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Ondas Holdings Inc.'s subsidiary American Robotics has received approval for its Optimus drone to be listed on the Defense Contract Management Agency's Blue UAS Cleared List, enabling rapid federal procurement for defense and infrastructure use.
Checkbox has secured $23 million in Series A funding led by Touring Capital to enhance its AI-powered Legal Front Door platform, which automates legal intake and workflow management for in-house legal teams.
CGI has announced a global collaboration with OpenAI to help clients deploy advanced AI solutions at scale, expanding its use of ChatGPT Enterprise and integrating OpenAI's training resources into its AI programs.
Grid Aero has raised $20 million in Series A funding co-led by Bison Ventures and Geodesic Capital to advance its long-range autonomous aircraft for defense and humanitarian missions.
Robbyant, an embodied AI company under Ant Group, has released LingBot-VLA as an open-source vision-language-action model designed to function as a universal brain for robots. The model demonstrated strong cross-morphology performance on real-world and simulation benchmarks.
Pony.ai has announced a partnership with Beijing ATBB Travel & Express Service to jointly deploy robotaxi services across China's major cities, expanding into airport and business travel routes.
WeRide has launched GENESIS, a simulation platform that combines physical and generative AI to accelerate autonomous vehicle development and testing across global environments.
Richtech Robotics has partnered with Microsoft through the Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Labs to enhance the ADAM robot with agentic AI powered by Azure AI. The collaboration aims to improve contextual awareness and operational efficiency across various industries.
Contiem has been selected by IBM to support the UK Ministry of Defence’s DEEAMS programme, an AI-powered logistics modernization effort replacing 17 legacy systems with a unified platform.
XPRIZE has announced five finalist teams in the Autonomous Wildfire Response Track of its $11 million Wildfire competition, awarding $750,000 among them to advance AI-driven firefighting technologies. The finalists include Anduril, Data Blanket, Dryad, FireSwarm Solutions, and Wildfire Quest.
ASML reported a record €13 billion in new orders for the fourth quarter of 2025, signaling continued strong demand for advanced chipmaking equipment driven by artificial intelligence infrastructure growth. The company posted €32.7 billion in annual net sales and announced plans to cut 1,700 jobs.
Accordance announced it has surpassed 10 million global tax law data points and expanded its client base among leading West Coast accounting firms, marking rapid adoption of its AI platform for tax and audit professionals.
ServiceNow has partnered with Anthropic to embed the Claude family of AI models into its AI Platform, making Claude the default model for ServiceNow Build Agent and expanding its use across internal workflows.
Token Security reports that 22% of its enterprise customers have employees using the open-source AI assistant Clawdbot, raising major security concerns over data exposure and unauthorized access.
Blaize and Nokia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on edge and hybrid AI inference solutions across Asia-Pacific, combining Blaize's AI platform with Nokia's networking and automation systems.
Cyclic Materials has secured $75 million in Series C funding to expand its rare earth element recycling operations across the US and Europe, supporting supply chains for AI, robotics, and defense industries.
Nexdata has completed construction and begun full operation of its Embodied AI Data Factory in Singapore, designed to produce large-scale real-world interaction data for training embodied AI models.
IntelliGRC has completed a FedRAMP Moderate Equivalency assessment for its SaaS platform, conducted by A-LIGN, and is now listed as FedRAMP Moderate Ready on the FedRAMP Marketplace.
Lucend, formerly known as Coolgradient, has raised $3.3 million in seed funding led by Remarkable Ventures Climate to expand its Transparent AI platform for data center optimization in the U.S.
Ricursive Intelligence has raised $300 million in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, valuing the company at $4 billion. The Palo Alto-based startup, founded by Dr. Anna Goldie and Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini, aims to accelerate semiconductor design using AI.
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