Artificial Intelligence

Oracle: Q1 Revenue Jumps 30% To Record $19.3 Billion As Cloud Infrastructure Revenue Surges 121%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

Oracle reported record fiscal first-quarter 2027 revenue of $19.3 billion, representing a 30% year-over-year increase as rapid growth in cloud infrastructure and accelerating demand for AI computing capacity drove the company's results.

Positron AI Raises $875 Million Series C At $5 Billion Valuation To Scale Memory-First AI Inference Chips

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

Positron AI has raised $875 million in Series C financing at a $5 billion post-money valuation to bring its next-generation AI inference silicon and systems to market following deployment of more than 50 racks of its first-generation Atlas platform at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The financing was co-led by NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, SemiAnalysis Capital and Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape.

Target Expands AI Shopping Features With Photo Search, Review Insights And Personalized Reordering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

Target is expanding the use of AI and personalization across its digital shopping experience, introducing and enhancing tools designed to help customers discover products, evaluate purchases, reorder frequently purchased items and return to products they previously viewed.

Legora And Consilio Formalize Legal AI Partnership After More Than A Year Of Client Deployments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

Legora and Consilio have formalized a partnership to help law firms and corporate legal departments deploy and operationalize legal AI at scale following more than a year of joint client implementations.

Maven Robotics Raises $100 Million Series A To Scale General-Purpose Industrial Robots For Manufacturing And Logistics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

Maven Robotics has raised $100 million in Series A funding as the company launches its general-purpose robotics system for industrial work across manufacturing and logistics. The financing came from RoboStrategy, LocalGlobe, Vine Ventures and XTX Ventures, among others. Maven was founded in 2024 and designs, builds and deploys intelligent robotic systems intended to perform complex physical tasks in industrial environments.

Akamai And MuleSoft Expand Integration To Unify API Security And AI Agent Governance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

Akamai and MuleSoft have expanded their technology integration to combine real-time API security intelligence with governance for AI agents, APIs and Model Context Protocol servers, helping enterprises identify and manage security risks across increasingly distributed AI environments.

Celligence And AngelAi Secure $100 Million Investment From Mortgage Treasury To Scale AI Financial Transactions Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

Celligence has secured a $100 million investment from Mortgage Treasury to scale AngelAi, its AI platform designed to automate complex financial decision-making and transactions, including the entire mortgage process.

Buildcheck Raises $12 Million Series A To Scale AI-Powered Construction Design Review Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

Buildcheck has raised $12 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered construction design review platform, bringing the company's total funding to $18 million only nine months after its $5.9 million seed round.

RapidAI Launches EdgeIQ To Orchestrate Imaging AI Workflows Across Health Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 10, 2026

RapidAI has introduced EdgeIQ, a new intelligent imaging orchestration system designed to automate how medical imaging studies are matched with AI models, prioritized and routed to clinicians across complex health system environments.

Apple Unveils $1,999 iPhone Duo, Its First Foldable iPhone, Alongside iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch Series 12, Ultra 4 And AirPods 5

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Blee Raises $20 Million Series A To Expand AI Content Governance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Blee has raised a $20 million Series A, bringing total funding for the AI-first marketing compliance platform to $27 million. The round was co-led by Fin Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, with participation from Hannah Grey VC and National Bank of Canada. Existing investors Y Combinator, Penny Jar Capital, Cardumen Capital and Treasury also participated.

Kikoff: Interview With Founder And CEO Cynthia Chen About AI-Powered Credit Building And Financial Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Kikoff is a financial technology company focused on making credit building and financial progress more accessible. Its products include the Kikoff Credit Account, rent and bill reporting, credit monitoring, financial education, and AI-powered tools including Fynn, its AI Credit Coach, and AI Debt Negotiation. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kikoff Founder and CEO Cynthia Chen to learn more.

Cymphony Raises $30 Million To Build AI Agent Governance And Enterprise Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Cymphony has launched with $30 million in funding to develop an AI-native governance and security platform designed to give enterprises visibility and control over how employees and AI agents access sensitive data and critical systems. The financing was co-led by Sequoia Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. Cymphony is building its platform around the growing use of autonomous AI agents inside enterprises, where software increasingly interacts directly with company systems, sensitive information and business processes.

Mastercard Launches Agent Connect And Expands Agent Suite For Merchants To Support AI-Powered Shopping

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Mastercard has introduced Mastercard Agent Connect and expanded Mastercard Agent Suite for Merchants, giving businesses new tools to build AI-powered shopping experiences, make products discoverable across AI ecosystems and support consumer-authorized agentic transactions.

Vanderbilt Law School Partners With AltaClaro To Bring AI-Powered DepoSim Deposition Simulator To Students

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Vanderbilt Law School has partnered with AltaClaro to bring DepoSim, an AI-powered deposition simulation platform developed in collaboration with Verbit, to students beginning in the Fall 2026 semester.

UT Medical And TransformativeMed Partner On Agentic AI Discharge Planning

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

UT Medical and TransformativeMed have formed a development partnership to create an agentic AI-powered discharge planning solution intended to streamline one of the more complex workflows in acute care.

Google To Invest At Least €13 Billion ($15.13 Billion) In Finland AI And Data Center Infrastructure Through 2028

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Google plans to invest at least €13 billion ($15.13 billion) in digital and AI infrastructure across Finland during 2027 and 2028, representing what the company describes as its largest single investment in Europe.

Qualcomm And Amazon Expand Multi-Generational Collaboration For Customized AI Data Center Silicon

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2026

Qualcomm Technologies has announced a multi-generational collaboration with Amazon focused on customized silicon for large-scale AI data centers, as the companies expand their work across AI inference and advanced optical connectivity.

Endor Labs: Interview With CEO Varun Badhwar About AI-Native Application Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2026

Endor Labs provides an AI-native application security platform designed to help organizations understand software supply chain risk, prioritize vulnerabilities based on reachability, and secure increasingly AI-generated software without slowing development. The company is expanding across software composition analysis, AI SAST, security code review, and full-stack container reachability. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Endor Labs CEO Varun Badhwar to learn more.

Mistral Raises €3 Billion Series D At More Than €21 Billion Valuation Led By Samsung

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2026

Mistral has raised €3 billion in Series D funding at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, marking what the company described as the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company. Samsung Electronics led the round, with the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT and existing investor PSG Equity serving as co-leads.

GraniteShares Files For 2x Long And 2x Short Anthropic ETFs AIL And ANS

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2026

GraniteShares has filed for two proposed leveraged exchange-traded funds designed to provide 2x long and 2x short daily exposure to Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind Claude.

NHTSA Opens Investigation Into Tesla Cybercab Self-Certification Following Austin Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 6, 2026

The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Tesla's self-certification that its Cybercab complies with all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards following the commercial deployment of driverless Cybercab vehicles in Austin, Texas.

Accrual To Acquire Puzzle To Expand AI Platform Into Client Accounting Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 4, 2026

Accrual has agreed to acquire Puzzle's accounting-firm technology and business, including its AI-native ledger and month-end close products, in its first acquisition since launching in February 2026.

Plan A Technologies Acquires AI Assessment Technology To Expand Technical M&A Due Diligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Plan A Technologies has acquired a stealth AI assessment tool designed to strengthen its technical M&A due diligence capabilities.

Rezolve AI: H1 2026 Revenue Surges Nearly 21-Fold To $130.8 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Rezolve AI reported first-half 2026 revenue of $130.8 million, increasing approximately 1,970% from $6.3 million a year earlier and reaching nearly three times the company's revenue for all of fiscal 2025.

Cloverleaf AI Raises $8 Million Series A Led By S3 Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Cloverleaf AI has raised an $8 million Series A led by S3 Ventures, with participation from Jackson Square Ventures, Ivy Ventures and Tawani Ventures. The Denver-based company closed the financing in January and disclosed it in August after expanding its team and platform.

Hermetiq Raises $2.2 Million Seed Round For AI Coding Build Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Hermetiq has raised a $2.2 million Seed round to develop infrastructure connecting AI coding agents with the build systems responsible for compiling, testing and shipping the code they generate. Gi21 Capital participated in the financing.

fileAI Secures Investment From SMBC Asia Rising Fund And Singtel Innov8 To Expand In Japan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

fileAI has secured an investment from SMBC Asia Rising Fund and Singtel Innov8 as the enterprise AI company expands its presence in Japan and grows its financial-services capabilities. The amount of the investment was not disclosed.

Mundo Raises $20 Million Series A, Bringing Total Funding To $24 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Mundo, an innovative startup based in Vancouver, has successfully secured a $20 million Series A funding round, led by GreatPoint Ventures. Prominent investors also participated, including Y Combinator, Next Frontier Ventures, and E12 Ventures. In addition to this recent financing, Mundo had earlier raised an unannounced $4 million in a Seed round, bringing the company’s total funding to a substantial $24 million.

Archive Raises Strategic Funding To Scale AI-Native Creator Marketing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 3, 2026

Archive has closed a strategic funding round to expand its AI-native creator marketing platform as more consumer and AI companies use creators as a core customer acquisition channel. The round was led by Anti Fund, founded by Jake and Logan Paul and Geoffrey Woo, and Florida Funders. Battery Ventures, Stripe, Tiger Global, Lux Capital and Human Capital also participated, along with more than 50 founders and executives from the technology and consumer industries.