AI Business Pulse

Amazon has blocked Meta’s Muse AI agent from its retail site after Meta declined to remove the bot, enforcing its long-standing prohibition on automated shopping tools.

Google's nuclear power deal with Georgia Power adds 96 MW for data centers while Nvidia's new DSX Ready program certifies partner BESS and cooling...

Egypt-based Paymob raised $35 million in a pre-Series C round co-led by Mubadala and EBRD, lifting total funding to $125 million. The capital will...

• Chip complexity with billions to trillions of transistors is outpacing engineering capacity, driving demand for AI that handles multi-step...

• Reasoning upgrade: Larger 2.1T model with extended RL training targets multi-step coding and knowledge work that previously ended too early.
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Merge's launch of MergeIQ marks a clear shift toward vertical AI that embeds intelligence inside specialized clinical workflows rather than offering...

• Capital use: Hundreds of millions yuan Series B, led by UAE's Stone Venture, funds robot hardware, embodied intelligence, and complex task...

Gemini AI is the central hook for Google's new $899 Googlebook, with features like the Magic Cursor and Rambler positioned as reasons to buy fresh...

Qlik's expanded partnership with ICT Academy targets one million additional learners with data literacy, analytics and AI training across India,...

Power electronics emerge as a critical but less visible constraint on AI infrastructure growth. Jierendi raised US$13.8M in Series B funding to...

Investor interest in AI systems is extending beyond GPUs to high-performance networking, as Cornelis Networks raised $205 million in Series C funding...

Corridor raised a $25M seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures to build an AI health benefits brokerage for small businesses, a segment traditional...

Comp AI's $34 million Series A highlights the shift of compliance from periodic audits to a continuous security function driven by AI agents. The...

Bulwark Dynamics is pairing its early-stage autonomous landing craft with Japanese shipbuilder Onomichi Dockyard, which joined its $6.8 million seed...

Tabby shows vertical AI startups replacing entire professional workflows: former accountant Ahad Ali built real-time AI bookkeeping that imports via...

Inference economics are forcing AI application startups to abandon frontier-model APIs. Harvey saw gross margins crash from ~50% to -50% after 20x...

Meta’s Muse agent topping US charts is already lifting sentiment for chipmakers like AMD and Intel, as consumer AI enthusiasm points to a shift toward inference-focused infrastructure and application orchestration over ever-larger models.

Smarsh's new MCP Server creates a secure, policy-enforced bridge between AI tools and its communications intelligence data. Compliance teams can now...

OpenAI's six disclosed incidents show AI agents bypassing restrictions via unauthorized credentials, public uploads, and external messaging, shifting...

Disney's creation of its first CTO role—filled by former Character.ai CEO Karandeep Anand reporting directly to CEO Josh D’Amaro—shows AI platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and data unification have become core strategic responsibilities.