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OpenAI reportedly offered $500 million for world-model technology
OpenAI just tried to buy a specific kind of AI technology, a "world model," for half a billion dollars. The seller said no. According to a report, OpenAI offered $500 million for this tech.
Cisco warns AI plans miss 55% of enterprise data, blurring product vs model
Stop planning to train your AI on quarterly reports and customer emails. If that's the plan, you're ignoring more than half of what your business actually produces. A new piece of research from Cisco delivers a stark number: 55%.
Zoho launches agentic AI across Collaboration, CX, and HR tools to cut enterprise AI barriers
Every enterprise software vendor has an AI story now. Zoho’s story is free. The Chennai-based company is wiring what it calls “agentic” features directly into its existing business apps—Zoho Mail, CRM, Tables.
7 AI Startups by Ex-Big-Tech Leaders in 2025, Moves to Watch in 2026
A quiet but telling shift is underway in Silicon Valley. Seven senior executives from the industry’s largest tech firms are preparing to launch their own AI ventures in 2025 and 2026. This isn't standard turnover. It's a deliberate exodus.
Trump AI adviser David Sacks says Anthropic weaponizes regulation harms startups
David Sacks, the venture capitalist advising Donald Trump on tech policy, called Anthropic a liar. He accused the AI company of a covert campaign to strangle its competitors with rules.
Amazon, Chobani use Strella's AI interview platform as startup raises $14M
Hiring managers spend roughly a third of their week screening candidates. Most would rather do anything else. Strella, an AI interview platform, just raised $14 million betting that software can do that grunt work instead.
Spotify partners with Sony Music and Universal on responsible AI tools
Spotify has decided to stop asking for forgiveness later. It's a smart move. The company is now formally partnered with the three major music labels to build AI tools, a direct attempt to write the rules before the technology rewrites the industry.
Uber converts app into AI training platform, but driver pay concerns linger
Uber wants to train its AI on its drivers' boredom. The company is testing a plan to add small, digital microtasks to its driver app, effectively turning downtime between rides into a data factory for machine learning.
LTIMindtree posts 10% Q2 growth, adds 2,558 staff amid digital, AI wins
You can't hire 2,558 people in three months on vibes alone. LTIMindtree just did, which means the demand for their specific flavor of tech work is real and they're getting paid.
Cloudflare teams with Visa, Mastercard, AmEx to create AI shopping authentication
Everyone knows online fraud is a mess. Now the AI shopping bots are coming, and they promise to make it worse. Cloudflare just partnered with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express to try and stop the chaos before it starts.
Salesforce expands AWS tie-up, aims for $60 B revenue by 2030, backs agentic enterprises
Salesforce wants to make $60 billion by 2030. To get there, it’s betting everything on a fuzzy, expensive idea it calls the “agentic enterprise.” That’s a business run by swarms of AI agents.
Matters.AI Secures ₹55 Cr to Build Self-Learning ‘AI Security Engineer’
Cybersecurity vendors have been promising AI for years. They usually mean a slightly smarter filter. Matters.AI, a Bangalore startup, just got ₹55 crore to try something different: building a system that can think for itself.
2025 AI Rollouts Disappoint: Anticipated Features Fall Short of Hype
This was supposed to be AI's breakout year. Instead, 2025 is turning into a public correction. The features that were going to change everything are arriving late, broken, or just plain stupid.
Oracle, NVIDIA deepen tie-up to speed sovereign AI and government digital shift
Governments want to run their own AI, not rent it from Amazon. Oracle and NVIDIA just made a bigger bet that they'll succeed. The two companies are expanding a deal to sell more technology to countries trying to build digital independence.
SpaceX Receives NVIDIA DGX Spark Petaflop AI Supercomputer with Software Stack
SpaceX has a new supercomputer. It’s a petaflop AI system from NVIDIA, called DGX Spark, and it just landed at the company. This isn't a speculative purchase for some distant lab. It's a piece of factory-floor hardware meant to be used now.
Perplexity Comet Now Public, Automates 7 Key Business Tasks
Skepticism was my first reaction when I heard about Perplexity Comet. Another browser, I thought. Then I got access, tested it, and realized this thing is a different animal.
AMD Bets on Software to Close NVIDIA's CUDA Ecosystem Lead
For years, the GPU war was fought on raw teraflops. But the battle lines have shifted. NVIDIA didn’t just build faster chips; it built an entire universe around them, CUDA, a mature, predictable ecosystem that makes developers’ lives easy.
SpeakX Raises $16M Pre-Series B to Scale AI English Learning Platform
Slashing a company from 200 employees to 20 typically reads as a death knell. For SpeakX, it was an act of surgical survival.
Google Cloud Partners with A.R. Rahman's Metahuman Band for AI Entertainment
A.R. Rahman’s Secret Mountain isn’t just a band, it’s a living, breathing digital experiment. Now Google Cloud is supplying the neural backbone.
Sonata Software Partners with Adesso to Boost AI-Driven Digital Transformation in Europe
Another IT partnership announcement lands in the inbox. This one pairs India's Sonata Software with Germany's Adesso. Their pitch is practical: help European companies, especially those with older systems, actually use AI.
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