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Freight shipping artificial intelligence startup Kargo Inc. said Tuesday it has closed on $42 million in new funding in order to scale up deployments of its smart loading dock and warehouse technology. The Series B round was led by Avenir and saw …
Samsung’s Harman to acquire ZF’s advanced driver-assistance systems business for $1.76B
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced it’s planning to acquire ZF Friedrichshafen AG’s advanced driver-assistance systems business in a deal valued at €1.5 billion ($1.76 billion). The South Korean electronics giant said its automotive component and audio subsidiary Harman International will take …
Nvidia hopes to ship first H200 GPUs to China by February, report claims
Nvidia Corp. has told Chinese companies that it’s hoping to be able to ship its first H200 graphics processing units to the country by the middle of February, according to a report today by Reuters. The report cited two people familiar with …
Report: SoftBank scrambles to find $22.5B for OpenAI before the end of the year
SoftBank Group Corp. needs to come up with $22.5 billion by the end of the year to make good on a commitment to its artificial intelligence partner OpenAI Group PBC. Reuters said in an exclusive report today that SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son …
Instacart shuts down dynamic AI pricing experiments following scrutiny of its tests
Instacart operator Maplebear Inc. said today it’s going to cancel a controversial experiment that used artificial intelligence to show different prices for different products to some consumers. The company said in a blog post that retailers will no longer be given access …
Waymo’s robotaxis lose their way as San Francisco traffic lights go blank
Robotaxis operated by Google’s Waymo LLC came to an abrupt halt across San Francisco on Saturday evening after a power outage uncovered a major flaw in the way the autonomous vehicles navigate. The outage was first reported by CNBC and left more …
Report: AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems rekindles IPO plans, targeting early 2026 listing
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. has not given up on its ambitions to go public, and could be preparing to file the paperwork for its U.S. initial public offering as early as this week, according to a report by Reuters late …
Investing analytics software maker Clearwater agrees to be taken private in $8.4B deal
The investment and accounting software firm Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc. said today it will be taken private by the private equity firms Permira Holdings Ltd. and Warburg Pincus LLC in a deal valued at $8.4 billion. The private equity firms said they have …
AI-aided design software startup Neural Concept raises $100M to accelerate product engineering
Swiss artificial intelligence startup Neural Concept SA said today it has raised $100 million in funding to rethink how products are designed and engineered with computer-aided design software tools. The Series C round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives …
OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex advances software engineering with better reasoning and context understanding
OpenAI Group PBC today released a new version of GPT-Codex, its agentic artificial intelligence coding model that’s designed to automate complex software engineering tasks. The latest version, GPT-5.2-Codex, builds upon the capabilities of GPT-5.2, adding improvements in context compaction, large code refactoring, …