AI Business Pulse

• Company raise: The roadshow seeks up to $64.4 billion, at a valuation reported as $1 trillion or $1.4 trillion.
• Founder sales: Each of the seven...

ThunderPhone reports a 99.4% score on Big Bench Audio. It says only StepFun's higher-scoring model is too slow for live calls, which makes v3 the top...

XLIO's model ties startup funding directly to a corporate buyer's specific technology need:

• Funding scale: An additional $100 million lifts its...

Altimeter is looking to raise more than $3 billion across two venture funds, with $2.5 billion aimed at late-stage startups approaching an IPO.

The...

New York's RAISE Act takes effect at the start of the year, and large frontier developers face several new obligations:

• Registration: Companies...

Steel River shows how large AI-linked energy builds are getting, with 2.5GW of generation and 2.9GWh of storage backed by a US$3.5bn package.

For...

Labelbox and Wipro are partnering to accelerate deployment of AI agents across complex enterprise operations, and Wipro Ventures participated in...

Charta Health says the $55 million Series B will fund AI development for provider clients, expansion into more specialties, and a single reliable...

Denodo and AWS have signed a multi-year strategic collaboration agreement to help enterprises build agentic AI on real-time, governed data across...

Toronto's Blue J has raised US$129.1M in a round led by Baltimore-based JMI Equity, valuing the AI tax-research company at US$700 million. The...

Zendesk is moving away from seat-based pricing. Customers set an Outcome Budget and pay for each eligible issue the AI resolves or task it completes,...

Oura agreed to acquire Counsel Health, an AI-native primary care company, for $625 million in cash. Members can start from an Oura insight or chat...

Commvault (NASDAQ:CVLT) has announced a collaboration with Nvidia to help enterprises manage data for AI applications. The available text covers only the announcement and is cut off before any details, so it reports no customer outcomes.

First-time fund managers are facing one of the toughest fundraising environments in years, yet Sahir Raoof raised $27.5 million for his first solo VC...

NetApp has completed its acquisition of PEAK:AIO, a software-defined storage firm built to feed high-speed data to AI workflows.

• The bottleneck:...

Early user reports suggest Carbon access varies, and commenters are unsure why.

• Workspace vs. personal: One Workspace user lists Carbon, while a...

The integration puts dashcam video, live GPS, and vehicle data beside route progress, which the companies say can help teams verify service and settle...

Adobe is pursuing two paths at once: letting outside agents work inside its apps and building its own prompt-driven tools.

• Open doors: Previewed...

Sparxity is betting that AI models will get sparser, and that hardware built for sparsity can offer an alternative to dense GPU systems.

• Early...

Vanta has signed an agreement to acquire Pillar for approximately $150 million in cash and stock, according to Calcalist, though neither company...