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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 …
Microsoft to spend $17.5B on AI infrastructure to support India’s AI ambitions
Microsoft Corp. said today it’s going to invest $17.5 billion into building out its data center and artificial intelligence infrastructure in India, as part of an effort to scale its presence in the South Asian country, which is fast becoming a major …
Mistral AI’s Devstral 2 is an open-weights vibe coding model built to rival the best proprietary systems
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is jumping into the vibe coding market with the launch of Devstral 2, a new model that’s built specifically to handle advanced coding tasks. Announced today, Devstral 2 is a 123 billion-parameter model that comes with …
Snowflake Ventures invests in data trust startup Ataccama to boost agentic reliability
Agentic data trust company Ataccama Corp. said today it has closed on a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount from Snowflake Ventures. The data company said it would help deepen its interaction with Snowflake Inc.’s AI Data Cloud platform and deliver more …
Pryzm raises $12.2M in seed funding to accelerate procurement for defense tech innovators
A procurement startup called Pryzm Dynamics Inc. has raised $12.2 million in a seed funding round led by high-profile investor Andreessen Horowitz’s American Dynamism fund to try to accelerate innovation in the U.S. defense sector. The round, which includes participation from existing …
Trump agrees to let Nvidia sell more powerful H200 GPUs to Chinese companies
U.S. President Donald Trump said today on social media that he will allow Nvidia Corp. to sell its H200 graphics processing units to “approved customers in China,” reversing a policy that had previously prohibited the product from being shipped to the country. …
Report: Nvidia and SoftBank to invest $1B in robotic brains startup Skild AI
Nvidia Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. are reportedly holding talks with the robotic artificial intelligence startup Skild AI over a $1 billion investment. The proposed round would bring the startup’s valuation to more than $14 billion. Skild AI was last valued at …
Antioch lands $4.25M in preseed funding to accelerate autonomous robot testing with digital twins
Robotics software testing startup Antioch Inc. says it’s going to make science fiction a reality after raising $4.25 million in a preseed funding today. Antioch was founded earlier this year by a team of Stanford University alumni that has firsthand experience of …
HPE misses revenue targets as AI server sales slide on customer delays
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is taking on more big business and government customers as it tries to grow its presence in the artificial intelligence server segment, but that strategy has temporarily hurt its sales, it said today as it delivered its latest …
Prophecy accelerates data pipeline construction with quick-start AI agents
Agentic data preparation startup Prophecy Inc. today announced a new “rapid deployment option” for companies that need to get new data pipelines up and running for their most urgent and critical new projects. The company said Enterprise Express is aimed at companies …