AI-generated summary Startup firmly launched the Ask Agent conversational shopping experience for merchant websites alongside a fifteen million dollar funding round. The new product allows shoppers to discover items through conversation and complete purchases using the merchant's real-time catalog and inventory.
AI-generated summary Insurance AI startup Kalepa has made available a 75 million dollar Series B funding round at a 470 million dollar valuation, five years after its Series A. The company says the new funds will be used to expand its AI product offering, enter new markets, and double its team by 2027.
AI-generated summary Fujitsu networking arm 1Finity announced a full-stack AI-native virtual radio access network solution underpinned by Nvidia GPUs and supported by partners such as Quanta Cloud Technology and Supermicro. 1Finity stated that the solution will enable mobile network operators to offer a comprehensive portfolio of artificial intelligence and radio access network solutions while accelerating go-to-market timelines for enterprise customers.
AI-generated summary Genesys has made available an expansion of its forward-deployed engineering capabilities to speed time to value for agentic CX. Genesys says its FDE teams work alongside customers to help operationalize agentic AI and move use cases into production faster.
AI-generated summary PortSwigger has made available Burp AT, an agentic pentesting solution that enables enterprises to delegate pentests with defined limits. The solution helps security teams investigate applications more deeply and more frequently while maintaining control over scope and permissions.
AI-generated summary Dropbox announced plans on Thursday to acquire Tigris for $350 million and unveiled the upcoming DBX Agent Cloud offering. Dropbox states the acquisition is designed to accelerate its ambitions in selling storage infrastructure to developers and businesses.
AI-generated summary Apple is testing betas of updates coming to Creator Studio later this month, including Logic Pro, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. The updates introduce an Intelligent Assistant that combines models from Apple and OpenAI to help guide users through the music creation process.
AI-generated summary Aina announced the Aina Ring, a titanium device featuring a small display and a joystick-like button designed to manage AI agent actions. Aina says preorders for the $399 ring are available now before shipments start in January 2027 when the price increases to $499.
AI-generated summary Deloitte Access Economics rolled out a report stating that Australia includes 37 datacentres worth $141bn in its investment pipeline. The Reserve Bank notes that datacentre-related investment has added to inflationary pressures by increasing demand while the economy is capacity constrained.
AI-generated summary Cerebras makes available its third and fourth generation systems, which are built to operate reliably and outlast their economic life by many years. Cerebras says that less than half of one percent of all CS-3 wafers deployed have been decommissioned since the introduction of the CS-3 in 2024.
AI-generated summary AgriTech Capital has released survey findings from nearly two thousand agri-food professionals detailing how artificial intelligence is currently utilized in the agricultural sector. The survey results indicate that thirty-one percent of respondents selected decision support and recommendations as a potentially significant application for artificial intelligence.
AI-generated summary Sysdig has released Sysdig AI Defense to provide organizations with tools to monitor and control AI agent activity across endpoints and cloud environments. The platform checks agent actions against company policies and records agent activity and policy decisions for investigations and audits.
AI-generated summary Visa rolled out a new website making the results of its agent shopping experiment available to the public. The study reveals that personal AI agents like Muse or Claude messed up nearly 50 percent of the time when purchasing TVs and laptops.
AI-generated summary Potential Sciences plans to build large-scale chemical datasets by using basic principles of physics to simulate interactions between atoms and molecules. The company intends to use that data to train artificial intelligence models capable of identifying targeted drugs for specific diseases.
AI-generated summary Discovered Materials announced a million-dollar challenge featuring five open problems in materials science for AI models to solve. Stanford professor Felipe Jornada says the answers would improve physics understanding and shape how electronics and energy storage are built.
AI-generated summary Hebrew University rolled out new assessment guidelines adopting oral exams and in-person seminar presentations to address the challenges posed by artificial intelligence tools. The Standing Committee adopted the recommendations after concluding that unsupervised take-home assignments and exams can no longer be considered reliable evaluation methods.
AI-generated summary Neocloud Lambda announced plans to develop a data center campus consisting of four buildings in Lowndes County, Alabama. Lambda says the development will require an investment of $33.1 billion and generate 1,000 jobs for the duration of the project.
AI-generated summary Forbes made available an article detailing how market data compiled by Citadel Securities shows AI token prices fell by more than one-third while GPU rental prices held. Citadel Securities data demonstrates that cheaper inference did not reduce compute usage as people utilized more of it for their projects.
AI-generated summary Investment manager VanEck has made available a note arguing that shares in bitcoin mining companies that pivoted to artificial intelligence data center infrastructure are oversold. VanEck emphasizes that grid connection timelines create a scarcity premium on the energy capacity that bitcoin miners already provide.
AI-generated summary PlatinumGames and Nintendo Switch exclusive Astral Chain has been released in a native PC port utilizing NVIDIA DLSS 5 neural rendering. The video shows that neural rendering enhances the environments with more detailed textures and slightly moodier lighting for the game.
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