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Avoca has raised over $125 million across Seed, Series A, and Series B funding rounds, reaching a $1 billion valuation. The company provides AI tools for service businesses, enabling automated call handling, scheduling, and marketing.
Cantata Health Solutions unveiled new AI tools at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing 2026 Conference, including the Ask Arize assistant and a partnership with Clinically AI to streamline documentation and compliance for behavioral health providers.
Agile Defense has appointed James Nowotny as Vice President of Justice and National Security, where he will lead efforts with the FBI, Department of Justice, and State Department to expand the company’s national security operations.
Pudu Robotics has opened a new U.S. headquarters in Dallas, Texas, as part of its expansion strategy in the Americas. The facility will strengthen regional operations and support continued growth across service, cleaning, industrial delivery, and embodied AI sectors.
Keys Inc. will present its AI-powered ERP platform for the locksmith industry at the Startup Grind Global Conference on April 28, 2026, showcasing new autonomous AI capabilities and its proposed national certification initiative.
Proteotype Diagnostics has been selected as an industrial beneficiary in the EU-funded HER-CARE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, joining leading European cancer research institutions to advance early detection and personalized treatment strategies for hereditary and early-stage breast cancer.
OpenAI and Microsoft have signed a new agreement that ends Microsoft's exclusive rights to OpenAI's products, allowing the AI company to work with other cloud providers like Amazon and Google while keeping Microsoft as its primary cloud partner.
Marvell Technology has acquired Swiss silicon photonics startup Polariton Technologies to strengthen its optical interconnect capabilities and advance performance scaling to 3.2T and beyond. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Anthropic ran a weeklong experiment called Project Deal where AI agents represented employees as buyers and sellers in a marketplace, completing 186 real transactions worth over $4,000.
Meta will lay off about 8,000 employees and close 6,000 open roles as it increases investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure and research.
Cognition AI is negotiating a new funding round that could value the company at $25 billion, more than doubling its previous valuation of $10.2 billion, according to Bloomberg.
Cohere has announced plans to acquire German AI company Aleph Alpha in a deal valued at approximately 20 billion dollars, expanding its presence in Europe and strengthening its focus on sovereign AI solutions.
Anthropic and NEC have formed a strategic partnership to develop secure AI solutions for Japan and train 30,000 engineers in the NEC Group, using Anthropic’s Claude models within NEC’s BluStellar Scenario framework.
Google will invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, starting with $10 billion in cash at a $350 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. The deal includes expanded cloud capacity over the next five years through Google Cloud.
Anthropic has reached an estimated $1 trillion valuation on private trading platform Forge Global, overtaking OpenAI’s $880 billion valuation as investor demand for its shares intensifies.
Strider Technologies has launched Strider OS, an agentic operating system that unifies the company’s intelligence products to deliver structured, decision-ready insights from complex global data.
Jetstream Venture Fund has established an interest in defense technology company Shield AI, which develops autonomous aircraft powered by its Hivemind AI pilot software. The move strengthens Jetstream’s focus on technologies enabling autonomy across air and space sectors.
BT and Nscale announced plans to build sovereign AI data centres across the UK powered by NVIDIA infrastructure, expanding the country's AI compute capacity and supporting government goals for digital sovereignty.
Mercedes-Benz has announced a multi-year partnership with Liquid AI to integrate embedded, on-device intelligence into vehicles equipped with third- and fourth-generation MBUX systems in North America. The collaboration aims to enhance in-car speech and language capabilities with production deployment expected in the second half of 2026.
Nexar has appointed Jen Vescio, former Uber Chief Business Development Officer, to its Board of Directors as it scales its physical AI platform across commercial mobility operations.
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