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Arrowhead Raises USD 3 M, Claims Fivefold ARR Jump and 100% POC to Live Rate
Three million dollars is a decent seed round. The real story is what Arrowhead did just before taking the money. The Bengaluru startup says its annual recurring revenue grew five times between August and October last year. That’s a vertical line.
NY RAISE Act targets AI safety as Zhipu AI launches GLM 4.7, Nvidia buys Groq
The AI industry is moving faster than the laws meant to contain it. New York just answered with the RAISE Act, the second major U.S. bill targeting AI safety, a legislative shot across the bow.
xAI secures USD 20 bn to boost Grok training, expand data centres and compute
xAI has locked down another $20 billion. The cash isn’t sitting idle. It’s being thrown at compute, more GPUs, bigger data centres, faster training for Grok.
Mercedes to debut Nvidia Level 2++ assist in US as CES backs AI robotaxis
Mercedes-Benz will roll out its Nvidia-powered Level 2++ driver assist system in the United States later this year, the company announced at CES.
Universal Music partners with Nvidia on AI model for smarter song search
Universal Music Group spent two years suing AI firms. Now it's paying one. The world's largest music label has partnered with Nvidia to build a new search engine for its catalog.
OpenAI, Anthropic Support AI Transparency Bill as States Adopt Frameworks
Artificial intelligence companies now officially want rules. For them, maybe, not for you. OpenAI and Anthropic have endorsed a New York State bill requiring transparency from powerful AI models.
Intel launches Core Ultra Series 3 PC platform at CES 2026, improving efficiency
For years, Intel's marketing mantra was gigahertz. At CES 2026, that era is officially over. The new rallying cry is efficiency, demonstrated by the Core Ultra Series 3 platform.
Nvidia launches DLSS 4.5 with 6x Frame Generation, better image quality on RTX 40- and 50-series
Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 is a refinement that cuts to the bone of image quality. Rolling out today to every RTX GPU, the new transformer model delivers sharper edges, cleaner lighting, and dramatically reduced ghosting, improvements visible in titles like...
Nvidia's Cosmos Reason 2 boosts robot reasoning for complex tasks
Nvidia’s Cosmos Reason 2 doesn’t just make robots smarter, it rewires how they think. By merging broad foundational knowledge with razor-sharp proficiency, these models let machines tackle tasks once deemed too chaotic for automation.
GE Appliances shows package-scanning fridge with window mode at CES 2026
GE wants to solve your grocery amnesia for $4,899. That's the price tag on its upcoming Profile Smart 4-Door French-Door refrigerator, revealed at CES 2026.
Beijing May Scrutinize Manus–Meta Deal After USD 75M Series B Funding
A startup can change its address. It can’t change its birth certificate. Manus, an AI firm, just raised $75 million from the US venture firm Benchmark and fled to Singapore. Its China operations are mostly shuttered.
Databricks Secures Over USD 4 B in Series L Round, Highlighting AI Data Demand
Databricks just raised four billion dollars. It did not need to do this. The company is already profitable. Its revenue run rate is $4.8 billion. Investors value it at $134 billion.
xAI rolls out Grok Business, Enterprise and isolated Enterprise Vault add-on
Elon Musk's xAI announced new tiers for its Grok AI assistant on Tuesday: Grok Business, Grok Enterprise, and an isolated Enterprise Vault add-on.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella blogs on evolving AI beyond 'bicycles for the mind
Satya Nadella is writing a user manual for a technology that doesn't exist. In a recent blog post, the Microsoft CEO took direct aim at Steve Jobs' iconic "bicycles for the mind" analogy. That 1995 vision, Nadella argues, is now a roadblock.
Meta acquires Manus as version 1.6 adds autonomous, creative AI capabilities
Meta just acquired Manus, and the timing is no coincidence. Version 1.6 had already turned the agent into something far more dangerous than a chatbot: a mobile-app builder, a full-stack developer, a visual designer, and a research-to-delivery...
Qwen-Image-2512 launches, rivals Google’s Nano Banana Pro in AI image generation
Image generation has crossed a threshold. It’s no longer about whimsical portraits or surreal landscapes; it’s about slides that render correctly every time, diagrams that survive handoff to a documentation pipeline, and multilingual menus that...
Manus abandons USD 2 billion funding round to join Meta, citing Zuckerberg’s vision
Most startups would sell the family farm for a $2 billion valuation. Manus walked away from it. The company abandoned that massive funding round to join Meta, trading a headline number for a place inside Mark Zuckerberg's long-term blueprint.
Microsoft Ignite showcases new NVIDIA-Azure AI integrations, some unveiled live
The stage is set. Microsoft Ignite has become the proving ground for the next wave of enterprise AI, and this year, the alliance between NVIDIA and Azure is front and center.
NeuroPixel.AI draws global brands with production-ready design automation tools
Forget the flashy demos. Real money isn't in the gallery; it's on the factory floor. NeuroPixel.AI builds tools for assembly lines, and major corporations are buying them.
Sam Altman hires Head of Preparedness for AI risks, mental health, cybersecurity
Sam Altman is hiring a professional worrier. Not the paranoid type, someone methodical, paid to anticipate the worst.
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