BMW i Ventures Closes $300M Fund III to Back AI Across the Automotive Ecosystem

onsemi–Synaptics $7B all‑stock deal resets the “physical AI” trade: fixed 1.35x exchange, 19% premium, $200M synergies, and mid‑2027 close risks explained.

Learn how banks can combine customer insights, centralized decisioning, and agentic AI in SAS Viya to deliver more consistent, explainable, and personalized customer interactions across every channel. The post Agentic AI in banking: Turning customer insights into action appeared first on SAS Blogs.

Investment, safety and next-generation AI models suggest the conversation is shifting from robot demonstrations to real-world deployment.

Insider Brief Asteria is launching an investment fund with Pegasus Tech Ventures to back startups working in physical AI and robotics. The Tokyo-based software company said the fund will invest up to $10 million, or about 1.6 billion yen, in private companies developing artificial intelligence, physical AI and robotics technologies. Pegasus, a Silicon Valley venture-capital […]

At the heart of world model research is the idea that AI can’t be truly intelligent if it can only read a book. It also needs to read the room.

NEW YORK, June 25, 2026 — Qualcomm Incorporated has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Modular Inc, strengthening Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.’s software foundation for generative and agentic AI […] The post Qualcomm Strengthens Data Center AI Push with Modular Acquisition appeared first on AIwire.

For a decade, confidential computing has been chipping away at one of security’s hardest problems: data is well encrypted in transit and at rest, but when a processor works on it, that data sits in memory in the clear, exposed to anyone with privileged host access. “Confidential computing’s aim was to solve this with a trusted execution environment, a subset of the CPU that runs the encrypted workload and handles things like memory encryption,” said Marina Moore, lead security researcher at Edera. For years the field felt like post-quantum cryptography PhD research scientist types agreeing the work is essential, while waiting for it to reach mainstream practitioners. At the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco this week, the breakout use case came into focus: agentic AI. Like the web before HTTPS “I was in the really early days of HTTP, and then HTTPS came along pretty quickly,” said Mike Bursell, executive director of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He sees agentic AI

Insider Brief Kawasaki Robotics and Dexterity have expanded their collaboration around Kawasaki’s RL030N robot arm platform, which is being used in Dexterity’s Mech warehouse robots for applications including trailer loading and unloading. “Physical AI requires robot arms that combine industrial reliability with dexterity, reach, lightweight construction, and openness to real-time orchestration,” said Paul Marcovecchio, director of […]