Category: AI & Emerging Tech

PARIS — March 2026 A new layer is quietly forming inside enterprise finance — one that shifts accounts receivable from a manual workflow into an autonomous system. French startup Cleavr, founded in 2025, is positioning itself at the center of that transition. The company has raised approximately €1 million in early-stage funding to build what…

LONDON — March 17, 2026 Creative work is entering a new phase of artificial intelligence — one defined not by generation, but by control over how decisions are made, remembered, and executed. First Concepts, a London-based AI infrastructure startup, is building a taste-aware AI workspace designed to structure creative workflows, preserve brand identity, and transform…

Inside the rise of “neo-labs” like Mirendil — startups attempting to build foundation models for the physical world. The Intelligence Briefing The Next AI Frontier May Not Be Chatbots SAN FRANCISCO — Mirendil, a newly launched AI research startup founded by former Anthropic scientists Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, represents a growing class of companies…

Inside the AI production infrastructure platform that could reshape Hollywood’s filmmaking pipeline. LOS ANGELES — is moving deeper into artificial intelligence–powered filmmaking infrastructure with the reported acquisition of InterPositive, an AI startup founded by actor and filmmaker , in a deal valued at up to $600 million, according to industry reports published this week. This…

Nscale’s latest funding round signals the emergence of a new generation of AI infrastructure hyperscalers competing to build the compute backbone of the global artificial intelligence economy. Nscale, a British artificial intelligence infrastructure startup backed by Nvidia, has raised $2 billion in a Series C funding round, valuing the company at $14.6 billion and positioning…

Inside the AI platform turning natural language prompts into full-stack products AI-native development platforms are beginning to compress the traditional software stack into a single prompt-driven workflow. Stockholm-based startup Lovable is emerging as one of the fastest-growing examples of this shift, allowing users to generate full-stack applications through natural language prompts — a model increasingly…

Inside the coordination layer determining what enterprise AI knows before it acts Enterprise AI adoption is revealing a structural shift rather than a simple capability race. While frontier models continue improving, enterprises face a more practical constraint: how intelligence accesses internal knowledge, respects permissions, and executes workflows reliably. Glean operates inside that shift, positioning itself…

Manufacturing has never lacked data.It has lacked usable expertise. Technical documents, schematics, service logs, and tribal knowledge sit fragmented across systems, departments, and retiring workforces. AI promised automation, but generic models struggle to interpret domain-specific visual and technical context. That gap is where Circuit is positioning itself. The Austin-based startup is building an AI platform…

The shift from model rivalry to institutional embedment is reshaping AI’s competitive map. Model benchmarks dominate headlines. Procurement cycles determine power. Anthropic’s trajectory suggests the AI race is shifting away from performance tables and toward institutional embedment. Frontier labs are no longer competing only on marginal capability deltas. They are competing for durable placement inside…

Global AI investment now exceeds $50B annually as regions specialize. From U.S. agent frameworks to Europe’s regulated AI stack, capital is splitting across geographies. AI is not moving in one direction anymore.It is pulling apart. The AI race is no longer a single race.It is a geographic realignment of capital, talent, and infrastructure.The uncomfortable reality…