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General news and updates from the AI startup ecosystem. Coverage of artificial intelligence industry developments.
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 2026 First AX Trust Research Workshop in Jeju, gathering industry, academic, and g...
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 reporting reveals scenarios where AI tool spend exceeds the labor...
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 Zaheed, has been selected for the 2026 Forty Under 40 Award by the Ott...
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-driven products and automation. The reduction, impacting thousan...
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
AI chip startup Tenstorrent Inc. is attracting early takeover interest from Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc., according to sources familiar with the matter. The Santa Clara-based company, valued at over...
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 SoftBank Ventures Asia), as its new CFO. Jin had served as a key investment professional (핵운) on...
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 computer-based professional tasks—including law, accounting, marketing, and proj...
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 China, including two unicorns valued above $1B. The most prominent is Zhiyuan Robot (智元机器人), c...
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 reported at the 20th China Investment Annual Summit. The company is one of severa...
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 complete its $150 million share buyback by the end of Q3. The company is investing in...
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 Safety DX' (digital transformation) initiatives in the Shiretoko region of Hokkaido. The...
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 AI-driven animated short films, according to a Lowpass newsletter report published May 15. The studio, built in March,...
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 Cerebras wafer-scale chip, formalizing the Condor Galaxy India partnership. Under the agreement, 64 Ce...
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, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on May 13, 2026, raising over HK$2.1 billion...
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
As India's AI conversation has been dominated by sovereign models, GPU clusters and compute infrastructure, a growing cohort of investors is now turning attention to a more unpredictable opportunity:...
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, who took the helm in March 2025, has driven a stunning 490% stock surge over the past year by securing a sweetheart U.S. government deal — making the government Intel's third-lar...