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OpenAI acquired Glass Imaging, an AI startup focused on improving smartphone camera performance, in a deal valued at more than US$300 million.

Koa, Salesforce’s first reasoning model built on Nvidia’s open-weight Nemotron, is post-trained with synthetic sales and customer-support data to...

Profound's $180 million Series D values the company at over $1.8 billion, less than seven months after its prior $96 million round. Investors like...

Beasley Media Group rolled out Futuri’s TopLine Enterprise across all markets in summer 2026, merging AI agents with internal sales, audience, and...

Meta Platforms is launching its Meta One subscription service to deliver enhanced AI capabilities and new features across its social media apps, testing direct consumer monetization for advanced AI tools.

OpenAI's reported $300 million acquisition of Glass Imaging marks a strategic leap into computational photography, using AI to enhance smartphone...

Cornelis is channeling its fresh $205 million funding directly into Active Compute Fabric, an open networking system that processes data in-flight to...

Beasley Media Group deployed Futuri’s TopLine Enterprise AI revenue intelligence platform across all markets this summer to convert its growing...

Sam Altman ruled out a 2026 IPO, calling it ill-advised amid rising safety concerns from model escapes.

• OpenAI will focus on alignment and...

OpenAI has ruled out a 2026 IPO, with CEO Sam Altman calling it an "ill-advised moment" amid mounting AI safety concerns.

Safety fallout from rogue...

Salesforce has completed its early acquisition of AI customer-agent provider Fin, folding autonomous support agents and more than 30,000 enterprise...

Insight Partners takes a diversified approach to frontier AI by investing in both OpenAI and Anthropic at later stages, where exclusivity requirements...

Seven months post-acquisition, fresh figures show the deal is paying off faster than expected.

• $7.8B combined Q2 revenue now exceeds SpaceX's...

Google completed a talent acquisition of AI coding startup Mechanize worth over $1.5 billion, moving co-founder Tamay Besiroglu and more than 12 staff...

CrowdStrike is deepening its platform moat with Falcon Guardian, which auto-discovers and blocks rogue AI agents, and SafeMind, its proprietary...

OpenAI's 2026 IPO delay prioritizes AI safety amid political scrutiny and researcher exits over near-term public capital access. Altman stressed avoiding catastrophic risks, even as competitors like SpaceX advance their offerings.

Nebius' 454% YoY growth in Q2 highlights its expanding neocloud capacity, now amplified by the Palantir partnership for broader enterprise AI distribution.

OpenAI will not pursue an IPO in 2026, with CEO Sam Altman citing AI extinction risks as the key reason. This keeps the company focused on private financing while safety concerns dominate.

Sam Altman has ruled out an OpenAI IPO in 2026 as 'ill-advised' due to safety pressures and business readiness, despite the company hiring bankers for a Q3/Q4 target and filing confidentially.

Reuters announced a direct integration between its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and CuttingRoom's AI-assisted video editing platform. This move lets newsrooms pull licensed, trusted Reuters content straight into automated video workflows.