Samsung Deploys Mistral AI Across Its Semiconductor Operations
Samsung is partnering with Mistral AI to bring on-premises artificial intelligence models into its semiconductor manufacturing and engineering operations. The partnership will allow Samsung to integrate Mistral’s software, including its flagship Mistral Large model, into internal semiconductor facilities. The company plans to use customized AI models to support more intelligent factory infrastructure and improve the […]
CloudNC Uses AI to Speed Up Precision Manufacturing
CloudNC has raised $20 million in new funding as it looks to expand its AI-powered precision machining technology across global manufacturing supply chains. The investment will help the company scale its software, expand technical support, and strengthen partnerships in international markets. The funding round was led by US venture investor Nimble Ventures, with participation from […]
Palantir Turns AI Into a Supply Chain Optimization Engine
NVIDIA is using artificial intelligence and optimization technology to automate complex supply chain allocation decisions across its global hardware manufacturing network. The company has combined Palantir Foundry with NVIDIA cuOpt to coordinate the movement of components needed to build increasingly complex AI systems. The goal is to reduce the time required to move hardware from […]
ChatGPT Advertising Business Surpasses $1 Billion Run Rate as Global Expansion Accelerates
ChatGPT’s advertising business has reached a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate in less than 200 days, marking a significant milestone for OpenAI’s rapidly expanding advertising operation. The company is now expanding self-service advertising access to businesses across India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, allowing more advertisers to launch campaigns without going through […]
OneRail Brings AI-Powered Optimisation to Last-Mile Delivery
OneRail has introduced an AI-powered delivery optimisation platform designed to help retailers, wholesalers and distributors determine how individual orders should be delivered. The platform, called OmniSTAR, evaluates different fulfilment options and selects the lowest-cost approach that still meets the required service level. Optimising every delivery decision OmniSTAR can evaluate a range of delivery options, including […]
M&T Bank Scales Enterprise AI Across Its Workforce
M&T Bank is expanding its use of artificial intelligence across the organisation, with AI copilots now being used by more than 15,000 employees. The regional bank is applying the technology to internal operations, customer service, software development and risk management as part of a broader technology transformation. From experimentation to everyday use M&T’s AI strategy […]
MIT Researchers Develop AI That Can Predict Extreme Weather Beyond Historical Records
Researchers at MIT have developed an AI system designed to forecast extreme weather scenarios that have never appeared in a region’s historical record. The system, developed by mechanical engineering graduate student Kai Chang and Professor Themis Sapsis, can generate maps of statistically plausible extreme events while estimating their intensity, duration, and geographic impact. The researchers […]
Gatik Secures $200 Million to Expand Driverless Freight Operations
Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding as the autonomous trucking company looks to accelerate the expansion of its driverless freight network across North America. The funding round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, Intact Private Capital and other investors. Gatik says […]
Nvidia’s AI Investments Are Creating a New Financing Loop
Nvidia is increasingly financing the companies that buy its chips, creating a capital cycle that could help fuel the next phase of the AI infrastructure boom. The company has committed nearly $50 billion to AI laboratories and has lined up partnerships intended to facilitate more than $500 billion in outside financing for AI infrastructure. Nvidia’s […]
OpenAI Calls on Enterprises to Strengthen AI Cybersecurity
OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman is urging enterprise security teams to accelerate their efforts to defend against increasingly capable AI-powered cyberattacks. Brockman outlined what OpenAI describes as the “OpenAI-Hugging Face” incident, arguing that the event provides an early indication of how quickly AI-assisted attackers could evolve. According to Brockman, an autonomous “agentic collective” breached […]