AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoAI Funding: Instinct, the invite-only personal AI assistant, is in talks to raise about $1B at a $10B valuation as it pushes past 100,000 users and faces capacity constraints. Enterprise AI: Google rolled out new Gemini voice-agent models, including Gemini 3.8 Live and an “Extended Thinking” variant, aimed at more natural, production-ready voice experiences. AI Hardware: Samsung joined Euclyd’s $231M Series A as a co-investor, backing a Dutch startup building AI inference chip systems designed to cut data-center power and infrastructure costs. Startup Finance: Seattle’s Nuance Labs raised $50M to make AI avatars and voicebots stop freezing and glitching, targeting more natural face-to-face conversations. Business Investment Policy: Canada’s Mark Carney unveiled a “productivity mega deduction” letting firms write off the full cost of many new assets immediately, as the Canada Investment Summit pushes $1T in new investment and airport privatization plans. Local Economy & Skills: Australia’s Autodesk expanded its small-business support with security upgrades and flexible subscription options, while SAZU in Nigeria reaffirmed practical entrepreneurship training through its MBA graduation and e-business exhibition. Education for Markets: The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange will run a regional schools investment simulation competition to teach securities-market basics.
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