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Startup Woz raises $6M to build an ‘AI app factory’ that combines agentic and human expertise
Mobile application development startup Woz Inc. has raised $6 million to take on the emerging “vibe coding” industry with an alternative platform that’s said to combine generative artificial intelligence with human oversight at every step to create “business-ready” mobile apps. The seed funding round announced today was led by Cervin Ventures and saw participation from ...
Intel takes another crack at the AI chip market with its new Crescent Island GPUs
Intel Corp. today announced a new artificial intelligence processor aimed at inference workloads, as it renews its efforts to break into the lucrative market for AI accelerators. The new graphics processing unit, codenamed Crescent Island, is optimized for energy efficiency and will be able to support a wide range of AI applications, said Intel Chief Technology ...
Dexory secures $165M to transform warehouse intelligence with its towering AI robots
Robotics-powered autonomous warehouse intelligence startup Dexory Ltd. wants to expand its operations after landing $165 million in fresh funding today. The company, which uses robots, artificial intelligence and digital twin technologies, said the money came from a $100 million Series C round of funding and a $65 million debt facility. LTS Growth and Endeavor Catalyst ...
AppliedAI’s Opus makes compliant and reliable agentic automation available to every company
Abu Dhabi-based AppliedAI, which prides itself on being “the world’s most boring AI company,” today announced the global availability of its compliant agentic business process management tool Opus, enabling enterprises in the most heavily regulated industries to embrace AI automation. Founded in 2021, AppliedAI specializes in automating mission-critical business workloads for highly regulated enterprises in ...
NetApp’s new AI Data Engine extends its intelligent storage infrastructure to AI workloads
Data storage pioneer NetApp Inc. is building on its vision of an “intelligent data infrastructure” platform that’s fit for the artificial intelligence era with the launch of its new AI Data Engine. Announced at the company’s annual user conference NetApp Insight 2025, it’s a comprehensive service that aims to make AI data pipelines simpler, easier ...
California introduces new child safety law aimed at AI chatbots
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law a new bill that regulates artificial intelligence chatbots in an effort to protect children from harm, despite facing opposition from some technology industry and child protection groups. Senate Bill 243 mandates that chatbot operators such as OpenAI, Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. implement safeguards to try ...
Microsoft rolls out its first AI model for image creation
Microsoft Corp. today announced its third internally produced artificial intelligence model as it strives to reduce its reliance on industry powerhouse OpenAI. The new model is called MAI-Image-1, and as the name suggests, it’s the company’s first text-to-image generator. It was designed and developed inhouse by the Microsoft AI team, and is the first from ...
Nvidia unveils its vision for gigawatt ‘AI factories’ based on its Vera Rubin architecture
Nvidia Corp. took to the stage at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose today to talk about how it’s collaborating with more than 70 partners on the design of more efficient “gigawatt AI factories” to support the next generation of artificial intelligence models. The gigawatt AI factories envisioned by Nvidia will utilize Vera Rubin ...
Flex unveils highly integrated data center reference designs to speed up AI infrastructure deployments
The original design manufacturing giant Flex Ltd. says it wants to help data center operators scale their operations more efficiently with what is effectively a new blueprint for gigawatt data centers that can support artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads. The company said it’s bundling its power, cooling and computing systems into a series of ...
Samsung researchers create tiny AI model that shames the biggest LLMs in reasoning puzzles
Researchers from Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd. have created a tiny artificial intelligence model that punches far above its weight on certain kinds of “reasoning” tasks, challenging the industry’s longheld logic that “bigger means better.” Released this week, the Tiny Recursive Model or TRM has just 7 million parameters, far fewer than most other AI models. ...