Artificial Intelligence

Omniscient Raises $27.2 Million Series D To Advance AI-Powered Brain Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2026

Omniscient, a company specializing in AI-driven brain analysis technology, announced that it has secured $27.2 million (AU$41.1 million) in an oversubscribed Series D funding round. The financing was co-led by OIF Ventures and the Australian National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC), with participation from existing investors including Will Vicars and Gina Rinehart AO.

Mecka Raises $60 Million To Build The Data And Deployment Layer For Physical AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2026

Mecka announced that it has raised $60 million in funding as it looks to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI. The company said the new capital will be used to scale its data infrastructure, expand into new industry verticals, and accelerate the deployment of robots in real-world environments.

Jump Partners With Equitable Advisors To Deploy AI-Powered Advisor Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2026

Jump announced a partnership with Equitable Advisors that makes Jump the firm's AI operating system, placing intelligent automation at the center of how advisors prepare for meetings, document client interactions, and manage follow-up activities at scale.

Zocks Forms AI Partnership With Hightower To Power Wealth Management Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 2, 2026

Zocks, a privacy-first AI assistant for financial services, announced an exclusive partnership with Hightower, a national wealth management firm, making Zocks the sole AI assistant offered to Hightower financial advisors.

OpenAI: Jason Boehmig Joins To Lead Product For Legal Vertical

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Jason Boehmig announced that he has joined OpenAI to lead product for the legal vertical, marking a new chapter after spending more than a decade building contract lifecycle management company Ironclad.

NextFour.ai: Interview With Co-Founder & Co-CEO Samir Kothari About The AI-Based College Admissions Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

NextFour.ai is an online platform that provides students and families with data-driven insights and AI-powered tools to navigate the college admissions process, offering analytics on application strategies, extracurricular activities, and college selections. Pulse 2.0 interviewed NextFour.ai co-founder and co-CEO Samir Kothari to learn more.

Gradient Labs Raises $26 Million To Build Specialist AI Agents For Financial Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Gradient Labs announced that it has increased its Series A funding round to $26 million, with the round led by new investors Octopus Ventures and CommerzVentures. Existing investors Redpoint Ventures and Exceptional Capital also participated in the financing.

SoftBank Group: Up To €75 Billion Investment To Build 5 GW Of AI Data Center Capacity In France

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

SoftBank Group announced plans to develop and operate 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France through an investment of up to €75 billion, marking what the company described as its largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe. The initiative was unveiled during the 2026 Choose France summit hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Anthropic Files For IPO As AI Giant Nears $1 Trillion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Anthropic has confidentially filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO), marking a major milestone for one of the world's most valuable artificial intelligence companies.

Dyna Software: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Ron Browning About ServiceNow Platform Governance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Dyna Software builds artificial intelligence and continuous governance solutions for the ServiceNow platform, helping enterprises manage platform complexity, minimize technical debt, and automate IT infrastructure configurations. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Dyna Software co-founder and CEO Ron Browning to learn more.

Tripo AI Raises Nearly $200 Million To Advance AI 3D And World Model Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Tripo AI announced the completion of its Series A+ and Series A++ financing rounds, raising nearly $200 million to accelerate the development of its AI 3D foundation models and world model technologies. The company said the funding will support expansion of its research teams, investment in core algorithms, enhancement of data and infrastructure systems, and growth of its global product ecosystem.

NVIDIA And Microsoft Unveil RTX Spark, A 1-Petaflop AI PC Platform For Personal Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Qualcomm: Agentic AI And Dragonfly Data Center Push Highlighted At Computex 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

During his opening keynote at the Computex 2026 conference, Cristiano Amon declared 2026 the “Year of the Agent,” outlining a future in which artificial intelligence moves beyond responding to prompts and increasingly takes action through intelligent agents operating across smartphones, PCs, vehicles, robots, industrial systems, and cloud infrastructure.

CoreWeave Completes Industry-First Bring-Up And Validation Of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

CoreWeave announced that it has become the first AI cloud provider to bring up and fully validate NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 on its cloud platform, marking a significant milestone in the deployment of NVIDIA’s next-generation AI infrastructure. The achievement extends CoreWeave’s support for NVIDIA hardware and includes rigorous system-level validation of the entire rack-scale architecture.

D-Wave Quantum: New Gate-Model Roadmap Targets 100 Logical Qubits And Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing By 2032

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

D-Wave Quantum Inc. announced a new gate-model quantum computing roadmap aimed at advancing commercial fault-tolerant quantum computing. The company said its plan targets a 100-logical-qubit system capable of successfully performing more than one million operations by 2032, leveraging its superconducting dual-rail architecture and quantum error correction technologies.

TheyDo: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Jochem van der Veer About The Journey Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Crimson Raises $2.5 Million Seed Round To Expand AI-Powered Case Intelligence Platform For Litigation Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Crimson, an AI-native case intelligence platform built specifically for litigation and arbitration teams, has raised an oversubscribed $2.5 million seed round and opened a new office in New York as it accelerates its expansion across the U.S. legal market.

Kopa.ai Raises €2 Million In Pre-Seed Funding To Advance AI-Powered E-Commerce Marketing And Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Kopa.ai has announced the successful completion of a €2 million pre-seed funding round, providing the company with additional resources to accelerate the development of its AI-driven platform for e-commerce marketing and operations. The funding marks a significant early milestone for the startup as it looks to help online businesses leverage artificial intelligence to improve efficiency, automate workflows, and drive growth.

Samsung Electronics: Industry-First HBM4E Samples Shipped To Advance AI Memory Performance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Samsung Electronics announced that it has begun shipping what it describes as the industry’s first 12-layer HBM4E (High Bandwidth Memory 4E) samples to major global customers, expanding its next-generation AI memory portfolio and strengthening its position in the rapidly growing AI infrastructure market.

EQT And Google Cloud Partner To Accelerate AI Adoption Across 300+ Portfolio Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 1, 2026

Global private markets firm EQT and Google Cloud announced a new partnership designed to accelerate artificial intelligence adoption across more than 300 EQT portfolio companies worldwide.

Asana Acquires StackAI To Expand Cross-System AI Workflow Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2026

Asana announced that it has completed the acquisition of StackAI, a no-code AI workflow platform that enables organizations to design, test, deploy, and govern custom AI agents and intelligent automation for business-critical workflows.

Mitsubishi Chemical And Accenture Establish AI-Based Joint Venture To Transform Corporate Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2026

Mitsubishi Chemical and Accenture announced the formation of a joint venture, RIX Business Partners Corporation, designed to accelerate AI-enabled business reinvention and operational transformation across Mitsubishi Chemical’s corporate functions.

Utilidata Raises $40 Million Extension To Complete $100 Million Series C

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2026

Utilidata, a leader in embedded AI for power infrastructure, announced that it has secured an additional $40 million in Series C funding, completing a $100 million Series C round. The extension was led by existing investor Renown Capital Partners with participation from Keyframe Capital. The financing follows Utilidata’s initial $60.3 million Series C round announced in April 2025, which also included participation from Keyframe Capital, Quanta Services, and NVIDIA.

Geordie AI: $30 Million Series A Raised To Help Enterprises Govern Autonomous AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 31, 2026

Geordie AI announced it has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors General Catalyst and Ten Eleven Ventures, as well as new investor Crosspoint Capital.

Eleveight AI: $120 Million Invested In Armenia’s First Blackwell-Powered AI Factory

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 30, 2026

Eleveight AI announced the launch of a GPU-native AI Factory in Gagarin, Armenia, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell B300 GPUs. The facility is the first deployment of NVIDIA’s Blackwell B300 architecture in Armenia and the South Caucasus, representing an investment of up to $120 million in its first phase and positioning the region as an emerging hub for global AI infrastructure.

Opto Investments: AI Venture Fund Closes To Back Next Generation Infrastructure And Applied AI Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 30, 2026

Opto Investments announced the close of its AI-focused venture fund, a multi-strategy vehicle designed to provide registered investment advisors (RIAs) and family offices with exposure to private companies developing foundational technologies and real-world applications across the artificial intelligence ecosystem.

FMG: AI-Based Marketing Intelligence System Launched To Better Serve 80,000+ Advisors And Insurance Professionals

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2026

FMG, a marketing technology platform serving the wealth management and insurance industries, announced the launch of its Marketing Intelligence System, an internal AI-powered platform designed to help its teams access approved sales materials, customer proof points, product information, campaign assets, and institutional knowledge through natural-language search and AI-assisted retrieval.

Orbital Industries: $50 Million Series B Raised To Scale AI Engine For The Physical Economy And Data Centre Hardware

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2026

Orbital Industries, an AI-powered industrial technology company focused on building physical infrastructure for the AI era, announced it has raised $50 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Plural, with participation from existing and previous investors NVentures (NVIDIA), Radical Ventures, Compound, and Fly Ventures.

Airis Labs: $31 Million Series A Closed As Defense AI Company Emerges From Stealth

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2026

Airis Labs announced its emergence from stealth with $60 million in total funding, including a $31 million Series B round led by PSG Equity. Existing investors TLV Partners, Stepstone Group, Redseed Ventures, and angel investors Eyal Waldman, Jeff Horing, Yasmin Lukatz, and David Chinn also participated in the financing.

Greenhouse: Acquisition Of Ezra AI Labs To Bring Conversational AI To Hiring

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2026

Greenhouse, a hiring platform used by more than 7,500 companies, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ezra AI Labs, a voice AI interviewing company focused on structured, on-demand candidate conversations. The acquisition is expected to close this quarter, subject to customary closing conditions.