AI Business Pulse

• $76M Series B brings total funding to $232M, led by Universal Music Group, Sony, Warner, EA, and AMD Ventures
• Backing from media majors signals...

Reach Capital closed a $265 million Fund V to back AI founders expanding human potential in learning, health, and work.

• Checks will range from $1M...

Meta is launching Hatch, a consumer AI agent platform built on OpenClaw architecture, with premium subscriptions priced up to $199.99 per month.

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Perplexity launched Portable Computer, an on-device AI agent running on Nvidia's DGX Spark with Blackwell GPUs, following their partnership...

HighByte and Trimble are tailoring agentic AI for specialized industrial workflows, marking a clear trend toward domain-specific agents.

• HighByte...

Microsoft and Nvidia are bypassing utilities to lock in gigawatt-scale energy directly.

• Microsoft expands Qcells deal to fund new solar capacity...

Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal with AI agents for contract review and integrations to Thomson Reuters, Harvey, and iManage.

• Spellbook...

AI agent startup Liner secured USD 38M in Series C funding led by LB Investment to advance its technology and drive global enterprise expansion.

• Generalist hit $3B valuation with nearly $200M extension to its $600M Series B.
• Gatik raised $200M led by Qatar Investment Authority after PepsiCo...

Converge AI is consolidating its specialized products—Converge Work, Enter Pro, Framia Pro, and others—into one platform with a shared context layer....

GLM-5.3 hits 32% on TerminalBench-3.0 for $24 per task, nearly matching GPT-5.6 Sol's 35% at $54 while beating Luna's 14% at $21.5. The result spotlights the efficiency race heating up among frontier models.

Hugging Face has been approached for a potential sale at a $13 billion-plus valuation, nearly triple its $4.5 billion 2023 round, reflecting surging demand for AI infrastructure platforms.

Payouts.com's new partnership with Casper Network targets autonomous payment verification for AI agents, a challenge Visa has called one of the...

• Specs: 88 Olympus cores and 1.2 TB/s LPDDR5X bandwidth power agent coordination
• Performance: Up to 1.8x faster than x86 and 1.5x vs AMD Venice per...

AI-native platforms are hitting rapid scale in financial services as investors demand faster profitability and efficiency.

• Insurtech funding...

Velocity's platform converts real-time user messages in conversational AI into intent signals, enabling native ads delivered inside interactions...

WildBrain's acquisition of Personality AI for $11 million cash plus shares and up to $56 million in earnouts adds kid-safe generative AI to its...

Non-tech sectors are shifting agentic AI from pilots to production operations.

• Reveal launched Reveal AI, an agentic eDiscovery suite that plans...

AI agents are shifting from supervised tools to independent operators that consume APIs and deliver complete enterprise work.

• API economy overhaul:...

Nvidia's reported talks to invest in Perplexity at a $30B+ valuation mark a strategic push into AI search as agent infrastructure.

• Revenue surge:...