The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption–tech is just the first industry in line. As generative AI and automation tools mature, the shifts currently reshaping software engineering and product management will inevitably…
Summary published by Artificial intelligence – MIT Technology Review · 20 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
Artificial intelligence research lab Flapping Airplanes Inc. today announced it has raised $1 billion in new funding, about a year after it was founded. Investors valued the startup at $6 billion in the deal, Bloomberg reported. No commercial product has come out of the lab yet. Flapping Airplanes is trying to build AI models that […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 21 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
Big Tech engineers are turning to fintech in 2026, targeting workflows like investment research, trading, accounts receivable, and financial data. Using CB Insights People data, we profiled 9 technical founders who came from Google, Meta, Microsoft, AWS, TikTok, and IBM …
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Financial sovereignty is becoming a practical question for nations building AI infrastructure: Who controls the systems, and where does the money go? As AI moves into everyday business applications, those decisions extend from the technology supply chain to the communities hosting data centers. Era4 Ltd. is approaching that challenge through a network of U.K.-owned AI […]
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Stockholm-based legal artificial intelligence startup Legora AB today announced it has raised a notable $550 million in late-stage funding at an $8.8 billion post-money valuation. Atreides Management led the Series E round, which also brought participation from new investors Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Glade Brook Capital Partners and J.P. Morgan. […]
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Fuse Energy, a British energy company, has opened reservations for Fuse Compute, its first commercial AI product, offering access to NVIDIA GPUs in UK data centres powered by Fuse – marking a new step into AI infrastructure by the EnergyTech startup. Interested parties can register interest and reserve capacity today, with the first GPUs slated […]
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YGO, a Berlin-based startup building an AI infrastructure layer for the travel industry, raised €8 million in a Series A round. The round was led by Ventech, with participation from Sake Bosch, Caesar and Business Angels. In August 2024, the company announced it had secured €2.5 million in funding led by GetAway Group. “Online travel […]
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An artificial intelligence startup called ASI Inc., which builds complex models of air traffic and energy grids, said today it has scored $325 million in a Series C funding, bringing its valuation to a cool $3 billion. The round was led by Spark Capital and joined by participants including Citadel Securities, Craft Ventures, Meritech Capital, […]
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Arda Industries Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for factories, launched today with $232 million in funding. Accel, Altimeter, Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures led the investment. They were joined by XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC, SVAngel and Felicis. Arda is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Bob McGrew, the former Chief Research Officer […]
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Robot dexterity startup Eka Robotics Inc. said today it has raised $150 million in new funding at a reported valuation of $1.45 billion. Eka offers an artificial intelligence model for robotic manipulation that works from force data as well as camera images. The company calls it a vision-force-action model. Force sensors in a custom gripper […]
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Enterprise AI is crossing from experimentation into production, and financial services firms are among the first to prove it can pay off at scale. As token consumption climbs, finance chiefs are now treating AI less as a science project and more as a budget line that has to earn its keep. That shift is changing […]
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The founders of aerospace’s newest startups aren’t all coming from aerospace. They’re building across the sector, from autonomous aircraft and drone defenses to satellite antennas and data centers in space. Their backgrounds range from university research to scaling micromobility fleets, …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 20 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗
Tianwei Liu, CEO of StraitsX, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? We operate in the emerging market …
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Ben Plomion, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Pearl, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? We build AI …
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Robotics talent, customers and investment are concentrating in Boston, and what that means for the U.S. physical AI industry.
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