Gopi Duddi is Chief Technology Officer at Couchbase, where he leads engineering for the company’s operational data platform for Ai. gettyMost enterprise AI planning sessions today center on foundation models, orchestration frameworks and GPUs. The data architecture underneath and whether it can handle agentic AI in production barely comes up. Teams get the model right,…
Kevan Yalowitz, Accenture Software and Platforms Industry Lead. gettyGenerational differences are driving distinct adoption patterns in consumer AI. The same tools are being used across age groups, but the reasons people use them, the trust thresholds they apply and what they consider “worth paying for” vary sharply. If you want adoption to drive revenue and…
Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at a valuation of about $1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC, several people with knowledge of the deal said. XDOF was co-founded by UC Berkeley researchers…
A federal court in Delaware has ruled on a trademark fight between Elon Musk’s X and a startup trying to launch a rival social network. The startup, Operation Bluebird, originally launched under the name Twitter.now, but the court barred it from using that name, siding with X on the core “Twitter” trademark. However, the court…
Today could be the day Tesla changes forever. In a couple of hours, Tesla will “launch” the Cybercab — a small, gold, two-seater sedan with no steering wheel or pedals that uses cameras and AI to navigate the world — in its hometown of Austin, Texas. The company hasn’t said what the launch will entail,…
In Brief Posted: 12:36 PM PDT · September 3, 2026 Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded early last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in discussions to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, The Information reported Thursday. Existing backer Accel is…
Nada Usina is CEO & Co-Founder of NU Advisory Partners. gettyIn working with private equity (PE) leaders for the last few decades, I’ve noticed one surprising area where their interest and money has begun to pop up quite frequently: college sports. This growing interest in college athletics brings a welcome new source of capital to…
Pankaj Prasoon is senior director of CFO systems at LinkedIn, leading finance technology and building AI fluency across finance teams. gettyThe hardest part of AI transformation isn’t getting people to trust AI. It’s getting great people to let go of the things that made them great. Between the world wars, every major navy could see…
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Image Credits:Jaque Silva/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images 7:03 AM PDT · September 2, 2026 Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a deal involving licensing and team acquisition, TechCrunch learned and the company confirmed. This is Adobe’s second acquisition from India after it bought video platform Rephrase.ai in 2023. The companies didn’t disclose…
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