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NetApp CEO George Kurian has staked the company’s AI strategy on Novus, a new architecture designed to help enterprises move AI workloads from pilot to production. The pitch appears to center on…
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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India has set aside $25 billion to invest in deep-tech startups, a move that could reshape its position in semiconductors, AI, and space tech amid a widening gap with other major economies. The…
Reporting: msn.com
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Maven Robotics emerged from stealth in September with a $100 million Series A, and reports suggest it may be positioning for an initial public offering. If confirmed, the move would mark one of the…
Reporting: roboticsandautomationnews.com
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Pocket Entertainment founder Rohan Nayak has stated that Sherpa, an AI-powered long-form fiction writing harness, played a key role in developing a valuable intellectual property. The disclosure…
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Amazon Web Services has quietly embedded the open-source DuckDB analytical engine inside Aurora PostgreSQL, letting applications query live transactions and historical Iceberg data lake records from…
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Apollo has rolled out an AI-powered platform designed to pull sales workflows—data enrichment, outreach, and analytics—into a single interface. The launch targets what the company calls "tool sprawl,"
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Clio has acquired an unnamed AI startup building tools for judges, the company announced Wednesday. The deal marks Clio’s first foray into courtroom-focused technology, extending its legal AI…
Reporting: reuters.com
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CScale has emerged from stealth with a $145 million Series C led by Nvidia and Intel Capital, an unusual pairing that signals how high the stakes have become for the optical interconnect layer in…
Reporting: unite.ai
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Aligator, a startup building AI agents to automate public relations workflows, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Qatar Development Bank and Next Ventures, with…
Reporting: usatoday.com
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Modulate has raised $25 million to scale Velma, its "audio-native voice intelligence model," which the company says achieves 95% precision across 76 genres. The round, led by Future Ventures,…
Reporting: digitalmusicnews.com
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Instinct has raised $1 billion in a Series C round at a $10 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital and Benchmark, with participation from Coatue. The deal, disclosed today, is the largest ever…
Reporting: techstory.in
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Gong has rolled out AI agents that automatically trigger sales workflows based on third-party data and real-time conversation signals. The update, branded Mission Callisto, extends the company’s…
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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