Adobe MAX 2026 Opens Photoshop and Premiere to Outside AI Agents and Deepens Its Google Partnership
Adobe used the first day of MAX in Miami Beach on November 10 to push agents into every corner of its software. The headline features…
Zendesk Launches Outcome AI Platform and Drops Seat Limits From New Plans
Software has been sold by the seat for two decades. Zendesk is walking away from that for its new AI products. At its AI Summit…
Otto One Is a $599 Screenless Computer Built for an AI Agent to Live On
Personal computers were built for people to operate. Otto One is built so nobody has to. The New York startup Otto launched it on November…
PuppyGraph Raises $10 Million Series A to Let AI Agents Query Thousands of Tables as a Graph
Text-to-SQL agents look great in demos with ten tables. Point them at a real enterprise with thousands of tables and they start guessing how things…
Lumbra Raises $25 Million to Take AI Agents From Top-Secret Networks to Regulated Industries
Most AI agent startups start with email and calendars. Lumbra started on classified networks. The Washington company announced a $25 million Series A on November…
Graphon Labs Raises $35 Million Series A to Give AI Agents Memory That Persists
Six months ago Graphon came out of stealth with an $8.3 million seed and a claim that AI’s context problem should be solved outside the…
Bay Exits Stealth With $50 Million to Check Every AI Agent Action Before It Runs
Bay’s founders got their idea the uncomfortable way. While testing an AI coding agent, they watched it try to expose a cloud environment to the…
Path Robotics Raises $300 Million at $2.45 Billion to Take Its Welding AI Beyond Welding
Path Robotics has spent eight years on one of the hardest jobs to automate in a factory. Welding parts that never quite match their drawings.…
Mercor Raises $750 Million at a $20 Billion Valuation to Sell AI Evaluation to Every Enterprise
Mercor has doubled its valuation in about thirteen months. The San Francisco company announced a $750 million Series D on November 10 at a $20…
TI Lets AI Agents Write, Build and Debug Code in CCStudio as Expedera Pairs Its NPU With Cadence and EV Group Pitches Packaging for Qubits
The week of electronica and SEMICON Europa in Munich brings a wave of chip-tooling announcements. Three from November 9 are worth a look, because each…
Teradyne Tests Edge AI Boards, MIPS Puts Motor Control Inside Robot Joints and Kopin Grows US MicroLED Production
Most AI hardware news is about data centers. Three announcements on November 9 were about the other end: the boards, joints and displays that put…
AI in Medicine Moves From Demos to Trials With Viz.ai Heart Data, Cancer Grand Challenges AURORA Teams and a Feinstein Delirium Grant
Three medical AI announcements came out on November 6. None of them is a product launch. Each is about testing AI against something hard to…
Nooks Gets 500 Million Dollars From General Catalyst for AI Sales Agents as Phaze and Shackleton AI Raise Seed Rounds
Three agent companies raised money on November 4, and the sizes couldn’t be further apart. Nooks took $500 million for AI that works alongside salespeople.…
Kalepa Raises $75 Million for Insurance AI as Capgemini and Rootstock Surveys Show Agents Still Need a Human Sign-Off
Three releases on November 5, from insurance, banking and manufacturing, all landed on the same design for AI agents: let them do the work, keep…
Visa Benchmark Finds AI Shopping Agents Fail 42.8% of Runs as FIS Survey Shows Consumers Want AI Guarding Money First
Two releases landed on November 5 that read like the same study run from opposite ends. Visa tested what AI shopping agents can do. FIS…
Braid Raises $38 Million to Put Branded eSIM Plans Inside Travel and Banking Apps
Braid raises $38 million from Octopus Ventures and KPN Ventures as it brings branded mobile connectivity into enterprise apps. The next test is reliability and sustainable margins.
Cognizant Puts 25,000 Staff Behind OpenAI as IT Services Firms Become the Delivery Channel for Enterprise AI
Cognizant formed an OpenAI group of more than 25,000 people, days after a similar Gemini bet and months after a Claude deal, as services firms race to become the labs’ route into enterprises.
Rapidus Taps HCLTech Engineers in India as Japan’s 2nm Foundry Still Hunts for Its First Signed Customer
HCLTech opened two centers in Bengaluru and Hubli to do PDK, mask and layout work for Rapidus, which still has no named volume customer for its 2027 2nm launch.
XGIMI AURA 3 Projector Raises $15 Million on Kickstarter in 23 Hours as Brands Turn Crowdfunding Into Pre-Orders
XGIMI’s AURA 3 ultra-short-throw projector hit $10 million in two hours on Kickstarter, a speed record built on weeks of $50 reservations and steep launch discounts.
Group14 Raises 150 Million Euros and Picks Spain for Its Next Silicon Anode Plant While Moses Lake Waits for 2027
Group14 added 150 million euros to its Series D from an unnamed investor and chose Sagunto, Spain, for a 10 GWh SCC55 plant, while its delayed Moses Lake factory targets 2027.
Collective, Wabi and AvalonX Raise $165 Million as OPay Pulls Its $304 Million NYSE IPO on Debut Day
Investors paid up for AI that replaces costly experts for small customers this week, while profitable fintech OPay priced its IPO at the low end and then failed to trade.
Bose Buys Skullcandy to Reach Younger, Budget Headphone Buyers Its Own Brand Misses
Bose has bought Skullcandy from Mill Road Capital for an undisclosed price, adding a youth-focused budget headphone brand as the earbud market stalls and phone makers dominate shipments.
Sony Shrinks a 0.51 Megapixel Image Sensor to 1 mm Square for Disposable Endoscopes, With Digital Output Over 5 Meters
Sony’s IMX742 packs 720 by 720 pixels onto a 1 mm chip that digitizes images on the sensor, aimed at single-use bronchoscopes and ureteroscopes, with samples shipping in November.
Whop Raises $200 Million at a $5.1 Billion Valuation as Sequoia and Shopify Ventures Bet on AI-Run Creator Businesses
Whop’s Series D more than triples its valuation in eight months, backed by a roughly $400 million revenue run rate built on a 6 percent cut of seller sales.