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Physical Intelligence, a robotics AI startup supported by Jeff Bezos, has raised $600 million in a funding round led by CapitalG, valuing the company at $5.6 billion. The company is developing general-purpose AI systems to power robots for diverse tasks such as folding clothes and assembling boxes.
Amazon plans to invest at least $3 billion to build a new data center campus in Warren County, Mississippi, creating hundreds of jobs and expanding its AI and cloud computing capacity.
Elon Musk’s xAI plans to construct a 500-megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia in partnership with Humain, using Nvidia chips. The project marks xAI’s first major facility outside the United States.
The U.S. General Services Administration has finalized its first direct OneGov contract with Perplexity AI, allowing federal agencies to access the company's Enterprise Pro for Government platform at a discounted rate through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.
The US government has approved the sale of up to 70,000 advanced AI chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, allowing Saudi firm Humain and UAE-based G42 to each acquire up to 35,000 Nvidia GB300 systems under strict security and reporting conditions.
SAP announced new collaborations with Bleu, Capgemini, and Mistral AI to develop sovereign cloud and AI solutions supporting Europe’s digital independence. The partnerships aim to enhance cybersecurity, scalability, and compliance through joint initiatives across France and Germany.
note inc. has entered a capital and business alliance with NAVER Corporation, involving a 2 billion yen investment to develop a global ecosystem for creators using generative AI technologies.
Luma AI has raised $900 million in a Series C round led by Humain to develop multimodal artificial general intelligence and will collaborate on a 2-gigawatt AI supercluster in Saudi Arabia.
Form.io has launched the Universal Agent Gateway (UAG), an open-source platform designed to connect AI agents, enterprise systems, and human operators through JSON-driven forms and secure workflows.
Anthropic and Microsoft have expanded their partnership, making Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 models available in Microsoft Foundry. The integration allows Azure customers to build AI applications and agents using Anthropic’s models within their existing Microsoft ecosystem.
President Donald Trump has urged the US Congress to pass a single federal standard for artificial intelligence regulation, warning that differing state laws could slow AI development and allow China to gain ground.
Accenture and WndrCo have invested in Alembic, an AI-powered marketing analytics startup, as part of a $145 million Series B funding round that values the company at $645 million. The partnership will integrate Alembic’s causal AI technology into Accenture’s client services to enhance marketing measurement and attribution.
IBM has inaugurated its new German Headquarters and Technology Campus in Ehningen, which will focus on AI, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud technologies. The facility includes 3,500 workstations and aims to foster collaboration among employees and partners.
Adobe has announced an agreement to acquire Semrush for $1.9 billion in cash, offering $12 per share for the SEO and brand visibility platform. The deal, approved by both companies' boards, is expected to close in the first half of 2026 pending regulatory and shareholder approval.
Delta Electronics and Siemens Smart Infrastructure have agreed to jointly deliver prefabricated, modular power solutions aimed at cutting data center deployment time, costs, and carbon emissions.
TAHO, founded by former Meta, Google, and Snap engineers, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding to develop a distributed compute platform designed to deliver up to 10x performance improvements for AI workloads at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud infrastructure.
Workday has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, an integration platform with over 3,000 connectors to common business applications. The acquisition will enable Workday’s AI agents to connect and execute tasks across third-party systems and applications.
Deloitte released its 2025 North America Technology Fast 500 rankings, naming AI healthcare company Impiricus as the fastest-growing business with a 29,738% revenue increase from 2021 to 2024.
A new Bain & Company report finds that technology services firms risk losing up to 30% of revenue if they fail to adapt to AI-driven changes, urging companies to adopt platform-based delivery and value-based pricing models.
AgiBot presented its humanoid and service robots at the China International Import Expo 2025, demonstrating cultural performances, intelligent banking services, and logistics automation capabilities.
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