artificial-intelligence

Halter closes a $220 million Series E led by Founders Fund, doubling its valuation to $2 billion as its AI-powered GPS collars for cattle replace physical fencing across three countries.

Oracle terminates an estimated 18 percent of its global workforce via early-morning emails with no prior warning, freeing up to $10 billion in cash flow to finance a $156 billion AI infrastructure expansion even as the company reports a 95 percent jump in quarterly net income.

The OpenTelemetry-native observability startup closes a $110M Series B at a $1B valuation, betting that AI agents will replace manual incident response.

The EU deploys an AI-powered traceability tool that connects national food safety databases to accelerate fraud detection and product recalls across all 27 member states.

Spotify's AI playlist tool now generates personalized podcast episode collections from text prompts, rolling out in beta to Premium subscribers across seven English-speaking markets.

A systematic audit of 71 commercial veterinary AI products published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science found a mean transparency score of just 6.4 percent, prompting at least one company to expand its public performance dashboard in response.

As USAID funding collapses by more than half, aid organizations deploy AI tools and corporate partnerships to stretch diminished resources across a record 300 million people in need.

Terabase Energy's next-generation automated solar construction platform completes field testing and enters commercial deployment, targeting 10 GW annual capacity by 2027.

Water treatment giant Ecolab is buying CoolIT Systems from KKR in an all-cash deal that values the Calgary-based liquid cooling company at roughly 18 times its price just three years ago, reflecting the explosive demand for direct-to-chip cooling in AI data centers.

Voice AI company ElevenLabs has released ElevenMusic, a free iOS app that lets users generate up to seven songs per day using text prompts, marking the company's entry into the competitive AI music generation market following its $500 million funding round at an $11 billion valuation.

Clemson University researchers demonstrate an AI system that estimates wildfire temperatures from standard camera images, while Dryad Networks tests an autonomous drone that detected and extinguished a fire in under 12 minutes with no human intervention.

SpaceX submitted a confidential draft registration statement to the SEC on April 1, seeking a Nasdaq listing that could value the company at $1.75 trillion and raise $75 billion, more than triple the largest U.S. IPO on record.