Artificial Intelligence

Opsin Raises $21 Million Led By SYN Ventures And Race Capital For AI Agent Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Opsin has raised $21 million in funding to expand its AI governance and security platform, which is designed to help enterprises detect, understand, and contain potentially dangerous behavior from autonomous AI agents. SYN Ventures and Race Capital led the financing. Opsin plans to use the capital to expand its platform as enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents that can independently access data, use software tools, and take action across business systems.

Adaptive: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Matt Barrett About Trading Technology And Aeron

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Adaptive develops trading technology for capital markets, including Aeron, its open-source technology for transmitting data with extremely low latency and high reliability, along with commercial products such as Aeron Sequencer and Aeron Exchange Accelerator. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Adaptive Co-Founder and CEO Matt Barrett to learn more about the company's origins, the evolution of its trading technology, Aeron, and its plans for the future.

Kyvos Insights: Interview With Senior Director Of Technology Pratik Jain About Semantic Layers And Enterprise AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Kyvos Insights provides a semantic layer for enterprise AI and business intelligence, giving AI systems consistent business context around data definitions, relationships, rules, and governance. The platform is also designed to improve the performance and economics of enterprise analytics as data volumes and AI workloads grow. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Kyvos Insights Senior Director of Technology Pratik Jain to learn more about making AI analytics reliable at scale, how semantic layers are evolving for AI agents and LLMs, and what enterprises should consider when building their AI data architecture.

Valory: Interview With COO Gemma Welsh About Olas And User-Owned Autonomous AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Valory is a core contributor to Olas, an ecosystem designed around user-owned autonomous AI agents. Through products including Pearl and the Mech Marketplace, Olas enables people to run, own, create, and interact with AI agents while maintaining control over their funds and data. The ecosystem has expanded from early decentralized agent infrastructure into consumer products and agent-to-agent economies, with 18.2 million lifetime agent transactions, including 13.2 million agent-to-agent transactions. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Valory COO Gemma Welsh to learn more about her background, the development of Olas, and the company's vision for user-owned AI.

Speria: Interview With Global President Pia Brantgärde Linder About Operational Intelligence, AI, And The Future Of Food Production

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 15, 2026

Speria is focused on applying technology, analytics, connected systems, and industry expertise to improve predictability across food production. The business brings together farm-level controllers, sensors, gateways, supply chain optimization, animal health intelligence software, and expert services to help producers turn fragmented operational data into earlier and more actionable insights. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pia Brantgärde Linder, Global President of Speria and Global Vice President of Munters, to learn more about the company's approach to operational intelligence, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and the future of livestock technology.

Legora And Sirion Partner To Connect Agentic Legal AI With Enterprise Contract Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

Legora and Sirion have formed a strategic partnership to connect Legora’s agentic legal AI platform with Sirion’s AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, giving enterprise legal teams a unified workflow spanning legal research and contract intelligence.

Riverlane: Collaboration With NVIDIA Accelerates Quantum Error Correction Calibration With AI And GPUs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

Riverlane and NVIDIA are collaborating on the use of artificial intelligence and accelerated computing to make quantum error correction calibration faster and more adaptive as quantum systems scale.

Backstory Appoints Shilpa Varma As CTO To Lead Enterprise AI Engineering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

Backstory has appointed Shilpa Varma as Chief Technology Officer, bringing in an experienced enterprise software and AI engineering leader as the company scales its revenue intelligence platform with enterprise customers.

ASML Reports Record €11.7 Billion In Q3 Sales As AI Demand Drives Capacity Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

ASML reported record third-quarter 2026 net sales of €11.7 billion as strong semiconductor equipment demand, particularly related to artificial intelligence investment, supported higher revenue, margins, and earnings. The company generated net income of €5.0 billion and a gross margin of 57.5%, with sales reaching the high end of its guidance.

CodeWall Raises $4 Million Pre-Seed Led By Osney Capital To Build Autonomous Attack Agents For Enterprise Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

CodeWall has emerged from stealth with $4 million in pre-seed funding to build autonomous attack agents designed to continuously test enterprise security from an attacker’s perspective. The financing was led by Osney Capital, with participation from InReach Ventures, Antler, and angel investors.

Emergent: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Mukund Jha About Vibe Coding, VibeCon, And AI-Powered Software Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

Emergent is an AI-powered development platform designed to help non-technical founders and business owners turn ideas into production-ready software using plain-language instructions. Its agents can plan, build, test, debug, and deploy full-stack web and mobile applications while abstracting away much of the underlying code, cloud infrastructure, and engineering complexity. The company also organizes VibeCon, an event where participants build working software over a weekend without needing a traditional coding background. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Emergent CEO and Co-Founder Mukund Jha to learn more about his background, the company's mission, VibeCon, and how AI is changing who can build software.

GlobalFoundries To Operate Two New York Semiconductor Fabs Under Up To $21 Billion U.S.-Japan Initiative

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 14, 2026

Pramata: Interview With CEO Praful Saklani About AI-Powered Contract Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Pramata is a contract intelligence company that helps enterprises organize, understand, and act on the information contained within their commercial relationships. The company has developed technologies including TrueDoc and AI TrueCheck to make complex contract data accessible and reliable for AI-powered workflows. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pramata CEO Praful Saklani to learn more about the company's evolution, contract intelligence, enterprise AI, and the growing role of AI agents in commercial relationships.

HCLTech And Anthropic Form Global Premier Partnership To Scale Governed Agentic AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

HCLTech and Anthropic formed a Global Premier Partnership to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic AI, with a focus on safety, cybersecurity, governance, and large-scale deployment of Claude technologies.

Anthropic Says New Defenses Cut Data Harvested Through AI Distillation Attacks By 90% To 99%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Anthropic said new anti-distillation defenses have reduced the amount of Claude reasoning data harvested by attackers by approximately 90% to 99%.

Microsoft To Expand Azure Maia AI Infrastructure To Multi-Gigawatt Deployments Starting In 2027

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Microsoft plans to scale its Azure Maia AI infrastructure to multi-gigawatt deployments beginning in 2027, positioning the Maia family as the company’s primary inference system across Microsoft products and services.

Ottimate: Interview With Shawn Lane About AI-Native Accounts Payable Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Ottimate is an AI-native accounts payable automation platform built for multi-location mid-market businesses that deal in physical goods, including restaurants, hotels, country clubs, grocery stores, senior living communities, and dental service organizations. The platform manages the invoice-to-payment lifecycle, using industry-specific AI to automate processing, improve financial visibility, and link supply costs to inventory and point-of-sale data. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Shawn Lane to learn more about Ottimate, its AI-powered accounts payable automation, and the company's plans to expand the platform.

Concentric AI: Interview With CTO, Chief Scientist, And Co-Founder Madhu Shashanka About Data Security Governance And AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Concentric AI develops data security governance technology that helps organizations discover, understand, govern, and protect sensitive data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS environments. Its platform uses proprietary AI and language models to understand data content and context rather than relying primarily on traditional pattern matching, and its Semantic DLP capabilities extend that intelligence to public AI applications, including shadow AI use. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Madhu Shashanka, Concentric AI Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, to learn more about the company's origins, its Semantic Intelligence technology, and how AI is reshaping data security.

Templafy: Interview With Chief Sales Officer And GM Of Americas Jean-Marc Chanoine About Agentic Document Generation And Enterprise AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Templafy is an agentic document generation platform used by more than 4 million users worldwide to help enterprises create accurate, compliant, and on-brand business documents. The platform combines artificial intelligence with patented rules-based automation, approved enterprise content, company knowledge, and business data to support the creation of proposals, contracts, presentations, reports, and other business-critical documents. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Templafy Chief Sales Officer and General Manager of the Americas Jean-Marc Chanoine to learn more about his background, the company's approach to enterprise AI and document automation, and why Templafy is positioning itself as a governance and control layer between AI models and finished business documents.