Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental's NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data

Emerging from stealth, the company is debuting NEXUS, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) designed to treat business data not as a simple sequence of words, but as a complex web of non-linear relationships.
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Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

Microsoft delivered a solid earnings report on Wednesday with $81.3 billion in revenue for the quarter (up 17%), net income profits of $38.3 billion (up 21%), and a record-breaking Microsoft cloud ...
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Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use

Help desk automation is a billion-dollar industry, and one of the most likely to be disrupted by tech built upon AI. Major players like Zendesk, ServiceNow, and Freshworks currently dominate the space ...
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YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement in training its AI models

A group of YouTubers who are suing tech giants for scraping their videos without permission to train AI models has now added Snap to their list of defendants. The plaintiffs — internet content ...
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Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries

Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of ...
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Google’s Gemini to power Apple’s AI features like Siri

It’s official. Apple has chosen to work with Google, a longtime partner, to power AI features like Siri. “After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable ...
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Caterpillar taps Nvidia to bring AI to its construction equipment

Caterpillar is diving deeper into incorporating AI and automation into its fleet of construction machinery through a partnership with semiconductor giant Nvidia. The construction equipment giant is ...
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LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product

LMArena, a startup that originally launched as a UC Berkeley research project in 2023, announced on Tuesday that it raised a $150 million Series A at a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion. The round ...
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Nvidia to accelerate Siemens EDA tools using its GPUs

Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it would help Siemens electronic design automation (EDA) software run on its GPUs in an attempt to speed up the chip design process. Nearly all computer chips ...
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AMD unveils new AI PC processors for general use and gaming at CES

AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su kicked off her keynote at CES 2026 with a message about what compute could deliver: AI for everyone. As part of that promise, AMD announced a new line of AI processors as the ...
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DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI

DoorDash seems to have confirmed a viral story about a driver using an AI-generated photo to lie about making a delivery. As reported by Nexstar, Austin resident Byrne Hobart said he experienced this ...