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Armada raises $230M at $2B valuation to build portable AI data centers

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:18:52 +0000

Armada Inc., a provider of portable data centers and satellite internet software, has raised $230 million in funding at a $2 billion valuation. The company disclosed in its announcement of the raise today that BlackRock, Overmatch and 8090 Industries were the lead investors. They were joined by more than a half-dozen others, including Johnson Controls […]

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Google Flow adds agentic brainstorming, more precise editing tools and sharing features

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:08:57 +0000

Google Flow was one of the headline announcements at last year’s I/O event, and it got more attention during this year’s edition today. Flow is a creative studio that’s powered by various artificial intelligence models, which users can prompt to create, edit and iterate slick videos all in one place. Now one year old, it’s being […]

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Google to embed AI shopping features in multiple services with Universal Cart

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:48:01 +0000

Google LLC is rolling out an artificial intelligence tool called Universal Cart that will make it easier for consumers to shop online. The tool made its debut today at the company’s Google I/O 2026 event. The Alphabet Inc. unit also introduced new foundation models, an AI agent for the consumer market and other product updates. […]

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Google shows off first intelligent specs running Android XR

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:28:22 +0000

Meta Platforms Inc. and Ray-Ban will finally have some competition on their hands. At Google I/O 2026 today, Google LLC provided a quick look at its first upcoming “intelligent eyewear” products, which are set to launch in the fall. The new smart glasses were jointly developed between Google and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., with the […]

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Meta shifts 7,000 employees into four new AI units ahead of mass layoffs

Duncan Riley — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:36:37 +0000

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly reassigning about 7,000 workers into new artificial intelligence roles as part of the broader restructuring that brings layoffs of roughly 8,000 staff into effect on Wednesday. The reassignments were disclosed in a memo on Monday from Meta Chief People Officer Janelle Gale that was reviewed by Bloomberg, which first reported […]

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Becoming AI-native is no longer a path to success — it’s an operational prerequisite

Kelly Knight — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:15:11 +0000

The AI-native enterprise isn’t an ideal anymore. Instead, it has become the new competitive baseline. Dell Technologies Inc. has spent nearly three years interrogating that reality from the inside, using its own operations as a live proving ground, according to Jeff Clarke (pictured), vice chairman and chief operating officer of Dell. That time spent on internal […]

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Google, Blackstone launch AI infrastructure joint venture

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:46:41 +0000

Google LLC and Blackstone Inc. are launching a joint venture that will provide a “compute-as-a-service” platform for artificial intelligence workloads. The companies announced the collaboration on Monday. The yet-unnamed venture is launching with $5 billion in equity funding from Blackstone, which will reportedly receive a majority stake. The investment is said to be worth $25 […]

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Enterprise AI is ready — Michael Dell says executives need to be, too

Kelly Knight — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:46:59 +0000

AI infrastructure is no longer just about faster computing. It is becoming the foundation for a new enterprise operating model where data comes alive, digital workers reshape workflows and leadership courage determines who keeps up. That inflection point has arrived even as infrastructure investment surrounding AI still seems to be in its opening act. Few companies […]

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Five takeaways from Michael Dell’s keynote at Dell Technologies World 2026

Zeus Kerravala — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:45:20 +0000

Like most vendor event keynotes this year, Michael Dell used his Dell Technologies World 2026 keynote to argue that artificial intelligence has moved beyond experimentation and into the physical, operational core of the enterprise. His central line, “Abundant intelligence is here,” framed the transformation not as another infrastructure refresh cycle but as the start of […]

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Workspace gets new voice, image editing and inbox tools as Google adds AI capabilities

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:45:53 +0000

Google LLC is revamping the Google Workspace suite of applications for getting things done, adding new conversational capabilities for brainstorming, an expanded AI Inbox in Gmail, and an all-new application called Google Pics that helps everyone to get the most out of their creative spark. The swath of new features were unveiled today at Google’s […]

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Google reimagines search with AI agents and generative interfaces

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:45:51 +0000

Google LLC’s search is getting an artificial intelligence makeover today, as the company announced during its Google I/O developer conference that it’s upgrading the search experience to “reimagine it with AI,” making it feel less like a static results page and more like an AI workspace. At the forefront, the search box itself will now expand to let users […]

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With expanded Antigravity platform, Google accelerates agent-native software development

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:45:46 +0000

Google Cloud is enhancing its “agent-first” coding platform for developers with the launch of Antigravity 2.0, a new standalone desktop application that enables a full “agent-optimized” user experience. It comes alongside the debut of Managed Agents in the Gemini application programming interface and native Android vibe coding in Google AI Studio, which were also announced […]

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Google expands AI-powered app discovery and Android development tools at I/O

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:45:43 +0000

Google LLC’s Android team today announced it’s employing deeper integration of generative artificial intelligence and agentic AI to help mobile developers and publishers connect with customers and users. The company said at its annual Google I/O 2026 developer conference that said it’s expanding how users can find apps in the Google Play store on Android and the […]

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Google’s new Gemini Spark is an always-on AI agent for daily digital tasks

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:45:31 +0000

Entering into the artificial intelligence agent era, Google LLC today introduced Gemini Spark, a 24/7 personal AI assistant that can help people navigate their digital lives and do real work on their behalf. Under the hood, Spark runs on the newly released Gemini 3.5 Flash and uses the company’s updated Antigravity platform to orchestrate AI agents. […]

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Google targets AI agents and video generation with Gemini 3.5 Flash and Omni

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:45:18 +0000

Google LLC today introduced two new generative artificial intelligence models that push its Gemini family further into AI agents and multimodal creation: Gemini 3.5 Flash, a fast reasoning model designed to power agentic workflows, and Gemini Omni, a creative model that can generate and edit video from nearly any input. Gemini 3.5 is the newest generation […]

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Dell overhauls data center portfolio with AI-focused storage, servers and cyber resilience tools

Paul Gillin — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:00:55 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc. today unveiled a broad set of storage, compute, cyber resilience and automation upgrades designed to help enterprises modernize data centers for artificial intelligence workloads while continuing to support traditional applications. The announcements, made at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas, include a major refresh of the company’s PowerStore storage line, new PowerEdge […]

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Before enterprises can run with agentic AI, they need to learn to walk with their data

Kelly Knight — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:54:35 +0000

Multi-agent orchestration is the destination, but for most enterprises, the road is blocked long before the first agent gets deployed by the quality of the data feeding those systems. As organizations accelerate investment in agentic workflows, a persistent gap between AI ambition and operational reality is widening. Legacy systems were built for a world where […]

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Sola Security launches Lumina to cut enterprise security alert noise with contextual AI

Duncan Riley — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:43 +0000

Cybersecurity startup Sola Security Ltd. today announced the launch of Lumina, an autonomous risk intelligence platform that applies contextual artificial intelligence across cloud, identity, software-as-a-service and endpoint environments to deliver prioritized security signals instead of raw alerts. The company is pitching Lumina as an answer to one of the most persistent problems in enterprise security: […]

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LaunchDarkly launches runtime control layer for the agentic AI era

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:32 +0000

LaunchDarkly, a feature control platform that helps developers and software engineers launch and manage products, today announced the launch of AgentControl, a new solution providing real-time management of AI agents in production. As more agents get launched into production, companies are discovering that, unlike ordinary code, generative AI is probabilistic and doesn’t always behave exactly as it did in testing. Although models can update and go […]

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Darwinium pushes mobile fraud detection beyond the login moment

Duncan Riley — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:24 +0000

Artificial intelligence fraud prevention platform company Darwinium UK Ltd. today released updates to its Android and iOS mobile software development kits, adding continuous in-session detection of remote access scams, screen-sharing manipulation and the device tricks behind large-scale account farming. The company is pitching the refreshed SDKs as being suited for banks, payment providers and digital businesses contending […]

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Everpure pitches storage as the last line of cyber defense in the AI era

Duncan Riley — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:19 +0000

Everpure Inc. today reinforced its Enterprise Data Cloud vision by defining the storage layer as the last line of defense in modern cyber resilience, an architecture the company argues is essential as artificial intelligence accelerates the pace and sophistication of attacks against enterprises. The data management company, formerly known as Pure Storage until it changed […]

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Torq acquires AI security startup Jit to add context graphs to its security operations center platform

Duncan Riley — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:18 +0000

Autonomous security operations company Torq Ltd. today announced that it has acquired Jit.io Ltd., a cybersecurity startup whose technology generates AI-driven context graphs to inform security investigations, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2021, Jit started as a security-as-code platform provider aimed at developers. Its product bundled together the patchwork of application security and DevSecOps […]

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Voker raises $2.2M to help teams understand how AI agents perform in the wild

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:06 +0000

Voker, an agent analytics platform for artificial intelligence product teams, today announced it has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator and FundersClub. As more companies push AI agents into customer-facing and internal workflows, the challenge is moving from “Can we build one?” to “Does it work in the wild?” Many enterprise teams […]

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Agentic success has a prerequisite — building the systems most enterprises left undone

Kelly Knight — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:48:43 +0000

Enterprises racing toward assured autonomy in agentic AI are running headlong into a decades-old problem: Most of their infrastructure was never designed to be connected — let alone governed at the speed AI demands. Only about 30% of the enterprise is truly connected today — a fragmentation driven by accumulated technical debt, siloed IT stacks […]

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Enterprise AI startup Unframe raises $50M after booking $100M in contract value in year one

Duncan Riley — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:31 +0000

Enterprise artificial intelligence platform startup Unframe Inc. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to expand delivery capacity, invest further in its platform and build out senior leadership. The company also said it has crossed $100 million in total contract value within 12 months of its formal launch, with what it described as […]

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Stop bolting AI onto brownfield and start treating legacy as a feeder, not a foundation, says Dell CTO

Kelly Knight — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:45:20 +0000

Fully autonomous AI has crossed the threshold from concept to commercial reality, forcing enterprises to rethink the very foundation on which they run their businesses. The shift is arriving faster than most organizations anticipated, bringing with it an urgent new set of economic and architectural demands. But the pressure is especially acute for enterprises that […]

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Dell’s CFO sees the enterprise AI buildout as a generational opportunity still in its opening act

Jonathan Anthony — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:09:42 +0000

AI factory momentum has reached a critical inflection point as capital joins silicon and energy as key constraints in the race to build enterprise AI infrastructure. That dynamic is playing out in real time for Dell Technologies Inc., which has surpassed more than 5,000 Dell AI Factory deployments across its ecosystem. The company’s supply chain precision, […]

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Decart raises $300M for its AI optimization software, world models

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:24:11 +0000

Artificial intelligence developer Decart.ai Inc. today announced that it has raised $300 million in funding at a nearly $4 billion valuation. Radical Ventures led the round with participation from Nvidia Corp., Adobe Ventures, Toyota Ventures and other institutional backers. They were joined by several prominent angel investors, including OpenAI Group PBC co-founder Andrej Karpathy. Decart […]

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Federal jury rules against Elon Musk in closely watched OpenAI trial

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:45:25 +0000

A federal jury today voted to dismiss Elon Musk’s high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI Group PBC. The nine jurors found that the complaint, which Musk filed in 2024, was brought after the statute of limitations had expired. The nonbinding advisory decision was immediately accepted by the judge presiding over the case. Musk originally brought the lawsuit […]

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Sigma Computing seals $80M funding round as it pivots toward ‘agentic analytics’

Mike Wheatley — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:31:49 +0000

Cloud-native data analytics startup Sigma Computing Inc. has closed on an $80 million Series E funding round that doubles its valuation to $3 billion, almost a year to the day after its previous Series D raise. Today’s round was led by Princeville Capital and saw participation from new investors Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures and Workday […]

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