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The initiative is expected to nurture a startup culture, expand research in emerging technologies, and enhance global employment prospects.
Taiwanese AI startup introduces a DSCS-powered AaaS model following a Japan PR campaign with 24 media pickups in three days.
Martin Scorsese is joining AI firm Black Forest Labs as an advisor to 'push the bounds of creativity.'
India hopes to build an AI model for the Global South, but a late start and dependence on foreign AI infrastructure are testing that vision.
Martin Scorsese is joining AI firm Black Forest Labs as an advisor to 'push the bounds of creativity.'
Las Vegas startup RevReply raised nearly $1M to automate responses to incoming sales leads using AI agents that reply in under three minutes. Most rivals handle outbound emails; RevReply targets the replies that otherwise go unanswered.
AI startup Anthropic has confidentially filed for a US IPO, positioning itself ahead of OpenAI in the race to public markets. Backed by soaring valuations and growing demand for generative AI, the company’s move could reshape how Wall Street values the next generation of frontier AI firms.
Rockville, Maryland, USA - According to Fact.MR, the global AI Pods as a Service market will grow from USD 3.4 billion in 2026 to USD 34.3 billion by 2036, expanding at a 26.0% CAGR during the forecast period. The industry
Investors file shareholder proposals, telling companies they need to give more attention to AI-related risks
➤ AI Platform Market Overview and Growth Snapshot According to MarketGenics analysis, the global AI Platform Market is experiencing exponential growth driven by rapid adoption of artificial intelligence technologies across enterprises, cloud ecosystems, healthcare, finance, retail, manufacturing, and government sectors. The
SMEs in Southeast Asia are often painted as needing a motivational nudge into the digital economy, but the data in How Southeast Asia Buys and Pays 2026 tells a different story: ambition is abundant, infrastructure is not. With 66% of SMEs selling online and already driving the bulk of e-commerce, businesses clearly want growth, cross-border [...] The post Ecosystem Roundup: Ambition outruns infra — SEA’s SME execution crisis appeared first on e27 .
What is SEO optimisation? SEO optimisation is the process of improving online content visibility so search engines display it prominently to users. For businesses operating within the service industry in Singapore, this has traditionally meant targeting specific keywords, building local citations, and managing platform reviews to rank on the first page of standard search results. [...] The post Top 3 popular GEO monitoring tool for SEO optimisation targeting service industry in Singapore appeared first on e27 .
Meta Platforms Inc., for instance, has begun laying off nearly 8,000 employees globally as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s broader restructuring AI strategy. LinkedIn, too, has announced job cuts for over 600 employees to take effect in mid-July. In 2026 so far, 114,210 tech employees have been laid off by 150 tech companies, as per [...] The post Why Extreme AI Narratives Dominate the Jobs Debate appeared first on CXOToday.com .
Manual safety monitoring leads to unrecorded near-misses. viAct uses AI and drones to catch hazards before fatal accidents occur.
Artificial intelligence is no longer only changing the tools people use at work, but it is also reshaping what companies, universities and training centres understand by talent. Indeed, speakers at a Cyprus Seeds panel discussion that took place at the Doers Summit in Limassol this week argued that deep expertise must now be matched with [...]
New hardware promises greater efficiency, user experiences, and most importantly larger margins
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The healthcare AI company said San Oo’s appointment comes at an inflection point for Abridge as it inks deals with more health systems.
Oregon lawmakers and Hillsboro officials have paused data‐center tax breaks as polls and community fights force cancellations and rethink projects.
Wall Street is watching May 22 closely as OpenAI reportedly prepares for a potentially confidential IPO filing.
(MENAFN - GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) BENGALURU, KA, May 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ANSR, the definitive global leader in establishing and scaling Global Capability Centers (GCCs), has released a ...
AI startups are expanding at a remarkable pace, but unlike previous generations of technology companies, many of today’s AI firms are growing without large offices, extensive administrative departments, or traditional corporate structures. Across the global startup ecosystem, founders are increasingly embracing lean infrastructure models that prioritize flexibility, remote collaboration, and scalable digital operations. This shift [...]
Genie Security's two founders and five employees develop technology to detect efforts to leak sensitive data from employee devices, as they increasingly adopt generative AI tools The post Six-month-old Israeli startup is bought by cyber unicorn Cyera for about $50 million appeared first on The Times of Israel .
SpaceX’s initial public offering is set to be the largest in history, partly fueled by its promise to grab a chunk of what it calls a multi-trillion-dollar market for artificial intelligence services through its AI startup, xAI.
The company, its CEO Sam Altman and their lawyers at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Morrison & Foerster on Monday scored a major victory in defeating a lawsuit by Elon Musk, who alleged OpenAI strayed from its original nonprofit mission. The win cleared a potential hurdle to an OpenAI IPO that sources have told Reuters could come.
Chtrbox is building the infrastructure brands need to win online. While Artiure is building a marketplace for digital and generative art.
Gurugram-based Artiure is building a marketplace for digital and generative art, turning it into physical products while enabling artists with financial inclusion and access to global markets.
If you had asked someone working in U.S. financial services five years ago to describe the country’s fintech ecosystem, the answer would have leaned heavily on a few names: Stripe, Plaid, Robinhood, Chime, Square. In 2026 that shorthand no longer fits. The ecosystem has matured into a layered industry of infrastructure providers, embedded finance platforms, [...] The post How the US FinTech Ecosystem Is Reshaping Itself in 2026: Rails, AI Underwriting and Embedded Finance appeared first on TechBullion .
Generative AI’s rapid transition from text-based chatbots to high-fidelity media—spanning images, video, spatial 3D, and audio—has exposed a glaring bottleneck in the modern tech stack: infrastructure. Rendering pixels in real-time requires a staggering amount of compute, and developers are increasingly struggling to manage fragmented GPU clusters just to keep their applications online. Enter fal , a generative media creation platform that has quietly become the connective tissue for 2.5 million developers across the globe, offering literally hundreds of leading AI image, video, and audio creation and editing models — from proprietary ones like OpenAI's ChatGPT-Images-2.0 and Google's Nano Banana Pro 2 to open source rivals — all through its unified interface and APIs. Today, the San Francisco-based startup, recently valued at a massive $4.5 billion following a $300 million Series D round led by Sequoia Capital, announced it has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider. While the financial terms of the deal weren't made public, the move signals a maturation in the generative media space, shifting the focus from simply building foundational models to effectively scaling them for mass, commercial consumption. “AWS has been there for distribution and monetization, and for the use of AI in creative pursuits — helping designers, developers, and the creative community think through how they can use AI responsibly, scalably, and at global scale," said Samira Panah Bakhtiar, General Manager for Media, Entertainment, Games, and Sports at AWS, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. A one-stop-shop for Gen AI media allowing enterprises to plug in and choose the best model for their needs At its core, fal operates as a unified gateway to the rapidly expanding generative AI ecosystem. Rather than forcing developers to provision their own servers, deal with latency issues, or string together disparate open-source model weights, fal provides a single, unified API. Through this API, users gain instant access to over 1,000 production-ready AI models. Think of it as the Stripe or Plaid of generative media: abstracting away the devastatingly complex back-end plumbing so developers can focus solely on the user experience. It is a "plug-and-play" solution that has already attracted independent creators and enterprise giants alike, powering generative workflows for enterprises including Canva, Adobe, and Amazon MGM Studios. “Generative media workloads demand a fundamentally different infrastructure layer, one that can handle massive parallel inference, rapid model iteration, and production-grade reliability at scale,” said Gorkem Yurtseven, CTO and Co-founder of fal, in a statement provided to VentureBeat. Neither AWS nor fal specified what other cloud or GPU providers the latter was using prior to their deal together. Asked who fal had been using before AWS, Bakhtiar did not name a prior cloud or GPU provider, saying instead that fal is now using AWS services. In a blog post , fal's Head of Compute Partnerships Emir Lise described AWS as providing the “global scale and reliability layer” for its existing serverless generative-media infrastructure — framing the partnership around elasticity, reliability and enterprise scale rather than a replacement of a named incumbent. A public search turned up Tigris as a storage provider for fal — with Tigris saying fal runs a “global fleet of GPUs across many clouds” — and an announcement from fal in Septemeber 2025 that it was available through Google Cloud Marketplace, allowing customers to buy fal through Google Cloud billing and governance, but that listing does not state that Google Cloud powered fal’s GPU infrastructure. 99.99% guaranteed uptime? By partnering with AWS, fail aims to merge its highly optimized inference engine with Amazon’s global reach to handle millions of daily API calls with 99.99% guaranteed uptime. In addition, Bakhtiar said fal users can expect to see "faster inference and performance, greater efficiency, more scalability, and more seamless service continuity — all things you would expect as a result of partnering with the world’s largest, broadly adopted cloud." Therefore, the primary benefit for fal users is better performance and reliability without changing how they work: faster inference, more scalability, smoother continuity, and access to production-ready AI models without managing their own infrastructure. For fal, the partnership makes its platform stronger for creators, studios, and enterprise customers by backing it with AWS’s security, global scale, and cloud infrastructure. For AWS, it helps push cloud and AI deeper into creative production, not just distribution or monetization. It positions AWS as a key infrastructure partner for studios, media companies, developers, and individual creators building AI-powered content workflows. Offloading the GPU burden The partnership with AWS is designed to address the sheer physics and cost of rendering generative media. By migrating its operations to AWS, fal will be able to leverage Amazon’s broad suite of AI services, including the Bedrock platform, alongside custom-built silicon like Trainium and Graviton processors. "You don't have to manage like a GPU fleet to use the AI for creative pursuits," Bakhtiar explained. This is a critical pain point for larger-scale media generation demands in 2026. Securing high-performance GPUs for parallel inference is both expensive and technically demanding. By shifting that burden to AWS, fal ensures that creatives can focus on their workflows, without needing a dedicated DevOps team. Bakhtiar also noted the powerful "network effect" of building on AWS. Because major studios and creative platforms (like Adobe and Canva) are already deeply entrenched in the AWS ecosystem, integrating fal's API into their existing pipelines becomes a frictionless endeavor. Enterprise-grade security and compliance with gen AI creative speed For IT leaders and developers, fal's architecture offers a distinct advantage regarding licensing, security, and deployment. Historically, utilizing frontier generative models meant either accepting strict vendor lock-in from a single provider or attempting to host open-source models locally. The latter requires significant overhead and forces enterprises to navigate a minefield of disparate open-source licenses (such as MIT, Apache 2.0, or restrictive non-commercial licenses). fal bypasses this friction by offering commercial API access to a curated ecosystem of models. Developers simply pay for the inference they consume. Furthermore, the platform is SOC 2 compliant and explicitly built for "enterprise scale," meaning it meets the stringent data privacy and security benchmarks required by heavily regulated industries and massive consumer platforms. For large media conglomerates, this managed service approach allows them to experiment with the latest state-of-the-art tools securely, without the risk of exposing proprietary data or intellectual property. Empowering devs and vibe coders The true impact of fal’s platform, however, is best observed at the developer level. By democratizing access to high-end infrastructure, fal is enabling a new class of builders—often referred to as "vibe coders"—to create complex, multimodal applications without traditional computer science backgrounds. As Bakhtiar pointed out, access to these tools fundamentally "levels the playing field". Whether it is an individual developer or hobbyist vibe coding a side project, or a fully-funded editor or director rendering a blockbuster film, the underlying technology is now identical, infinitely scalable, and ready for production. “More creatives — whether they’re full-fledged studios, indie brands, or individual content creators — are now going to be able to access these tools, and they’re going to be able to punch way above their weight as a result," Bakhtiar said, casting the partnership as a way to serve even more users through fal thanks to the reliability of AWS's servers and custom Trainium, Graviton and Inferentia chips. The rollout of enhanced AWS capabilities for fal customers will occur in phases throughout 2026.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 20: L’Oréal is officially calling for the next generation of tech pioneers in India to co-create the future of beauty. Applications are now open for the 2026 Big Bang Beauty Tech Innovation Program across the SAPMENA region. Entering its third year, the biggest beauty tech open innovation competition has become the industry's launchpad for scale: seven startups from previous cohorts have progressed to commercial pilots with one of L’Oréal's 40 brands.
Dallas Innovates, Every Day: Here's what's new + next in North Texas. Dallas-based cybersecurity company Island took the No. 28 spot on the 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list released Tuesday, landing as the highest-ranked Texas company on the annual ranking of private, venture-backed disruptors. It’s also the only company headquartered in Dallas-Fort Worth on this year’s list. ... The post ‘Not Just Browsing’: Dallas Cybersecurity Unicorn Island Lands on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 appeared first on Dallas Innovates .
Commentary: Just as AI Overviews are starving digital publishers of search traffic, AI-driven YouTube features will likely trigger a drop-off in video creation.
From the Dayton, Ohio, suburbs to boardrooms in Dallas, the employees fueling AT&T’s next wave of growth aren’t fresh-faced college graduates with expensive four-year degrees. They’re skilled, blue-collar workers ready...
AI smart glasses released by Samsung Electronics and Google feature collaborations with Gentle Monster, left, and Warby Parker. [SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS] Samsung Electronics unveiled its first AI-powered smart glasses made in partnership with Google on Tuesday, joining the race among tech companies to develop the next major computing platform after smartphones. The companies introduced two smart glasses models based on Android XR, Google’s smart glasses and wearable device platform, during Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O 2026, held in Mountain View, California, on Tuesday. Related Article Driver under investigation for crashing car through glass wall, into indoor swimming pool KAIST tech startup becomes first in Korea to get investment from Nvidia Through the looking glass: AI turns theater dialogue into floating subtitles The unveiling marked the first time the companies revealed actual product designs after announcing plans last December to collaborate with global eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker. One model featured Gentle Monster’s signature experimental aesthetic in a sunglasses-style design, while the other adopted Warby Parker’s more classic eyewear style. Samsung and Google said they focused on integrating hardware for glasses with generative AI, combining the two to create smart glasses that users can wear with ease in everyday life. The AI smart glasses are designed as companion devices that work alongside Galaxy AI smartphones. The frames are equipped with speakers, cameras and microphones that can recognize the user’s surroundings in real time and respond to voice commands. Shahram Izadi, Google’s vice president of Android XR, introduces AI-powered smart glasses developed in collaboration with Samsung Electronics during Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, held in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. [YONHAP] Users can activate Google’s generative AI assistant Gemini for navigation, restaurant recommendations and real-time voice or text translation. Tasks such as summarizing messages on smartphones, scheduling appointments and taking photos can also be handled via voice commands. Samsung Electronics plans to expand the generative AI experience beyond smartphones into wearable devices through its AI smart glasses. Competition among Big Tech companies to dominate the next-generation AI platform market has intensified in recent years, particularly in the AI smart glasses sector. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wears Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses as he delivers a speech presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 17. [REUTERS/YONHAP] Meta has already moved aggressively into the market through its smart glasses partnership with Ray-Ban. The company’s AI-powered glasses, which combine voice-controlled AI features with built-in cameras, have already drawn significant consumer attention. Apple has also expanded into the broader immersive technology market with its mixed-reality (MR) headset, Apple Vision Pro, as part of its push into so-called spatial computing — technology that blends digital content with the physical world. Industry observers believe Apple is also developing lighter, more everyday-friendly AI smart glasses for future release. A customer tries on Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s mixed-reality headset, at an Apple Store in Myeongdong, Jung District, central Seoul, on Nov. 15, 2024. [YONHAP] Chinese tech companies are accelerating their own push into the sector. Xiaomi, Huawei and other firms are accelerating the development of next-generation smart glasses that integrate generative AI and XR, or extended reality. AI smart glasses are increasingly likely to emerge as a new personal computing platform due to advancements in AI, lightweight batteries and semiconductor technologies, according to industry sources. However, battery life, comfort and affordability are still viewed as major hurdles to widespread adoption. “This AI smart glasses project marks an important milestone in expanding Samsung’s AI vision,” said Jay Kim, executive vice president of Samsung Electronics’ mobile business division. “We will continue expanding the [Samsung] Galaxy ecosystem experience to deliver meaningful user experiences.” This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom. BY PARK YOUNG-WOO [lee.jiwon10@joongang.co.kr]
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The Indian technological landscape is witnessing a seismic shift that marks the definitive end of the "funding winter." In a move that has reverberated across global financial corridors, Emergent Labs has secured a landmark $70 million Series B funding round, spearheaded by the industry titans Khosla Ventures and SoftBank. This capital infusion is more than [...] The post Khosla & SoftBank are Back: What the Emergent Labs Deal Tells Us About the Future of Indian AI. appeared first on BusinessTantra .
Google Maps is making Gemini a big part of its features with a massive new update.
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