Artificial Intelligence

Robinhood Unveils AI Agents, 24/7 Stock Trading, Perpetual Futures, And Earnings Contracts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 30, 2026

Robinhood Markets unveiled a broad lineup of new products at HOOD Summit 2026, including embedded AI trading agents, plans for 24/7 U.S. equity trading, perpetual crypto futures, company-specific earnings contracts, higher intraday margin, and expanded tools for active traders.

MD Anderson AI Model Predicts Immunotherapy-Related Lung Inflammation From Routine CT Scans

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed an artificial intelligence model that can identify lung cancer patients at increased risk of developing immunotherapy-induced pneumonitis before treatment begins, potentially giving clinicians an opportunity to monitor high-risk patients more closely or intervene before serious complications develop.

Infinite Uptime And Tech Mahindra Partner To Scale Physical AI In Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

Infinite Uptime and Tech Mahindra have formed a partnership to expand the deployment of Physical AI across manufacturing and process industries, combining Infinite Uptime's industrial intelligence technology with Tech Mahindra's manufacturing transformation capabilities.

EliseAI Raises $350 Million At $4 Billion Valuation To Expand AI Across Housing And Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

EliseAI has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from its previous funding round in August 2025 as the company expands its vertical AI platform across the housing and healthcare industries. The financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Sapphire Ventures, and Navitas Capital.

Anthropic: IPO Could Value AI Company Above $2 Trillion As Costs Surge

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

Anthropic is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the AI company at more than $2 trillion, even as its prospectus shows rapidly rising infrastructure spending and widening losses, according to Reuters. The filing lays out Anthropic's expectation that artificial intelligence could reshape the global economy while also illustrating the extraordinary capital required to compete at the frontier of AI.

Investor Pointe Appoints Juan Manrique As Chief Innovation Officer As Agentic AI Expands In Private Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

Investor Pointe has appointed Juan Manrique as Chief Innovation Officer, adding a technology entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience across technology, data, product, and marketing as the private markets technology provider expands its use of agentic AI.

General Compute Selects Cerebras For Multi-Year Ultra-Fast AI Inference Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

General Compute has entered into a multi-year agreement with Cerebras Systems to deploy Cerebras' ultra-fast AI inference technology at scale, initially targeting agentic coding and autonomous software development workloads.

DeepInfra Surpasses $100 Million ARR And 22 Trillion Tokens Per Week

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

DeepInfra has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, reflecting rapidly growing demand for the infrastructure that runs artificial intelligence applications at production scale. The company said revenue has increased by more than 900% since the beginning of 2026, while its infrastructure is now processing 22 trillion tokens per week, more than triple its volume in May.

OpenAI Unveils Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, $500 Pro Tier, And New Enterprise AI Tools

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

OpenAI has announced a broad expansion of its AI product lineup, introducing Dots, a new class of always-on personal AI agents, the GPT-6.1 Sol model, new ChatGPT collaboration capabilities, an upgraded Codex Security Cloud, and a $500-per-month ChatGPT Pro 500 tier that includes Astra Ultrafast.

Domino Data Lab And EPAM Partner To Accelerate AI Adoption In Life Sciences

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

Domino Data Lab and EPAM Systems have formed a strategic partnership focused on helping pharmaceutical and life sciences companies move artificial intelligence projects from experimental environments into validated production. The collaboration combines Domino's enterprise AI platform with EPAM's engineering and life sciences expertise to help customers deploy GxP-validated AI models and governed analytics across research and development.

Bolt.new Acquires Dokai In First Deal To Expand Enterprise AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

Bolt.new has completed its first acquisition, buying San Francisco-based AI startup Dokai as the StackBlitz-owned software development platform expands its enterprise business and strengthens its capabilities around autonomous AI agents.

NewtonX Launches AI-Powered B2B Research Platform Combining Primary And Synthetic Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

NewtonX has launched the next generation of NewtonX Hub, a self-service B2B research intelligence platform that combines primary research, synthetic personas, AI-powered analysis, visualization, and reporting in a single workflow.

Lumivero Launches NVivo AI Cloud With AURA For Auditable Qualitative Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 29, 2026

Lumivero has launched NVivo AI Cloud, an AI-native qualitative data analysis platform powered by AURA, the company’s AI-powered Unified Research Assistant, designed to help researchers use generative AI while maintaining traceability, researcher oversight, and an auditable analytical record.

Polyfork Wins $500,000 Build With Gemini XPRIZE After Building AI-Powered 3D Model Business In 90 Days

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2026

Polyfork, an AI-powered 3D modeling business founded by Lucas Martinic, won first place in the Build with Gemini XPRIZE, earning the competition's $500,000 grand prize after building a revenue-generating company in 90 days.

Seligman Ventures Doubles Deployable Capital To $1 Billion As AI Infrastructure Investment Activity Accelerates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2026

Seligman Ventures has doubled its deployable capital from $500 million to $1 billion less than a year after launching, giving the venture platform additional capacity to invest across AI infrastructure, modern data center hardware, and cybersecurity.

PADO AI: Interview With Founder And CEO Wannie Park About Data Center Energy Orchestration And AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2026

PADO AI is an intelligent energy orchestration platform designed to help data centers maximize compute and productivity through real-time management of cooling, compute, power, storage, and grid resources. The company spun out of LG NOVA in May 2025 and operates independently while drawing on LG Electronics' infrastructure and global capabilities. Pulse 2.0 interviewed PADO AI Founder and CEO Wannie Park to learn more about data center energy management, AI infrastructure, grid flexibility, and the company's growth strategy.

Convos: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Tom Carroll About Conversational AI Texting

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2026

Convos is a conversational AI texting platform designed to help organizations communicate with large audiences through personalized, two-way conversations. Its AI agent is grounded in materials supplied by each organization and supports capabilities including large-scale conversational messaging, polling, inbound engagement, contact personalization, and analysis. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Convos CEO and Co-Founder Tom Carroll to learn more about the company’s origins, its conversational AI technology, and how it is approaching communication at scale.

Narmi Launches AI Marketplace For Community Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2026

Narmi has launched the Narmi AI Marketplace, a centralized platform designed to bring practical artificial intelligence capabilities directly into the workflows of community financial institutions. The marketplace combines Narmi's proprietary AI tools with an expanding ecosystem of technology partners, giving banks and credit unions a unified way to deploy AI while maintaining human oversight and a consistent security framework.

NVIDIA Increases Share Repurchase Authorization By $150 Billion To $235 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2026

NVIDIA has increased its existing share repurchase authorization by $150 billion, raising the company’s total remaining authorized repurchases to $235 billion. The company expects to execute the remaining program through fiscal year 2028.

IBM Supports NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform With Identity, Storage, And Hybrid Cloud Integrations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 28, 2026

IBM is supporting NVIDIA’s newly announced Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference system designed to strengthen security and governance for increasingly autonomous AI agents from testing through deployment.

Lightning AI Appoints Heather Paduck As CFO, Betty Junod As CMO, And Jarlath Doherty As Chief People Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 27, 2026

Lightning AI has expanded its executive leadership team with the appointments of Heather Paduck as Chief Financial Officer, Betty Junod as Chief Marketing Officer, and Jarlath Doherty as Chief People Officer. The three executives join the New York-based AI cloud company as it expands its infrastructure and software operations following its merger with Voltage Park earlier this year.

Endra Launches AI-Powered Electrical Engineering Platform And Acquires Planlabs Following $50 Million Series A

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 26, 2026

Endra, a Stockholm-based artificial intelligence company developing software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering, has launched Endra Power Studio, an AI-powered platform designed to automate electrical engineering workflows. The company also announced the acquisition of Planlabs, a Swiss AI company specializing in mechanical engineering, expanding its capabilities as it develops an integrated platform for building design.

Google Prepares Project Suncatcher Satellite Launch To Test AI Chips In Space

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2026

Google is preparing to launch its first prototype satellite under Project Suncatcher, a long-term research initiative exploring whether artificial intelligence computing infrastructure can operate in space. The mission will test how Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) perform in orbit, providing information that could eventually support the development of space-based AI data centers.

p°Motion Raises Series A To Expand AI-Powered Predictive Movement Health Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2026

p°Motion, a Los Angeles-based movement intelligence and predictive health technology company, has announced a Series A financing led by Cobalt Capital. The financing builds on support from a broader investor group that includes WME Group, Nimble Ventures, Canaan Ventures, Soul Ventures, and strategic investors connected to professional sports, technology, and institutional capital.

groundcover Acquires Wand To Expand AI-Powered Kubernetes Optimization And Autonomous Infrastructure Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2026

groundcover, a San Francisco-based observability platform, has acquired Wand, a Kubernetes resource optimization company, marking its first acquisition and expanding its technology beyond infrastructure monitoring into automated infrastructure management.

DataAgent: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Ishay Yaari About Autonomous Observability And Self-Healing Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2026

DataAgent is developing an AI-powered autonomous observability and remediation platform designed to help engineering teams move beyond monitoring infrastructure toward automatically resolving production incidents. Its technology operates alongside existing observability tools, processes data within customers' environments, and aims to reduce observability costs by up to 90%. Pulse 2.0 interviewed DataAgent Co-Founder and CEO Ishay Yaari to learn more about the company's origins, autonomous site reliability engineering, and its vision for self-healing digital infrastructure.

Akamai Announces $11.6 Billion Seven-Year Agreement With Anthropic For AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 25, 2026

Akamai Technologies has announced an $11.6 billion contractual commitment over seven years with Anthropic to support growing demand for CPU computing capacity. Anthropic will use Akamai Cloud’s distributed infrastructure and software to run AI workloads at scale.

Island Raises $400 Million Series F At $6.4 Billion Valuation To Expand Enterprise AI Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 24, 2026

Island, a Dallas-based enterprise cybersecurity company, has raised $400 million in Series F financing at a $6.4 billion valuation, more than doubling its valuation since 2024. The round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from existing and new investors, bringing Island's total funding to approximately $1 billion.

Raymond James Expands AWS Partnership To Accelerate AI-Powered Financial Advisor Insights

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 24, 2026

Raymond James Financial has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to strengthen its enterprise data and analytics infrastructure and accelerate the development of AI-powered tools for financial advisors. The initiative builds on more than a decade of investment in the firm's data capabilities and supports its broader technology strategy, which includes approximately $1.1 billion in annual technology spending.

AbbVie And Iambic Partner To Accelerate AI-Driven Drug Discovery In Immunology, Neuroscience And Oncology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 24, 2026

AbbVie and Iambic have entered into a multiyear collaboration to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery across immunology, neuroscience, and oncology. The partnership will combine Iambic's molecular superintelligence platform with AbbVie's drug discovery expertise to identify and develop small molecule therapies with first-in-class and best-in-class potential.