Artificial Intelligence

Meta Muse Reaches No. 1 On U.S. App Store As Personal AI Agent Gains Early Traction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse has climbed to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's U.S. App Store, surpassing ChatGPT roughly a week after launch, according to Business Insider. The early adoption provides a notable boost for Meta's effort to move AI beyond traditional chatbots and toward assistants capable of taking actions on behalf of users.

Corridor Raises $25 Million Led By Bain Capital Ventures For AI-Native Small Business Benefits Brokerage

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Corridor has launched with $25 million in funding led by Bain Capital Ventures to expand an AI-native employee benefits brokerage designed specifically for small businesses. BoxGroup and Definition Capital also participated alongside angel investors that include founders and executives associated with OpenAI, Modal, Ramp, Scale AI, Oscar, Rogo, Decagon, Medallion, Reducto and Tennr.

Transient Secures Nasdaq Ventures Investment To Expand Bank-Grade AI Governance For Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Transient.AI has secured a strategic investment from Nasdaq Ventures as part of its Series A financing, adding Nasdaq to a round led by NEXT Investors as the company expands its secure AI operating system for regulated financial markets.

Brookfield To Acquire Minority Stake In American Real Estate Partners To Expand AI Data Center Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to acquire a minority interest in American Real Estate Partners, bringing together Brookfield's global real estate, infrastructure and power capabilities with AREP's rapidly expanding data center development platform.

Hatz AI: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Jimmy Hatzell About AI Platforms For MSPs And SMBs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Hatz AI is an AI curation platform built specifically for managed service providers (MSPs) to deliver AI-as-a-Service to small and medium-sized businesses under their own brands. The platform combines AI agents, automated workflows, chat, email, phone interactions, governance controls, and access to more than 60 AI models while allowing MSPs to manage multiple clients through a multi-tenant environment. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Hatz AI Co-Founder and CEO Jimmy Hatzell to learn more about the company's channel-first strategy, AI adoption among SMBs, and plans for future growth.

Wordly: Interview With Founder And CEO Lakshman Rathnam About AI Translation And Multilingual Communication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Wordly is an AI-powered translation and captioning platform designed to make multilingual communication more inclusive and accessible across meetings, events, classrooms, government settings, and other environments. Founder and CEO Lakshman Rathnam has a background in human-machine interfaces, acoustics, and audio technologies and holds more than 25 patents in these areas. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Wordly Founder and CEO Lakshman Rathnam to learn more about AI translation, accessibility, and the company's growth.

Google Explores New Data Center In Lea County, New Mexico

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Google is exploring development of a new data center in Lea County, New Mexico, potentially adding another U.S. location to the technology company's expanding infrastructure network supporting cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

FintechOS Raises $28 Million To Expand AI-Native Financial Services Platform After 130% U.S. Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

FintechOS has raised $28 million in combined equity and debt financing as the financial technology company accelerates expansion of its AI-native platform for banks, insurers and other financial services organizations across the United States and Europe.

Lumen Launches Intelligent Internet With On-Demand Bandwidth Up To 100 Gbps For AI And Cloud Workloads

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Lumen Technologies has launched Lumen Intelligent Internet, a new enterprise connectivity service designed to provide cloud-like flexibility by allowing businesses to provision internet service in minutes and dynamically scale bandwidth as AI, cloud and other workloads change.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Rejects Calls To Slow Artificial Intelligence Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 21, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has rejected predictions that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity within the next several years, saying there is a “0% chance” of such an outcome by 2030, according to The Guardian.

Luzern Risk Raises $45 Million Series B To Expand AI-Native Captive Insurance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Luzern Risk has raised $45 million in Series B funding to accelerate its AI-native captive insurance platform and expand the alternative risk solutions it provides to companies seeking greater control over insurance costs and exposures. Insight Partners led the round, with participation from Trust Ventures and existing investor Caffeinated Capital. Caffeinated Capital previously led Luzern Risk's seed financing in 2023 and its $12 million Series A in 2025.

Synapse Analytics Raises $13 Million Series A Led By Partech For AI Decisioning Platform For Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Synapse Analytics has raised $13 million in Series A funding to expand its agentic AI decisioning infrastructure for banks and other regulated financial institutions. Partech led the round, with additional participation from Algebra Ventures and Silicon Badia. The financing brings Synapse Analytics’ total capital raised since inception to $17 million.

Mantic Raises $25 Million To Scale AI Forecasting Platform For Hedge Funds And Decision-Making

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Mantic has raised $25 million to scale its AI-powered forecasting technology, with the financing led by Radical Ventures and participation from Balderton, Thinking Machines Lab, DRW, FT Ventures from the Financial Times, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Episode 1 Ventures and Charlie Songhurst.

Expertise AI Raises $3.2 Million Seed Round To Expand AI Sales And Customer Support Agents For Traditional Industries

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Expertise AI has raised $3.2 million in seed funding to expand its AI agent platform for sales and customer support, with the company focusing on bringing AI automation to businesses in traditional industries. The round was led by UpHonest Capital, with participation from Amino, Welight, UpScaleX, and Altair, according to an announcement from Expertise AI founder and CEO Hao Sheng.

Helios AI Raises $3 Million From W23 Global And Launches Hunger Exposure Index For Food Security Risk

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 20, 2026

Helios AI has raised a $3 million strategic financing round from W23 Global as the company expands its technology for analyzing food security, climate and geopolitical risks across global agricultural markets.

Definely Partners With OpenAI To Bring Contract Review And Verification Tools Into ChatGPT Enterprise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2026

Definely has partnered with OpenAI to bring its contract review technology directly into ChatGPT Enterprise through OpenAI for Law, giving lawyers access to specialized legal verification tools without leaving their AI workflow.

Magentic Raises $18 Million Series A To Expand AI Digital Workers For Global Manufacturers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2026

Magentic has raised $18 million in Series A funding to expand its AI digital workers across procurement, supply chain and industrial operations. Felicis led the round, with existing investors Sequoia Capital and The Westly Group also participating. The financing comes approximately one year after Magentic launched.

Accenture And Anthropic Each Plan At Least $1 Billion AI Safety Investment Over Five Years

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 19, 2026

Accenture and Anthropic have formed a partnership to create a dedicated team of embedded AI evaluators working directly alongside Anthropic's internal teams and safety partners.

Integral Raises €18 Million Series A To Expand AI-Native Accounting, Tax And Payroll Platform For SMEs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2026

Integral has raised €18 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-native professional services platform, which combines proprietary software with licensed accounting, tax and payroll experts serving small and medium-sized businesses.

Expanse Raises $5.3 Million Seed Round To Improve Infrastructure Utilization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2026

Expanse, an AI infrastructure startup focused on helping companies get more work from existing computing hardware, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding.

Metaschool AI Wins Grand Prize For Mobile-First Online High School Serving Ghanaian Students

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2026

Metaschool AI won the $40,000 Michael & Lori Milken Family Foundation Grand Prize at the 2026 Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition, taking the top award at the 17th annual event hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

Snap Launches SPECS Intelligence To Bring Anticipatory AI Across iPhone, Mac And AR Glasses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2026

Snap has introduced SPECS Intelligence, an anticipatory AI service designed to understand users' goals, routines and priorities and proactively surface information and actions across iPhone, Mac and the company's SPECS augmented reality glasses.

Solvd Named OpenAI Select Partner To Help Enterprises Deploy GPT-6 Astra And Codex

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 18, 2026

Solvd has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, expanding the AI engineering company's work with enterprises deploying OpenAI models and products across software development and complex business workflows.

AlphaPai Raises $50 Million Series B To Expand Investment Research Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2026

AlphaPai, an AI investment research assistant developed by financial AI company Rabyte Technology, has raised $50 million in Series B funding, marking its third consecutive financing round in the past year.

Comp AI Raises $34 Million Series A To Expand Agentic AI Compliance And Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 17, 2026

Comp AI has raised $34 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-native compliance and security platform beyond audit readiness and compliance automation into continuous cybersecurity. The round was led by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures.

Emerald AI, Google, And NVIDIA Launch AI Energy Management Alliance With 18 Partners To Advance Flexible AI Data Centers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA have launched the AI Energy Management Alliance, a new coalition focused on making AI data centers more flexible participants in the power grid by allowing facilities to dynamically adjust electricity consumption during periods of peak grid stress.

Michigan State University Team Receives $4.6 Million NIH Award, With Up To $12.8 Million Available For AI-Driven Women’s Health Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Michigan State University researchers are leading a seven-university team that has received an initial $4.6 million award from the National Institutes of Health to develop computational models aimed at improving how medications are developed and prescribed for women. The award could ultimately reach $12.8 million over three years.

TLD Robotics Launches After ALVEST Acquires EasyMile, Building On More Than 50,000 Autonomous Missions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

TLD Robotics has launched as a new ALVEST company focused on autonomous ground operations following ALVEST's acquisition of EasyMile, combining EasyMile, TractEasy, and TLD's existing driverless activities into a single business serving airports and industrial facilities.

Cohere And Aleph Alpha Sign Deal To Create Transatlantic Sovereign AI Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement that will bring together the Canadian and German AI companies under the Cohere name, creating what the companies describe as the first transatlantic sovereign AI provider.

Checkbox Launches First Pass AI Agent To Review Legal Requests, Contracts, And Invoices

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Checkbox has launched First Pass, a context-aware AI agent designed to review incoming legal requests, contracts and invoices before they consume lawyer time, helping in-house teams resolve routine work earlier and route more complex matters to the right people.