Lyte, a physical AI startup founded by former Apple engineers, reaches a $1.6 billion valuation after raising $165 million in Series C funding, as global physical AI venture investment surges to $47.4 billion in early 2026.
Seoul-based AI startup Intellisia raises $2.5M in pre-Series A funding to power its platform that replaces real consumer surveys with virtual AI respondents, boasting over 90% accuracy compared to actual responses, with global expansion and a digital twin shopping simulation on the horizon.
Google Research's TimesFM 3.0 has claimed the #1 ranking across all three major forecasting benchmarks, introducing powerful multivariate capabilities and zero-shot generalization, though its latest pretrained weights come with a non-commercial license restricting production use.
Meta's new AI agent compresses weeks of expert analysis into minutes by capturing specialist knowledge into a structured, auditable system that self-improves from feedback without retraining, with domain experts reporting it handles the vast majority of analytical work and slashes assessment time from days to minutes.
Cursor launches Self-Hosted Machines, enabling teams to run powerful cloud agents on their own infrastructure with auto-scaling worker pools, multi-provider sandbox support, and browser control capabilities — agents that already generate over 60% of Cursor's own merged pull requests.
Sonos launches AI-powered audio OS 'Sonos 27' alongside new flagship Beam Ultra and Ace Ultra speakers, letting users control their home audio through any AI assistant — including ChatGPT or Claude — while also previewing Custom Agents, a feature enabling up to 10 personalized AI personas per speaker.
OpenAI integrates ChatGPT Health into Epic's EHR system, granting clinicians read-only access to over 325 million patient records including lab results and medications, while simultaneously facing lawsuits alleging the AI provided dangerous medical advice that nearly killed users.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash with enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities, alongside a specialized cybersecurity variant, pricing the model up to 5x cheaper than rivals while targeting enterprise customers demanding cost-efficient AI solutions.
CrowdStrike unveils a sweeping AI security suite at Fal.con in Las Vegas, introducing an Agentic Identity Provider that enforces cryptographic identities for AI agents, an Agentic SOC that slashes investigation times from hours to minutes, and Real-Time Supply Chain Attack Protection that blocks malicious open-source packages before they can compromise …
HiddenLayer secures $100M in Series B funding led by Delta-v Capital to expand its AI protection platform globally, as the AI security market surges to $2.83 billion amid growing threats like adversarial attacks and prompt injection targeting AI models and workflows.