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FundingWhat Is Speculative Decoding? How AI Generates Text Faster
Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by letting a faster draft model propose multiple tokens that a target…
FundingSK Hynix Debuts Ventures CVC Brand at Inaugural Silicon Valley Event
SK hynix announced the launch of SK hynix Ventures on September 18, 2026, a corporate venture capital brand that the South Korean…
FundingLovable Acquires Sutro, Company Behind the SLang Programming Language
Lovable announced on September 18, 2026 that it has acquired Sutro, the company behind the SLang programming language and a…
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
FundingLasso Study Finds Text Watermarking Shifts LLM Refusals and Tool Calls
Lasso Security researcher Andrea Siposova on September 17, 2026 published The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM…
FundingFigure Introduces Helix 2.5, Tested Zero-Shot in 30 Unseen Homes
Figure introduced Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026, a humanoid neural network pretrained on the company’s Index dataset of human…
FundingMagentic Raises $18M Series A to Build an AI Workforce for Industrial Operations
Magentic has raised $18 million in Series A funding to expand its AI agents across procurement and supply chain operations,…
FundingAWS Launches Amazon Connect Talent for AI-Led Hiring at Scale
Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Connect Talent on September 17, 2026, an AI hiring product for talent acquisition leaders…
FundingHP ties sustainability data governance to business decisions in the AI era
Sustainability data helps companies assess climate risks, guide investments and support customers’ environmental goals. As AI…
A Chinese AI company just connected its model to Wall Street’s leading data providers
The startup Moonshot said it signed on financial industry giants from investment bank CICC to venture capital firms
FundingMIND Raises $72M Series B to Scale AI-Native Data Loss Prevention
Seattle-based data security company MIND announced on September 17, 2026 that it has raised $72M in Series B funding. Crosspoint…
How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and…
FundingWhat Is Cross-Validation? How to Estimate Model Performance Reliably
Cross-validation repeatedly rotates held-out folds so teams can estimate performance and variability when one validation split…
Rising yields, AI monetisation uncertainty pose fresh risks to tech investment cycle: Report
The global artificial intelligence (AI) investment cycle is facing its first major macroeconomic test as rising US and Japanese…
OpenAI and Anthropic are making 10 times more revenue than all Chinese AI models combined, research group Rhodium says
Rhodium Group’s latest analysis of Chinese and U.S. AI companies also found that low revenue did not necessarily correspond with…
Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform
Treble’s voice simulation platform is used by voice AI model developers and AI wearable and robotics companies,
FundingOpen-weight model developer Arcee AI reaches $1B-plus valuation with new funding
Open-weight artificial intelligence model developer Arcee AI Inc. said today it has raised an undisclosed amount of cash in a new…
FundingEx-Infosys chief Vishal Sikka’s Hang Ten raises $53M more for enterprise AI services
Enterprise artificial intelligence services startup Hang Ten Systems Inc. today announced it has raised $53 million in a second…
FundingNoetive launches with $41M to bring self-improving AI to factories and logistics
Industrial artificial intelligence startup Noetive formally launched today with $41 million in seed funding. Its software learns…
FundingCADDi raises $114M at $1.2B valuation to bring manufacturing AI to North America
Manufacturing artificial intelligence startup CADDi Co. Ltd. today announced it has raised $114 million in new funding at a…
FundingOpenAI Launches Misalignment Reporting Framework With Six Incident Reports
OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment on September 16, 2026,…
FundingAndrew Johnson, CEO of Yardstik – Interview Series
Andrew Johnson, CEO of Yardstik, is an experienced technology executive with a background in scaling high-growth software…
FundingTypeSafe AI exits stealth with $40M to build AI for use by software
TypeSafe AI Inc., a startup founded by a former OpenAI Group PBC researcher who helped develop ChatGPT, emerged yesterday with…
FundingChemify Secures £22M to Scale AI-Powered Chemistry and Build Its Next Chemifarm
Chemistry has become another frontier in the effort to connect artificial intelligence with the physical world. Glasgow-based…
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