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The business of AI — funding rounds, acquisitions, enterprise adoption, and market moves. Who is investing, who is partnering, and how AI is reshaping company strategy and the wider economy.
Respond.io, a Malaysian customer conversation management platform, raised $62.5 million in Series B funding led by Camber Partners, with a 169% year-over-year revenue growth and $35 million in annual recurring revenue.
About 200 Stanford students walked out and others booed Google CEO Sundar Pichai during his graduation speech over the company’s ties to Israeli military contracts.
Niantic Spatial, using data from Pokémon Go players, is helping military drones navigate without GPS. A 2021 update incentivized players to scan real-world locations, generating billions of visual data points.
Sarvam, a Bengaluru-based AI startup, raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, becoming India’s newest unicorn.
Salesforce announced a $3.6 billion acquisition of Fin, an AI customer service platform, to enhance its Agentforce platform.
Cohere is moving to 100 New Oxford Street, nearly tripling its current office size to support R&D growth in the UK.
Google announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama.
NewCore, a cybersecurity startup, secured $66 million in funding to address the challenge of managing AI agents as digital employees, with a valuation of $300 million post-investment.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns that a small number of AI systems could capture all economic returns, risking industry-wide knowledge loss.
Meta has licensed face-recognition software from Rank One Computing, a company with government clients, for use in its smart glasses, according to a software license obtained by WIRED.
Tech layoffs hit 150,000 globally this year, with AI cited as the primary reason, according to TrueUp.
OpenAI announced a $150 million initiative to expand AI adoption by building a global partner ecosystem, aiming to train 300,000 certified consultants by year-end.