AI & Robotics

Nvidia reported $46.7 billion in revenue for fiscal Q2 2026 in their earnings announcement and call yesterday, with data center revenue hitting $41.1 billion, up 56% year over year. The company also released guidance for Q3, predicting a $54 billion quarter. Behind these confirmed earnings call numbers lies a more complex story of how custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are…

There’s no question that AI agents — those that can work autonomously and asynchronously behind the scenes in enterprise workflows — are the topic du jour in enterprise right now.  But there’s increasing concern that it’s all just that — talk, mostly hype, without much substance behind it.  Gartner, for one, observes that enterprises are at the “peak of inflated expectations,” a…

The adoption of interoperability standards, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), can provide enterprises with insights into how agents and models function outside their walled confines. However, many benchmarks fail to capture real-life interactions with MCP.  Salesforce AI Research developed a new open-source benchmark it calls MCP-Universe, which aims to track LLMs as these interact with…

Even three years after its debut, with ever increasing competition in the AI image and video generation space, Midjourney, the bootstrapped San Francisco startup, remains the “gold standard” for its 20 million users — including us here at VentureBeat, where we use it to generate the “header” art to many of our articles. Apparently, the leaders of Facebook and Instagram parent company…