Artificial Intelligence

Tempus AI To Acquire Personalis For $1.5 Billion To Expand MRD Cancer Monitoring

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Tempus AI has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Personalis in a transaction representing an enterprise value of approximately $1.5 billion, excluding Tempus’ existing ownership interest. The acquisition will expand Tempus’ molecular residual disease capabilities and strengthen its AI-enabled precision oncology platform.

ApexData Launches RidgeScope To Diagnose GPU Training Failures And Reduce AI Infrastructure Waste

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

ApexData has launched RidgeScope, an AI-powered diagnostic platform designed to identify performance problems in GPU-based machine learning training runs. The platform is generally available and can determine what went wrong, why it happened and what engineering teams can do to address the issue.

Gritt Raises $32.4 Million To Build Physical AI Systems For Construction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Gritt has launched with $32.4 million in pre-seed and Series A funding to develop AI-powered robotic systems for large-scale construction sites. The financing includes a $26 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures. Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments participated in the Series A, with support from existing investors First Round Capital, Climactic, Congruent Ventures and VSC Ventures.

Natural Raises $30 Million Series A To Build Payments Infrastructure For AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Natural has raised $30 million in Series A funding to develop payments infrastructure designed specifically for artificial intelligence agents. Kirsten Green of Forerunner led the round, with continued participation from the company’s major existing investors. Investors and supporters in the round included the founders or executives of Human Capital, Abstract, Wischoff Ventures, Increase, HappyRobot, Browserbase, Notion, Privy, Y Combinator, Profound and Brex. Antifund general partners Jake Paul and Logan Paul also participated, along with other investors.

Mach42 Raises £7 Million To Accelerate AI-Powered Analog Circuit Simulation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Mach42 has raised £7 million in a pre-Series A funding round to accelerate the development and commercial adoption of its AI-powered semiconductor simulation technology. IP Group led the round, with participation from existing investors BGF and Foresight Group.

Nagarro: Interview With Head Of North America Steve Hochman About The Technology Consulting Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Nagarro is a global digital engineering and technology consulting company that specializes in custom software development, AI transformation, and IT consulting to help enterprises solve complex business challenges. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Nagarro Head of North America Steve Hochman to learn more.

IREN Signs $2.8 Billion In AI Cloud Contracts And Raises 2026 ARR Target To Over $4 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

IREN Limited announced $2.8 billion in new multiyear cloud services contracts with leading artificial intelligence developers and increased its year-end 2026 AI Cloud annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion.

Google Threat Intelligence Makes Agentic AI Capabilities Generally Available

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Google Threat Intelligence has moved its agentic AI capabilities from public preview to general availability for Enterprise and Enterprise+ customers. The release is designed to help security teams automate complex cyber defense workflows and use specialized threat intelligence more efficiently.

Neo Raises $100 Million To Secure Agentic AI Software Across Enterprises

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Neo has emerged from stealth with $100 million in funding to build security and control infrastructure for agentic software. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners led the investment, with participation from Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures.

Stakpak Joins Vercel To Build Agentic Infrastructure And Self-Driving DevOps Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Stakpak is joining Vercel to help develop infrastructure designed for deploying, operating and managing AI agents. Financial terms and the structure of the transaction were not disclosed.

o9 Solutions: Interview With CTO Dr. Ashwin Rao About The Supply Chain Optimization Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

o9 Solutions provides an AI-powered, cloud-native platform called the Digital Brain that helps large enterprises unify and optimize their supply chain, commercial, and financial planning. Pulse 2.0 interviewed o9 Solutions Chief Technology Officer Dr. Ashwin Rao to learn more.

AMD Expands Microsoft Azure Partnership With Helios AI Infrastructure And 6th Gen EPYC Processors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Microsoft is expanding its strategic partnership with AMD across GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for its Azure cloud platform. The agreement includes a large-scale deployment of AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI infrastructure to support frontier-model inference, Azure AI services and customer applications.

Enlightenment Capital Invests In Quorum To Expand Agentic AI For Government Affairs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Enlightenment Capital has made a strategic investment in Quorum, an AI-powered government affairs software provider used by more than 2,000 organizations. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

CuspAI Raises $450 Million Series B At $2.6 Billion Valuation To Discover New Materials

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

CuspAI has raised $450 million in Series B funding to expand its artificial intelligence platform for discovering new materials. The financing values the British startup at approximately $2.6 billion. Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates co-led the round, with significant participation from Jeff Bezos’ investment firm, Bezos Expeditions. Other investors included Glade Brook Capital Partners, Lux Capital, AMD Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, StepStone, the U.K.’s Sovereign AI Venture Fund, Invest-NL and John Doerr.

Z.ai Reportedly Reaches $1 Billion Annualized Revenue Run Rate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence company Z.ai is on track to become the country’s first independent AI developer to reach $1 billion in annualized revenue, according to Bloomberg. The company reportedly achieved its full-year sales target by July, with that month’s revenue pace translating to approximately $1 billion over 12 months.

Netflix Says GenAI Was Used In Roughly 300 Titles In 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Netflix said generative AI workflows have been used across approximately 300 of its films and series during 2026. Most of the activity has occurred in post-production, although the technology is also being applied from initial concept development through final delivery.

Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3 For Advanced Reasoning, Coding, And Knowledge Work

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model designed for advanced reasoning, coding and knowledge work. The company describes it as the world’s largest open-weight AI model.

Bristol Myers Squibb Deploys NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Factory To Accelerate Drug Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb is deploying a second NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD to expand the use of artificial intelligence across its global drug discovery organization. The new system will be built on eight NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and integrated with the pharmaceutical company’s existing AI infrastructure.

OpenAI Proposes ‘Useful Intelligence Per Dollar’ Scorecard For Enterprise AI Spending

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 20, 2026

OpenAI has introduced a framework intended to help companies measure the business value generated by artificial intelligence. The company argues that enterprises should evaluate AI based on the amount of useful work completed rather than traditional software metrics such as licenses purchased, active users or seats deployed.

Meta And Anthropic Reportedly Discussing Potential $10 Billion AI Computing Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 19, 2026

Meta Platforms is in early discussions to lease artificial intelligence computing capacity to Anthropic in a potential transaction worth up to $10 billion. The proposed agreement would give the developer of Claude access to Meta’s extensive data center infrastructure while creating a new source of revenue for the social media company, according to the NYT.

Capital One Launches Open-Source VulnHunter Agentic AI Code Security Tool

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 19, 2026

Capital One has released VulnHunter, an open-source agentic AI security tool designed to identify exploitable software vulnerabilities and recommend targeted code fixes. Developed internally by Capital One, VulnHunter analyzes source code from an attacker’s perspective rather than operating as a conventional passive vulnerability scanner.

NVIDIA Expands Physical AI Platform Across Japan With Cosmos 3 Edge And Industry Partnerships

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2026

NVIDIA has announced an expansion of its physical artificial intelligence ecosystem in Japan, with leading robotics, manufacturing, technology and telecommunications companies adopting its Cosmos, Isaac, Metropolis and Jetson platforms.

Databricks To Raise Strategic Funding At $188 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 18, 2026

Databricks has signed a term sheet for a new strategic funding round that values the data and artificial intelligence company at $188 billion. Existing investor Coatue is leading the financing, which is expected to include additional new and existing investors.

ENGO Eyewear Raises €5 Million To Expand Augmented Reality Sports Glasses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

ENGO Eyewear has raised €5 million in equity financing to accelerate the international expansion and continued development of its augmented reality glasses for endurance athletes. Odyssée Venture participated in the round alongside Ventech and Bpifrance Amorçage Industriel.

Wells Fargo Launches AI Teammate Across $2.4 Trillion Wealth Management Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

Wells Fargo has launched AI Teammate, an artificial intelligence-powered capability designed to help financial advisors and their support teams find information, navigate workflows and complete everyday tasks more efficiently.

General Compute Secures Up To $400 Million Debt Facility To Scale AI Inference Neocloud

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

General Compute has secured a committed debt facility of up to $400 million from Upper90 Capital Management to expand its cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence inference workloads.

Pulse Security Raises $8 Million Seed Funding And Launches AI Platform For CISOs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

Pulse Security AI has raised $8 million in seed funding and launched from stealth with an operational management platform designed to help chief information security officers oversee cybersecurity programs, automate workflows and communicate business risk to executives and boards. Foundation Capital led the funding round, with participation from Zetta Venture Partners. Pulse plans to use the capital to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams as it responds to demand from enterprises seeking a more centralized way to manage cybersecurity operations.

Nebius Raises $775 Million In First Secured Debt Financing To Expand AI Cloud Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

Nebius Group has entered into its first senior secured debt facility, raising approximately $775 million to accelerate the global expansion of its full-stack artificial intelligence cloud platform. The Amsterdam-headquartered company plans to use the proceeds to increase the computing capacity available to AI developers, startups and enterprise customers. Nebius provides infrastructure and software supporting the AI development lifecycle, including data processing, model training and production deployment.

Roblox Introduces Build To Turn Text Prompts Into Playable Games

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

Roblox has announced Build, a new mobile-first creation experience that will allow users to turn text prompts into playable games directly within the Roblox app.

Google Partners With Georgia Public Library Service to Offer No-Cost Career and AI Training to State Residents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2026

Google has announced a partnership with the Georgia Public Library Service to provide Georgia public library cardholders with no-cost access to Google Career Certificates and professional artificial intelligence courses.