Artificial Intelligence

micro1 Commits $1 Billion To License Enterprise AI Training Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

micro1 announced plans to spend $1 billion over the next 12 months acquiring and licensing enterprise operational data for artificial intelligence training.

PLACE To Acquire Ardley To Expand Mortgage Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

PLACE agreed to acquire Ardley, an AI-powered mortgage recapture and retention technology company.

MIT Researchers Develop InstructMesh To Repair AI-Generated 3D Models Before Fabrication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

Researchers from MIT, Google, and Northeastern University developed InstructMesh, an AI-powered design system that enables users to generate, edit, repair, and fabricate 3D models using natural-language instructions.

Nebius Acquires Inferize To Expand Token Factory Inference Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

Nebius acquired Inferize, an inference optimization company whose technology is designed to reduce the time required to launch and scale large AI models. Inferize's technology and engineering team have joined Nebius Token Factory, the company's managed inference platform for production AI workloads.

Alight Acquires Abett To Expand Benefits Data Intelligence Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

Alight acquired Abett, a healthcare and benefits data technology company, to expand its benefits intelligence capabilities. Abett provides data infrastructure used by Fortune 500 employers and their benefits vendors.

CU Denver Opens AI Hub To Expand Hands-On Artificial Intelligence Education

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

The University of Colorado Denver opened a new Artificial Intelligence Hub designed to give students across disciplines hands-on experience using and evaluating AI technologies. The AI Hub opened October 7 in CU Denver's North Classroom.

University Of Missouri And Google Public Sector Partner To Expand AI Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

The University of Missouri is collaborating with Google Public Sector to expand access to artificial intelligence infrastructure, training, technical expertise, and high-performance computing for researchers across the University of Missouri System.

TypeSafe Raises $870 Million Series A At $7.5 Billion Valuation To Expand Jev’s Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

TypeSafe raised $870 million in Series A financing at a $7.5 billion valuation, with Andreessen Horowitz leading the round. Sequoia Capital also participated alongside existing investor DCVC and a group of angel investors, giving the company substantial new capital to accelerate development of Jev, its platform for building intelligent software.

Georgia Tech And Emory Invest More Than $1 Billion In Artificial Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

Georgia Tech and Emory University are collectively investing more than $1 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure, research, talent, and applications as part of an effort to establish Atlanta as a leading U.S. AI hub.

TSMC Q3 Revenue Jumps 50% To Record $46.7 Billion On AI Demand

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 11, 2026

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported record third-quarter revenue of T$1.49 trillion ($46.71 billion), topping market expectations as demand for artificial intelligence chips continued to drive growth, according to Reuters.

OpenAI Shares New AI-Generated Results Across Mathematics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 9, 2026

OpenAI published a new collection of mathematical results produced by an internal frontier AI model, offering a closer look at how advanced AI systems may contribute to mathematical research and scientific discovery.

Salvo: Interview With CEO Jacob Arbeid About AI Cybersecurity And Agentic Adversary Simulation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Salvo is a nonprofit focused on understanding and reducing security risks created by increasingly capable AI systems. Its work includes agentic adversary simulation, where human-supervised AI agents test real business networks for vulnerabilities, along with research and data collection around AI-assisted hacking incidents. The organization is particularly focused on critical infrastructure, governments, and smaller organizations that may lack the resources of large enterprises. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Salvo CEO Jacob Arbeid to learn more about his background in AI security, the origins of Salvo, and why he believes autonomous AI could fundamentally change the scale of cyberattacks.

OneSpan Expands OneSpan Sign Beyond eSignature With AI, Identity Verification, And Agentic Workflow Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

OneSpan announced the next evolution of its Digital Agreements portfolio, expanding OneSpan Sign beyond electronic signatures with new and planned capabilities designed to improve agreement preparation, identity verification, document assurance, and downstream business workflows.

eFormed Ventures Acquires Outdoor Life To Build AI-Powered Outdoor Marketplace

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

eFormed Ventures acquired Outdoor Life from Recurrent Ventures, combining the 130-year-old outdoor media brand with a new AI-powered commerce and marketplace platform.

Centrical: Interview With Founder And CEO Gal Rimon About Workforce Orchestration System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Centrical is the AI Orchestration System for the hybrid frontline, where people and AI agents play as one team. Across sales, service, and operations, Centrical turns business goals into adaptive performance programs, building and running the KPIs, learning, coaching, simulations, and challenges needed to turn strategy into frontline behavior. The system connects these in one continuous loop, adjusting as performance and behavior change so organizations move from strategy to execution faster, while people remain in control of the decisions and judgment that matter. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Centrical Founder and CEO Gal Rimon to learn more about the company’s origins, its approach to frontline performance, and how agentic AI is changing workforce management.

Automation Anywhere To Acquire Boost.ai To Expand Conversational And Voice AI Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Automation Anywhere entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Boost.ai from Nordic Capital, expanding its agentic automation platform into customer-facing conversational and voice AI.

Spellbook: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Scott Stevenson About Legal AI, M&A And $100 Million ARR Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Spellbook is the leading AI infrastructure for contract workflows that is deeply integrated into Microsoft Word and Google Docs and supports contract drafting, review, negotiation, and transactional workflows, saving teams upwards of 84% on contract reviews or a full day per week on average. The company launched the first generative AI tool for lawyers in 2022 and now serves more than 5,000 in-house teams and law firms across 80 countries. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Spellbook Co-Founder and CEO Scott Stevenson to learn more about the company's growth, its $40 million debt financing from RBCx, acquisition strategy, legal AI market consolidation, and plans to reach $100 million in annual recurring revenue.

Backbase Launches Conversational Banking To Bring Agentic AI To Bank Customer Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 8, 2026

Backbase has launched Conversational Banking in general availability, an agentic AI offering that lets bank customers and employees use natural-language conversations to initiate and complete banking tasks while operating within institution-defined permissions, policies, and approval requirements.