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Tabby raises $1M pre-seed to automate small-business bookkeeping with AI
Founder Ahad Ali left a 20-person accounting firm to build software that removes the accountant from the loop entirely.
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com
Muse users hit an error message Sunday night citing unauthorized AI agent access, cutting off the assistant's checkout path.
Nvidia stakes Egypt and Africa AI push as four factories come online
Africa holds 18% of the world's population but under 1% of data center capacity. Four AI factories and 656MW in the pipeline aim to close the gap.
SoftBank launches over $10B bond sale to fund OpenAI investment
The Japanese conglomerate is tapping debt markets to finance its escalating commitment to OpenAI, per a term sheet reviewed by Reuters.
Vals raises $40M from Andreessen Horowitz to remake AI benchmarking
The two-year-old startup keeps its tests private, sells evaluations to model makers, and grew revenue 8x year over year.
Anthropic confirms it runs a Bay Area wet lab for biology experiments
The AI company is running physical biology experiments in-house, months after buying stealth biotech Coefficient Bio.
Vantora raises $100M to build physical AI startups for corporate partners
The firm formerly known as UP.Labs is dropping the outside market and building sovereign AI ventures for J.B. Hunt, Porsche, and Alaska Airlines.
Manus targets $4B valuation in $500M raise after Meta deal collapse
The Chinese AI agent startup is back on its own after Beijing blocked a $2B Meta acquisition — and doubling its valuation in the process.
Disney hires Character.AI's Karandeep Anand as its first CTO
The Magic Kingdom sent Character.AI a cease and desist a year ago; now its former CEO runs Disney's tech stack.
Napster returns as an AI startup, cloning teachers for Dubai classrooms
The file-sharing brand, bought by Infinite Reality for $207M in 2025, is now building digital twins of instructors for Gems Education.
FAA taps Air Space Intelligence for $875M AI air traffic system
The 12-year SMART contract deploys a cloud-based AI to predict flight conflicts, starting in the Washington, D.C. region.
Instinct and Meta's Muse add phone calling as AI agents race for parity
Instinct Concierge and Muse's outbound calling both landed September 16, closing a gap rivals had used to differentiate.
Applied Materials commits $5B to India as Modi opens chip summit
The US semiconductor equipment maker's pledge lands on the first day of India's flagship chip event, deepening the country's push to build a domestic fab base.
Treble raises $18M to build a physics-based simulator for voice AI
The Iceland startup is selling synthetic acoustic data to model labs and hardware makers, with Amazon and Logitech already on the customer list.
Snap teams with Salesforce and Nvidia to push AR glasses into the enterprise
Snap is bundling Salesforce's Agentforce and Nvidia's AI stack into its Spectacles platform, betting that workplaces will buy what consumers wouldn't.
Apple plots return to server market in 2029 with M8 Ultra and Nvidia links
Fifteen years after killing Xserve, Apple is reportedly building AI servers powered by up to four M8 Ultra chips and Nvidia's NVLink Fusion.
OpenAI and AARP launch ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults
The free, in-person sessions will run in 10 U.S. cities, targeting practical AI skills for a demographic largely absent from ChatGPT's user base.
Vishal Sikka's Hang Ten adds $53M to seed five weeks after first close
The four-month-old AI services startup from the ex-Infosys CEO has now raised $85M, with Temasek's Xora leading the extension.
OpenAI unveils Sponsored Agents, its first paid advertising format
The ChatGPT maker moves into advertising with agent-based sponsorships and marketer tools tied to HubSpot and Shopify.
Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI launch alliance for grid-flexible AI data centers
The AI Energy Management Alliance debuts with 18 members including Anthropic, National Grid, AES and NRG to speed AI power interconnections.
SK Hynix in talks with Intel to make memory chips in the US
The South Korean memory giant would use Intel's US fabs for the first time, a potential shift in where HBM for AI accelerators gets built.
Jensen Huang tells Dreamforce every enterprise is becoming an AI company
Nvidia and Salesforce unveiled Koa, a CRM reasoning model built on Nemotron 3 Super, trained on 27 years of CRM data with 3x fewer errors.
Philadelphia activists push data center moratorium as AI buildout hits scarred cities
Grays Ferry residents who lived next to the East Coast's largest oil refinery are organizing against two proposed AI data center sites.
Meta One bundles pair app subscriptions with paid AI usage starting at $7.99
Meta rolled out seven Meta One tiers globally, from $7.99 to $499 per month, bundling Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook subscriptions with more Muse AI generations.
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