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FundingAmazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
FundingBrian Hartzband, President of US Operations, GMEX Robotics – Interview Series
Brian Hartzband, President of US Operations, GMEX Robotics, leads the company’s U.S. expansion, with a focus on building its…
FundingHestus Raises $7.4 Million Seed to Bring AI Into Mechanical Engineering
A mechanical engineer can know exactly what a part needs to do and still spend hours translating that intent into sketches,…
FundingRedefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI
Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most…
FundingThe Next AI Power Bottleneck Will Be Inside Cities
Over the past few years, and counting, the AI infrastructure market has spent a great amount of time and money (close to $7…
‘These guys are just coming from nothing’: questions over multibillion-dollar Firmus float amid datacentre backlash
‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a…
FundingDespite IPO jitters and AI safety worries, Anthropic sticks to a 2026 offering
How quickly things change in the artificial intelligence era. Just a few months after everyone was scrambling to infuse AI into…
FundingConstruction of Bell Canada’s AI data centre in Saskatchewan scaling up
Saskatchewan’s Crown investments minister stood Thursday in front of a skeleton of steel beams to tout progress on an artificial…
FundingWhat Are World Models? How AI Learns to Predict and Simulate Environments
World models learn an internal representation that predicts how an environment may evolve when an agent or other actor takes an…
FundingAmazon Announces Built Together Program for Data Center Communities
Amazon on October 2, 2026 announced Built Together, a community investment framework that will add more than $1 billion over five…
FundingNvidia agent safety push raises questions about who governs AI autonomy
The AI chipmaker’s new safety platform adds controls around AI agents, while enterprises remain responsible for defining their…
FundingOpenAI fires workers for mishandling ‘sensitive information’
The former employees were investigated for sharing data with an outside AI evaluation group.
FundingReport: Anthropic targets pre-Thanksgiving IPO launch, despite warning of AI’s ‘existential risks’
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic PBC is reportedly forging ahead with its plans to go public and has set a new target date…
FundingPaleBlueDot AI Raises $200M Series C at $3.2B Valuation to Expand Super Intelligence Compute
PaleBlueDot AI on October 1, 2026, announced the completion of a $200 million Series C financing led by ComputeCore at a…
FundingSoftBank Closes Third $10B OpenAI Tranche Using Senior Notes Proceeds
SoftBank Group Corp. said in an October 1, 2026 announcement that it executed the third and final $10 billion tranche of its…
FundingVolantis Raises $88M Series A to Build Photonic AI Inference System
Volantis, a San Francisco semiconductor company building a new category of AI inference system, announced an $88 million Series A…
FundingAI-driven law firm Arceus Legal raises $17M to move beyond contract work
Artificial intelligence-driven law firm Arceus Legal today disclosed that it has raised $17 million in funding to expand beyond…
FundingBloomberg Closes Acquisition of AI Private Markets Platform Canoe
Bloomberg announced on October 1, 2026 that it has completed its acquisition of Canoe Intelligence, an AI-powered data management…
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies’ satellites, versus…
FundingAnthropic’s IPO pitch embraces AI’s promise and peril
To pull off a successful offering that values it at $2 trillion, Anthropic, whose name means “human-centered,” will need plenty…
Trump’s AI lunch included every major tech company. Except Apple
Apple’s absence from Trump’s AI lunch raised eyebrows, but the company is known to look out for its own interests.
FundingMetaview wants to eliminate recruiting grunt work and speed up hiring after raising $60M
Artificial intelligence recruiting software startup Metaview Labs Inc. said today the industry is ready for a “Claude Code…
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.
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