Artificial Intelligence

Mobly: Interview With Co-Founder Zach Barney About Making In-Person Marketing Accountable

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Mobly is an in-person revenue platform for B2B go-to-market teams. Its AI-native platform spans the full field and event marketing lifecycle, from event selection through post-event ROI, giving revenue teams a system to run in-person marketing like digital, with real-time visibility and measurable pipeline impact. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Mobly Co-Founder Zach Barney to learn more.

Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.1 Billion Machine Age Fund For AI Infrastructure, Chips And Robotics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Andreessen Horowitz has launched a $1.1 billion Machine Age Fund dedicated to investing in the physical infrastructure required to support the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence.

Corvex Adds Garrett Brams To Lead AI Factory Data Center Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Corvex has appointed Garrett Brams to lead its data center sourcing and development strategy as the GPU infrastructure company expands the physical capacity supporting its AI Factory platform.

Workday: AI Drives More Than 25% Of New ACV As Agent Customers Jump More Than 35% Sequentially

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 30, 2026

Workday reported growing commercial traction for its artificial intelligence products during the fiscal second quarter of 2027, with AI accounting for more than one-quarter of new annual contract value and adoption of Workday agents accelerating among existing customers.

Google Cloud Announces Strategic Partnership With Verizon To Scale Enterprise AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 29, 2026

Google Cloud has announced a new strategic partnership with Verizon to deliver faster, smarter, and more responsive experiences for consumers and businesses nationwide. By deploying Google Cloud's full-stack AI, including its data infrastructure and Gemini Enterprise, Verizon will continue to modernize customer experiences, unify enterprise data, and scale AI across the organization.

Anthropic Reportedly Explored $7 Billion MatX Acquisition As AI Lab Accelerates Custom Chip Push

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 28, 2026

Anthropic explored acquiring AI chip startup MatX for approximately $7 billion before the negotiations ended, as the Claude developer looks to accelerate development of its own artificial intelligence hardware, according to Reuters. The discussions have since evolved toward a potential partnership between the companies.

Veeva: Operating Income Jumps 40% As Vault CRM And AI Adoption Accelerate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 28, 2026

Veeva Systems reported faster GAAP earnings growth than revenue during its fiscal second quarter of 2027 as adoption of Vault CRM expanded, its agentic AI products moved further into customer deployments and management raised its full-year outlook.

Synopsys: Design Automation Revenue Jumps 53% As AI Demand Drives Record Quarter

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 28, 2026

Synopsys delivered strong fiscal third-quarter 2026 growth as the addition of Ansys and continued demand for electronic design automation pushed Design Automation revenue above $2 billion and helped drive a substantial increase in earnings.

Faro AI Raises $37.3 Million Series B As Platform Reaches 6 Of World’s 10 Largest Pharma Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 27, 2026

Faro AI has raised $37.3 million in Series B funding to expand its agentic AI platform for clinical development, as pharmaceutical companies increasingly turn to artificial intelligence to improve clinical trial design and execution. Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and S32 co-led the financing. Existing investors General Catalyst, Northpond Ventures, Polaris Partners, PTX Capital and Zetta also participated, alongside new investor Ankona Capital.

Instinct Raises $250 Million At $2.5 Billion Valuation As AI Assistant Goes Viral In Silicon Valley

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 27, 2026

Instinct, an AI assistant developed by Spear Street Technology, is raising $250 million in Series B funding at a $2.5 billion valuation as the product gains traction among Silicon Valley technologists, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The round is being co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark.

Checksum: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Gal Vered About Continuous Quality For AI-Generated Code

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 27, 2026

Checksum is building a continuous quality platform designed to help companies safely ship software in an AI-driven world. Its products include the Continuous Quality Agent, API Testing Agent, and CI Guard, with a broader vision of providing quality assurance across the software development lifecycle as organizations move toward autonomous software delivery. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Checksum Co-Founder and CEO Gal Vered to learn more.

Brookwood Investment Group Partners With Amplify To Launch AI-Native Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 27, 2026

Brookwood Investment Group has partnered with Amplify Technology to launch the Brookwood Intelligence Platform, a unified technology foundation that connects data, investment intelligence, portfolio management, trading, account servicing, and advisor workflows across the rapidly growing RIA.

Nvidia Reportedly Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 27, 2026

Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to a report from The Information citing a person with knowledge of the agreement. The transaction would give Nvidia control of one of the most important platforms in the open-source artificial intelligence ecosystem.

Salesforce: Net Income Jumps 87% As Agentforce And Data 360 ARR Surges More Than 210% To Nearly $3.9 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Salesforce reported strong fiscal second-quarter 2027 results, with net income up 87% year over year and its Agentforce and Data 360 businesses continuing to scale rapidly. Revenue for the quarter ended July 31 reached $11.35 billion, up 11% from $10.24 billion a year earlier. Subscription and support revenue increased 12% to $10.82 billion, including a $440 million contribution from Informatica. Net income increased to $3.53 billion from $1.89 billion, representing growth of approximately 87%.

NVIDIA: Operating Income Jumps 124% To $63.7 Billion As Revenue Doubles And Q3 Outlook Hits $108 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

NVIDIA reported another massive acceleration in fiscal second-quarter 2027 financial results, with operating income more than doubling as revenue surged past $96 billion and gross profit reached more than $72 billion.

Luma Health Launches New Operational AI Features As Emergency Department Wait Times Fall 53%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Luma Health has introduced new Operational AI capabilities that connect patient preparation before a visit with check-in, intake, payments, and queue management in clinics and hospitals.

Harbourfront Wealth Expands Zocks AI Across Advisor Network After 2,900+ Meetings Save 2,000+ Hours

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Harbourfront Wealth Group has expanded its deployment of Zocks across its entire advisor network following a successful pilot, marking Zocks' largest enterprise customer in Canada to date.

Anaconda Names Stewart Grierson CFO As Platform Expands Through 3 Acquisitions In 6 Months

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Anaconda has appointed Stewart Grierson as Chief Financial Officer as the AI-native development platform continues expanding its product capabilities and organizational infrastructure. Grierson will lead Anaconda's finance organization and report to CEO David DeSanto.

Grafana Labs Surpasses $600 Million ARR And 10,000 Customers As AI Assistant Reaches 18,000 Organizations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Grafana Labs has surpassed $600 million in annual recurring revenue and more than 10,000 customers worldwide as adoption of its AI-powered observability products accelerates.

Liner Raises $36.1 Million Series C As AI Platform Reaches 14 Million Users And 500 Million-Record Database

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Liner has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding to expand its AI research and agent platform as the company moves deeper into enterprise AI while continuing to grow its global consumer business. LB Investment led the round, with follow-on participation from existing investors InterVest, Atinum Investment and CJ Investment. New investors included Korea Development Bank, KB Securities, Daishin Securities, STIC Ventures and Helios Private Equity.

Numa Acquires SocketTime To Bring AI Into Dealership Service Operations Across 1,300+ Locations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Numa has acquired SocketTime, a fixed-operations software company serving automotive dealerships, as it expands its AI operating system deeper into dealership service departments and shop workflows.

WellStack Acquires DeLorean AI To Build End-To-End Healthcare Decision Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

WellStack has acquired DeLorean AI, a healthcare-focused artificial intelligence company specializing in predictive analytics, risk stratification and action-oriented decision support.

Deep Cogito Raises $43 Million Series A As Post-Training Platform Targets Self-Improving Frontier AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Deep Cogito has raised $43 million in Series A funding to expand its post-training research platform for reinforcement learning, recursive self-improvement and enterprise AI specialization.

Gorilla: Revenue Nearly Doubles, But Operating Loss Widens To $47 Million As AI Infrastructure Investment Accelerates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Gorilla Technology nearly doubled first-half 2026 revenue as AI infrastructure and data-center programs scaled, but the company's reported operating loss widened sharply as it invested ahead of utilization and absorbed substantial stock-based compensation and accounting charges.

Qnity Launches AI Advanced Packaging Platform Enabling 2 µm Line/Space Metallization For 2.5D And 3D Chips

By Shan Sadiq ● Aug 26, 2026

Qnity Electronics has introduced an integrated materials platform for advanced semiconductor packaging, combining metallization, bumping, dielectric, and fine-line patterning technologies to support increasingly complex AI and high-performance computing architectures.

Parsnipp: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Andrew Higgins About Generative Engine Optimization And AI Search Marketing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Parsnipp is an AI search marketing platform focused on helping brands manage how they appear and perform across AI-driven search and commerce experiences. Its products span Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), LLM advertising, and agentic commerce. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Parsnipp CEO and Co-Founder Andrew Higgins to learn more.

Avos: Interview With Founder And CEO Stef Roussos About Agentic AI News And Research Briefings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Avos is an agentic news and research platform built around personalized recurring briefings. The platform uses AI agents to research, filter, deduplicate, and synthesize information from across its source catalog into finite editions tailored to each reader's interests, sources, markets, tone, and schedule. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Avos Founder and CEO Stef Roussos to learn more.

Meta Agrees To Up To $16.68 Billion Settlement With 29 States Over Teen Social Media Harm Claims

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Meta has reached a settlement valued at up to $16.68 billion with U.S. states that accused Facebook and Instagram of harming children through allegedly addictive design practices and improper collection of minors' personal information, according to Bloomberg.

Casca: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Lukas Haffer About Building an AI-Native Loan Origination Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Casca is an AI-native loan origination system designed for small business lending, automating up to 90% of the manual work involved in the loan process to help banks fund commercial loans significantly faster than industry averages. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Casca Co-Founder & CEO Lukas Haffer to learn more.

Mundo AI Raises $20 Million Series A Led By GreatPoint As Total Funding Reaches $24 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 25, 2026

Mundo AI has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by GreatPoint Ventures to build data and evaluation infrastructure designed to help artificial intelligence models better understand audio, video and other real-world sensory information. The financing follows a previously unannounced $4 million seed round, bringing total funding to $24 million. Y Combinator, E12 Ventures and Next Frontier Capital also participated in the Series A.