Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure

Brad Smith met Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul in Bangkok to announce the 2026-2028 investment spanning data centre infrastructure, cybersecurity, sovereign technology, and AI skills training for m [...]

OpenAI backs a nine-month-old startup building swarms of AI agents at a $650 million valuation

Isara, a San Francisco startup that is building software to coordinate thousands of AI agents on complex analytical tasks, has raised $94 million at a $650 million valuation, with OpenAI among the inv [...]

Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor port [...]

Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials

The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a cl [...]

NVIDIA is reportedly working on its own open-source AI agent platform

NVIDIA is reportedly working on its own open-source AI agent platform, according to Wired. The chipmaker has been pitching the product to enterprise software companies. Reporting indicates it's g [...]

Unmasking the Illusion of Safety Online

The global cost of cybercrime surpasses billions of dollars annually, with phishing/spoofing, personal data breaches, and extortion accounting for a significant share of losses. According to Cordell R [...]

Anthropic launches marketplace for Claude-powered software

Despite facing a Pentagon blacklist and a storm of political headwinds, the AI lab is deepening its bet on enterprise. The timing looks deliberate. The product, called Anthropic Marketplace, is straig [...]

How an AI system beat experienced doctors at diagnosing rare diseases

DeepRare, an agentic AI system integrating 40 specialised tools, outperformed medical specialists in identifying rare conditions in a head-to-head study published in Nature. For millions of people wit [...]

Google made Gmail and Drive easier for AI agents to use

A new command-line tool published to GitHub consolidates Workspace’s sprawling APIs into a single interface. It also signals how seriously the company is taking the agentic AI moment. The tool, whos [...]