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Information technology services company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. today announced it agreed to acquire Astreya Inc., a San Jose-based information technology managed services firm specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and data center operations. The deal is worth about $600 million, the company …
Salesforce introduces Agentforce Operations to automate outdated back-office tasks
Salesforce Inc. today launched Agentforce Operations, an artificial intelligence system designed to extend specialized AI agents into the back office to automate manual work. Workflow automation tools have existed for a long time — not because office workers are lazy, but because …
Certifyde raises $2M to help guide businesses in adopting and scaling AI
Certifyde Inc. today announced it has raised $2 million to help businesses turn investment in artificial intelligence into broader adoption and fluency among rank and file. According to a 2025 report from McKinsey & Co., although 88% of companies surveyed said that they had adopted AI across their organizations, only 7% indicated they had …
Aviatrix launches AI agent containment platform for cloud workloads
Aviatrix Inc. today announced the launch of a new platform designed to contain artificial intelligence agents and enforce security controls and communications across AI workloads without changing AI agents or code. The company said the launch comes in response to an increasing …
Nvidia introduces Nemotron 3 Nano Omni with vision and speech for powerful agentic AI use
Nvidia Corp. today launched a powerful reasoning artificial intelligence model that unifies text, vision and speech, capable of acting as the “brains” of faster, smarter agentic AI applications. Dubbed Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, and weighing in at about 30 billion parameters, the new state-of-the-art model uses mixture-of-experts architecture to deliver …
Qdrant Cloud launches high-performance vector database features for AI workloads
Open-source vector database startup Qdrant Solutions GmbH today announced three new enterprise-grade capabilities on its cloud service to address performance, availability and compliance requirements for artificial intelligence and always-on retrieval needs. The new services are graphics processing unit-accelerated indexing, Multi-AZ clusters and audit logging. As more AI systems …
Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M at $1.5B valuation to deploy embodied AI technology
Pudu Technology Inc., a leading developer of intelligent service robotics, has raised nearly $150 million in a new funding round. With this capital raise, announced Thursday, the company exceeded $1.5 billion in valuation and has reached over $300 million in total funding. The architect of a variety …
Cisco unveils universal switch for the quantum networking era
Networking technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a new networking switch for quantum systems that routes quantum information between computers while preserving quantum state. The Cisco Universal Quantum Switch, a working prototype, is the company’s latest proof of concept aimed at …
Copperhelm dives deep into automation to build enterprise cloud defenses
Copperhelm Inc., a startup building agentic artificial intelligence for cloud cybersecurity, today announced its launch with $7 million in seed funding led by TLV Partners. ToDay Ventures, ICON and SaaS Ventures Israel also participated in funding the company’s launch. Notable angel investors joining alongside included Kfir Tishbi, Or Hiltch, Guy …
Yutori launches Delegate to turn AI agents into proactive web workers
Yutori Inc., a startup that develops autonomous artificial intelligence agents for everyday knowledge-work tasks on the web, today announced the launch of Delegate, which allows users to offload and “delegate” tasks. Delegate is an eager AI agent that the company says never sleeps …