Funding
UK Autonomous Driving Startup Wayve Raises $1.2 Bn from NVIDIA, Uber & Microsoft
The fresh capital boosts Wayve’s valuation to $8.6 billion.
The Left Shift Bureau
Partnerships
IBM & Deepgram Partner to Bring Advanced Voice AI to Enterprise Workflows
Deepgram’s industry-leading speech-to-text and text-to-speech technologies will be woven directly into watsonx Orchestrate.
Quantum
Cloudflare Delivers First Complete Post-Quantum SASE Platform
The milestone comes as quantum computing advances threaten to render traditional encryption obsolete.
Agentic AI
AWS Launches Strands Labs to Boost Open-Source Agentic AI Innovation
Strands Labs includes three main experimental projects: Robots, Robots Sim, and AI Functions.
Funding
SambaNova Systems Unveils Fastest Chip for Agentic AI, Secures $350 Mn, Partners with Intel
SambaNova claims this enables enterprises to run larger models with higher responsiveness and lower operational costs.
Agentic AI
UiPath Unveils New AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions at ViVE 2026
The tools are designed to help both providers and payers streamline critical processes such as medical records summarisation, claim denial handling, and prior authorisation.
Partnerships
Meta & AMD Strike Major AI Infrastructure Deal for 6 GW of Compute
Shipments for the first GPU deployments are slated to begin in the second half of 2026.
AI Developments
Meta Researcher’s AI Agent Goes Rogue, Sparks Fresh Questions Over On-Device Automation
The now-viral post on X has sparked fresh debate over the reliability of autonomous AI agents after her inbox-management experiment spiralled out of control.
AI News
Anthropic Exposes “Industrial-Scale” Distillation Attacks on Claude From China
Anthropic said the attackers created roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated more than 16 million exchanges with Claude
Databases
Databricks Rolls Out General Availability of Zerobus Ingest to Simplify Real-Time Data Streaming
Zerobus Ingest removes the need for brokers, partitions, consumer group monitoring, and maintenance, enabling teams to focus on deriving insights faster
Funding
Kris@Work Raises $3 Mn Seed Funding to Build the New AI-Native Go-To-Market Execution Platform
The company plans to deploy the fresh capital toward expanding its enterprise customer base, strengthening go-to-market partnerships, and completing development.
Consulting
OpenAI Unveils “Frontier Alliances” to Scale Enterprise AI Adoption with Top Consultancies
Under the alliances, each consulting partner will establish dedicated practice groups certified on OpenAI technology and work alongside OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering teams.