Meta and enterprise AI startup Sierra are leading Walmart, Stripe, Shopify, Genesys, Instinct and Rocket in developing an open standard for personal AI agents, aiming to define how...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is poised to raise more than CNY80 billion (approx. US$11.9 billion) in its latest funding round, as it builds capital ahead of a potential domestic initial...
Chicony Electronics said it has entered the supply chain of a US robotics startup, expanding into embodied AI and physical AI as it seeks higher-value markets. The move could strengthen...
At IROS 2026, one of the world's top robotics conferences, held in Pittsburgh at the end of September, a robot startup's booth featured a dual-arm robot catching, in midair, sticks...
Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed startup that has cast itself as a US counterweight to China's open-model developers, has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model, which it says...
Anthropic has warned that GLM-5.3, the latest model from Chinese AI startup Z.ai, approached Claude Mythos Preview on an exploit-development benchmark but lacks sufficient safety protections,...
Anthropic is reportedly eyeing an IPO as early as mid-November that could become the biggest IPO to date. The AI startup's run-up to the listing coincides with a shaky relationship...
Semiconductor startup Volantis has raised US$88 million in Series A funding to develop an AI inference architecture that uses photonic interconnect technology to address memory bottlenecks...
Following its return to independent operations, AI startup Manus unveiled two new products in late September 2026: Manus 2.0 and "Cue," a personal agentic AI application. The product...
Silicon Valley data center optical interconnect startup CScale emerged from stealth on September 30 after raising US$145 million in a Series C funding round backed by Nvidia and Intel...
Taiwan energy management startup NextDrive said that it has secured the No. 1 market share in Japan's home energy management system (HEMS) segment and has received key support from...
OpenAI said it detected and blocked an organized adversarial distillation attack, with some activity linked to Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI. The company said it first spotted the...
US rare-earth magnet startup Vulcan Elements has reportedly won a supply contract for the US Army's SkyFoundry drone program, underscoring Washington's push to localize drone production...
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco AI research startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about US$8.2 billion. The chipmaker says it wants the...
