Artificial Intelligence

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

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 1:06 PM

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 ● Yesterday at 10:11 AM

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 ● Yesterday at 10:08 AM

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 ● Yesterday at 8:37 AM

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 ● Yesterday at 8:00 AM

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 ● Yesterday at 6:00 AM

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 ● Yesterday at 12:41 AM

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.

Anthropic Reportedly Selects Nasdaq For Planned IPO As AI Company Reaches Second Profitable Quarter

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Anthropic has reportedly selected Nasdaq for its planned initial public offering, according to Reuters, marking another significant step toward what could become one of the largest technology listings ever completed.

SolarWinds: Interview With Interim CEO Cullen Childress About AI And The Strategic Role Of IT

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

SolarWinds develops technology designed to simplify complex hybrid IT environments, reduce manual observability work, and provide actionable intelligence to IT professionals. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SolarWinds interim CEO Cullen Childress to learn more.

FYLD: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Shelley Copsey About AI-Powered Infrastructure Field Work

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

FYLD is an AI-powered platform designed to turn frontline infrastructure work into operational intelligence. Field teams capture short videos rather than completing static forms, and FYLD analyzes conditions to identify safety, quality, and delivery risks while giving managers live visibility across jobs. Pulse 2.0 interviewed FYLD Co-Founder and CEO Shelley Copsey to learn more.

LightSource: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Spencer Penn About AI-Native Procurement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

LightSource is a procurement AI company that helps businesses collaborate with suppliers to launch products faster and at structurally lower prices. The company focuses on direct procurement, bringing engineering teams, procurement organizations, and suppliers onto a common platform supported by AI-native workflows. Pulse 2.0 interviewed LightSource CEO and Co-Founder Spencer Penn to learn more.

Meta Faces Proposed Class Action Over AI Training And Smart Glasses Facial Recognition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 14, 2026

Meta is facing a proposed class action alleging that the company improperly used Facebook and Instagram photos to train artificial intelligence image models and potentially build biometric data for an unreleased facial-recognition feature designed for its smart glasses, according to WIRED.

OpenAI Rules Out 2026 IPO As Sam Altman Prioritizes AI Safety Work

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 13, 2026

OpenAI will not pursue an initial public offering in 2026, CEO Sam Altman said, arguing that the company should prioritize artificial intelligence safety and alignment work before moving toward a public listing as revealed during an interview with Fortune.

Baseten Acquires Blaxel To Build Integrated Agentic AI Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 13, 2026

Baseten has acquired Blaxel, bringing together Baseten's AI model inference and training infrastructure with Blaxel's execution, storage and networking technology for autonomous agents. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

ZaiNar Joins Arm Total Design For Physical AI As Founding Location Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 13, 2026

ZaiNar has joined the Arm Total Design for Physical AI ecosystem as a founding location partner, bringing its real-time location technology to an ecosystem focused on accelerating development and deployment of autonomous systems.

Nvidia Reportedly In Talks To Invest Up To $10 Billion In Anthropic IPO At About $2 Trillion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 13, 2026

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to become an anchor investor in Anthropic's planned initial public offering, with the chipmaker considering an investment of up to $10 billion, according to a Reuters report. Anthropic is seeking to raise as much as $100 billion in an IPO that could value the artificial intelligence company at approximately $2 trillion.

SpaceX Reportedly Signs $1.11 Billion-Per-Month Compute Deal With Undisclosed Customer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 13, 2026

SpaceX has signed a major cloud computing agreement with an undisclosed customer that will pay approximately $1.11 billion per month beginning December 1, 2026, according to a Business Insider report. The agreement represents another significant expansion of SpaceX's emerging AI infrastructure and compute-hosting business.

Universal Music Group And ElevenLabs Sign Multi-Year AI Music Licensing And Product Development Agreement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 13, 2026

Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have entered into a multi-year licensing agreement and broader strategic collaboration to develop a new AI-powered music creation platform for fans and additional AI audio products for artists and songwriters.

ABB Extends Wipro Digital Workplace Services Agreement With AI-Powered Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 12, 2026

ABB has extended its long-standing Digital Workplace Services agreement with Wipro, continuing a multi-year relationship supporting ABB's global operations. Financial terms and the duration of the renewed agreement were not disclosed.

White & Case Invests In Saudi Legal AI Platform Clauze.AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 12, 2026

White & Case has made a strategic investment in Clauze.AI, an AI-powered enterprise legal platform founded by Waad Alkurini and focused on legal and corporate clients in Saudi Arabia and the broader region. Financial terms were not disclosed.