Artificial Intelligence

Kikoff: Interview With Founder And CEO Cynthia Chen About AI-Powered Credit Building And Financial Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Kikoff is a financial technology company focused on making credit building and financial progress more accessible. Its products include the Kikoff Credit Account, rent and bill reporting, credit monitoring, financial education, and AI-powered tools including Fynn, its AI Credit Coach, and AI Debt Negotiation. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kikoff Founder and CEO Cynthia Chen to learn more.

Cymphony Raises $30 Million To Build AI Agent Governance And Enterprise Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Cymphony has launched with $30 million in funding to develop an AI-native governance and security platform designed to give enterprises visibility and control over how employees and AI agents access sensitive data and critical systems. The financing was co-led by Sequoia Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. Cymphony is building its platform around the growing use of autonomous AI agents inside enterprises, where software increasingly interacts directly with company systems, sensitive information and business processes.

Mastercard Launches Agent Connect And Expands Agent Suite For Merchants To Support AI-Powered Shopping

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Mastercard has introduced Mastercard Agent Connect and expanded Mastercard Agent Suite for Merchants, giving businesses new tools to build AI-powered shopping experiences, make products discoverable across AI ecosystems and support consumer-authorized agentic transactions.

Vanderbilt Law School Partners With AltaClaro To Bring AI-Powered DepoSim Deposition Simulator To Students

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Vanderbilt Law School has partnered with AltaClaro to bring DepoSim, an AI-powered deposition simulation platform developed in collaboration with Verbit, to students beginning in the Fall 2026 semester.

UT Medical And TransformativeMed Partner On Agentic AI Discharge Planning

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

UT Medical and TransformativeMed have formed a development partnership to create an agentic AI-powered discharge planning solution intended to streamline one of the more complex workflows in acute care.

Google To Invest At Least €13 Billion ($15.13 Billion) In Finland AI And Data Center Infrastructure Through 2028

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Google plans to invest at least €13 billion ($15.13 billion) in digital and AI infrastructure across Finland during 2027 and 2028, representing what the company describes as its largest single investment in Europe.

Qualcomm And Amazon Expand Multi-Generational Collaboration For Customized AI Data Center Silicon

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2026

Qualcomm Technologies has announced a multi-generational collaboration with Amazon focused on customized silicon for large-scale AI data centers, as the companies expand their work across AI inference and advanced optical connectivity.

Endor Labs: Interview With CEO Varun Badhwar About AI-Native Application Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2026

Endor Labs provides an AI-native application security platform designed to help organizations understand software supply chain risk, prioritize vulnerabilities based on reachability, and secure increasingly AI-generated software without slowing development. The company is expanding across software composition analysis, AI SAST, security code review, and full-stack container reachability. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Endor Labs CEO Varun Badhwar to learn more.

Mistral Raises €3 Billion Series D At More Than €21 Billion Valuation Led By Samsung

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2026

Mistral has raised €3 billion in Series D funding at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, marking what the company described as the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company. Samsung Electronics led the round, with the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT and existing investor PSG Equity serving as co-leads.

GraniteShares Files For 2x Long And 2x Short Anthropic ETFs AIL And ANS

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 8, 2026

GraniteShares has filed for two proposed leveraged exchange-traded funds designed to provide 2x long and 2x short daily exposure to Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind Claude.

NHTSA Opens Investigation Into Tesla Cybercab Self-Certification Following Austin Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 6, 2026

The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Tesla's self-certification that its Cybercab complies with all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards following the commercial deployment of driverless Cybercab vehicles in Austin, Texas.

Accrual To Acquire Puzzle To Expand AI Platform Into Client Accounting Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 4, 2026

Accrual has agreed to acquire Puzzle's accounting-firm technology and business, including its AI-native ledger and month-end close products, in its first acquisition since launching in February 2026.