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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2026 — Xpander today announced a $7.5 million Seed round led by Pico Venture Partners with participation from Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and SeedIL. The funding will be used to accelerate Xpander’s market penetration with its turnkey, vendor-neutral, all-in-one AI enablement platform. The company also introduced Omni, its enterprise AI agent, […]

Every founder eventually hits the same wall. There is a demo (maybe even a MVP), you’ve put together a product deck, and a handful of friendly users say nice things. But somewhere between “promising prototype” and “product the customer actually pays for,” there is a gap that no amount of internal iteration can close. Design […]

As part of its Advancing AI launch event two weeks ago, AMD unveiled ROCm.ai, a new “developer experience” that introduces AI coding agents into AMD’s ROCm development tools for GPUs. According to AMD, ROCm.ai will dramatically lower the time and effort required to develop highly tuned and performant code. But will have an impact on […]

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the “AGI era.” Astra tops benchmarks in math, coding, and cybersecurity and is the first model OpenAI rates as “critical” under its safety framework. During testing, it independently found two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. The article […]