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NYC-based Confido, a provider of AI-powered workflow automation tools for consumer packaged goods companies, raised a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners (AlleyWatch)
https://www.alleywatch.com/2026/09/confido-raises-55m…

Confido Raises $55M to Scale Its AI Infrastructure Across the CPG Commercial Cycle
For decades, CPG software recorded the work but never did it, says Confido Cofounder and CEO Justin Hunter. Closing that gap between logging a problem and actually fixing it is what convinced 250+ CPG brands, from Dude Wipes to Unilever, to run their back office through Confido. The company just closed a $55M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding to $77M, on the back of 5x year-over-year growth. See what happens when finance, sales, and operations finally run on the same syst…

No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza will compete 'with' Kirk Cousins, 'not competing against each other' for Raiders job https://www.nfl.com/news/no-1-overall-pick-fernando-mendoza-will-comp…

KI-Update kompakt: Computer History, OpenAI Jalapeño, Militär-KI, AIS.Chat
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KI-Update kompakt: Computer History, OpenAI Jalapeño, Militär-KI, AIS.Chat
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.

tf do they want now🙄

Poll for #Windows users only:
Do you feel that using your Windows computer to do simple taks has become smoother or more complicated with time (say now compared to 10 years ago)?
#ITPoll #Computers

Chinese Premier Li Qiang publicly names brain-computer interfaces a 'blue ocean' on a Shanghai inspection tour https://insidebci.com/policy/2026-09-23-li-qiang-shanghai-brain-computer-interfaces-blue-oce…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang publicly names brain-computer interfaces a 'blue ocean' on a Shanghai inspection tour
China's Premier Li Qiang, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, spent Tuesday 22 September 2026 on a Shanghai inspection tour of two innovation venues. At the second, the Shanghai Future Kick-off Community (上海未来启点社区) sci-tech innovation and incubation platform for future industries, he inspected technology products in two named categories: brain-computer interfaces and quantum computing. He then framed future industries as 'a potential blue ocean for advanced manufacturi…

Donald Trump has discovered limits on his power that he could have scarcely imagined as he began full combat operations on Feb. 28,
when he set out goals for a swift end to Iran’s nuclear program and the overthrow of the country’s government.
Five months later, those goals remain almost entirely unaccomplished.
And Trump,
once confident that overwhelming force would enable him to pursue in Iran what he proudly called the “Venezuela model”
— a change of governme…

Trump Seems Trapped by Iran War, Even as He Wields the World’s Biggest Hammer
A president who thought there were no limits to his power has discovered several, leaving him more frustrated and erratic.

Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU (Eugene Demaitre/The Robot Report)
https://www.therobotreport.com/jetson-orin-nan…

Jetson Orin Nano 2 doubles inference performance for robotics on the edge, says NVIDIA - The Robot Report
With Jetson Orin Nano 2, NVIDIA says that frontier intelligence has reached the edge and can now run in real time.

Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure…

Sources: Shanghai-based GPU maker MetaX confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing, targeting an IPO by the year-end, amid a surge of fundraising from rivals (Zoe SL Chan/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/busine…

Chinese GPU start-up MetaX confidentially files for Hong Kong listing: sources
Firm’s year-end listing plan underscores China’s chip self-reliance and follows Biren, Iluvatar and Moore Threads in the fundraising rush.