IndiGo Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Indian carrier IndiGo, has invested in Sarvam AI as part of the startup's ongoing Series B round, extending a commercial partnership already deploying Sar...
Nigerian voice-AI company Intron released Sahara v2.5, adding bilingual code-switching speech recognition across 12 African languages and expanding overall model coverage to 31 languages, including ne...
Anthropic discussed acquiring AI chip startup MatX for roughly $7 billion before the talks stalled and shifted toward a hardware partnership instead, per a Reuters report. MatX, co-founded in 2023 by...
Sakana AI, the Tokyo-based foundation-model startup, has released an updated version of its Sakana Translate service built on a new model generation the company calls Namazu. In its own internal evalu...
Brussels-based Motion closed a $2 million pre-seed round led by Extantia Capital, with Norrsken Evolve participating, according to Tech.eu coverage dated August 27, 2026. Transportmedia valued the rai...
Kioxia announced the NX1 series, a PCIe 5.0 NVMe datacenter SSD line succeeding its XD series, and began sampling it to select hyperscale customers, unveiling the product at the FMS: Future of Memory...
Stability AI announced on August 25 that it closed a $76 million Series B round, with new investors including Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures, and — for the first time as direct equity holders — Univers...
SK Group is preparing an internal book on the "token economy," led by Kim Ji-hyun, vice president of SK Supex Council's AI Committee, to help executives understand tokens as an economic unit. It is th...
Alibaba's Qoder shipped a desktop client built around a chat-and-voice interface, letting users describe a project in plain language instead of opening an IDE. In demos, Qoder built a store-management...
Hatena, the Japanese blog and social-bookmarking company, has officially launched Hatena Parks, a community platform in which an AI agent called Mouton is present in every discussion thread. According...
Lambda has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt — arranged by JPMorgan Chase, per Bloomberg — to buy Nvidia AI chips it will lease to Microsoft. The deal follows a $1 billion secured credit...
Tencent released Hy4 preview as an open-weight model on August 28, using a mixture-of-experts architecture with 770 billion total parameters and 49 billion active per token, plus a 1 million-token con...
