Artificial Intelligence

Hackuity Raises $19 Million For AI-Powered Vulnerability Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Hackuity, an AI-powered Vulnerability Operations Center platform, announced that it has raised $19 million in new funding led by Forgepoint Capital International, with participation from existing investors Bright Pixel, Bpifrance, and Seventure Partners. The round brings Hackuity's total funding to $38 million.

Pipedrive Launches Nova AI Meeting Intelligence Tool To Automate Sales Notes And CRM Updates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Pipedrive has launched Nova, an AI-powered meeting intelligence tool built directly into its CRM platform to help sales teams prepare for customer calls, record and transcribe conversations, and draft CRM updates after meetings.

OpenAI, Anthropic, And Google Discuss Joint AI Safety Standards

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

OpenAI is working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind to explore greater coordination around artificial intelligence safety, according to Reuters.

Meta Reportedly Plans 2027 Deployment Of New In-House AI Chips

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Meta Platforms plans to begin deploying its latest internally designed artificial intelligence chip in data centers during the first half of 2027, according to the Los Angeles Times.

OpenAI Reportedly Explores New Funding At $1.2 Trillion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with major investors about a new funding round that could value the artificial intelligence company at approximately $1.2 trillion, according to Reuters.

Video Creation Platform Camtasia Launches ChatGPT Plugin To Turn Screenshots Into AI-Generated Instructional Videos

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Camtasia, TechSmith's video creation and screen recording platform, has launched a ChatGPT plugin that can transform screenshots into AI-generated instructional videos, giving users a new way to create training and tutorial content directly from a conversational workflow.

Thrive Expands NextGen Platform With Elastic MDR And Cato Networks Zero Trust Integrations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Thrive, a global technology outsourcing provider specializing in AI, cybersecurity, cloud and managed IT services, has expanded its NextGen managed services platform with new security architecture powered by Elastic and Cato Networks. The investments are designed to strengthen Thrive's Managed Detection and Response capabilities, improve threat visibility and introduce a more modern Zero Trust approach to secure access for mid-market organizations.

Quorum Appoints AI Executive Bob Ghafouri To Board As Public Affairs Platform Accelerates Agentic AI Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Quorum has appointed Bob Ghafouri to its Board of Directors as the AI-powered public affairs software company accelerates development of agentic AI capabilities for government affairs teams. Ghafouri brings more than 25 years of experience developing and scaling digital and AI businesses.

Delos Data Raises Over $100 Million To Build Networking Infrastructure For Agentic AI Inference

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Delos Data has raised more than $100 million to launch Delos Nonstop AI, an infrastructure platform designed to address networking and data-movement bottlenecks as agentic AI workloads put increasing pressure on data centers. Investors include Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, Capricorn's Technology Impact Fund, Matter Venture Partners, IAG, and industry executives spanning compute, hyperscale infrastructure, networking silicon, infrastructure software, and optical connectivity.

Radical Ventures Secures More Than $1 Billion First Close For Late-Stage AI Breakouts Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Radical Ventures has secured more than $1 billion in commitments at the first close of its Radical Breakouts Fund, launching what the AI-focused investment firm describes as the largest venture capital fund in Canadian history.

Charles Schwab And Anthropic Bring Claude AI To More Than 16,000 Independent Registered Investment Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Charles Schwab and Anthropic are working together to bring Claude for Financial Advisors directly to more than 16,000 independent registered investment advisors served by Schwab Advisor Services, giving RIAs an AI system designed to work alongside their existing custody, CRM, portfolio reporting and financial planning tools.

Hello Patient Acquires Converse Health To Expand AI Agents Across Outpatient Healthcare Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Hello Patient has acquired Converse Health, an AI workflow automation company for outpatient medical practices, expanding its agentic AI platform from front-office patient communications into referral management, follow-up, authorization paperwork, and other back-office workflows. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Google Adds Real-Time Voice Conversations, Interactive Study Overviews, And Short Videos To Gemini Notebook

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Google is expanding Gemini Notebook with a new set of AI-powered learning tools designed to make studying more conversational, personalized and interactive, including real-time voice discussions with notebooks, interactive study overviews, expanded quiz formats, audio recording and short educational videos.

Astera Labs Expands Leo Smart Memory Controllers To Accelerate Agentic AI Inference And Improve Data Center Memory Utilization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Astera Labs has expanded its Leo Smart Memory Controller family with three new memory connectivity products designed to address rapidly increasing memory requirements across agentic AI, cloud infrastructure and other data-intensive workloads.

Exein Raises $270 Million At $1.7 Billion Valuation To Expand Physical AI Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Exein has raised $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation as the cybersecurity company expands its platform for protecting robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and other intelligent machines operating in the physical world. The significantly oversubscribed round was led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, the European Investment Bank Group through ETCI, KfW Capital and T.Capital.

OpenAI Reportedly Acquires AI Smartphone Camera Startup Glass Imaging For $300+ Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial intelligence technology designed to bring DSLR-level image quality to smartphone cameras, in a transaction valuing the company at more than $300 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Salesforce Unveils AIforce And Koa, Expands Google Cloud, AWS, And Siemens Partnerships, And Commits $27 Million To Education At Dreamforce 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Salesforce has unveiled a broad collection of artificial intelligence products, cloud partnerships, customer deployments and workforce initiatives around Dreamforce 2026, led by the introduction of AIforce, its new interface layer for bringing Salesforce data and business logic into external AI environments, and Koa, its first CRM reasoning model developed with NVIDIA.

Salesforce And Google Cloud Expand AI Partnership With Hyperforce, Gemini Enterprise And Agentforce Integrations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Salesforce and Google Cloud have expanded their strategic partnership to more closely connect enterprise data, AI agents, applications, and infrastructure across both companies' platforms.

Latent Expands AI Pharmacy Platform To 60 Health Systems Serving 70 Million Patients

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Latent has expanded its enterprise pharmacy intelligence platform to 60 major U.S. health systems serving approximately 70 million patients, while introducing a new suite of autonomous clinical agents designed to accelerate access to high-demand and complex medications.

Wealth.com Brings Estate And Tax Planning Into Claude For Financial Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Wealth.com has become a launch partner for Claude for Financial Advisors, bringing estate and tax planning capabilities directly into Anthropic's AI environment for wealth management professionals.

Navan Acquires AI-Powered Events Platform BoomPop

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Navan has acquired BoomPop, expanding the business travel and expense company's platform into AI-powered meetings and event management. BoomPop was founded in 2023 and uses artificial intelligence to help companies plan and manage events from beginning to end.

Goldman Sachs Opens New Engineering Office In Bellevue For AI And Cloud Transformation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Goldman Sachs has opened a new engineering office in Bellevue, Washington, expanding its technology footprint in the Pacific Northwest and creating dedicated space for teams focused on artificial intelligence and cloud transformation.

Motive Secures More Than $1.3 Billion In Growth Financing From General Catalyst

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Motive has secured more than $1.3 billion in growth financing from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, providing the AI-powered physical operations company with additional capital to expand its platform and scale its go-to-market organization.

Jump Launches AI-Assisted Real-Time Account Opening With Schwab Advisor Services And Fidelity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Jump has introduced AI-assisted, real-time account opening that allows financial advisors to move from a client conversation to a completed, validated and signed account-opening workflow during a typical advisor-client meeting.

Metricform: Interview With Founder And CEO Lindsey Aliksanyan About Narrative Formation Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Metricform is a narrative formation intelligence platform designed to identify the 24-to-72-hour window between a narrative beginning to move through specific communities and the point when it breaks into wider circulation. That window is the period in which a company can still get ahead of what is coming, and to find it the New York-based platform monitors the open conversation around a company, category, or market across forums, reviews, social platforms, and news, in any language and geography, along with the AI-generated answers now built from that conversation. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Metricform Founder and CEO Lindsey Aliksanyan to learn more.

Serrala: Interview With Chief Product And Technology Officer Rami Chahine About Finance Automation And AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Serrala provides finance automation capabilities across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payments, Treasury & Cash Visibility, and Fraud & Compliance controls. Through the Serrala Finance Platform, the company supports SAP and multi-ERP environments while emphasizing integration, security, governance, and AI-assisted automation. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Serrala Chief Product and Technology Officer Rami Chahine to learn more.

Temporal Raises $550 Million Series E At $12.55 Billion Valuation As AI Infrastructure Demand Surges

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Temporal has raised $550 million in Series E funding at a $12.55 billion valuation as demand grows for infrastructure that can reliably run complex AI applications and long-running software workflows. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round. Wellington Management, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Tiger Global served as co-leads, while T. Rowe Price and SV Angel also participated.

Buildots Raises $130 Million To Scale AI Construction Platform And Support Global Data Center Buildout

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Buildots has raised $130 million in a new funding round led by O.G. Venture Partners to expand its AI-powered construction intelligence platform and scale deployments across large construction portfolios, including data centers, advanced manufacturing and energy infrastructure projects. The financing included participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mohari Ventures, Human Capital, Qumra Capital, Avigdor Willenz, Viola Growth and Poalim Equity.

Z.AI Plans To Raise More Than $5 Billion Through Shares And Convertible Bonds For AI Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.AI plans to raise more than $5 billion through a combination of new shares and convertible bonds as it seeks additional capital to expand its AI models, computing infrastructure and commercial operations, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Cloudera And Mistral Partner To Bring Sovereign AI To Enterprise Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Cloudera and Mistral have formed a strategic partnership to bring secure, sovereign artificial intelligence directly to enterprise data across cloud, on-premises, edge, sovereign and air-gapped environments.