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D-Wave introduces quantum blockchain research that could greatly reduce energy use
D-Wave Quantum Inc. has released a new research paper outlining a novel blockchain architecture that integrates quantum capabilities with traditional blockchain technology to enhance security and increase efficiency. In the paper, “Blockchain with Proof of Quantum Work,” introduced Thursday, D-Wave built and tested a “proof of quantum work” algorithm that uses quantum computation to generate ...
Silicon Data raises $4.7M for AI-driven GPU market insights
Silicon Data, a company providing market intelligence and performance benchmarking for graphics processing units used in artificial intelligence compute, announced Thursday it raised $4.7 million in seed funding co-led by DRW and Jump Trading Group. Woodside AI, Wintermute Ventures, Sancus Ventures and SoGal Ventures also participated in the round. As AI adoption has grown, companies ...
AI-driven commercial contractor platform BuildOps raises $127M at $1B valuation
BuildOps Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered platform that simplifies project management and service for commercial contractors, today announced it has raised $127 million in new funding, raising its valuation to $1 billion. The Series C round was led by Meritech Capital Partners. New investors BOND Capital and Schneider Electric’s SE Ventures also participated, joined by existing ...
Halliday raises $20M to build AI-driven blockchain agents to do away with smart contracts
Artificial intelligence-focused blockchain protocol startup Halliday International Inc. has raised $20 million in early funding to help fund the development of an agentic AI capability that will help developers eliminate the need for writing smart contracts. The company’s Series A funding round, announced Tuesday, was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z crypto venture capital arm, with participation from the ...
Nvidia announces new AI models for smarter, more adaptable robots
Nvidia Corp. today unveiled new technologies and artificial intelligence models that help developers more quickly build smarter robots, including humanoids, and self-driving vehicles by automating the complex modeling and data work. These included Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1, the world’s first open-source, fully customizable generalist foundation model for humanoid robot brains, the GR00T blueprint for generating ...
Nvidia expands Omniverse to simulate gigawatt AI data centers and drive robotic factories
Nvidia Corp. today announced that its hyper-realistic real-time 3D graphics collaboration and simulation platform Omniverse is expanding with several major improvements and partnerships to accelerate industrial digitization with robotics and artificial intelligence. Leading industrial software and service providers including Ansys Inc., SAP SE, Siemens AG and Schneider Electric SE are integrating the software into their solutions ...
Google Gemini introduces collaborative canvas and podcast-like audio overviews
Google LLC is adding features to its artificial intelligence Gemini chatbot today that will allow it to collaborate with users in a new interactive canvas for documents and code. “Canvas simplifies the entire coding process, allowing you to focus on creating, editing and sharing your code and design in one place, without the hassle of ...
Zoom introduces new AI capabilities and agents with major release
Zoom Video Communications Inc. is upgrading its platform today with agentic artificial intelligence capabilities and skills for its Zoom AI Companion to assist with video call interactions. The company announced AI enhancements to its products including Zoom Meetings, Phone, Team Chat, Docs and Contact Center that will allow AI agents to take complex actions and ...
Google Cloud is helping gaming startups use AI to change the industry
Artificial intelligence is making significant advances in the gaming industry by streamlining development and creating more immersive experiences, from reactive characters to dynamic environments and personalized gameplay. At Game Developer Conference 2025 today, Google Cloud revealed how AI startups and AI-native gaming studios are using its AI architecture to build games in new ways to ...
Cohere releases a low-cost AI model that requires only two GPUs
Artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc. today unveiled Command A, its latest large language model capable of high-performance capabilities for business needs with minimal hardware requirements than competitors’ AI models. The startup touted the LLM as capable of exceeding leading proprietary and open models such as OpenAI GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3. The company added that in private ...