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Icelandic company Treble raised 18 million dollars in a Series A extension for a platform for simulating and testing voice AI models; this brings the total raised since 2020 to over 40 million dollars. Customers include Amazon and Logitech.
NVIDIA, Google and startup Emerald AI announced the formation of the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a coalition focused on developing AI data centers capable of dynamically managing their electricity consumption.
Startup Hang Ten Systems, founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, has raised another $53 million from Xora (Temasek) five weeks after a $32M seed round; total funding is $85M. The company offers AI consulting and software modernization for large enterprises.
Brno-based AI company Phonexia has been sold to a Korean investment fund that wants to continue operating the company in Brno. According to Živě.cz, the case illustrates the difference in valuations between American and European tech companies.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI acquired Glass Imaging, which uses AI to improve photos from smartphone cameras, for more than $300 million. OpenAI has not yet confirmed the transaction.
A panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (13–15 October, San Francisco), featuring the CEO of Airbyte, the CEO of Webflow and a partner at Radical Ventures, will discuss how AI startups should defend themselves as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google gradually integrate their features into their own models.
Superhuman is acquiring the notetaker Fathom (400 thousand active users, 1 million recorded meetings) and integrating it into its AI productivity platform for work automation and AI agents.
In her book Coding Kids, journalist Natasha Singer warns that AI companies are entering schools through the same approach previously used for coding – through free courses and materials. New York City and Los Angeles have already partially banned AI in teaching.
Palantir is integrating Nemotron 3 Ultra from NVIDIA into the Foundry platform and combining it with the cuOpt tool to optimize supply chains. It is being piloted in the supply chain of NVIDIA itself (1.3 million components per Vera Rubin rack).
New: Palantir is integrating open Nemotron models (specifically Nemotron 3 Ultra) into the Foundry platform for fine-tuning; The Nvidia cuOpt tool handles optimization and scenario planning in supply chains; The pilot deployment targets the supply chain of Nvidia itself, with 1.3 million components in a single Vera Rubin rack; The system includes a feedback loop—decisions and their outcomes are fed back into the models for continuous improvement; The solution is available for manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and energy through the Sovereign AI OS reference architecture
Qualcomm has entered into an agreement with Amazon to supply AI chips (AI200, AI250) and optical systems for AWS infrastructure; Amazon will receive a warrant for shares of Qualcomm worth $4 billion in exchange for purchases worth $60 billion over 10 years.
The new CEO of Apple, John Ternus, called iPhone the best AI device at the Surprise and Shine event and emphasized that Apple Intelligence prioritizes running on-device to protect user privacy.
The government of South Korea has launched the “AI for Everyone” program, which is intended to give citizens free, unlimited access to AI in public services as standard infrastructure.
According to Bloomberg, Crusoe has raised 3 billion dollars in a new funding round at a valuation of 30 billion dollars; the round is led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners.
Thinking Machines, the lab founded by Mira Murati, is in talks for a funding round of 1 billion dollars at a valuation of at least 40 billion dollars, led by Accel. This is a lower valuation than the 50 billion dollars the company originally sought.
GitHub is gradually reopening Copilot Business and Enterprise sign-ups for payments by card or via PayPal and introducing stricter account verification and revised billing from 1 October 2026.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, described the boom in building AI compute infrastructure as “unsustainable silliness” and criticized neocloud providers building capacity without corresponding demand. He described the expansion of OpenAI itself as profitable.
Palo Alto Networks acquired the startup Console, which uses AI agents to automate IT helpdesk tasks, for 500 million dollars. This is the seventh acquisition by the company in 2026, and Console will be integrated into the Cortex platform.
According to the LA Times, Google is in talks with Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal about paid licenses to train Gemini AI models on their content—up to 40 million dollars for one character. The agreements have not yet been finalized.
AI training data startup AfterQuery has reached a valuation of 3.2 billion dollars, according to Forbes, ten times its valuation in the April Series A round. Y Combinator calls it the fastest path to unicorn status in its history.
According to The Information, OpenAI is testing payments for AI services with large customers that are made only after a task has been successfully completed. Salesforce, Adobe, HubSpot and Zendesk are also moving in the same direction; attribution of success to AI remains contentious.
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