 Super LV large language models for always-on artificial intelligence agents and edge-focused 3.5 Bolt for local systems. The company said the three new models will cover…
Artificial intelligence governance startup nFOX Lab today launched a platform for managing owned large language models and announced plans to open-source Blockhouse, a security sandbox designed to restrict what AI workloads can access and…
Agentic workflows are making speed a condition for whole classes of AI applications to exist, and the fastest tokens will determine which platforms win the next phase of AI. Cerebras Systems Inc., which raised $5.5 billion in its May 2026…
Amazon.com Inc. today debuted two new wearable, artificial intelligence-enabled devices aimed at making everyday life simpler by listening to conversations and helping users remember what matters. Bee is a personal AI device, coming in the…
ServiceNow Inc. today announced new controls for governing artificial intelligence agents alongside updates to its EmployeeWorks information portal (pictured) that let employees build specialized assistants and automate routine tasks…
Customer and agentic identity platform company Descope Inc. today unveiled Agentic Identity Hub 3.0, the latest version of its platform for securing artificial intelligence agents. This time the focus is on the agents employees build or…
Cybersecurity company Proofpoint Inc. today unveiled new Microsoft 365 security features meant to get managed service providers and the businesses they look after ready to adopt artificial intelligence tools safely. The four new features…
Developers building web and AI applications on Vercel can now add Amazon S3 storage resources directly from the Vercel Marketplace and v0, combining the durability, scalability, and performance of S3 with the convenience of Vercel’s…
Some numbers are hard to picture until you sit with them for a moment. Last week we published the Prime Day 2026 metrics, and the one that stuck with me is 2.3 quadrillion: the daily requests Amazon ElastiCache peaked at during the event.…
Today, we’re announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions , a new form factor that lets you run standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting your code into an event handler. You can take a standard port-listening server built with…