"Getting up is optional. Getting down is mandatory." That's a mountaineering saying, and it's also a core value at @CrusoeAI . @ChaseLochmiller joined @HenriDelahaye at RAISE Summit 2026 to talk through the company's founding bet: bring the compute to the energy, rather than the energy to the compute. A detail we loved: the acquisition of Aterio, now embedded in Crusoe's distributed memory layer, was finalised on a balcony at RAISE 2025. Deals get done in these rooms. His call on the next 24 months? Less announcement, more execution. The industry has made a lot of promises. Now it has to build them. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for every session from RAISE Summit 2026:

Wispr Flow steps into the AI productivity arena with its new meeting notetaker. This product promises to generate comprehensive summaries and actionable items, signaling a shift in how businesses can streamline meeting outcomes. AI's integration into productivity tools like Wispr Flow's notetaker reflects a broader trend toward efficiency-driven solutions in the enterprise sector. By automating routine tasks such as note-taking, companies can redirect human focus towards strategic decision-making. This aligns with Raise's emphasis on production AI over demo AI, prioritizing tools that deliver tangible value in real-world applications. In a landscape where execution trumps mere potential, Wispr Flow's launch is a noteworthy development.

Spotify's growth to over 300 million subscribers defies the odds in a market where price hikes usually deter expansion. This 9% increase in Q2 highlights not just user loyalty but also Spotify's strategic agility in navigating the complexities of a dynamic pricing environment. The notion that price hikes would stifle growth is put to rest with this achievement, revealing Spotify's deep grasp of consumer value perception. For businesses grappling with rapid sector shifts, this case study offers invaluable insights into harnessing resilience and strategic foresight. At Raise, we recognize that such global scale and reach epitomize what AI can achieve when strategically integrated into business models. This kind of transformative growth story resonates with our commitment to fostering innovation and collaboration at a global level.

Monetizing AI is entering a new phase with Apple's decision to integrate Siri's compute capabilities into iCloud+ subscriptions. By allowing users to purchase additional computing power, Apple is not just selling access; it's redefining how AI can be woven into existing business models. This move points to an emerging trend where tech companies leverage their existing ecosystems for sustainable revenue streams, blending AI enhancements with familiar services. It's a strategic shift that both enhances user engagement and sets a new standard in how legacy platforms can evolve with AI. Raise's focus on production AI echoes this transformation. The integration of advanced technologies within established platforms highlights the importance of innovation in today's competitive landscape, a central tenet at Raise.

For two days in July, Paris held the people deciding how the next era of technology gets built. 9,000+ attendees from 90 countries. 350+ speakers. 200+ sponsors. 822 CEOs. 80%+ of participants at C-suite or decision-making level. 168 Fortune 500, CAC 40, FTSE 100, DAX and S&P 500 companies represented. Over $600B in AUM in the building. Leaders from @Google, @Meta, @Lovable, @OpenAI, @Broadcom, @MistralAI, @IREN_Ltd, @cognition, @FireworksAI_HQ, and hundreds more were on the floor and on the stage, setting the agenda for the next decade of AI. @mcuban, @ylecun, @sk7037, @arthurmensch, and @manojnair among the voices that defined the programme. The verdict from the room speaks for itself. "The size of the conference has tripled since last year, and the calibre of speakers has actually improved. And so, it's literally the best AI conference in the world." — Helena Chao, @BankofAmerica. "There is so much room for success, and the need for collaboration is going to be significant. And I think that's going to really take an ecosystem. There's not going to be any one company, Google included, that can solve the problems up and down the stack. So it's going to require tremendous collaboration to make it all happen." - @AminVahdat, @Google Amin is right. No single company solves the stack. Which is precisely what RAISE was built for, not an audience, but a working floor. A room where the people who fund, build, buy and deploy actually meet: thousands of one-to-one meetings running alongside the programme. The stages set the agenda. The tables around them set things in motion. Thank you to every speaker, sponsor, partner, and attendee who made RAISE Summit 2026 the room where the industry comes to decide what happens next. A huge thank you to our partners at Final Chain Films, who documented every moment the way it deserved to be captured. And the room is about to get bigger. RAISE Summit is joining @hyve_group, the formula that built one of the world's most influential technology conferences in three editions now goes global. The 2026 summit ended. What it set in motion didn't.

Nasdaq was at @RAISESummit in Paris, where we sat down with founders and asked them to go off-script — their guiding philosophy, the contrarian bets they're willing to stand behind, and the innovations quietly generating enormous value that the broader conversation has yet to catch up with.

RAISE Summit just lit up Times Square. Again. This time with news of our acquisition by @hyve_group, and what it means for where @RaiseSummit , @MACHINASUMMIT and Signal Week (formerly @ParisBlockWeek) goes next. In just three editions, we became one of the most influential AI platforms in the world. Now we're taking it global. 2026 was just the beginning. A huge thank you to our partners at @NYSEWired, @bjbaumann2014, @furrier, Gemma Allen, and Laura Diorio, for helping us tell this story from one of the most iconic stages in the world.

AI Is the New Operating Environment. Data Is the New Control Plane. In this keynote session from the @RaiseSummit 2026, David Flynn, CEO of @Hammerspace_inc, explores the paradigm shift where AI acts as the new operating environment. With the AI arms race accelerating, Flynn argues that time is the most valuable commodity, and competitive success hinges on mastering data logistics. Didn't get to catch David's keynote at this year's summit? No problem! You can watch his full keynote presentation now:

POV: you just walked into RAISE Summit. 9,000 people. 2,000+ companies. 350+ speakers. 75 booths from some of the biggest names in AI. And 80% of the room at C-suite or decision-making level. This isn't a conference you attend to watch the industry from a distance. This is the room where it actually shows up. The panels are one thing. It's the conversations between them that change things, the ones you didn't plan for, the introductions that happen in corridors, the deals that start over coffee. And sometimes, it's catching one of our co-founders right after stepping off the main stage for a hi-five. 🤝 This is what RAISE is built for.

We already dropped the news: Chain of Events is joining @hyvegroup. But announcements only tell half the story, so our founders Charlie Meraud (@CharlieMero) and Michael Amar (@amarmic) sat down with John Furrier (@furrier) at The Cube, from @NYSE, to talk about what this means for Chain of Events, Signal Week, @RAISESummit, and @MACHINASummit, and what comes next. The short version: the team stays, the formula stays, and everything gets bigger. This is meant for scale. RAISE Summit is doubling. MACHINA is expected to grow three to four times its 2026 size. The Hyve Group brings Fintech Meetup into the same week as Signal Week, and US expansion is already on the roadmap. But not everything is changing. The founding team, the formula that made the events successful, the content, the people, and the communities we have built around Signal Week, RAISE Summit, and MACHINA Summit remain exactly what they are. The founders put it best: they are insiders of the industries they build for. The Hyve Group gives them the infrastructure to take that expertise global without losing what makes these events work. This isn't an exit; it's the moment our founders stop building alone and start building at a scale big enough to match the industry we've always believed in. Signal Week. Paris. July 6 and 7, 2027. The best is very much still to come.

Nasdaq was at @RAISESummit in Paris, France — a city built on grand engineering. We asked top leaders across the industry: What's the Eiffel Tower of AI infrastructure? From the bottlenecks slowing down progress to the breakthroughs that could unlock what's next, here's what @NelsonGriggs [@Nasdaq], @NetAppCEO [@NetApp], @AndrewdFeldman [@Cerebras], Travers Nisbet [@p0], Gareth Davies [@Okta], Tim Davis [@Modular], @RodrigoLiang [@SambaNovaAI], @theduncanclark [@Canva], @pirroh [@Replit], @May_Habib [@Get_Writer], @jainarvind [@Glean], and @RobertWachen [@Etched], had to say.

RAISE Summit is joining @hyve_group. Three years ago, RAISE started with a single conviction: AI deserved one room where its entire value chain comes to do business. Not the biggest room. The one where things get decided. Eric Schmidt called us the fastest-growing AI & Tech conference in Europe, and perhaps in history. In 2026, we raised the bar: 9,000+ attendees from 90 countries, 350+ speakers, 200+ sponsors, nearly a third of our buyers from the C-suite of Fortune 1000, CAC 40, FTSE 100, DAX and S&P 500 companies. Today, we're announcing the next chapter. RAISE Summit, alongside our sister events MACHINA Summit and Signal Week, is joining Hyve, the global B2B events group behind HLTH, Shoptalk, and Fintech Meetup. Why now? Because momentum like this deserves the strongest possible foundation. Hyve brings world-class commercial and operational infrastructure, and the most effective curated 1:1 meetings programme in the industry, 50,000+ double opt-in meetings at Fintech Meetup alone, now coming to RAISE. To every sponsor, partner, and attendee who has been part of this: you didn't just attend RAISE. You built it with us. 2026 was beyond anything we imagined. 2027 has already started.

Specialized intelligence just became a $17.5 billion idea. Last week @lqiao made the case on the RAISE Summit Master Stage. This week @FireworksAI_HQ announced a $1.5B Series D — $1B+ ARR, up 5x YoY, 40 trillion tokens served daily. Her argument: efficiency means specializing the tool to its value. "We don't drive a Ferrari to grocery shopping." Full session 👇