How companies adopt AI: strategy, ROI, case studies, and enterprise AI trends for business and technology leaders.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, 2026 — Feathery, an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, has announced that it has raised $30 million in total funding, including its recently completed Series A, from Portage Ventures, Index Ventures, Allstate Strategic Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, Erie Strategic Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures. The company is one of the…
Sand, loose gravel, wet grass, and steep slopes can quickly expose the limits of a humanoid robot’s balance. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers developed a machine learning framework called “Learn to Teach” that trained a bipedal robot to navigate varied outdoor terrain and slippery indoor surfaces using one controller. Presented at the IEEE International Conference…
Product listings in AWS Marketplace gained new AI-based features last month in anticipation of continued growth in the use of enterprise agents. Amazon Web Services Inc. unveiled AI-assisted product listings in Product Assistant chat, a feature that helps independent software vendors and consulting partners develop comprehensive product listings for AWS Marketplace using existing digital assets….
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 17, 2026 — Intel and Google Cloud have announced an expansion of their previously announced multi-year strategic collaboration, which would accelerate Intel’s enterprise-wide digital evolution through the deployment of Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud. Intel will integrate advanced, Gemini-powered generative AI across its global workforce, helping to scale…
Your next Pixel may not need an internet connection for some of its most advanced AI features. At Google I/O Connect India 2026, Google introduced Gemma 4 E2B for TPU, a lightweight language model designed to run directly on the processor inside its Pixel 10 lineup. The company says the model can analyze text, images,…
Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced a new artificial intelligence agent that assists with packaging and system design, the step after silicon has been customized and produced, marking how chips and components get used in electronic devices. AuraStack, a super-agent within the company’s Allegro AI studio, provides agentic…
Fireworks’s growth accelerates as companies look beyond expensive closed models from frontier labs and move to building specialized AI that can better reflect the knowledge, workflows, and customer context unique to their businesses SAN MATEO, Calif., July 16, 2026 — Fireworks today announced a $1.505 billion Series D round at a $17.5 billion valuation. The round…
Humanoid robots are not taking Hyundai factory jobs in South Korea yet, but workers are already fighting for protection before they can. Hyundai Motor employees staged a three-day partial strike after wage talks stalled. Alongside demands over pay and retirement, the union wants guarantees against job losses and lower income as the automaker prepares to…
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Inc. today launched its first foundation model with the release of Inkling, making its full open weights available to developers so they can fine-tune it as they wish. Inkling is the first model fully trained from scratch by Thinking Machines, coming after a year in which the company mostly made…
July 16, 2026 — The mission of Thinking Machines Lab is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. The company has developed a platform that lets anyone customize models, previewed an AI system built for interactive collaboration, and published novel research. Thinking Machines is advancing its mission by releasing a model trained from scratch…