2026-06-10
How B2B brands are earning citations in ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews
The B2B marketing playbook has a new top metric: whether a brand gets cited when a buyer asks an AI assistant a question. The brands that show up inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews, are, with very few exceptions, the brands that also rank well on Google itself. AI visibility is correlated with search rank, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-06-10
The $2 trillion AI infrastructure problem no one is talking about, and the engineer solving it
The AI infrastructure earnings calls of the past eight quarters have given the public a precise vocabulary for what the build-out costs in capital. Hyperscaler GPU procurement. Power purchase agreements. Real-estate footprints. The vocabulary they have not given the public is for what it costs to keep the clusters healthy on a recurring basis after […]<br /> This story continues at The Nex [...]
2026-06-10
75% of C-suite leaders say agentic AI lives up to the hype or is underestimated. 48% still plan to cut headcount.
Three-quarters of C-suite leaders at some of the world’s largest companies say agentic AI either lives up to the hype or is being underestimated. That is according to a poll conducted by AI Infra Summit at an exclusive CEO event in April, where attendees represented firms including Amazon, Dell Technologies, FedEx, Hitachi, Lenovo, MasterCard, Mercedes-Benz, […]<br /> This story continue [...]
2026-06-10
Standard Bots raises $200 million to build robotic arms in the US and claims it will handle 10% of industrial deployments by year-end
Standard Bots has raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation to expand US manufacturing of AI-powered robotic arms. The round was led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, a robotics-focused fund, and follows a $63 million raise nearly two years ago at an undisclosed valuation. The New York-based company makes robotic arms for industrial automation, handling tasks […]<br /> This story [...]
2026-06-10
Ambani-backed Addverb wants $100 million to build India’s answer to Unitree and Tesla Optimus
Addverb Technologies, the Indian robotics startup controlled by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, is seeking to raise more than $100 million to fund development of humanoid and quadruped robots and build the AI systems to train them. CEO Sangeet Kumar told Bloomberg the raise is the company’s first major fundraising effort since Reliance’s $132 million investment […]<br /> This st [...]
