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Developer-centered artificial intelligence cloud provider Runpod Inc. today announced the launch of Flash, a software development kit and platform that removes the infrastructure overhead for deploying AI. With Flash, developers can go directly from local Python code to cloud AI inference, no contai
Customer engagement is entering a new phase where execution matters more than experimentation, as enterprises look to turn AI into measurable business outcomes. As enterprises push to unify engagement strategies, Twilio Inc. is repositioning its platform as an orchestration layer for AI-driven custo
Since 2024, an estimated 207 AI-focused companies have joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board. That’s roughly half of all companies that first hit valuations of $1 billion or more during this period.
Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from Adobe Ventures, WndrCo, Silver Lake Waterman, NAVER Ventures, Metis Strategy and Fin
Shares of Amazon.com Inc. edged higher in late trading today after the company reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and revenue, as cloud computing sales topped analysts’ expectations. The company reported adjusted earnings of $2.78 per share, crushing Wall Street’s forecast of just
Aidoc Medical Ltd., a startup with an artificial intelligence platform that helps doctors diagnose patients faster, has secured $150 million in funding. Goldman Sachs led the Series C round. Aidoc stated in its funding announcement today that Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures startup investment arm, General
Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. delivered a stunning earnings beat as it reported its first-quarter financial results today, with sales also surpassing expectations thanks to rampant growth in its cloud infrastructure business. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as sto
Microsoft Corp. surpassed expectations for its third-quarter financial results today, but its stock moved sideways in the after-hours trading session after it told investors it’s going to bump up its capital expenditures to $190 billion this year. The company reported earnings before certain costs s
European Union regulators today said that Platforms Inc. has violated the Digital Services Act by failing to keep kids under 13 years old from accessing its platforms. The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, said in a preliminary investigation that Meta had failed to int
Major League Baseball opened the 2026 season with a technological first: the Automated Ball-Strike or ABS Challenge System, powered by T-Mobile’s private 5G network, is now deployed across all 29 U.S. ballparks. While headlines focus on umpire challenges and strike zones, the real story for informat
Microsoft says its voluntary retirement program will result in a $900 million charge in the current quarter. The company, which is spending record sums on AI infrastructure, said headcount dropped year over year and will decline again in fiscal 2027. Read More
Shares in Qualcomm Inc. rose more than 15% in late trading today after the chipmaker reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 second quarter and announced a fresh $20 billion share buyback authorization alongside a firm timeline for its long-awaited data center entry. For the quarter t
Meta Platforms Inc. ‘s shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading today after the social networking company reported strong beats in revenue and earnings in its fiscal 2026 first quarter but raised its capital expenditure guidance for the year and disclosed a sequential decline in users. For th
Rogo Technologies Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make financial professionals more productive, today announced that it has raised $160 million in funding. Kleiner Perkins led the Series D round. It was joined by Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, Morgan Growth Equity Partners and several ot
Agentic enterprise is moving artificial intelligence from isolated tools into systems that actively run business operations. The transition reflects a broader shift in enterprise strategy, where organizations are embedding intelligence directly into workflows rather than layering it on top. This poi
A new report out today from Google LLC-owned cloud security company Wiz Inc. finds that artificial intelligence has shifted from experimental tooling to default cloud infrastructure, with 81% of observed environments running managed AI services and 90% running self-hosted AI software. The State of A
As enterprises push agentic AI out of the proof-of-concept phase and into production, AI runtime security — the ability to enforce policy at the exact moment an agent acts — is proving to be the bedrock that makes autonomous systems safe enough to trust. The shift from cloud-native to AI-native is a
As AI transforms healthcare operations, the industry’s most consequential challenge has shifted from building models to deploying them responsibly in regulated workflows where trust, accuracy and human judgment must coexist. This is where human-centered AI healthcare becomes essential, ensuring auto
Microsoft's Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company's own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. Read More
Amazon Web Services growth accelerated to 28% in the first quarter — its fastest pace in nearly four years — pushing Amazon's results past Wall Street's expectations and validating, at least for now, the company's controversial $200 billion bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Read More
