Ema, a startup that uses teams of AI agents to automate corporate processes across HR, IT, and finance, has raised $77 million in a new funding round as it aims to take on more of the work traditionally handled by enterprise software and IT services.
The Series B round was led by Bengaluru-based venture firm Creaegis, with existing investors Accel, Section 32, and Prosus increasing their stakes.
‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
September 24, 2026
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to San Francisco on Monday night to promote Greece, but he also did something that heads of state on trade missions don’t typically do. In front of roughly 250 founders, investors, and operators, he said openly that he…
Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction
September 23, 2026
Frontier AI labs are convinced that scaling up computation is the path to improving artificial intelligence, and they’ve put their money where their mouths are, to the tune of trillions of dollars of planned data center projects.
The rest of us? Surveys of public…
AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
September 23, 2026
Fly to an asteroid, land on it, make no mistakes: If only it were that easy.
When NASA sends spacecraft to explore the solar system, they build in redundancy and automation. But much of the work is done by teams of flight controllers communicating with the vehicle from Earth. The OSIRIS-REx mission, which rendezvoused with an asteroid in 2018, had 100 operators on each eight-hour shift.
But…
When British neocloud Nscale goes public, it will test public investors’ appetite for a stock whose revenue is tied primarily to two customers.
Since it was spun out of Australian cryptocurrency mining company Arkon Energy two years ago, Nscale has amassed over $103…
Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
September 22, 2026
Meta’s latest AI app, Muse, could be the social giant’s next major hit, new data suggests. According to just- released estimates from market intelligence provider Apptopia, Muse’s app on mobile devices has been downloaded more times during its first 12 days…
With Tabby, a former accountant is using AI to make accountants obsolete
September 22, 2026
In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling more than 2,000 returns a year. “We did bookkeeping, accounting, sales tax, taxes, everything,” Ali says. It was a stable business, and one that would have been easy to stay in.
But Ali started to notice something. His work was increasingly dictated by the frictions of accounting software…
After first unveiling its new AI-powered laptop, dubbed Googlebook, in May, Google on Monday said the new device is now available for preorder for $899.
Meant to offer a step up from traditional Chromebooks, Googlebooks run on Android OS with a desktop version of the Chrome…
Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
September 21, 2026
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We’re seeing a big debate over AI safety and a potential slowdown, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently published a plan to “pace the frontier,” while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly echoed President…
Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
September 21, 2026
There is no dearth of different forms of hardware for meeting note-taking, including pendants, pins, and credit-card-styled devices. That hasn’t stopped Vocci from releasing a new device for the same use case in a ring form factor, which is convenient but could create some privacy issues.
The ring form factor is one of the easiest for anyone who wants to just press a button and have the…
