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Call center chatbot startup PolyAI raises $86M at a $750M valuation
London-based artificial intelligence startup PolyAI Ltd. said today it has raised $86 million in late-stage funding at a $750 million valuation for its agentic chatbot platform that automates customer interactions for casinos, banks, hospitals and other enterprises. Today’s Series D round was led by Georgian, Hedosophia and Khosla Ventures. Also participating were Nvidia Corp.’s venture ...
Medra, a developer of AI-powered lab robots and scientists to advance drug discovery, raises $52M
Medra, an artificial intelligence startup focused on drug discovery, has raised $52 million in early-stage funding to try to integrate powerful large language models with physical systems that can perform real-world lab experiments and truly automate science. The Series A round, announced today, was led by Human Capital, along with participation from existing investors such as ...
AI inference startup Runware raises $50M to make AI run faster
Artificial intelligence startup Runware Ltd. wants to make high-performance inference accessible to every company and application developer after raising $50 million in an early-stage funding round. Announced today, the Series A round is backed by some significant investors, including Dawn Capital, which led it, plus Comcast Ventures, Insight Partners, a16z Speedrun and Speedinvest. It brings Runware’s ...
Broadcom’s stock falls despite another crushing earnings and revenue beat
Chipmaking giant Broadcom Inc. today posted another stellar earnings and revenue beat in its fourth quarter, before following up with strong guidance driven by the market’s insatiable demand for artificial intelligence processors. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.95 per share, easily beating the analyst consensus estimate of $1.86. Revenue ...
Vectara’s new Tool Validator promises to prevent AI agent planning errors
A startup called Vectara Inc. wants to help enterprises safeguard themselves against any potential damage or problems caused by artificial intelligence agents, and its solution is yet another agent. The company today announced the immediate availability of its new Tool Validator agent, the second in its family of “Guardian Agents.” They’re designed to enforce governance ...
Couchbase puts AI data and services into a single platform to simplify agent development
Cloud database company Couchbase Inc. said today it’s trying to reduce the complexity of agentic application development with the launch of a new suite of AI Services that bundle model hosting and data processing capabilities into a single platform. The company is looking to streamline the development of artificial intelligence-powered “agents” that can automate complex ...
Synopsys records record-breaking full-year revenue as it beats expectations again
Shares of the chip design automation software company Synopsys Inc. were trending higher in late trading today after it beat expectations on earnings and revenue and offered strong profit guidance for the current quarter and year. The company reported fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.90 per share, ahead ...
Shares of Oracle slide 10% on revenue miss and rising capital expenditures
Shares of Oracle Corp. dropped more than 10% in extended trading today after the cloud and database giant missed expectations on quarterly revenue while going full-steam ahead on its ongoing artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout. The company reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.26 per share, easily beating Wall Street’s target ...
AgentField aims to fix agentic AI’s coordination crisis with cryptographic IDs and Kubernetes-style orchestration
Agentic artificial intelligence identity startup AgentField today is launching its platform as an Apache 2.0 open-source project so it can do for AI agents what Kubernetes did for software containers. Its mission is to transform AI agents into “scalable and governed production infrastructure” by solving what it says is a “coordination crisis” in autonomous software. To ...
Channel3 raises $6M to make every product sold on the web discoverable by AI agents
A database infrastructure startup called Channel3 is building a catalog that it says will eventually list every single product available to buy across the entire internet, in order to make them discoverable by artificial intelligence chatbots. The startup announced its goal after closing on a $6 million seed funding round today, led by Matrix. Ludlow ...