Perplexity and Valarian Bring AI Tools Into Customer Infrastructure
Perplexity and Valarian are partnering to deploy Perplexity's AI tools within infrastructure controlled by customers through Valarian's ACRA environment.
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Perplexity and Valarian are partnering to deploy Perplexity's AI tools within infrastructure controlled by customers through Valarian's ACRA environment.
The Kubernetes based inference framework adds workload priorities, uninterrupted upgrades, and routing tools for organizations running large AI models on their own infrastructure.
The US Navy raised the ceiling on its Gecko Robotics contract from $71 million to $300 million, expanding the use of robotic ship inspection systems to the Atlantic Surface Fleet.
AstraZeneca and Oracle will combine clinical expertise, health data, cloud infrastructure, and AI to support trial recruitment, diagnosis, safety monitoring, and care workflows.
CBRE agrees to acquire data center infrastructure provider Onnec for an initial £460 million in cash, plus an earnout of up to £300 million.
Yelp is adding Check for Me, an AI feature that calls restaurants for wait times and sends the results by text. The company is also updating its assistant and introducing a paid tool for businesses.
Otter.ai raised $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund. The company will use the financing for enterprise sales, international expansion and product work.
Neura Robotics and NXAI are developing an xLSTM memory component for Neuron AI and will offer a separate NXAI model through the Neuraverse platform.
Samsung Electronics is testing a bipedal humanoid robot for continuous work in manufacturing and logistics, with a possible CES 2027 showcase.
A confidential client is exploring buying the closed San Francisco Centre mall to turn its upper floors into a data center and AI lab, as the city pauses data center permits.
Elice shares fell as much as 33% on their first day of trading after the AI infrastructure company raised 201 billion won in its IPO.
BloomX raised $13 million in Series A funding to expand its robotic pollination systems into the United States and more Latin American markets.
The partners will fund workshops and other initiatives focused on evaluating AI assisted results, using new tools and creating standards for AI use in mathematics.
A Massachusetts bill would have independent evaluators test large AI developers' models for catastrophic risk at least three times a year. Anthropic endorses it.
OpenAI has stopped pressing lawmakers for new chip export limits on China, aides and lobbyists told Politico, a shift that helps Nvidia.
A proposed class action alleges that OpenAI collects personal information from minors through ChatGPT and uses it to train AI models without valid consent.
G42, AMI Labs and Analog signed nonbinding agreements covering world model research, AI infrastructure, cloud services and possible industrial applications.
Google will cover new power resources and grid upgrades for its expanded West Memphis data center campus. Entergy Arkansas projects at least $500 million in additional customer savings over 20 years.
DeepSeek plans to invest in Huawei's AI chip design and help improve Ascend processors for training large language models.
Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI employees the options are an IAEA-style global body, a CERN-style merger of the labs, or one lab shutting out rivals, which he called terrible.
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