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Montréal-based OSCP has closed a $6 million USD Series A round to commercialize a chip-scale inertial measurement unit that aims to outperform existing GPS-free navigation systems.
Reporting: betakit.com
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IBM Research and CoreWeave have partnered to develop controls for managing agent workloads.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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NetApp appears to be testing a model where AI agents handle routine storage operations, while humans retain oversight of the boundaries those agents operate within.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Amazon is reportedly preparing to sell $8 billion worth of AI chips to a special-purpose vehicle and then lease them back, according to the Financial Times.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Pittsburgh International Airport has tapped Skild AI to deploy AI-powered robots in a pilot program.
Reporting: wpxi.com
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TOTVS, the Brazilian enterprise software giant that underpins roughly a quarter of the country’s GDP.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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London-based Foundational has emerged from stealth with £8.2 million in pre-seed funding.
Reporting: spacenews.com
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New York-based OuterSignal has raised $22 million to scale its AI-powered customer intelligence platform, according to a recent report.
Reporting: bizjournals.com
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Ottawa has named a 13-member national AI advisory council that includes researchers, corporate executives, and startup operators, such as Yoshua Bengio and Sanja Fidler.
Reporting: betakit.com
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TechCrunch has filled all 100 of its $75 Expo+ passes reserved for workers affected by layoffs, less than two days after opening the offer for Disrupt 2026.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Meta has reportedly let go of the Virtue AI team it hired in June 2026, including its three co-founders, according to Crypto Briefing.
Reporting: cryptobriefing.com
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Instinct has raised $1 billion in a single round.
Reporting: news.crunchbase.com
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Seattle-based Kanu AI has raised $11.7 million to convert the messy, undocumented routines of enterprise employees into custom software.
Reporting: msn.com
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The White House gathered major tech leaders this week to sign an AI safety pledge, followed by President Trump’s executive order rebranding AI as “super intelligence.”
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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FieldAI is set to raise $700 million at a $10 billion valuation, according to Business Insider and The Next Web.
Reporting: businessinsider.com, thenextweb.com, forklog.com
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Two early-stage AI security startups, RemoteThreat and Eve Security, secured fresh funding in September 2026 alongside better-known names like Cyera and Island.
Reporting: crn.com
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Hestus has raised $7.4 million in seed funding to build AI that aims to turn a mechanical engineer’s functional intent into parametric sketches, dimensioned drawings, and constraint sets.
Reporting: unite.ai
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BorderPlus, a startup, is betting that India’s talent surplus can be repackaged as a premium global workforce.
Reporting: inc42.com
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Peripheral, a stealth startup focused on volumetric video capture, has hired Shaun Carrigan, formerly of Meta’s Reality Labs, to lead its product development.
Reporting: betakit.com
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Talkdesk and NewtonX have quantified a problem every enterprise AI leader already feels.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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