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Lovelace AI Inc. is emerging from stealth mode today with an approach to enterprise artificial intelligence that it says is necessary for high-stakes decision-making, particularly in environments where errors can have significant consequences. At the core of the company’s approach is a “context engi
Enterprise AI orchestration has become the defining challenge of the agentic era — not because the models aren’t ready, but because most enterprises aren’t. The whole software stack is being reimagined for an agentic world, and the companies that win will be those that build the right controls. That
Artificial intelligence-based human resources company Phenom People Inc. announced today that it has acquired Plum.io Inc., a psychometric-based talent assessments company that measures the durable skills AI cannot manufacture and quantifies workforce potential. Founded in 2012, Plum applies industr
Unified identity security company Silverfort Inc. today announced that it has acquired Fabrix Security Ltd., an artificial intelligence-native identity security company, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2024, Fabrix offers an AI-native identity security platform aimed at enterprise identity and
Software-defined test and measurement startup Liquid Instruments Pty. Ltd. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate product development, scale up its artificial intelligence-powered platform and expand go-to-market in aerospace, defense and semiconductor verticals.
Aranya Inc., a startup building a cluster-scale operating system built to meet demand for the next generation of supercomputer, launched today with major partnerships with top artificial intelligence inference leaders. One of the company’s first partnerships is with Hydra Host Inc., an Nvidia Corp.
Business process automation software company Appian Inc. is stepping up its game in agentic artificial intelligence, announcing major updates to its platform focused on AI-assisted application development and Model Context Protocol integration. The company announced the updates at its annual user co
AI-generated code is accelerating how quickly applications can be built, but creating reliable, enterprise-grade systems remains far more challenging. As organizations embrace rapid prototyping, many are finding that speed without governance can quickly lead to technical debt and maintenance challen
Altair Semiconductor Ltd. has returned to its roots as an independent company after its parent completed a strategic spinoff from Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. With the successful split, Altair has secured $50 million in funding from Pitango Group. Sony Corp. will remain one of the largest shar
Ineffable Intelligence Ltd., a British artificial intelligence startup founded a few months ago, has raised $1.1 billion in seed funding. The investment values the company at $5.1 billion. CNBC reported today that Lightspeed Ventures and Sequoia Capital led the deal. They were joined by Nvidia Corp.
About 600 employees at Google LLC have signed a letter urging Chief Executive Sundar Pichai not to make the company’s artificial intelligence tools available to the Pentagon in classified settings. The open letter, signed mostly by staff working with Google’s AI systems, airs concern over the “ongoi
Cisco Systems Inc.’s new Universal Quantum Switch introduced last week is a strong proof point regarding the network’s importance in scaling quantum. For information technology leaders, the key takeaway is that quantum is shifting from isolated computing hardware to an interconnected fabric, and Cis
The artificial intelligence arms race has spent the last two years obsessed with a duopoly of constraints: the desperate hunt for Nvidia Corp. silicon and the grueling wait for grid-scale megawatts. In the Valley, the mantra was simple: If you have the chips and the juice, you’re winning. But as the
OpenAI Group PBC and Microsoft Corp. have revised several sections of the contract that governs their technology partnership. The update, which was announced today, is at least the third that the companies have made since the start of 2025. The partnership began in June 2019 with a $1 billion invest
German robotics startup Sereact GmbH announced today that it has raised $110 million in new funding to scale up its artificial intelligence “robotic brain” platform and expand into the U.S. Founded in 2021 by Ralf Gulde and Marc Tuscher, both former AI researchers at the University of Stuttgart, Ser
Agentic AI is flooding enterprise pipelines with possibility, but regulated industries are learning that the speed of deployment and the discipline of governance cannot be decoupled — and that AI process orchestration may be the only architecture disciplined enough to hold both. For financial servic
Without trusted data as the foundation, even the most sophisticated models will produce outcomes that enterprises can’t act on with confidence. As a matter of fact, enterprises are paying a steep price because of fragmented, problematic data stores, according to Alyson Welch (pictured), chief revenu
As AI rapidly rewrites enterprise economics, cloud cost optimization has become essential for preventing budgets from collapsing under AI workloads, enabling organizations to slash expenses and redirect engineering talent from reactive firefighting to higher-value innovation. Nordstrom Inc. learned
The Chinese government today ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to scrap its acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus. The development comes about five months after the Facebook parent announced the deal. The transaction was reportedly valued between $2 billion and $3 billion. Manus develops an
Microsoft Corp. has partnered with Accenture Plc on the largest-ever deployment of its artificial intelligence tool Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling it out to the consultancy’s global workforce of more than 743,000 people – roughly equivalent to the population of Denver. The sheer scale of the rollout
