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Networking technology startup Ayar Labs Inc. said today it has extended its recent late-stage funding round to $650 million after raising an additional $150 million from an unnamed investor. The company originally disclosed it had raised $500 million in its Series E …
OpenAI targets Wall Street bankers with a new version of ChatGPT
OpenAI Group PBC is going after Wall Street with a new version of ChatGPT that’s tailor made for financial tasks such as analysis and calculations. Predictably called ChatGPT for Financial Services, it’s designed to combine rich financial data with the powerful reasoning …
Oracle’s stock moves higher on surging cloud infrastructure revenue growth
Oracle Corp. comfortably beat first-quarter expectations today, driven by strong growth in its cloud infrastructure business, and that boosted its stock by about 4% in late trading. The database giant reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.92 per …
Exclusive: Cfo.ai launches an agentic CFO for business founders
Artificial intelligence startup Runway Financial Inc. said today it has decided to pivot away from accounting software and rebrand itself as cfo.ai. That decision marks the launch of its new flagship product, an AI agent called Ari that’s designed to act as …
CoreWeave launches new engineering service to help enterprises implement physical AI
Artificial intelligence-native cloud infrastructure giant CoreWeave Inc. says it’s going to help enterprise engineering teams to implement AI directly into their workflows through its new Physical AI Field Engineering service. Announced today, the new service is meant to bridge the massive gap …
AWS Elemental adds multiview, ad insertion to help broadcasters personalize and commercialize livestreams
Amazon Web Services Inc. is bringing artificial intelligence into live video streams within the AWS Elemental infrastructure service to help broadcasters meet viewers’ expectations of content-aware streaming and hyper-personalization. Announced ahead of this week’s IBC 2026 conference in Amsterdam, an event that …
Piston Technologies raises $15M to expand its cardless payments tech for gas-guzzling truckers
Piston Technologies Inc., a startup that has built a cardless payments system for commercial trucking companies to buy gas for their fleets, said today it has raised $15 million in Series A capital. The round was led by FPV Ventures and saw …
Certinia launches new System of Action as the foundation of autonomous service operations
Professional services automation and financial management software company Certinia Inc. today rolled out what it calls a “System of Action” as part of an effort to accelerate the adoption of autonomous artificial intelligence agents in the enterprise. The new System of Action …
AI-native CRM startup Lightfield raises $47M to build an AI agent-ready replacement for Salesforce
Lightfield, an artificial intelligence-native customer relationship management startup, has ambitions to take on industry giants such as Salesforce Inc. and Hubspot Inc. after raising $47 million in early-stage funding today. The Series A round was led by the high-profile venture capital firm …
Euno raises $23M to build the AI-native context brain for autonomous agents
Israeli artificial intelligence startup Euno says it’s trying to build an AI-native “context brain” for autonomous agents after raising $23 million in an early-stage funding today. The Series A round was led by N47 and saw participation from a host of other …