Artificial Intelligence

Medallia Completes Recapitalization And Secures $150 Million In New Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2026

Medallia has completed a recapitalization agreement with its lenders, significantly reducing its outstanding debt and securing $150 million in new capital.

SpaceX: AI Adjusted EBITDA Reaches $1.15 Billion As Starlink Subscribers Double To 12 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

SpaceX delivered rapid growth across its AI and Connectivity businesses during the second quarter of 2026, although the underlying results showed significant differences between adjusted profitability, reported operating income, subscriber expansion, and revenue per customer.

SpaceX Partners With NVIDIA To Develop Starmind AI1 Satellite Compute Payload

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

SpaceX is partnering with NVIDIA to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload, an orbital computing system intended to bring data center-class artificial intelligence processing capabilities into space. Each Starmind satellite will include NVIDIA Rubin graphics processing units and Vera central processing units.

Pie Secures Investment From Amex Ventures To Expand AI-Powered Small Business Growth Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Pie has secured an investment from Amex Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of American Express, to accelerate the expansion of its AI-powered growth platform for small businesses. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

LexisNexis Opens Customer Innovation Lab To Accelerate Legal AI Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

LexisNexis Legal & Professional has opened a Customer Innovation Lab in New York City to bring legal professionals, engineers and technology collaborators together to develop and test new legal artificial intelligence capabilities.

Tricentis Acquires Tabnine To Expand Agentic Quality Engineering Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Tricentis has acquired Tabnine, an enterprise AI coding platform focused on secure and context-aware software development. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Decade Raises Record $85 Million Seed Round To Build AI Wealth Advisory Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Decade has emerged from stealth with $85 million in seed funding to develop an AI-native wealth advisory business in Brazil. The round was backed by Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion. Decade described the financing as the largest seed round raised by a Latin American startup.

WitnessAI: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Rick Caccia About The Security And Governance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

WitnessAI has built a unified platform to observe, control, and protect all AI activity, including employees, models, applications, and agents so that enterprises can accelerate innovation without hesitation. Pulse 2.0 interviewed WitnessAI co-founder and CEO Rick Caccia to learn more.

Wirestock: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Mikayel Khachatryan About Multimodal AI Training Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Wirestock provides an advanced multimodal visual training data platform for AI research and development teams. The company produces rights-cleared datasets across the model training pipeline while connecting photographers, videographers, designers, illustrators, and other creators with paid projects in the AI economy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Wirestock Co-Founder and CEO Mikayel Khachatryan to learn more.

Inforcer Raises $50 Million Series C Led By Insight Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Inforcer has raised $50 million in Series C financing to expand its Microsoft security and AI management platform for managed service providers. Insight Partners led the round and acquired a minority stake alongside existing investors Meritech Capital and Dawn Capital.

Amazon: Market Cap Tops $3 Trillion As AWS Revenue Jumps 37%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Amazon surpassed a $3 trillion market capitalization for the first time as investors continued to push the company’s shares higher following stronger-than-expected second-quarter results.

Omnea: Interview With Founder And CEO Ben Freeman About The Agentic Operating System For Procurement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Omnea is an agentic operating system that connects company systems, automates procurement and supplier-management workflows, and gives humans and AI agents one place to manage suppliers and control spending. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Omnea Founder and CEO Ben Freeman to learn more.

Zenity Raises $125 Million Series C To Expand AI Agent Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Zenity has raised $125 million in a Series C financing round led by Norwest to expand its artificial intelligence agent security and governance platform. New investors Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures and LG Technology Ventures joined the round. Existing investors Vertex Ventures, Third Point Ventures, DTCP and Intel Capital also participated.

PostNL: AI Agents And Parcel Lockers Support Expanded €180 Million Cost-Savings Plan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

PostNL expanded its cost-reduction program to as much as €180 million as the Dutch delivery company increases its use of artificial intelligence, automates support functions, and builds a larger network of parcel lockers.

Alibaba Introduces 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Qwen3.8-Max AI Model With 1 Million-Token Context Window

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially released Qwen3.8-Max, describing it as the largest and most capable model in the Qwen family to date. Built on the architectural foundation of Qwen3.5, the flagship model contains 2.4 trillion total parameters, with approximately 95 billion parameters activated during inference. It supports a context window of up to 1 million tokens, enabling it to work with large collections of documents, extensive software repositories, long videos and complex tasks that require sustained reasoning across many steps.

Zoi: Interview With North America Managing Director Danilo Kirschner About AI-Enabled Cloud Transformation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 2, 2026

Zoi is a cloud-native technology partner that helps manufacturing and retail companies modernize legacy systems, connect fragmented data environments, and move artificial intelligence from experimentation into production. The company combines engineering expertise across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and SAP with industry-specific knowledge. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Zoi North America Managing Director Danilo Kirschner to learn more.

Google: Gemini Robotics ER 2 Adds Multi-Robot Collaboration And 91.3% Moment-Finding Accuracy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 2, 2026

Google Gemini Robotics ER 2 has been introduced as a new embodied reasoning model designed to help robots understand their surroundings, communicate with people and coordinate complex physical tasks.

Arya: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Offer Yehudai About AI-Powered Couples Wellness

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 2, 2026

Arya is an AI-powered couples wellness platform that combines a human-led Intimacy Concierge, relationship expertise, and technology to help partners strengthen their connection and navigate intimacy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Arya CEO and Co-Founder Offer Yehudai to learn more.

Fundraise Up Introduces Agentic Giving Category For AI-Powered Donations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 2, 2026

Fundraise Up has introduced Agentic Giving, a new category describing how artificial intelligence could change the way donors discover nonprofit organizations, evaluate causes and complete donations.

Lokam.ai Reports 45% Monthly Growth And Zero Customer Churn

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 2, 2026

Lokam.ai has reported 45% month-over-month growth and no customer churn nine months after launching its voice-first AI follow-up platform for automobile dealerships.

EU Launches AI Gigafactories Call To Unlock More Than €30 Billion In Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 2, 2026

The European Union has launched a call for tenders to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across Europe, advancing its goal of strengthening technological sovereignty and becoming a leading AI continent.

Polar: $5.7 Million Seed Funding Raised To Build AI Browser That Does Real Work

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 1, 2026

Polar, the AI browser that automates the tedious parts of knowledge work, has raised $5.7 million in seed funding led by Madrona, with participation from angel investors including former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and Modal founder Erik Bernhardsson.

Growth2Success: Nurtureme Takes On America’s $900 Billion Trucking Labor Crisis

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 1, 2026

Growth2Success has signed a multiyear distribution agreement to place up to 10,000 workers per month across 30 enterprise nationwide trucking carriers using Nurtureme, its AI-powered recruiting platform. The deal targets a persistent problem in the $900 billion trucking industry: getting qualified drivers and support staff into seats faster than they leave them.

OneMedNet Secures $11.5+ Million Agreement To Supply Regulatory-Grade Real-World Data For Foundational AI Model Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 1, 2026

OneMedNet Corporation, a provider of regulatory decision-grade, AI-driven Real-World Data, has entered into an agreement to supply its regulatory-grade, multi-modal imaging-centric iRWD platform data for use in the development and training of a foundational AI model. Under the terms of the agreement, OneMedNet will provide high-quality, de-identified, regulatory-grade healthcare data, including millions of medical imaging records and associated clinical reports, with data delivery beginning immediately.

Vena To Acquire Morpheo AI, Advancing Vena AI Through Vena Omega

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 31, 2026

Vena Solutions has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Morpheo AI, an enterprise agentic data platform. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions. Morpheo AI's technology prepares, curates, structures, and enriches fragmented enterprise data for advanced AI applications, giving Vena a stronger foundation for the intelligence layer it is building across its planning products.

Rice University Receives Nearly $20 Million NSF Award For AI-Powered Materials Laboratory

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 31, 2026

Rice University has received a $19.9 million award from the National Science Foundation to lead a four-year project using artificial intelligence, robotics, and cloud-based laboratories to accelerate the manufacturing of electronic and quantum materials. The university announced the project, called READINESS.

Watts Law Firm Accelerates AI Transformation With Launch Of Intelligent Case Qualification Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 31, 2026

Watts Law Firm LLP has launched an AI-powered case qualification platform built with S4 Capital's Monks Technology Services. The platform ingests claim documentation, extracts and validates data, evaluates eligibility, estimates recoverable damages, and assembles attorney-ready case files in minutes.

Smallest.ai Raises $21 Million In Funding To Build Voice 4.0, The Next Generation Of Enterprise Voice AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 31, 2026

Smallest.ai has surpassed $21 million in total funding following the close of a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital. The company is a San Francisco-based foundational AI research lab building real-time voice AI infrastructure for enterprises.

Balance Theory Raises $19 Million To Reinvent How Enterprises Manage Cybersecurity Investments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 31, 2026

Balance Theory, an AI-native platform for cybersecurity investment decisions and execution, has raised $19 million in Series A financing led by SYN Ventures, with existing investors DataTribe and TEDCO also participating. Cybersecurity executive Dan Burns, founder of Accuvant and former CEO of Optiv, has joined Balance Theory as executive chairman.

Intropy Announces $11 Million In Funding To Build The AI-Native Operating System For The Spare Parts Supply Chain

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 31, 2026

Intropy, an AI-native platform automating inventory, pricing, and other decisions for spare parts businesses, has raised $11 million in seed financing led by Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Capital and early investors General Catalyst and firstminute capital. The company was founded in 2024 by Franziska Kirschner and YihKai Teh.