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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...
India's Consumer AI Opportunity: Investors Bet on Behaviour-Driven Products Over Infrastructure
India's Consumer AI Opportunity: Investors Bet on Behaviour-Driven Products Over Infrastructure As India's AI conversation has been dominated by sovereign models, GPU clusters and compute infrastructu...
Cerebras Systems, the largest of a new generation of AI chip startups, is going public. The IPO will...
Cerebras Systems, the largest of a new generation of AI chip startups, is going public. The IPO will gauge investor appetite for AI chip companies and how many the public market can support. The IPO o...
Anthropic is expanding into AI-powered IT services, a move that Jefferies warns poses a direct compe...
Anthropic is expanding into AI-powered IT services, a move that Jefferies warns poses a direct competitive threat to Indian IT giants Infosys and TCS. The investment bank's analysis suggests that Anth...
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan attempts turnaround as Bloomberg details company's struggles
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan attempts turnaround as Bloomberg details company's struggles Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took the helm in March 2025, has driven a stunning 490% stock surge over the past year by se...
Cerence projects $305M-$320M fiscal 2026 revenue as BYD begins xUI production
Cerence projects $305M-$320M fiscal 2026 revenue as BYD begins xUI production Cerence, a publicly traded provider of conversational AI for automobiles, announced fiscal 2026 revenue guidance of $305 m...
SK Telecom AI data center revenue jumps 89%, signaling telco-led infrastructure push
SK Telecom AI data center revenue jumps 89%, signaling telco-led infrastructure push South Korea's SK Telecom reported an 89% year-over-year increase in AI data center revenue, underscoring the teleco...
Intapp, a governed AI platform for professional firms, reported its third quarter fiscal year 2026 f...
Intapp, a governed AI platform for professional firms, reported its third quarter fiscal year 2026 financial results, highlighting continued enterprise AI adoption in regulated verticals such as law,...