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SiFive secures $400M Series G to power RISC‑V AI data‑center CPUs
SiFive announced a $400 million Series G financing round that lifts its valuation to $3.65 billion. The capital will fund next‑generation RISC‑V CPU IP designed for agentic AI workloads in data centers, accelerating hardware co‑design that integrates scalar, vector and matrix compute units to cut data movement and latency.
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AI Digital unveiled an animated explainer of its Open Garden Framework, highlighting how AI‑driven, open‑ecosystem media buying outperforms closed‑platform approaches. The data shows advertisers achieve 2.9‑times higher performance, 26% greater ROI, and make decisions 73% faster when leveraging predictive analytics across open supply. The firm argues that walled‑garden stacks inflate costs by roughly 20% and limit inventory, while 59% of consumers regularly shift between platforms. The launch coincides with a relaunch of AI Digital’s integrated AI marketing intelligence platform to scale the framework.
Akeneo, a product experience company, announced a partnership with Stripe to integrate its PIM platform with Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite. The joint solution lets merchants expose structured, real‑time product data to AI assistants and enables agent‑ready checkout, payments, and fraud...
Employ Inc., a leading provider of people‑first hiring platforms such as JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite, announced the appointment of Patrick (PJ) Jean as its new Chief Technology Officer. Jean arrives with more than two decades of experience building AI‑native products and...
Perplexity, valued at $20 billion, launched Computer, a cloud‑based AI agent that coordinates 19 specialized models to execute complex workflows. The service is currently available only to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month and promises autonomous task decomposition and model...
To meet the stringent data‑privacy demands of enterprise insurance, the company abandoned the traditional multi‑tenant SaaS model and built a single‑tenant AI platform where each client receives an isolated database and compute environment. By eliminating middleware and moving business logic...
Nestlé is embedding artificial intelligence across its marketing and sales functions by upgrading to SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition, a platform now serving over 50,000 users in 112 countries. The rollout introduces SAP’s AI copilot, enabling automated insights and routine‑task...
Aras unveiled three new InnovatorEdge services—API Manager, App Builder, and Edge AI—plus configurable AI agents to extend its PLM platform. The cloud‑delivered, low‑code tools enable secure, governed exposure of product data and digital‑thread services to external applications and AI resources....
Samsung announced a partnership with Gracenote, Nielsen’s metadata specialist, to embed AI‑driven discovery tools into its smart‑TV platform. The deal gives Samsung access to Gracenote’s curated content IDs and structured data, enabling natural‑language search, personalized carousels, and recommendation engines. While...
EMBL‑EBI has launched BioAIrepo, a dedicated repository that makes life‑science machine‑learning models FAIR—findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. The pilot catalogue aggregates imaging and genomics models from the BioImage Model Zoo and Kipoi, providing code, weights, training data and citation metadata....
Wait until the Agents learn they can talk to each other without using English. LLMs can communicate with each other with their own token language. Much more efficient than speaking English. Then they will have a social network where they...
Billionaire Stephen Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital sold its entire Meta Platforms stake—about $971 million, representing 7.1% of the fund—by the end of Q4 2025. The hedge fund’s exit appears driven by profit‑taking and concerns over Meta’s aggressive AI capital‑expenditure. In its...
A new research paper introduces geometry‑adaptive reinforcement learning (RL) to control the peel step in Digital Light Processing (DLP) resin printing. By extracting slice‑level features such as cured area and perimeter, the RL agent dynamically adjusts lift speed, dwell time,...
The article argues that artificial intelligence is not a breakthrough that simplifies military campaign planning, but a tool that compresses routine cognitive work while masking the need for human judgment. AI excels at synthesizing guidance and producing coherent drafts, creating...
A meaningful share: AuthorsReading posted an editorial review of The Doctor’s Future. They spotlight the book’s focus on the real-world questions behind AI/robotics in healthcare—privacy, accountability, ethics, patient trust, and how clinicians can adapt their roles with clarity (supported by the...
Nvidia has not generated any revenue from the U.S.-approved H200 AI chips destined for China, despite limited approvals. The company’s Chinese data‑center sales once represented roughly 20% of its revenue, but export controls forced it to create a lower‑performance H20...
Nous Research unveiled Hermes Agent, an open‑source autonomous system built on the Hermes‑3 Llama 3.1‑based model. It introduces a multi‑level memory hierarchy that records successful workflows as searchable Skill Documents, giving the agent procedural recall across sessions. The platform also provides...
An AI proof of concept (POC) is a focused, short‑term project that validates technical feasibility and business value before full‑scale investment. Costs vary widely, driven primarily by data readiness, problem complexity, integration needs, and infrastructure choices, with data preparation often...
In this Technovation episode, a panel of CIOs discusses how to define, measure, and communicate AI value, sharing real‑world approaches from Ally Financial and Avery Dennison. Satish Muthukrishnan describes Ally’s cautious, 18‑month rollout of Ally.ai, emphasizing risk‑based governance, human‑in‑the‑loop design, and...
Sword Intelligence has launched its AI‑driven care‑operations platform in the UK, targeting NHS waiting‑list pressures. The solution automates triage, coordination, outreach and scheduling, freeing clinical capacity without major staffing or infrastructure upgrades. Simultaneously, the company is building one of Europe’s...
Workday announced an AI‑native Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution hosted in Frankfurt, giving EU customers a local data residency option. The service leverages generative AI to draft, review, and negotiate contracts while automatically enforcing compliance rules. By storing all contract...
The IRS Criminal Investigation report shows tax‑related financial crimes hit $4.5 billion in FY 2025, a 111.8 % jump from the prior year, signaling heightened risk this tax season. Cybercriminals are leveraging generative AI to produce hyper‑personalized phishing, deepfake voice and video scams,...
I am 61 and it is way smarter than all of us already. My agents are reading more than 10,000 posts a day here on X and doing a better job than even X is doing telling me what is up....
India’s startup ecosystem is moving from growth‑at‑all‑costs to a disciplined focus on execution, AI readiness, and sustainable profitability as it eyes 2026. A Snowflake‑hosted panel highlighted that scale alone no longer suffices; founders must streamline data, adopt applied AI, and...
Simmons & Simmons has unveiled STRIDE, an AI‑backed digital regulation tracker that aggregates live, analyst‑grade data across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The platform uses a multi‑channel processing (MCP) approach, allowing AI agents to be queried directly via LLM...
Predictive maintenance robotics leverages AI and machine‑learning to shift industrial upkeep from fixed‑schedule preventive care to condition‑based, data‑driven actions. Continuous sensor streams—vibration, acoustic, thermal, electrical—are analyzed in real time to spot anomalies and forecast component failures. The approach integrates with...
Software development is now the backbone of AI robotics, enabling machines to perceive, decide, and act in real‑world environments. Frameworks such as the Robot Operating System (ROS) and edge‑AI hardware like Nvidia Jetson streamline sensor fusion, simulation, and real‑time control....
Whiddon, a leading residential aged‑care provider in NSW and southeast Queensland, has deployed Telstra Health’s centralised care‑planning platform across its 24 homes. The system enables real‑time, point‑of‑care documentation, family portals and mobile workflows, replacing legacy paper‑based processes. By achieving data...
The article explains how to build a Zapier workflow that uses OpenAI’s GPT‑4o to draft replies to new Google Business Profile reviews. By setting Google Business Profile as the trigger, feeding the review data into a ChatGPT prompt, and sending...
The UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has awarded Google Cloud a £6.9 million contract to build an AI‑powered planning decisions tool. The system will initially focus on householder developments, which account for 69 % of applications, with a target...
The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is urging that AI innovation in healthcare be paired with robust regulation to safeguard patient safety and equity. Richard Stubbs, CEO of Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber, highlighted the need for...
HaystackID announced the acquisition of eDiscovery AI, a data‑intelligence startup focused on AI‑driven electronic discovery solutions. The deal builds on a pre‑existing partnership and is aimed at bolstering HaystackID's generative AI capabilities across its legal‑tech platform. By integrating eDiscovery AI's...
Meta has begun automatically generating AI‑derived advertisements from brands' existing creative assets, inserting them into Facebook and Instagram feeds without explicit advertiser approval. The move aims to boost ad inventory and lower production costs, but early adopters like British tights...
The article presents a four‑stage AI‑maturity framework that moves organizations from isolated AI experiments to fully adaptive, KPI‑driven systems. It defines AI orchestration as the end‑to‑end coordination of tools, agents, and automations across workflows and teams. Each stage—individual experiments, connected...
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AI agents are becoming essential virtual employees, and businesses need platforms that integrate them with core systems. Zapier, a long‑standing AI orchestration platform, offers 8,000+ native app connections, advanced workflow features, and enterprise‑grade security. Lindy, a newer entrant, focuses on...
LM Studio and Tailscale have launched LM Link, a feature that lets developers access remote GPU rigs as if they were locally attached. The solution replaces public APIs and SSH tunnels with a private, WireGuard‑encrypted tunnel built on Tailscale’s userspace tsnet...
South Korea's AI Basic Act became effective on January 22, 2026, imposing governance, transparency, and risk‑management duties on AI business operators, including employers that develop or deploy AI influencing workplace decisions. The law reaches beyond Korean borders, requiring entities that meet revenue,...
SONAR is having the best quarter in years. One of my board members asked if I were concerned about the rise of AI and if it would be a drain our data business. I told her that we are seeing...
If AI makes you feel more overwhelmed, you are using it backwards. Clarity first. Then leverage.
Semper Augustus Investments Group released Chris Bloomstran’s 2025 Annual Letter, warning that a trillion‑dollar AI and datacenter arms race is reshaping capital allocation. Bloomstran challenges the notion that S&P 500 investors can still expect historic Ibbotson returns over the next...
Macro: Big-ticket cloud/AI capital flows concentrate. Key: Amazon pledges $15bn now, $35bn tied to IPO/AGI. Risks: valuation/tech execution. Trading insight: Buy NVDA on AI infra demand. — Viktor Kopylov, PhD, CFA. More insights: t.me/si14Kopylov
This was a very nice interview by Latent Space in sunny San Diego at Neurips.
The debate: which AI model to bet on. What I'm watching instead: Informatica surging. Java everywhere. GCP back on the shortlist. 73% of companies investing more in data skills. Not AI skills. Your AI strategy is only as strong as the data layer...
Brain cells on a chip playing Doom: https://t.co/xcmqxgDQPY A year ago I showed you @CorticalLabs and its founder. He built a new kind of computer. One that uses human neurons to run the computer. Incredible. And now they are playing Doom. Nuts. Welcome...
The UK’s £9.4B loss to deepfake-enabled fraud is not a headline, it’s a warning. AI-powered scams are scaling faster than legacy identity and compliance systems can adapt. If the US doesn’t harden digital onboarding, verification, and cross-sector fraud defenses now, the bill...
Gemini surprises me with how smart it is sometimes. But it’s overshadowed by how much the apps break nonstop.
Late night discussion: how can the AI community change the AI hatred so many feel? Adil Mania, https://t.co/iRqV9iZSnO, and I have an interesting conversation that touches on a lot of the marketing tricks I've seen other companies use to change belief...
We will see much, much more of this happening. AI is changing open source incredibly rapidly. Rewriting an open source project to a new language/framework used to be a massive effort: AI is making it trivial as Cloudflare just showcased with...
This is probably the most insanely cool AI product I've tried in recent memory. A swarm of AI agents designing a website from scratch. And you can edit things manually at any time (see my manual edit at the end 😅)....
I enjoyed working with an all-star team – the great @LisaRotenstein @UCSF and @DBatesSafety of @BrighamWomens – on this paper describing how to measure return on investment (ROI) for clinician-facing AI tools. @JAMAInternalMed https://t.co/uvhb1qI7mG
Recently I caught up with Amiet Dhagat, Head of Data Services Analytics and AI for HCF, to get the inside story around their stellar success in transition from static data to dynamic data, and why real-time data has been so...
