Artificial Intelligence
Dextr AI, which builds AI agents that answer calls, take reservations and manage guest requests for hotels, has raised $6.7 million in a seed round led by Elevation Capital with Foundation Capital participating. The company has named India as an expansion market.
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Meta rose 4.5% to $777.45 and Alphabet gained 1.3% on September 24 even as bond yields hit 2007 highs, as investors cheered Meta's Muse AI assistant and new Ray-Ban glasses, extending Meta's rally this week to about 16%.
Oracle has sent a force majeure notice to the Blue Owl-backed developer of Project Jupiter, a 2.45-gigawatt Stargate data centre for OpenAI, seeking the right to delay payments if the site misses its 2028 start. Oracle shares fell about 4%.
As AI agents gain access to enterprise data, systems and tools, they are emerging as a new class of active identity that needs its own permissions, monitoring and governance — reshaping the cybersecurity market.
At Zoholics in Chennai, Zoho co-founder Sridhar Vembu said AI is becoming the new interface for business software as the company launched Zia Chat and industry offerings for seven sectors.
Google has opened preorders for Googlebook, a new Android-based laptop line with on-device Gemini features from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo starting at $899, bundled with a year of Google AI Pro and ten years of software updates.
OpenAI says an internal model has resolved more than 100 long-standing open problems in mathematics, including a claimed solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, prompting the creation of an independent advisory group of mathematicians.
Amazon has blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from shopping on Amazon.com, telling users that access by an unauthorised AI agent violates its terms, even as Shopify integrates Muse with Shop Pay, opening a new front in the fight over who controls AI-driven shopping.
Alibaba used its Apsara conference in Hangzhou to unveil the Zhenwu V900 AI chip, offering about three times its predecessor's performance, and to outline a next-generation Qwen model with 5–10 trillion parameters, while targeting over 20 GW of cloud capacity by 2032.