AI-generated summary Salt Lake City-based Torus announced it secured $500 million in a Series C funding round led by Magnetar. The energy-storage startup will use the capital to manufacture a new shipping container-sized product named Foundry that combines batteries with artificial intelligence computing.
AI-generated summary The Office for Students stated that artificial intelligence has made evaluating university coursework nearly impossible for academic staff. The regulator suggested that institutions in England should revert to traditional examinations and in-person presentations to protect the credibility of degrees.
AI-generated summary Northwestern Polytechnical University purchased two Nvidia H200 AI chips from a domestic Chinese intermediary named Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology. Reuters reports that other Chinese universities including Shenzhen University and Wuhan University of Technology also acquired restricted Nvidia processors through domestic transactions.
AI-generated summary XpertDox raised a $20 million Series A investment round led by Savant Growth to scale its artificial intelligence medical coding platform for healthcare providers. The XpertCoding platform automates medical coding by turning clinical documentation in electronic health records into accurate coded data without manual intervention.
AI-generated summary Czech medtech startup Kardi Ai applies artificial intelligence to analyze electrocardiogram recordings for long-term heart rhythm monitoring. Kardi Ai secured 5.3 million euros in a Series A funding round to advance its predictive heart monitoring technology and expand internationally.
AI-generated summary ADB SAFEGATE completed its acquisition of Synaptic Aviation on November 11, 2026, integrating artificial intelligence computer-vision software for aircraft turnaround and apron operations. CEO Laurent Dubois says the purchase adds operational intelligence to AIRSIDE 4.0, while Synaptic reports deployments at airports across North America, Europe and Latin America.
AI-generated summary SAP and VF Corporation opened S.Fashion, an artificial intelligence-enabled fashion retail innovation space in Walldorf, Germany, to test retail processes. The store stocks products from The North Face, Vans and Timberland, and utilizes Joule, part of SAP Business AI Platform, to guide consumers.
AI-generated summary Hitachi Vantara announced updates to VSP One Object and Hitachi iQ Studio on November 11, 2026, adding in-place lakehouse queries and governance features for enterprise AI applications and agents. Hitachi Vantara reports up to 5.5x faster data access for AI workloads and up to 5x faster analytical query performance with fewer CPUs using the new storage capabilities.
AI-generated summary Valory has announced Olas-Predict-Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight forecasting model that the company says reaches 67.3% balanced accuracy on real-world prediction markets. Valory states that the 27-billion-parameter model comes within 1.2 percentage points of its GPT-5.6 comparator when both systems receive the same market evidence.
AI-generated summary Metalenz announced on November 11, 2026, that it acquired PxE Imaging to incorporate color and depth sensing into edge AI applications. Metalenz says the acquisition integrates PxE Imaging technology designed to capture color and depth data simultaneously using a single camera.
AI-generated summary Oracle announced on November 11, 2026 that North American utilities had used its artificial intelligence-powered Opower programs to cut 1 gigawatt from peak electricity demand so far in 2026. Oracle reported that event volume rose nearly 50% from 49 in 2025 and that customer engagement increased 30% from 3.3 million.
AI-generated summary Physical AI applies learned perception, reasoning, and control to machines acting in the real world where physics and safety constraints must be managed. Multimodal systems must align signals of varying resolution and timing while separating the underlying model from the product controlling its deployment.
AI-generated summary NTT, Inc. announced a physics-based world model designed to evaluate robot actions prior to execution by predicting outcomes such as drops and collisions. NTT says the technology increased task success in a small-robot shelf-loading test from 73.1% to 92.3% and plans field trials with Mujin, Inc.
AI-generated summary Armada announced on November 10, 2026, that production had started at Galleon Forge Two in Dublin to build modular artificial intelligence data centers. The initial Dublin-built Leviathan system was completed for Fossefall in Norway as part of an order totaling more than 9 megawatts.
AI-generated summary The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology announced ASD Super Agent on November 11, 2026, as an artificial intelligence platform intended for autism screening and family support. The platform achieved a preliminary area under the curve score of 0.92, while further clinical studies and real-world validation remain planned before deployment.
AI-generated summary Harvey announced a partnership with Danish legal publisher Djøf Forlag to add licensed Danish legislation and executive orders to its legal AI platform. Djøf Forlag Digital Director Bjarke Madsen said customer demand for making those sources available in AI-powered legal technology systems motivated the partnership.
AI-generated summary TIER IV and the Technical University of Munich announced that their Autoware research center will support development of an autonomous-driving system for a full-size city bus in Munich. The project forms part of a consortium effort intended to lay the groundwork for autonomous buses and shuttles to enter regular public-transport operation.
AI-generated summary TIER IV detailed five open-source AI models for autonomous driving spanning camera-only systems and configurations adding LiDAR, radar, and high-definition maps. The lineup includes NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Edge, AutoE2E, METEOR, OnePlanner, and LatentDrive for Autoware 2.0.
AI-generated summary Zurich-based spin-out Devia has emerged from stealth to apply AI agents to pharmaceutical quality investigations and deviation management. The company states that its platform structures initial reports, gathers evidence, drafts root-cause analyses, and prepares corrective actions for human review.
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