Artificial Intelligence

ADA Acquires Algonomy, Strengthening Its Intelligent Growth Platform For A Fully Agentic Experience

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 30, 2026

ADA (The Data and AI Experience Company) announced it has completed its acquisition of Algonomy, a leader in agentic decisioning for retail. The deal strengthens ADA's intelligent growth platform with AI decisioning technology.

Everforth ECS Wins $115 Million U.S. Army AI Research And Engineering Contract

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Everforth ECS has secured a three-year, $115 million contract from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory.

Ameriprise Invests Approximately $1 Billion Annually In Technology And AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Ameriprise Financial is investing approximately $1 billion annually in technology, including artificial intelligence capabilities, platform improvements and supporting infrastructure.

Coforge Secures More Than $230 Million European AI Transformation Contract

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Coforge has secured a five-year contract valued at more than $230 million for an AI-led business transformation program with an undisclosed European customer. The agreement represents one of Coforge’s largest AI transformation engagements in Europe.

VAST Data Expands AMD Partnership To Improve AI Inference Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

VAST Data has expanded its collaboration with AMD to help cloud providers and enterprises build infrastructure for AI training, inference and agentic AI applications.

Cognizant And Gulf Edge Form AI Partnership To Support Thailand’s Digital Transformation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Cognizant and Gulf Edge have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate enterprise AI adoption and support Thailand’s development as a regional AI economy.

Google Adds Natural-Language Voice Controls To Gemini App For macOS

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Google has introduced new voice capabilities for the Gemini app on macOS, allowing users to dictate, edit and summarize content directly within the applications where they are working.

Salesforce Secures $1.6 Billion Department Of Veterans Affairs Technology Contract

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Salesforce has received a Department of Veterans Affairs contract with a ceiling of $1.6 billion to modernize healthcare, benefits administration and other services for U.S. veterans.

Shield AI: Innovation X Advisors Participating In $1.5 Billion Series G At $12.7 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Shield AI has raised $1.5 billion in Series G financing at a post-money valuation of $12.7 billion. Innovation X Advisors participated alongside other existing investors. The transaction also included $500 million of fixed-return preferred equity financing and a $250 million delayed-draw facility.

Verisk Acquires McKenzie Intelligence Services To Expand Catastrophe Response Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Verisk has acquired McKenzie Intelligence Services, a provider of geospatial intelligence and real-time analysis of catastrophes, conflicts and other major events.

Microchip To Acquire Edge AI Processor Company Hailo

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Microchip Technology has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hailo, a developer of edge AI processors, vision processing systems and AI software. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Cowbell Launches OMNI AI Decision Intelligence System For Specialty Insurance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Cowbell has launched OMNI, an AI-native decision intelligence system designed to improve underwriting, claims, cybersecurity services, customer engagement and product development across its specialty insurance business.

Naoma: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Dmitry Zakharov About The Conversational AI Video Agent Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Naoma builds conversational AI video agents that deliver personalized, live B2B software product demos on demand. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Naoma co-founder and CEO Dmitry Zakharov to learn more.

Viktor Appoints Robbie O’Connor As Chief Revenue Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

European AI startup Viktor has appointed Robbie O'Connor as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its next phase of commercial growth. O'Connor previously held commercial leadership roles at Dropbox, Asana and Notion. He will oversee Viktor's revenue strategy as the company expands adoption of its AI employee platform among enterprise customers.

Freehand Raises $75 Million To Scale AI Teams Managing Supply Chain Spend

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Freehand has raised $75 million in funding to expand its autonomous AI platform for managing supply chain spending at large enterprises. The round was co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from PSP Growth, Nexus Venture Partners and other investors.

Bloomberg To Acquire Canoe Intelligence To Expand AI-Powered Private Markets Data Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Bloomberg has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Canoe Intelligence, an AI-powered platform that automates the collection, processing and delivery of private markets data. Financial terms and an expected closing date were not disclosed.

Curant.ai Raises $3.1 Million Seed Round Led By Diagram For AI-Powered Insurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Curant.ai has raised $3.1 million in seed funding to expand its AI platform for insurance claims and support broader adoption across the industry. The round was led by Diagram, with participation from Humania Insurance, Element Ventures, Blue Plains Capital and several angel investors.

Atera: Interview With Chief Product Officer Tal Dagan About The IT Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Atera provides an all-in-one, AI-powered IT management platform that combines Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM), helpdesk, and ticketing. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Atera Chief Product Officer Tal Dagan to learn more.

Harmony Raises $34 Million Seed Round Led By Lightspeed To Scale AI Employee Support Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Harmony has raised $34 million in seed funding to expand an artificial intelligence platform that resolves employee requests across IT, human resources, finance, procurement and legal functions. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Hitachi Ventures, Fin Capital, Mercer Ventures and Operator Partners. Angel investors included members of the Wiz founding team, including Assaf Rappaport, and Eon.io co-founder and CEO Ofir Ehrlich.

PwC China Launches AI Innovation Centre In Shanghai

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

PwC China has launched an AI Innovation Centre in Shanghai to help businesses turn artificial intelligence research and emerging technologies into scalable commercial applications.

Cycode Launches Agentic Workflows To Automate Application Security Response

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Cycode has introduced Agentic Workflows, a new capability that uses AI agents to detect, prioritize, and address application security risks as soon as they appear.

Vena To Acquire Morpheo AI To Advance Vena Omega Finance AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Vena Solutions has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Morpheo AI, an enterprise agentic data platform that prepares and structures fragmented business information for artificial intelligence applications.

Entegrata Appoints Andrew Baker As Chief AI And Data Strategy Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Entegrata has appointed Andrew Baker as Chief AI and Data Strategy Officer to lead the development of its artificial intelligence enablement strategy for law firms.

Spur Intelligence Secures $200 Million From Insight Partners To Scale IP Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Spur Intelligence has secured a $200 million investment from Insight Partners to expand its internet protocol intelligence platform as businesses face growing fraud and cybersecurity risks involving VPNs, residential proxies, bots and AI-driven infrastructure.

Throne Science Raises $10 Million Series A For AI-Powered Smart Toilet Sensor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Throne Science has raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand its team and advance research and development for its smart toilet sensor, which tracks digestive health, hydration, and urinary patterns. The round was led by Will Ventures, with participation from Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie, Ventures Together, Symphony, Felix Capital, Cosmic Venture Partners, Offscript, V1.VC and Morrison Seger.

Safe Superintelligence And NVIDIA Form Long-Term AI Compute Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Safe Superintelligence and NVIDIA have entered into a long-term strategic partnership intended to accelerate SSI's artificial intelligence research and substantially expand its computing capacity.

Greyparrot Raises $27 Million Series B To Expand AI Waste Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Greyparrot has raised $27 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-powered waste-analysis network and build a larger data platform to measure recoverable materials. The round was led by technology investor Omar Mir and brings Greyparrot's total funding to $60 million.

ICON And Anthropic Form Multi-Year Collaboration To Bring Claude AI Across Clinical Trials

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

ICON has entered into a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to integrate Claude's artificial intelligence capabilities across the clinical trial lifecycle.

Core Scientific And AMD Partner To Deploy Up To 2.5 Gigawatts Of AI Data Center Capacity

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 28, 2026

Core Scientific and AMD have formed an infrastructure partnership under which AMD will secure up to 2.5 gigawatts of data center capacity for customers deploying its artificial intelligence technologies.

Qnity Launches Two New High-Performance Thermal Interface Materials for AI, Automotive and High-Power Electronic Applications

By Shan Sadiq ● Jul 28, 2026

Qnity Electronics has launched two new thermal interface materials designed to help engineers manage rising heat levels across artificial intelligence systems, advanced computing, automotive electronics and other high-power applications.