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Cadence Extends Its AI Design Agents from Chips to Circuit Boards and Packages
Cadence introduces AuraStack to coordinate planning, layout, multiphysics analysis and manufacturing checks across circuit-board and chip-package design.
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Rolls-Royce and Bombardier Bring Live Engine Health Data to Global 5500 and 6500 Jets
Rolls-Royce and Bombardier connect up to 10,000 engine parameters with real-time aircraft data to support predictive maintenance on selected Global jets.
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Wyndham and Barclays Add a $395 Premium Card to a Four-Card Rewards Lineup
Wyndham and Barclays expand their rewards-card portfolio to four products, adding a $395 premium tier with hotel earning, status and travel credits.
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DHL Lets a Shipment Photo Do the First Draft of Customs Paperwork
DHL Express adds computer-vision item identification to MyDHL+, turning shipment photos into draft customs descriptions for customers to review.
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Manifest OS Raises $60 Million to Build Law Firms That Charge for Outcomes, Not Hours
Manifest OS raises $60 million at a $750 million valuation to expand AI-native law firms combining fixed fees, attorney review and shared operations.
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Lyft Picks Nvidia Technology for the Mapping and Fleet Systems Behind Its Autonomous Push
Lyft selects Nvidia AI, mapping and DRIVE Hyperion technology for a future hybrid network combining autonomous vehicles with human-driven rides.
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OpenAI Frontier Gives Enterprise Agents Their Own Permissions and Institutional Memory
OpenAI launches Frontier for enterprise agents, combining shared business context, execution, evaluation and controlled identities on one platform.
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Upscale AI Lands $200 Million as AI Clusters Outgrow Their Networks
Upscale AI closes a $200 million Series A to commercialise an open networking stack spanning silicon, systems and software for large AI clusters.
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Bilt Adds Mortgage Rewards and Three New Cards to Its Housing Payments Program
Bilt launches three cards spanning zero to $495 annual fees and extends its housing rewards from rent to eligible mortgage payments for US members.
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Flow Engineering Raises $23 Million to Keep Hardware Requirements Connected
Flow Engineering raises a $23 million Sequoia-led Series A to connect requirements, decisions, changes and verification across complex hardware programmes.
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ASML Invests €1.3 Billion and Brings Mistral AI Into Chipmaking
ASML leads Mistral AI's €1.7 billion Series C with a €1.3 billion investment and a partnership spanning chipmaking products, research and operations.
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Amazon Sends the First 27 Production Kuiper Satellites Into Orbit
Amazon's first 27 production Kuiper satellites begin an 80-plus-launch campaign to build a 3,236-spacecraft low-Earth-orbit broadband network.
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OpenAI Raises $40 Billion With SoftBank Taking the Lead
OpenAI raises $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation in a SoftBank-led, staged financing intended for research, infrastructure and wider deployment.
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Stripe's Employee Share Sale Values the Payments Company at $91.5 Billion
Stripe's employee tender values the private payments company at $91.5 billion after its 2024 payment volume reached $1.4 trillion, up by 38%.
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Microsoft Introduces Majorana 1 as Its Route to Scalable Quantum Machines
Microsoft introduced the eight-qubit Majorana 1 processor and a topological architecture it says could eventually scale to one million qubits.
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Harvey Adds $300 Million to Bring Legal AI Into More Professional Work
Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation to expand its governed legal-AI platform, professional workflows and international operations.
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ShopMy Raises $77.5 Million to Make Creator Marketing Measurable
ShopMy raises a $77.5 million Series B to expand measurable creator commerce after reporting $352 million in platform sales and average brand ROI of 5x.
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Whatnot Secures $265 Million for the Next Stage of Live Shopping
Whatnot raised $265 million at a $4.97 billion valuation to expand its live-shopping marketplace, seller tools, product categories and international reach.
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SAP Raises Its 2024 Outlook as Cloud ERP Growth Accelerates
SAP raised its 2024 cloud, profit and cash-flow outlook after third-quarter cloud ERP revenue and current cloud backlog recorded double-digit growth.
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Headline Opens an $865 Million Growth Fund for Later-Stage Technology Companies
Headline’s $865 million Global Growth fund backs technology companies from Series B onward with local teams, flexible capital and proprietary research tools.
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Apple Brings On-Device Intelligence and Camera Control to iPhone 16
Apple’s iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus combine the A18 chip, Camera Control and updated imaging hardware with a phased rollout of Apple Intelligence.
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Economist Education Adds an Applied AI Course for Business Professionals
Economist Education’s applied AI course helps business professionals connect practical use with productivity, judgment, governance and ethical risk controls.
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Rocketlane Adds $24 Million to Build a Post-Sales Platform for Professional Services
Rocketlane raised $24 million to expand its professional-services platform, client project delivery, AI roadmap and team after reporting rapid growth.
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Wayve Secures $1.05 Billion to Take Its Mapless Driving AI Beyond Britain
Wayve raised $1.05 billion from SoftBank, NVIDIA and Microsoft to develop mapless, hardware-agnostic driving AI for production vehicles and new markets.
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Bloomberg Gives Investors Control Over Sustainable Portfolio Screens
Bloomberg’s sustainability screen lets investors define portfolio thresholds, calculate alignment and inspect holdings that fall outside their criteria.
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Fortune and Accenture Turn Two Decades of Company Data Into an AI Research Tool
Fortune Analytics combines two decades of company rankings, financial data and journalism with conversational AI and visual research developed by Accenture.
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LangSmith Opens to All Developers With Production Tools for LLM Applications
LangSmith is now generally available without a waitlist, giving LLM application teams tools for tracing, debugging, evaluation and production monitoring.
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