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IAN Group has invested approximately ₹625 crore (~$75 million) in 50 deep-tech startups over the pas...
IAN Group has invested approximately ₹625 crore (~$75 million) in 50 deep-tech startups over the past two decades, with an increasing emphasis on AI-led ventures and sovereign capabilities, according...
EVERY CEO Dan Shipper argues AI automation paradox will create more human work, not less
EVERY CEO Dan Shipper argues AI automation paradox will create more human work, not less Dan Shipper, CEO and founder of EVERY, shared predictions on the AI paradox in a recent Lenny's Podcast appeara...
Turiya Softech Listed as AI and 3D Scanning Provider on Inc42 DataLabs
Turiya Softech Listed as AI and 3D Scanning Provider on Inc42 DataLabs Turiya Softech, a bootstrapped Indian technology company founded in 2018, has been listed on Inc42 DataLabs as an AI company offe...
Yatri founders featured amid India startup funding rebound
Yatri founders featured amid India startup funding rebound Yatri, the official real-time train tracking app for Mumbai's local rail network built in partnership with Indian Railways, was featured in a...
Korean academic society holds workshop on trustworthy AI and agentic AI security.
Korean academic society holds workshop on trustworthy AI and agentic AI security. The Korean Institute of Information and Communication Engineering (KIICE) and the AX Trust Research Workshop held the...
Microsoft's AI cost problem is putting Copilot math under pressure
Microsoft's AI cost problem is putting Copilot math under pressure A rising number of enterprises are scrutinizing Microsoft 365 Copilot's actual costs against promised productivity gains, as internal...
BluWave-ai VP Finance Muhammad Zaheed Named to Ottawa Forty Under 40
BluWave-ai VP Finance Muhammad Zaheed Named to Ottawa Forty Under 40 BluWave-ai, an Ottawa-based AI platform for renewable energy optimization, announced that its Vice President of Finance, Muhammad Z...
Intuit lays off 17% of workforce in AI-focused strategic shift
Intuit lays off 17% of workforce in AI-focused strategic shift Enterprise software giant Intuit has announced layoffs affecting approximately 17% of its workforce, citing a strategic pivot toward AI-d...
Tenstorrent, a developer of AI processors, has become the subject of preliminary acquisition discuss...
Tenstorrent, a developer of AI processors, has become the subject of preliminary acquisition discussions with Intel and Qualcomm, drawing interest from two major chipmakers. The startup's technology a...
Tenstorrent draws takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm amid AI inference chip race
Tenstorrent draws takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm amid AI inference chip race AI chip startup Tenstorrent Inc. is attracting early takeover interest from Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., accor...
Upstage hires SBVA CFO Jin Yoon-jung amid IPO preparation, triggering LP penalty risk for VC
Upstage hires SBVA CFO Jin Yoon-jung amid IPO preparation, triggering LP penalty risk for VC AI startup Upstage (업스테이지) has hired Jin Yoon-jung, former managing director and CFO at SBVA (formerly Soft...
Mustafa Suleyman predicts AI automation of most desk jobs within 18 months
Mustafa Suleyman predicts AI automation of most desk jobs within 18 months Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has stated that artificial intelligence could reach human-level performance on most compu...
Huawei spawns half of China's embodied AI startup ecosystem, fueling a new talent diaspora
Huawei spawns half of China's embodied AI startup ecosystem, fueling a new talent diaspora A wave of former Huawei executives and researchers has founded roughly ten embodied AI (具身智能) startups in Chi...
Zhipu AI (智谱) IPO valuation exceeds 100 billion HKD, joining K-shaped market
Zhipu AI (智谱) IPO valuation exceeds 100 billion HKD, joining K-shaped market Zhipu AI, a Chinese foundation-model startup, has gone public with a valuation exceeding 100 billion HKD (~$12.8B), as repo...
Five9 signals $1.266B 2026 revenue outlook while planning to complete $150M buyback.
Five9 signals $1.266B 2026 revenue outlook while planning to complete $150M buyback. Cloud contact center provider Five9 announced a 2026 revenue outlook of approximately $1.266 billion and plans to c...
Authentic Japan launches special page for 'Tourism Safety DX' initiatives in Shiretoko
Authentic Japan launches special page for 'Tourism Safety DX' initiatives in Shiretoko The Japanese tourism operator Authentic Japan (オーセンティックジャパン) has published a dedicated webpage for its 'Tourism S...
Netflix quietly launches AI animation studio 'INKubator', signals strategic pivot toward generative content production.
Netflix quietly launches AI animation studio 'INKubator', signals strategic pivot toward generative content production. Netflix has quietly established an internal studio called 'INKubator' to produce...
Cerebras WSE-3 chip gifted to PM Modi as India-UAE deploy 64 CS-3 systems for 8-exaflop AI compute
Cerebras WSE-3 chip gifted to PM Modi as India-UAE deploy 64 CS-3 systems for 8-exaflop AI compute During PM Narendra Modi's visit to the UAE, President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan gifted a Cer...
JetMed becomes global first AI drug delivery stock on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
JetMed becomes global first AI drug delivery stock on Hong Kong Stock Exchange JetMed (剂泰科技, 7666.HK), a six-year-old Chinese biotech company specializing in AI-driven nanomaterial drug delivery, list...
Kuaishou (快手) is accelerating the spin-off of its AI video subsidiary, Kling AI (可灵AI), with plans f...
Kuaishou (快手) is accelerating the spin-off of its AI video subsidiary, Kling AI (可灵AI), with plans for an independent IPO as early as 2027, according to media reports. The company is in Pre-IPO talks...