Salesforce plans to invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years to help businesses adopt AI. The move underscores the company’s push to stay competitive as AI becomes central to enterprise software. Founded and headquartered in San Francisco since 1999, Salesforce has been adding AI features across its products, including the workplace

If you’ve ever thought companies talk more than act when it comes to their AI strategy, a new Cisco report backs you up. It turns out that just 13 percent globally are actually prepared for the AI revolution. However, this small group – which Cisco calls the ‘Pacesetters’ – are lapping the competition. The third

In a cement plant operated by Conch Group, an agentic AI system built on Huawei infrastructure now predicts the strength of clinker with over 90% accuracy and autonomously adjusts calcination parameters to cut coal consumption by 1%—decisions that previously required human expertise accumulated over decades This exemplifies how Huawei is developing agentic AI systems that

Oracle and NVIDIA have expanded their partnership to make enterprise AI services more available, powerful, and practical. The announcements, made during Oracle AI World, cover everything from monstrously powerful new hardware to deeply integrated software that aims to put AI at the very core of a company’s data. Ian Buck, VP of Hyperscale and High-Performance

Reducto, an AI document intelligence platform, has closed a $75M Series B funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Existing investors Benchmark, First Round Capital, BoxGroup, and YCombinator also participated in the round. This latest investment follows the company’s $24.5M Series A in April 2025 and brings Reducto’s total funding to $108M—all raised in less than

Basis Theory has closed a $33 million Series B funding round led by Costanoa. The round also includes participation from Stage 2 Capital and Moneta VC, with continued backing from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, Box Group, and Offline Ventures. The payment infrastructure company serves customers including Pinterest, Melio, and MoneyGram. These organizations

Pear Suite has closed a $7.6 million Series A round to expand its AI-powered platform supporting community health workers across the United States. The funding will help the digital health company grow its provider network and secure new contracts with Medicaid and Medicare health plans. Rock Health Capital and Nexxus Holdings co-led the investment, joined

It’s not every week you see an AI app crash through a million downloads in just a few days, but here we are. OpenAI’s Sora, the company’s ambitious video generation platform, has become the talk of the internet — part filmmaking revolution, part ethical minefield. According to a recent report, users are flocking to the

London’s financial heart is thumping to a new rhythm — not the usual hum of traders or analysts, but the sound of algorithms, neural networks, and machine-learning startups hiring faster than coffee brews on Canary Wharf. According to a recent report, job vacancies in the city’s finance sector shot up 9% in the third quarter

Soulgen’s got this funny way of pulling people in—you show up thinking, “let me just toy with this free version,” and next thing you know you’re side-eyeing the premium button like it’s a dessert menu. I’ve been through that dance, so let’s break down the real difference between free vs paid subscription without dressing it