Seattle startup Gradial has raised $65 million in Series C funding to fuel its vision of a unified AI operating system for enterprise marketing, Kerry Flynn reports for Axios. The company builds AI agents that automate workflows across the dozens of specialized tools large marketing teams already rely on, including Adobe, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Databricks. …
Amazon Web Services has announced a new set of tools designed to give AI agents better access to company data. The centerpiece is AWS Context, a knowledge graph service that automatically maps relationships across an organization’s data and improves over time based on how agents actually use it. Sean Michael Kerner reports for VentureBeat that …
The Netherlands is building its own large language model, independent of major American AI providers. TNO writes that the project, called GPT-NL, is being developed by research institute TNO together with SURF and the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI). The Dutch government has allocated €13.5 million to the initiative through the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. The project …
A new survey by device management company Jamf finds that companies using artificial intelligence extensively are significantly more likely to experience security incidents tied to that use. The survey polled 687 IT professionals and highlights a growing gap between how fast organizations adopt AI and how well they can govern it. Nearly three quarters of …
Google has released Gemma 4 12B, an open-weights multimodal AI model designed to run entirely on a standard laptop with 16 GB of VRAM or unified memory. The model is available now for free download and marks a notable step toward powerful AI that operates offline, without sending data to the cloud. The model is …
Perplexity AI has unveiled a hybrid inference system that automatically decides, mid-task, whether to process data on a user’s local device or route it to cloud-based AI models. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that CEO Aravind Srinivas demonstrated the technology at Computex 2026 during Intel’s keynote, using confidential deal documents to show the system in …
Nvidia’s new Nemotron 3 Ultra has claimed the top spot among open AI models from the United States. Maximilian Schreiner reports for The Decoder that the model scores 48 points on the Artificial Analysis intelligence ranking, putting it clearly ahead of other open US models. For comparison, Google’s Gemma 4 31B scores 39 points, Nvidia’s …
Nvidia has announced the DGX Station for Windows, a deskside workstation it describes as the world’s first deskside AI supercomputer. Mike Wheatley reports for SiliconANGLE that the system was unveiled at GTC Taipei alongside the Computex conference and is planned for release in the fourth quarter of 2026. The machine is built around Nvidia’s GB300 …
Mistral AI used its first-ever company conference in Paris to announce a major expansion into industrial engineering, a new data center south of the French capital, and a rebranding of its consumer assistant. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the moves collectively signal the three-year-old startup’s ambition to become the preferred AI provider for enterprises …
Canadian AI company Cohere has unveiled Command A+, a large language model designed for complex reasoning, document processing, and autonomous workflows. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model is available for free on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, making it the first Cohere model that anyone can use, modify, and commercialize without …