Artificial Intelligence

Stitch Fix Expands Vision AI Platform For Personalized Style Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Stitch Fix announced that it is expanding Stitch Fix Vision, its AI style visualization platform, with a new capability that lets clients generate personalized images of themselves in recommended outfits.

Qurrent Launches AI BPO Platform For CFOs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Qurrent announced the formal launch of its AI Business Process Outsourcer platform for Chief Financial Officers.

Valence AI Raises $5 Million And Secures U.S. Patents For Real-Time Emotional Detection From Live Speech

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Valence AI announced $5 million in total funding and the issuance of two U.S. patents covering the company’s proprietary audio signal processing pipeline for real-time emotional detection from live speech. The funding includes a seed round led by Differential Ventures, with participation from Difference Partners, Willowtree Ventures, Change Paradox Ventures, and SRI International.

Coval Raises $28 Million Series A To Advance Voice AI Evaluation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Coval announced it raised $28 million in Series A funding to expand its evaluation platform for voice AI. The round was led by Norwest, with participation from Base10 Partners, Twilio Ventures, and Y Combinator. The latest financing brings Coval’s total capital raised to $31 million since its launch in 2024.

Runlayer Raises $30 Million Series A For Helping Enterprises Become AI-Native

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Runlayer announced it raised $30 million in Series A funding to help enterprises become AI-native. The round was led by Felicis, with participation from Khosla Ventures. The latest funding brings Runlayer’s total capital raised to $42 million.

Lusha: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Yoni Tserruya About The Sales Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Quali Expands Torque As Control Plane For Enterprise AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Quali announced a major capability expansion for Torque, its intelligent infrastructure management platform.

JustAI Raises $17 Million Series A To Build Agentic Marketing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

JustAI announced that it has raised $17 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Base10 Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and Peak XV Partners.

Bombora: Interview CEO Mark Connon About The B2B Intent Data Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Bombora is an industry-leading B2B data company specializing in Intent, identity, digital audiences, and campaign measurement. Bombora’s data solutions are built from its one-of-a-kind Data Cooperative, consisting of thousands of B2B brand and publisher websites. Bombora delivers durable, privacy-centric data that powers sales, marketing, and advertising teams to identify and engage buyers at scale. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Bombora CEO Mark Connon to learn more.

Apilex Surpasses $8 Million ARR Nine Months After Launch

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Apilex.ai announced that it has surpassed $8 million in annual recurring revenue in its ninth month since launch.

Perplexity Launches Computer For Counsel For Legal Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Perplexity announced the launch of Computer for Counsel, a new AI product designed for lawyers and legal teams. Computer for Counsel connects the research databases, document repositories, contract tools, and matter-management systems lawyers use every day to Perplexity Computer.

Qualcomm To Acquire Modular To Expand AI Software Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Qualcomm announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Modular, an AI software infrastructure company. The acquisition is intended to strengthen Qualcomm Technologies’ software foundation for generative AI and agentic AI across data center and edge environments. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Andromeda Robotics: Interview With Founder & CEO Grace Brown About The Humanoid Companion Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

OpenAI And Broadcom Unveil Jalapeño Inference Chip For LLMs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

OpenAI and Broadcom announced the unveiling of Jalapeño, OpenAI’s first Intelligence Processor. Jalapeño is an AI accelerator designed for large language model inference and is the first chip in a multi-generation compute platform being developed by OpenAI and Broadcom.

Anthropic Introduces Claude Tag For Team Collaboration

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Anthropic announced the beta launch of Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude directly in Slack. Claude Tag allows teams to add Claude to selected Slack channels, grant it access to approved tools, data, and codebases, and tag @Claude to delegate tasks.

Shield AI Completes Acquisition Of Aechelon Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Shield AI announced that it has completed its acquisition of Aechelon Technology, a company specializing in high-fidelity simulation, physics-based sensor modeling, and synthetic reality technologies.

Mitigata Raises $15 Million Series B To Build AI-Native Cyber Resilience Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Mitigata announced that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding to support its continued investment in product innovation, talent expansion, and market growth. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners India, with participation from Pankaj Mitra. Existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Titan Capital, and WEH Ventures also participated in the round, continuing their support for the company’s long-term vision.

SimScale: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO David Heiny About The Engineering Simulation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

SimScale provides an AI-native software platform that enables engineers to perform computational fluid dynamics (CFD), finite element analysis (FEA), electromagnetic, and thermal simulations directly through a web browser. David Heiny is the CEO and co-founder of the company, guiding its overarching strategy and technological vision. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SimScale co-founder and CEO David Heiny to learn more.

IBM And OpenAI Partner To Bring Frontier AI To Cyber Defense

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

IBM announced that it has joined the OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to bring advanced frontier AI capabilities into security operations.

Google DeepMind And A24 Launch AI Research Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Google DeepMind and A24 announced a first-of-its-kind research partnership focused on developing new workflows and techniques for artists and filmmakers.

How Florida State University Uses Google NotebookLM To Support Student Success

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Florida State University is using Google NotebookLM to help students take a more active role in their learning.

OpenAI Launches Patch The Planet To Help Secure Critical Open-Source Software

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

OpenAI announced Patch the Planet, a Daybreak initiative built with Trail of Bits to help open-source maintainers strengthen critical software projects.

Antal Emerges From Stealth With Autonomous AI Agent Stack For Private Credit

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2026

Antal emerged from stealth with an autonomous AI agent stack designed for private credit lenders. The company said lenders are already originating more than $30 million per month in aggregate on Antal’s agents without adding operational headcount.

Omnicom Media Becomes Netflix’s First Data Collaboration Partner For AI-Powered Ad Creatives

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2026

Omnicom Media and Netflix announced a new collaboration that combines Omnicom Media Group’s Acxiom audience intelligence with Netflix’s AI-powered advertising technology.

Micron And Anthropic Announce Strategic Agreement To Scale AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2026

Micron Technology announced a strategic agreement with Anthropic focused on scaling next-generation AI infrastructure. The collaboration spans memory and storage AI architecture design, a supply agreement, enterprise adoption of Claude across Micron, and a strategic investment in Anthropic’s Series H funding round.

Superhuman To Acquire GPTZero

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2026

Superhuman announced that it has agreed to acquire GPTZero, an AI content detection and authenticity platform.

Google Reportedly Developing AI Startup Incubator For Former Employees

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2026

Google is reportedly developing an AI startup incubator focused on its alumni network of former employees, often referred to as Xooglers.

Menlo Ventures Raises $3 Billion To Back AI Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2026

Menlo Ventures announced that it has raised $3 billion in new capital, marking the largest raise in the firm’s history.

Meta And EssilorLuxottica Launch Lower-Priced Meta Glasses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2026

Tetrix Raises $15 Million Series A To Scale AI Platform For Private Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 23, 2026

Tetrix, an AI investment platform for alpha-seeking limited partners in alternative markets, announced it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by White Star Capital and Innovation Endeavors, with participation from several high-profile angel investors.