Artificial Intelligence

Stakpak Joins Vercel To Build Agentic Infrastructure And Self-Driving DevOps Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Stakpak is joining Vercel to help develop infrastructure designed for deploying, operating and managing AI agents. Financial terms and the structure of the transaction were not disclosed.

o9 Solutions: Interview With CTO Dr. Ashwin Rao About The Supply Chain Optimization Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

o9 Solutions provides an AI-powered, cloud-native platform called the Digital Brain that helps large enterprises unify and optimize their supply chain, commercial, and financial planning. Pulse 2.0 interviewed o9 Solutions Chief Technology Officer Dr. Ashwin Rao to learn more.

AMD Expands Microsoft Azure Partnership With Helios AI Infrastructure And 6th Gen EPYC Processors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Microsoft is expanding its strategic partnership with AMD across GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for its Azure cloud platform. The agreement includes a large-scale deployment of AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI infrastructure to support frontier-model inference, Azure AI services and customer applications.

Enlightenment Capital Invests In Quorum To Expand Agentic AI For Government Affairs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Enlightenment Capital has made a strategic investment in Quorum, an AI-powered government affairs software provider used by more than 2,000 organizations. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

CuspAI Raises $450 Million Series B At $2.6 Billion Valuation To Discover New Materials

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

CuspAI has raised $450 million in Series B funding to expand its artificial intelligence platform for discovering new materials. The financing values the British startup at approximately $2.6 billion. Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates co-led the round, with significant participation from Jeff Bezos’ investment firm, Bezos Expeditions. Other investors included Glade Brook Capital Partners, Lux Capital, AMD Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, StepStone, the U.K.’s Sovereign AI Venture Fund, Invest-NL and John Doerr.

Z.ai Reportedly Reaches $1 Billion Annualized Revenue Run Rate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai is on track to become the country’s first independent AI developer to reach $1 billion in annualized revenue, according to Bloomberg. The company reportedly achieved its full-year sales target by July, with that month’s revenue pace translating to approximately $1 billion over 12 months.

Netflix Says GenAI Was Used In Roughly 300 Titles In 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Netflix said generative AI workflows have been used across approximately 300 of its films and series during 2026. Most of the activity has occurred in post-production, although the technology is also being applied from initial concept development through final delivery.

Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3 For Advanced Reasoning, Coding, And Knowledge Work

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model designed for advanced reasoning, coding and knowledge work. The company describes it as the world’s largest open-weight AI model.

Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Factory To Accelerate Drug Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb is deploying a second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD to expand the use of artificial intelligence across its global drug discovery organization. The new system will be built on eight NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and integrated with the pharmaceutical company’s existing AI infrastructure.

OpenAI Proposes ‘Useful Intelligence Per Dollar’ Scorecard For Enterprise AI Spending

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

OpenAI has introduced a framework intended to help companies measure the business value generated by artificial intelligence. The company argues that enterprises should evaluate AI based on the amount of useful work completed rather than traditional software metrics such as licenses purchased, active users or seats deployed.

Meta And Anthropic Reportedly Discussing Potential $10 Billion AI Computing Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 19, 2026

Meta Platforms is in early discussions to lease artificial intelligence computing capacity to Anthropic in a potential transaction worth up to $10 billion. The proposed agreement would give the developer of Claude access to Meta’s extensive data center infrastructure while creating a new source of revenue for the social media company, according to the NYT.

Capital One Launches Open-Source VulnHunter Agentic AI Code Security Tool

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 19, 2026

Capital One has released VulnHunter, an open-source agentic AI security tool designed to identify exploitable software vulnerabilities and recommend targeted code fixes. Developed internally by Capital One, VulnHunter analyzes source code from an attacker’s perspective rather than operating as a conventional passive vulnerability scanner.

NVIDIA Expands Physical AI Platform Across Japan With Cosmos 3 Edge And Industry Partnerships

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2026

NVIDIA has announced an expansion of its physical artificial intelligence ecosystem in Japan, with leading robotics, manufacturing, technology and telecommunications companies adopting its Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis and Jetson platforms.

Databricks To Raise Strategic Funding At $188 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2026

Databricks has signed a term sheet for a new strategic funding round that values the data and artificial intelligence company at $188 billion. Existing investor Coatue is leading the financing, which is expected to include additional new and existing investors.