AI & Robotics

Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services won’t be about flashy AI interfaces but rather the unglamorous back-office tasks like compliance. The startup, founded in 2024 by Gideon Ebose and Chidi Williams, two Nigerian engineers who met in London, just raised a $2.1 million pre-seed round led by Bowery Capital, with participation from Y…

In the frenzied land rush for generative AI that followed ChatGPT’s debut, the mandate from Intuit’s CEO was clear: ship the company’s largest, most shocking AI-driven launch by Sept. 2023. Responding with blazing speed, the $200 billion company behind QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mailchimp, delivered Intuit Assist, the company’s new generative AI assistant. Its most prominent feature was a…

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…