Latest News

Stay up to date with the latest developments in artificial intelligence.

GEEKOM Runs DeepSeek V4 Flash on Four A9 Mega Mini PCs

GEEKOM has deployed DeepSeek V4 Flash across four A9 Mega mini PCs connected through USB4, creating a local AI cluster for private enterprise use.

August 17, 2026

Spin Master to Acquire Hapiko, Maker of AI Sticker Tool for Kids

Spin Master has agreed to acquire Hapiko, the Brooklyn company behind Stickerbox, an AI powered tool that turns children's spoken ideas into printable stickers.

August 17, 2026

DEFSEC Technologies Plans CAD$5.54M Private Placement

DEFSEC Technologies expects to raise about CAD$5.54 million through a private placement of common shares, warrants, and warrants funded in advance.

August 17, 2026

Touchmark Launches AI Inference Compute Forward Trading Platform

Touchmark Technologies has launched a platform for forward contracts tied to AI inference compute capacity, with regulatory and compliance support from Tölt Strategies.

August 17, 2026

Clutch Says Its AI Platform Now Serves 30 Million Credit Union Members

Clutch says credit unions using its AI platform now serve 30 million members, including partners among six of the ten largest credit unions in the United States.

August 17, 2026

ChainIT Partners With excelerated for Supplier Compliance

ChainIT and excelerated have formed a partnership to support supplier onboarding, contractor qualification, compliance monitoring, and final mile supply chain visibility.

August 17, 2026

ByteLens Launches AI Operational Intelligence Product for Telecom Operators

ByteLens has launched an AI operational intelligence product for telecom operators that predicts network faults, identifies causes across vendors and domains, and can repair approved fault types.

August 17, 2026

WhiteFiber Plans Two More North Carolina Data Center Campuses

WhiteFiber agreed to acquire two industrial properties in Yadkin County, North Carolina, for $60 million through Enovum Data Centers. The company plans to retrofit the sites into NC-2 and NC-3 data center campuses with at least 60 MW of initial gross utility capacity.

August 17, 2026

Department of War Awards NODA AI $100 Million Contract

The Department of War awarded NODA AI a $100 million contract to scale autonomous mission command and software defined effects across the Joint Force.

August 17, 2026

Xpander Raises $7.5 Million and Introduces Omni AI Agent

Xpander raised $7.5 million in seed funding led by Pico Venture Partners and introduced Omni, an enterprise AI agent that scored 90.9% on the GAIA benchmark.

August 17, 2026

Omneky Adds ChatGPT Ads to Its Self Service Platform

Omneky now lets customers launch ChatGPT ad campaigns through its self service platform alongside Meta, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Reddit.

August 17, 2026

Higgsfield Raises $400 Million at $5.4 Billion Valuation

Higgsfield raised $400 million in Series B financing at a $5.4 billion valuation. DST Global led the round, and the company said it has reached $700 million in annualized revenue.

August 17, 2026

ATLANT 3D Launches NANOFABRICATOR PRO for AI Materials Discovery

ATLANT 3D launched NANOFABRICATOR PRO, a physical platform that links AI materials discovery with atomic scale fabrication, validation, and device prototyping.

August 17, 2026

Synchrony Adds OpenAI Models and ChatGPT Offers Plugin

Synchrony has announced an enterprise collaboration with OpenAI to add financing, rewards, and loyalty offers to AI shopping and checkout experiences. The company also launched a ChatGPT plugin for consumers to browse offers from participating Synchrony partners.

August 17, 2026

Wispr Raises $280 Million and Previews Speech Model Canto

Wispr raised $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation and previewed Canto, its first proprietary speech model.

August 17, 2026

Anthropic Revenue Tops $11.5 Billion in Second Quarter

Anthropic reported preliminary second quarter revenue of more than $11.5 billion, up from $787 million a year earlier, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.

August 17, 2026

Aizen Therapeutics Signs Oral Peptide Collaboration

Aizen Therapeutics signed a multi program collaboration with a public biotech based in San Diego to design oral peptide therapeutics using its DaX foundation model.

August 17, 2026

ScitiX Introduces Enterprise AI Inference Platform

ScitiX introduced a production inference platform for enterprises running multiple AI models, with routing, fallback, observability, and private deployment options.

August 17, 2026

Cognizant to Implement Benchling AI Platform for Kyowa Kirin Research Sites

Cognizant will support Kyowa Kirin in deploying Benchling's AI platform for R&D at two research sites in Japan.

August 17, 2026

Seeing Machines Launches Physical AI Platform for Humanoid Robots

Seeing Machines has launched a Physical AI Platform for robots and industrial automation. The system builds 3D perception maps to help robots understand people, objects, and surroundings.

August 17, 2026
Free newsletter

Daily AI Brief

Daily report covering major AI developments and industry news, with both top stories and complete market updates