Walmart to Offer Employees Customized AI Training Through OpenAI Certification
Walmart will offer its employees free access to the OpenAI Certification program when it launches in 2026. The retailer will offer this access…
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Motion Raises $60 Million for AI Agents Designed for Small Businesses
Motion raised $60 million in recent funding rounds to continue developing its agentic work suite that provides artificial intelligence (AI) applications…
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI eyes $5.5 billion valuation as AI runs hot, FT reports
Nvidia-backed Reflection AI is raising around $1 billion in a financing that will value the startup at up to $5.5…
Apple unveils iPhone 17 Air amid AI race and tariff pressures
Apple unveiled its iPhone 17 lineup on Tuesday, featuring its thinnest smartphone ever, as the tech giant works to prove…
Mistral’s $2B Series C Is Europe’s Largest AI Round By A Lot
While Europe may lag overall in the race for global AI dominance, the region has produced some strong contenders. Among…
GITEX NIGERIA puts a global spotlight on West Africa as government and global tech leaders back Nigeria’s digital future
Exhibitors cite strong investor leads and international visibility as inaugural event brings in participants from 78 countries Lagos, Nigeria –…
Databricks Raises $1 Billion to Launch New Products for Building AI Agents
Data analytics firm Databricks is closing a $1 billion Series K funding round that values it at over $100 billion, up from $62 billion at…
Anthropic Agrees to $1.5 Billion Settlement in AI Copyright Case
Anthropic will reportedly pay $1.5 billion to settle a high-profile copyright violation lawsuit. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup was sued last year by…
OpenAI Aims to Take AI-Made Film to Cannes
OpenAI is reportedly getting into the movie business. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup is lending its resources to help create a…
Cognition Raises $400 Million to Bolster AI Agent Efforts
Artificial intelligence (AI) software code generation firm Cognition is now a $10 billion company. The startup announced Monday (Sept. 8) that it had raised…
Mayo Clinic Uses AI to Detect Pancreatic Cancer Earlier
When Dr. Mark Truty was in college, his father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Doctors told the family the tumor appeared localized…
Retailers Lean on AI to Optimize Inventory
Retailers are navigating a consumer landscape where every misstep in stocking the right product can mean lost sales or excess…
Qualcomm and Google Cloud to Help Automakers Deploy AI Agents
Qualcomm Technologies and Google Cloud have partnered to provide automakers with tools they can use to add artificial intelligence (AI) agents to their…
OpenAI Aims to Take AI-Made Film to Cannes
OpenAI is reportedly getting into the movie business. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup is lending its resources to help create a…
Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training
Technology giant Apple was accused by authors in a lawsuit on Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train its…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Says Enterprises Cautious About Agentic AI
Enterprises may be cautious about adopting agentic artificial intelligence browsers, due to worries about the technology’s autonomy, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said…
Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?
On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if head-scratching, plan to recreate the lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles’ classic…
Germany’s Merz inaugurates Nvidia supercomputer for research
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz inaugurated a supercomputer powered by Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab chips on Friday that is the world’s fourth-fastest,…
Greece, OpenAI agree deal to boost innovation in schools, small businesses
Greece and OpenAI signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to broaden access to AI tools in secondary education and…
Atlassian bets on AI browsers with $610 million deal for The Browser Company
Atlassian (TEAM.O), opens new tab said on Thursday it will acquire New York-based startup The Browser Company for $610 million in cash,…