Artificial Intelligence

Grotto AI: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Nick Deveau About AI Coaching For Multifamily Leasing Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Grotto AI provides an AI coaching platform that helps multifamily leasing teams improve prospect interactions, personalize calls and tours, and identify the behaviors that drive conversion. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Grotto AI Co-Founder and CEO Nick Deveau to learn more.

Unthread: Interview With Founder Tom Bachant About Conversational Ticketing And AI-Powered Support Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Unthread provides a conversational ticketing and support automation platform that turns messages from Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, Discord, and other channels into tickets while using AI to resolve requests and automate operational workflows. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Unthread Founder Tom Bachant to learn more.

Ceva: NeuPro-M Wins Next-Generation Custom AI Silicon Deal As Licensing Revenue Hits Three-Year High

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Ceva secured a major artificial intelligence licensing win during the second quarter of 2026 as a leading global AI and computing platform company selected its NeuPro-M neural processing unit IP for next-generation custom AI silicon.

Ginkgo Bioworks: 100+ Robots Run Experiments Around The Clock As $47 Million Autonomous Lab Build Advances

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Ginkgo Bioworks is scaling its autonomous laboratory infrastructure as more than 100 robots at its Nebula facility run experiments around the clock and the company advances a $47 million autonomous laboratory project for the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Veeco: AI Demand Drives Robust Orders As Manufacturing Expansion Extends Visibility Into 2027

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Veeco Instruments is seeing artificial intelligence demand translate into stronger semiconductor equipment orders and deeper customer engagement, giving management increased visibility into 2027 as the company expands manufacturing capacity.

Teknova: Build-Tek AI Configures Complex Custom Reagents In Minutes As Biotech Manufacturing Platform Expands

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Teknova has launched Build-Tek, an AI-powered custom product configurator designed to allow therapeutic and diagnostic developers to create complex custom reagent requests within minutes and move more quickly from preclinical research toward clinical manufacturing.

Team8 Raises $365 Million For AI-Native Enterprise Investments As AUM Nears $2 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Team8 has raised $365 million in new capital to invest in the next generation of AI-native enterprise companies, bringing the venture firm's total assets under management to nearly $2 billion across eight funds. The new capital includes $265 million for Team8 Capital's third fund and more than $100 million reserved for follow-on investments in portfolio companies where the firm has the highest conviction.

ZipRecruiter: $294.6 Million Debt Repurchase At $65 Million Discount Drives Major Balance-Sheet Reset

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

ZipRecruiter repurchased $294.6 million of senior unsecured notes during the second quarter of 2026 at a $65 million discount to par value, significantly reducing its debt burden while preserving liquidity as the employment marketplace increases its use of artificial intelligence.

Global Engine Group And Angkasa-X Partner On Space-to-AI Edge Infrastructure Platform In Malaysia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Global Engine Group Holding Limited (GLE) and Angkasa-X Holdings Corp. have entered into a strategic collaboration agreement to jointly advance a “Space-to-AI” digital infrastructure platform in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Accel Raises $3.5 Billion To Invest In Emerging Global AI Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Accel has raised $3.5 billion in new capital to invest in emerging technology companies around the world, expanding the venture capital firm's firepower as artificial intelligence continues to reshape the startup market, according to Bloomberg.

Google Gemini App Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users As Voice, Images, And Automation Drive Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Google's Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly users, with the company describing it as the fastest-growing product in Google's history. Google said the milestone reflects increasing use of Gemini across voice interactions, real-time visual assistance, education, content creation and automated tasks across third-party applications.

Grindr: AI-Native Overhaul Accelerates Edge Product Roadmap As Revenue Surges 33%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Grindr is moving toward what management calls an AI-native operating model as strong user engagement and operating leverage allow the company to accelerate its product roadmap, including development of next-generation offerings such as Edge.

Fastly: AI Traffic Grows 6.5x Faster Than Human Traffic As Skyfire Brings Agent Commerce To The Edge

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Fastly is positioning its edge cloud platform for a rapidly expanding machine-driven internet, with company research finding that AI traffic is growing 6.5 times faster than human traffic this year as Fastly builds infrastructure for AI agents and low-latency AI workloads.

Doximity: AI Search Queries Jump More Than 25% As Workflow Active Prescribers Grow Over 30%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Doximity is seeing accelerating adoption of its artificial intelligence and healthcare workflow tools, with AI Search queries increasing more than 25% quarter-over-quarter and workflow active prescribers growing more than 30% year-over-year during its fiscal first quarter of 2027.

Rapid7 Cuts 12% Of Workforce As It Shifts Resources Toward AI-First Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Rapid7 is reducing its workforce by approximately 12% as the cybersecurity company restructures around its core platform and increases investment in AI-powered security operations.

River AI Raises $1.1 Billion To Build Open AI Stack

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

River AI has raised $1.1 billion in funding led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC to build a full-stack artificial intelligence platform focused on open models, customization and personal AI. The round also included strategic investments from NVIDIA and AMD Ventures, with additional participation from Y Combinator and Temasek.

Feathery Launches AI-Powered Proposal Generation For Wealth Management Firms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Feathery has launched an AI-powered proposal generation solution designed to help wealth management firms create personalized client proposals at scale. The new capability brings together client data, financial planning documents, advisor expertise and firm-approved templates within a single AI workspace.

Auddia Clears SEC S-4 Milestone For Merger To Form McCarthy Finney

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Auddia has cleared a major regulatory milestone in its proposed merger with Thramann Holdings after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declared effective the company’s Form S-4 registration statement. The effectiveness moves the transaction into its final procedural phase.

OPAQUE: Interview With CEO Aaron Fulkerson About Confidential AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

OPAQUE develops Confidential AI infrastructure designed to let enterprises use sensitive data in AI workloads while enforcing policies during execution and producing verifiable evidence of what occurred. Pulse 2.0 interviewed OPAQUE CEO Aaron Fulkerson to learn more.

Oyster: Interview With CEO Hadi Moussa About Building An AI-Native Global Employment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Oyster is a global employment platform that helps companies build distributed teams across more than 180 countries without establishing local legal entities, handling compliant contracts, payroll, benefits, and ongoing compliance through a single platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Oyster CEO Hadi Moussa to learn more.

Translated: Interview With Co-Founder Marco Trombetti About AI-Powered Translation Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Translated combines proprietary AI technology with a network of more than 400,000 professional translators to deliver translation services across more than 200 languages. Its technologies include TranslationOS, Lara, ModernMT, T-Rank, Matecat, MateSub, and MateDub. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Translated Co-Founder Marco Trombetti to learn more.

monday.com: AI Product ARR Doubles And Reaches 17% Of Net New ARR As $500,000+ Customers Jump 68%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

monday.com's artificial intelligence products are becoming a meaningful contributor to growth, with AI product annual recurring revenue doubling sequentially during Q2 2026 and representing 17% of the company's total net new ARR.

Pasqal Demonstrates Photonic Chip-Based Atom Trapping To Advance Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Pasqal has demonstrated what it believes is the first trapping of individual atoms using laser light generated by a photonic integrated circuit, marking a potential step toward more scalable neutral-atom quantum computers.

NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs And KKR To Mobilize Over $500 Billion For AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Nvidia is working with a group of major financial firms on a potential $500 billion financing package aimed at supporting the massive infrastructure buildout required for artificial intelligence, according to sources with FT.

Clarecast: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Bradley Taylor About Predictive Workforce Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Clarecast is an agentic AI platform that delivers predictive intelligence across people, customers, markets, and prospects, helping organizations gain forward-looking insight for planning and growth. Built on Databricks from Day 1, the platform continuously scores more than 18 million companies across growth, hiring, and market signals and has achieved 80%+ headcount forecast accuracy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Clarecast CEO and Co-Founder Bradley Taylor to learn more.

Kalshi Adopts Nasdaq Market Surveillance To Strengthen Prediction Market Oversight

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Kalshi has entered into a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq Market Surveillance to enhance monitoring and oversight of trading activity across its markets. The agreement is part of Kalshi’s broader market oversight strategy and will complement the exchange’s existing surveillance framework.

NextSlide Team Joins OpenAI To Help Build ChatGPT

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

NextSlide, an AI presentation creation startup founded by Ahmed Beshry, is joining OpenAI, with the company’s team now working on ChatGPT.

Malachyte: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Sidd Motwani About Behavior Intelligence For E-Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Malachyte provides behavior intelligence infrastructure for e-commerce, creating continuously updated shopper profiles from real-time activity to power search, recommendations, and product pages. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Malachyte Co-Founder and CEO Sidd Motwani to learn more.

RevealDx Secures $3.4 Million Investment From 4DMedical And Signs Global Distribution Agreement For RevealAI-Lung

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 9, 2026

RevealDx has entered into a distribution agreement with 4DMedical and received a $3.4 million strategic investment from the medical technology company to expand access to RevealAI-Lung, its AI-powered lung nodule characterization software.

SoftBank: U.S. Power And Data Center Investment Reaches ¥969 Billion As AI Infrastructure Buildout Accelerates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 9, 2026

SoftBank Group is dramatically expanding its U.S. infrastructure footprint, spending approximately ¥968.9 billion during the first quarter of fiscal 2026 on assets related to power generation and data centers as the company builds the physical infrastructure required for its broader artificial intelligence strategy.