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News•Feb 24, 2026
Navigating the Shift in Professional Services with AI
AI agents from vendors like Anthropic are automating tasks traditionally performed by entry‑level consultants in finance, law and other professional services. Kantata’s chief product officer Sarah Edwards explains that the industry is moving from a head‑count‑driven pyramid to an upside‑down model where agents handle routine work while deep‑expert humans focus on higher‑value activities. To stay competitive, firms are adopting Kantata’s expertise engine—a knowledge‑graph‑powered platform that surfaces collective expertise and integrates human and agent contributions. This shift forces service firms to redesign business models, pricing structures, and talent development strategies.
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News•Feb 23, 2026
OpenAI Aims for Stablecoin Market With New EVMbench
OpenAI unveiled EVMbench, an open‑source benchmark that tests AI agents' ability to spot and exploit smart‑contract flaws. The tool draws on 120 vulnerabilities from 40 audits, including scenarios from Stripe‑backed Tempo blockchain, and was released in partnership with crypto investor...
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News•Feb 13, 2026
Anthropic Raises $30B, Bringing Its Valuation to $380B
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G round, pushing its valuation to $380 billion, the second‑largest private tech financing after OpenAI. The round was led by Coatue and GIC, with participation from Nvidia, Microsoft, D.E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ and MGX. Anthropic reported a...
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News•Feb 12, 2026
Meet Latam-GPT, the New Open Source AI Model for Latin America
Chile’s National Center of Artificial Intelligence (CENIA) unveiled Latam‑GPT, an open‑source large language model tailored to Latin America and the Caribbean. Built on Meta’s Llama 3.1 architecture with 70 billion parameters, the model was trained on 300 billion tokens of Spanish and Portuguese...
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News•Feb 12, 2026
ElevenLabs Insures Agents, Targeting Enterprises' Fears
ElevenLabs announced it has achieved the Artificial Intelligence Usage Certification‑Level 1 (AIUC‑1), enabling insurers to underwrite a policy that covers the actions of its AI voice agents. The move follows growing enterprise anxiety about AI‑driven errors, data breaches, and regulatory fallout....
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News•Feb 11, 2026
Mistral Cites Euro Vision With $1.4B for Swedish AI Data Center
Mistral, the French AI vendor, announced a $1.43 billion investment to build an AI data center in Borlänge, Sweden, slated to open in 2027. The project, hosted by EcoDataCenter, will run large‑scale foundation models on Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs and rely...
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News•Feb 9, 2026
AI Lawsuits in 2026: Settlements, Licensing Deals, Litigation
2026 is shaping up as a pivotal year for AI copyright litigation. The New York Times’ ongoing suit against OpenAI and Microsoft, along with high‑profile cases such as Getty Images vs. Stability AI and Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement, highlight mounting pressure on AI...
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News•Feb 4, 2026
Nvidia, Dassault Systèmes to Build Industrial AI Platform
Nvidia and Dassault Systèmes announced a joint industrial AI platform. The service will deliver high‑fidelity, GPU‑accelerated simulations that let manufacturers create digital twins of products and processes. By merging Nvidia’s graphics processing power with Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE modeling suite, the platform...
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News•Feb 2, 2026
Combatting Cultural Bias in the Translation of AI Models
AI translation tools are increasingly scrutinized for cultural bias, especially in languages like Japanese where politeness levels are critical. Google’s recent TranslateGemma supports 55 languages, yet Articul8’s LLM‑IQ agent reveals many models still falter on cultural appropriateness. The evaluation framework...
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News•Jan 29, 2026
OpenMind Unveils Robot App Store
OpenMind has launched a dedicated App Store for robots, positioning it as a software distribution layer for quadruped and humanoid platforms. The marketplace, built on the company’s OM1 modular operating system, aims to close the gap between rapidly evolving hardware...
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News•Jan 23, 2026
VoiceRun Raises $5.5M for Full-Stack Voice AI Platform
VoiceRun announced a $5.5 million seed round led by Flybridge Capital Partners, with participation from RRE Ventures and Link Ventures. The startup offers a full‑stack, code‑first voice AI platform that lets enterprises own application code while VoiceRun handles speech processing, LLM...
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Deals•Jan 23, 2026
VoiceRun Secures $5.5M Seed Round Led by Flybridge Capital Partners
VoiceRun, a full‑stack voice AI platform for developers, announced the close of its $5.5 million seed round. The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners with participation from RRE Ventures and Link Ventures, and will fund expansion of its voice‑AI technology...
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News•Jan 22, 2026
AI Startups Merge to Launch First Full-Stack AI Cloud
Lightning AI and Voltage Park have merged to create the first full‑stack AI‑focused cloud, combining a developer platform with on‑demand GPU infrastructure. The new entity, operating under the Lightning AI brand, reports over $500 million in annual recurring revenue and a valuation exceeding...
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Deals•Jan 22, 2026
AI Startups Merge to Launch First Full-Stack AI Cloud
Lightning AI and Voltage Park have merged, with Lightning AI as the surviving brand, to create the first full‑stack AI cloud built from the ground up for AI workloads. The combined entity, valued at over $2.5 billion, brings together AI software...
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News•Jan 21, 2026
OpenAI Targets Monetization, $1.4T Commitments by 2034
OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar outlined a rapid monetization push, linking a three‑fold increase in compute capacity to a surge in annual recurring revenue that topped $20 billion in the last year. The company now faces $1.4 trillion of spending commitments through 2034,...
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News•Jan 15, 2026
Humanoid Robot Actuator Market Could Approach $10B by 2031
The global humanoid robot actuator market is projected to reach just under $10 billion by 2031, up from roughly $150 million in 2024. This surge reflects a rapid shift from pilot projects to commercial deployments across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, and research. Actuators,...
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News•Jan 14, 2026
Phenom's Acquisition: AI, Automation and the Future of Work
Phenom announced the acquisition of Included, an AI‑native people‑analytics platform, to embed deeper workforce insights into its talent suite. The integration targets the recruiting workflow, where Phenom believes 70‑80% of tasks can be automated while the remainder is augmented or...
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Deals•Dec 17, 2025
Nvidia Acquires Open‑Source HPC Leader SchedMD
Nvidia announced the acquisition of SchedMD, the creator of the open‑source workload manager Slurm, to strengthen its high‑performance computing and AI offerings. Financial terms were not disclosed, and Nvidia pledged to keep Slurm open source while investing in its development.
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Deals•Dec 12, 2025
OpenAI Secures $1B Investment From Disney in New Licensing Deal
OpenAI announced a three‑year licensing agreement with Walt Disney that grants the studio’s iconic characters to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora tools. As part of the deal, Disney will invest $1 billion in OpenAI, marking a major corporate venture funding round.
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Deals•Dec 4, 2025
OpenAI to Acquire AI Startup Neptune
OpenAI announced it will acquire Neptune, a Polish AI startup that provides model monitoring and debugging tools. The acquisition, disclosed on Dec 4 2025, aims to integrate Neptune's platform into OpenAI's training stack, though financial terms were not revealed.
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