Artificial Intelligence

Qualified, from Salesforce: Interview With CMO Maura Rivera About The Agentic Marketing And Conversational Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2026

Qualified, from Salesforce, is an agentic marketing and conversational platform that uses an AI Sales Development Representative (SDR) agent named "Piper" to help B2B companies identify high-intent website visitors and generate a sales pipeline in real-time. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Qualified CMO Maura Rivera to learn more.

Pax: $40 Million Seed Raised After Cutting Crime 27% Across Brazilian Cities

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 29, 2026

Pax, an AI-native public safety technology company, announced a $40 million seed funding round co-led by Greenoaks and Benchmark. The financing is one of the largest seed investments in Latin America and will support the company's expansion of its real-time intelligence platform for law enforcement agencies across the region.

Anthropic: $965 Billion Valuation Following $65 Billion Series H Funding And Claude Opus 4.8 Launch

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Anthropic announced two major milestones today, raising $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation and launching Claude Opus 4.8, the latest version of its flagship AI model. Together, the announcements underscore the company’s accelerating enterprise adoption, growing infrastructure footprint, and continued investment in advancing AI capabilities and safety.

Anthropic Opens Milan Office To Support Italian Enterprise, Research, And Developers

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Anthropic announced the opening of a new office in Milan, marking its sixth European location alongside offices in London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich, and Munich. The expansion is designed to support Italian enterprises, researchers, and developers as they build and scale applications with Claude while promoting responsible AI adoption.

Cypher AI: $2 Million Seed Raised To Build AI-Native Infrastructure For Life Science R&D

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Cypher AI, a company building AI-native digital infrastructure for life science research and development, announced it has raised $2 million in seed funding led by MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Epsilon Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Sparta Group, and LiquidMetal Ventures.

RevEng.AI: $15 Million Raised To Verify The Security And Integrity Of AI-Generated Software

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

RevEng.AI, a cybersecurity company building a binary-native verification layer for the software supply chain, announced it raised $15 million in Series A funding. The round was led by NATO Innovation Fund with participation from Sands Capital, In-Q-Tel, IQ Capital, and Episode One.

Triomics: $22 Million Raised To Scale AI Infrastructure For Oncology Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Triomics, an oncology AI company helping cancer centers operationalize complex clinical information, announced it has raised $22 million in Series B financing led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator, alongside strategic backers Oncology Ventures and Precision Health Informatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Texas Oncology. The round brings the company’s total funding raised to more than $36 million.

Rep AI: $6.2 Million Raised To Advance AI Platform For Ecommerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Rep AI announced it has raised $6.2 million in strategic follow-on funding to advance its AI platform for ecommerce brands and online retailers. The funding round was led by Silicon Road Ventures, with participation from Osage Venture Partners, Flashpoint Venture Capital, and strategic investor Zendesk.

Saris: $28.8 Million Raised To Scale Agentic Workflow Automation For Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Saris, an AI-powered workflow automation platform built for banks and credit unions, announced it has raised $28.8 million in Series A funding. The round was led by 8VC, with participation from Audacious Ventures, Homebrew, Btech Consortium, and Service Ventures.

NavigateAI: $25 Million Raised To Build AI Copilot For The Physical World

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

NavigateAI officially launched with $25 million in seed funding to build AI copilots for field workers, aiming to improve how physical spaces are built and maintained. The company was founded by former Eric Wu co-founder Eric Wu and is focused on helping reskill and upskill workers across the trillion-dollar trades economy.

OpenAI: Colin Fleming Joins As Chief Marketing Officer, Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Colin Fleming announced that he is joining OpenAI as Chief Marketing Officer, Business, following what he described as “the most meaningful chapter” of his career at ServiceNow.

Perceptic: $12 Million Raised For AI Operating System For Drug Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Perceptic, an AI-first operating system for biopharma, officially emerged from stealth and announced $12 million in funding backed by investors including Accel, Air Street Capital, and Elder Gull, as reported by Fortune.

TIFIN Australia: AI Wealth Platform Launches To Expand Financial Advisory Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

TIFIN.AI announced the launch of TIFIN Australia, marking a major step in the company’s international expansion strategy and its mission to use artificial intelligence to improve financial outcomes globally.

CoreWeave: Unified Agentic AI Capabilities Enable Continuous Autonomous Improvement

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

CoreWeave announced the launch of unified agentic AI capabilities designed to help enterprises deploy AI agents directly into production and continuously improve them using real-world operational data. The new capabilities integrate serverless reinforcement learning, production inference, observability, and autonomous optimization into a closed-loop system designed to improve reliability and reduce the operational burden of scaling enterprise AI agents.

Living Security: Interview With Founder & CEO Ashley Rose About The Human Risk Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Living Security is a Human Risk Management (HRM) platform that reduces cybersecurity threats by analyzing workforce behavioral data, conducting tailored, engaging training, and providing actionable, AI-driven insights to proactively mitigate risk. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Living Security founder and CEO Ashley Rose to learn more.

Robinhood Launches Agentic Trading And AI Credit Card

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2026

Robinhood announced the launch of Agentic Trading and the Agentic Credit Card, introducing AI-powered tools that allow customers to connect third-party AI agents directly to the company’s platform for autonomous trading and spending. The launch marks Robinhood’s expansion into what it describes as “agentic finance,” enabling customers to automate investing strategies and credit card purchases while maintaining oversight through built-in safety controls.

SpaceX: Grok Reaches 117 Million Users As AI Push Accelerates

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2026

SpaceX revealed in its IPO filing that Grok had reached approximately 117 million monthly active users as of March 2026, underscoring the rapid growth of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence ambitions through xAI and its integration with X.

Qualcomm And HUMAIN Developing AI Data Centers And Cloud-To-Edge Hybrid AI Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2026

Qualcomm and HUMAIN announced a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on next-generation AI data centers, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, and hybrid AI services in Saudi Arabia and global markets. The agreement was signed during the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh during the visit of U.S. President Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia.

KPMG: Trusted AI Centre Of Excellence Launched In Singapore

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2026

KPMG has launched a Trusted Artificial Intelligence Centre of Excellence (AI CoE) in Singapore, supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board, as the professional services firm looks to help organizations scale AI adoption with stronger governance, trust, and regulatory readiness.

Pace: $46 Million Series B Raised For AI Insurance Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 27, 2026

Pace, an AI operations partner for insurers, announced it has raised $46 million in Series B funding. The round was co-led by Thrive Capital and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Emergence Capital and Pruven Capital.

OpenRouter: $113 Million Raised For AI Model Exchange Platform As Weekly Volume Reaches 25 Trillion Tokens

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 26, 2026

OpenRouter announced it has raised $113 million in Series B funding, led by CapitalG, with participation from NVentures, ServiceNow Ventures, MongoDB Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures.

Stord: $250 Million Series F Raised At $3 Billion Valuation To Advance Physical Intelligence Layer For Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 26, 2026

Stord announced a $250 million Series F funding round at a $3 billion valuation as the company accelerates its investment in AI, robotics, and fulfillment infrastructure for commerce brands. The round was led by existing investors and included participation from Strike Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton, Baillie Gifford, G Squared, Bond, and Lux, among others.

Stilta Closes $10.5 Million For Agentic AI Patent Litigation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Stilta, an AI company focused on patent litigation and intelligence, announced $10.5 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Y Combinator and founders and operators from leading AI companies including Sana, Legora, OpenAI, Lovable, and Listen Labs.

OpenAI Signs Strategic Content Partnership With Grupo Folha And Grupo UOL In Brazil

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

OpenAI announced a strategic content partnership with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL, marking the company’s first media partnership in Brazil. Through the agreement, journalism from Folha de S.Paulo and UOL will now be integrated into ChatGPT, allowing more than 900 million weekly active ChatGPT users globally to access summaries and content based on reporting from the Brazilian media organizations.

Anthropic Reportedly Raising Over $30 Billion At $900+ Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Anthropic is reportedly preparing to close a massive new funding round that could exceed $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, which could close as soon as next week, would position Anthropic ahead of OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup.

D-Wave Quantum: $100 Million CHIPS Act Funding Proposal To Advance U.S. Quantum Computing Leadership

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

D-Wave Quantum announced that it signed a Letter of Intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $100 million in proposed funding under the CHIPS and Science Act, a move designed to accelerate the company’s superconducting annealing and gate-model quantum computing development efforts.

Polsia: $30 Million At $250 Million Valuation Raised For AI Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Polsia announced it raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation as the company advances its vision to enable AI agents to run large portions of business operations autonomously.

McKinsey: AppliedAI Collaboration Aims To Rapidly Rewire Regulated Enterprise Processes With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

AppliedAI and McKinsey & Company announced a collaboration to help regulated enterprises transform mid and back-office operations using agentic AI. The partnership combines McKinsey’s transformation and change management expertise, including its QuantumBlack division, with AppliedAI’s Opus platform, an Agentic Process Execution (APX) system designed to build, run, optimize, and govern AI-powered enterprise workflows.

Sonar Acquires Gitar To Expand AI Code Verification Platform With AI Code Review

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Sonar announced it has acquired Gitar, an AI-native code review platform, expanding Sonar’s code verification platform to include AI-powered code review capabilities. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Fractional AI: Anthropic-Led AI Services Venture Acquires Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Anthropic, alongside Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and a consortium of major investment firms, announced that its newly formed AI-native enterprise services company has acquired AI implementation startup Fractional AI. The deal is designed to accelerate enterprise adoption of Anthropic’s Claude models among mid-sized businesses.