Profound announced on September 15, 2026, that it has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. The round arrives less than seven months after the AI marketing company closed its $96 million Series C. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Saga Ventures, Evantic,…
Radical Ventures announced on September 15, 2026 the first close of the Radical Breakouts Fund, a new late-stage strategy that secured more than US$1 billion in commitments and that the firm describes as the largest-ever venture capital fund in Canada. Commitments came from the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), the Canada Pension Plan…
Physical AI technology advancements are giving manufacturers a clearer view of the factory floor. Cameras can spot defects in real time. Sensors can identify early signs of equipment failure. Digital twins can show when a line is drifting out of tolerance. AI tools can summarize what happened across a shift. Yet many manufacturers are discovering…
OpenEvidence and Penn Medicine announced a global partnership on September 15, 2026, to bring AI-powered clinical decision support to Penn Medicine’s more than 10,000 clinicians across its seven-hospital health system, with that support also extending to low- and middle-income countries through the Botswana-UPenn Partnership. Under the agreement, OpenEvidence’s tools will be accessible to clinicians within…
In an announcement datelined San Francisco, Medallion said on September 15, 2026 that it has acquired Andros, an NCQA-certified credentials verification organization, in a transaction the company says makes it the largest AI-native credentialing platform in the country. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The company said the deal places more than a million…
In 2001, IBM wrote an autonomous IT manifesto. The Vision of Autonomic Computing broke down self-management into four pillars: self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. I was at Microsoft when IBM laid out this IT vision. We reacted by proposing technology ideas such as the autonomous data center, but ultimately, it was a dream that was…
Cisco announced a set of new Splunk capabilities at Splunk.conf in Denver on September 15, 2026, led by the immediate availability of Cisco AI POD for Splunk, which brings self-managed Splunk AI to on-premises, private cloud, and air-gapped environments through an expanded partnership with NVIDIA. Cisco AI POD for Splunk Cisco Secure AI Factory with…
Perplexity announced on September 15, 2026 that HP will pre-load the Perplexity Windows app on HP devices, starting with the new HP ZBook Ultra G3a mobile workstation and placing the app directly in the Windows taskbar. The ZBook Ultra G3a is the first device in the rollout, and Perplexity described it as a mobile workstation…
Salesforce and Siemens announced a new chapter in their partnership on September 15, 2026, at Dreamforce in San Francisco, combining Salesforce’s Agentforce platform with Siemens’ Teamcenter Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) software. The announcement also detailed a Siemens deployment of Agentforce that, according to Salesforce, qualifies every inbound lead for Siemens’ 18,000 sellers, and it outlined…
The OpenAI Foundation introduced Public Data for Health on September 15, 2026, its second science program, with more than $125 million in initial grants to fund the creation and preservation of high-quality scientific datasets made broadly available to researchers. The program was announced in a post authored by Abhishaike Mahajan and Jacob Trefethen. The foundation…