AI Startups
Kombai Launches AI Agent Built Specifically for Frontend Developers
Kombai also features best-in-class Figma interpretation abilities and has built-in coding best practices for 30+ frontend libraries.
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IT
Cognizant Partners with WRITER to Deploy Secure AI Agents at Scale
The partnership combines Cognizant’s industry knowledge with WRITER’s agentic AI platform.
Datacentre
OpenAI Picks Norway for Its First European Data Centre
The site will be developed and designed by Nscale.
Acquisition
Salesforce to Acquire Bluebirds to Boost AI Sales Prospecting
The acquisition is expected to close in Salesforce’s fiscal Q3 2026.
Funding
Positron AI Raises $51.6 mn to Rethink Inference Hardware for the AI Era
The company claims Atlas offers 3.5x better performance per dollar and 66% lower power usage than NVIDIA’s H100.
Gaming
iQOO Appoints 25-Year-Old as Chief Gaming Officer
A chess prodigy in his early years, Vedang discovered gaming at age 10 and soon found himself captivated by esports.
Leadership Moves
Neo4j Appoints AWS Veteran Ish Thukral as General Manager for India and SAARC
Thukral’s appointment follows the opening of an official entity in India in 2024
AI News
Meta's SuperIntelligence Models Won't be Open Source, Signals End of Llama Era
Zuckerberg is doubling down on Meta’s pursuit of superintelligence, committing significant resources and strategic focus to build the next generation of AI.
AI Models
Google's AlphaEarth Redefines How we Map the world with AI
In tests across Europe, AlphaEarth delivered predictions in under 10 days, compared to the 12-month lag of traditional models
Developer's Corner
GitHub Copilot Surpasses 20 Million Users, Now Used by 90% of Fortune 100
AI coding tools like Copilot are among the few generative AI products generating meaningful revenue.
Quantum
Keysight Delivers World’s Largest Commercial Quantum Control System to Japan’s AIST
The system underwent extensive validation to ensure it met AIST’s strict technical demands.
Startups
Drizz Raises $2.7 mn to Reinvent App Testing with Vision AI
Drizz allows QA teams to write and maintain end-to-end tests using plain English prompts, run tests across iOS and Android.