Exclusive: Apoha raises $36M Series A to commercialize waveform AI
Apoha closed a $36 million Series A to commercialize AI trained on continuous ‘wave form’ data instead of tokenized inputs – a capital signal that investors are backing alternative AI architectures.
ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves
ZeroDrift raised $10 million to launch a middleware compliance layer that flags and replaces risky LLM outputs. The move signals safety turning into a separable, billable stack.
Google Gemini Spark is the most impressive – and terrifying – AI travel agent yet
Gemini Spark can plan, research and execute multi-step travel bookings. Google’s scale makes this useful – and risky – for consumers and businesses.
Hugging Face launches Holo3.1 for fast, local computer-use agents
Hugging Face’s Holo3.1 is a drop-in upgrade that packages optimized weights, runtime tweaks and agent orchestration to run fast, local-first agents on consumer and edge hardware.
Software developers are refusing to work without AI – and that could come back to bite them
A growing number of software developers now insist on using AI coding assistants. Speed gains are real, but early research and anecdotes warn of subtle bugs, skill erosion and hidden maintenance cost.
Exina doubles Series B target, raising 200 billion won in Korea
Exina has widened its Series B target and is raising 200 billion won in Korea – a late-stage signal that domestic AI funding and hiring are re-accelerating.
NVIDIA levels up local AI agents across RTX PCs and DGX Spark
NVIDIA shipped a coordinated stack and reference flows to run open-source agent frameworks on consumer RTX GPUs and DGX Spark servers, lowering the bar to deploy local, private agents.
How Cosmos 3 helps physical AI think before it acts
NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3, an open-world foundation model paired with real-time simulation so robots can imagine likely futures before acting – shifting robotics toward simulation-first stacks.
NVIDIA unveils FOX: Factory Operations Blueprint gives factories an AI brain
At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA introduced the Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX), a reference architecture that links machine signals, quality systems and work instructions into a plant-level AI decision layer.
OpenAI and Anthropic ship multi-agent enterprise agents – a governance warning
OpenAI and Anthropic are shipping multi-agent autonomous features for enterprise use – a shift from single-chat models to coordinated agent systems that raise new security and governance risks.