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CNBCPartnership
Meta announced a slate of Muse partnerships with Walmart, Gap, Sephora, Expedia, Wayfair, Best Buy and others.
The ElecPartnership
LS Cable & System partnered with HARTING to develop AI data center power solutions, signing an MOU in Singapore on September 29. The collaboration combines LS Cable's cables and busducts with HARTING's connectors to supply power to server racks.
TechCrunchFunding
Sean Parker is refocusing Stability AI on music, securing $76 million in funding from Sony, Warner, and Universal. The company released three audio models and AI music-editing software capable of generating tracks from text prompts.
CNBCFunding
Anthropic will invest $100 million to train nearly 10,000 AI engineers, partnering with a number of consulting firms.
BloombergPartnership
Lockheed Martin uses 55 large language models, including OpenAI, to address F-35 sensor challenges. The collaboration focuses on complex math and physics problems.
The ElecPartnership
BI Matrix registered its AI solution, Trinity, on South Korea's KONEPS platform. Trinity enables natural-language database analysis without coding.
DatacenterDynamicsPartnership
Will see Cerebras' wafer-scale compute coming to the AI cloud platform
Tom's HardwarePartnership
Amazon and Synopsys signed a multi-year, over-$1 billion deal to collaborate on AI chip design, with Amazon licensing Synopsys' IP and EDA tools. Synopsys will optimize its solutions for Amazon's Trainium and Graviton chips and adopt AWS services.
Cloudflare BlogProduct launch
Cloudflare launched a Web Search API via AI Gateway, partnering with Ceramic.ai, Exa, and Linkup to provide agents with live web data. The API allows developers to access real-time information through REST endpoints or Cloudflare Workers.
Cohere BlogFunding
Cohere acquired Reliant AI to expand sovereign enterprise AI in biopharma and healthcare. The deal aims to enhance AI capabilities in the global healthcare sector.
Mistral AI NewsPartnership
Mistral and HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration to advance sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, focusing on cybersecurity, voice, and Arabic language models. The partnership involves hundreds of millions of Euros and explores HUMAIN’s data center infrastructure for local compute needs.
Cohere BlogOther
Cohere launched Embed 5, a new family of frontier embedding models. The company also partnered with Aleph Alpha to create the first transatlantic sovereign AI solution.
Mistral AI NewsPartnership
Cloudera and Mistral partnered to offer sovereign AI solutions, integrating Mistral's models with Cloudera's hybrid data platform. The collaboration allows enterprises to control AI models trained on 30 exabytes of customer data.
Mistral AI NewsPartnership
Mistral and Mozilla partnered to power Firefox Smart Window with Mistral models for users in France and North America, with the UK and Germany to follow. The AI prioritizes privacy, local language support, and user control.
Mistral AI NewsPeople & org
Mistral opens a Munich hub to advance industrial AI, focusing on Physics AI and partnerships with BMW and Siemens Energy. The hub aims to develop sovereign AI solutions with European compute capacity and open-weight architecture.
Cohere BlogFunding
Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a business combination agreement to form the first transatlantic sovereign AI solution, with plans for dual headquarters in Berlin and Toronto. The deal, pending regulatory approval, will expand Cohere's workforce to over 1,000 employees.
DigiTimesPartnership
Meta will integrate Naver Map's walking-navigation feature into its Ray-Ban and Oakley AI glasses in 2026. Naver becomes the first South Korean company to partner with Meta in the AI glasses category.
DigiTimesPartnership
Hitachi and Fanuc launched a Physical AI partnership on September 30, 2026, with internal testing starting immediately and customer promotion planned for fiscal 2027. The collaboration aims to apply the technology in manufacturing, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and nursing care.
Meta NewsroomProduct launch
Meta appoints Ranveer Singh as first India brand ambassador for Ray-Ban and Ray-Ban Meta. Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) launches in India with nine-hour battery life, 27 color options, and starts at INR 44,300.
Tom's HardwareProduct launch
Chinese AI company DeepSeek, in partnership with Huawei, released open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia. The tools include DeepGEMM-Ascend and DeepEP-Ascend, with native TileLang support for Ascend 950.
Financial TimesInfrastructure
Planned 400-megawatt data centre near Tokyo will be among Asia’s largest projects outside China
Google: The KeywordFunding
Google.org announced support for three higher education initiatives to enhance AI readiness, including a program at 30 universities to improve adult learner success. The initiatives aim to expand career-connected learning and transform community college strategic planning.
Palo Alto Networks BlogProduct launch
Palo Alto Networks launched CLARA Agent, integrating Strata Cloud Manager with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise to provide instant cloud and AI risk insights. The tool will be available on Google Cloud Marketplace, offering infrastructure discovery, shadow AI detection, and vulnerability ranking.
Salesforce NewsFunding
Salesforce acquired Listen Labs, an AI customer research platform, to enhance its CRM capabilities. The deal, expected to close in Q4 2027, gives Salesforce access to a network of 50 million participants and AI-driven insights.
The Next PlatformFunding
AMD acquired World Labs for $8.2 billion, a startup founded in 2024 by Fei-Fei Li and others, to enhance its AI capabilities and compete with Nvidia. The deal includes World Labs' Marble and Atlas world models, aiming to advance AMD's robotics and compute engine ambitions.
Intuit BlogPartnership
Intuit QuickBooks integrated with Muse for small business, enabling financial workflows through AI. QuickBooks serves 10 million businesses and offers 74 financial domains and 307 specialized industries.
Samsung NewsroomFunding
Samsung and its affiliates are investing USD 1 billion in Helix, an AI infrastructure company launched by KKR in June 2026. The investment aims to support Helix's role in providing AI-enabling infrastructure.
South China Morning PostFunding
AMD agreed to acquire World Labs, founded by Li Fei-Fei, for $8.2 billion in an all-stock deal to strengthen its AI capabilities against Nvidia. The deal, expected to close by year-end, includes World Labs' spatial-intelligence model expertise.