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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with computer vision, tool use enhancements
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that it says is more adept at automating work tasks than its earlier algorithms. GPT-5.4 is available in ChatGPT, the Codex programming tool and OpenAI’s application programming interface. The company bills API users based on the number of tokens that its LLMs process while generating ...
Brain-computer interface startup Science raises $230M
Science Corp., a developer of brain-computer interfaces and other medical equipment, today announced that it has raised $230 million in funding. The capital came from a consortium that included Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, IQT and Quiet Capital. Science’s total outside funding now stands at $490 million. The company’s flagship product is a brain-computer interface ...
Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters
Microsoft Corp. today released a hardware-efficient reasoning model, Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, that can process multimodal files such as scientific charts. The model is based on two existing algorithms called SigLIP-2 and Phi-4 Reasoning. SigLIP-2 compresses images into a numerical form that neural networks can understand. Phi-4 Reasoning, in turn, is a reasoning model that Microsoft open-sourced last ...
Humanoid robot maker Neura Robotics reportedly raising $1.2B in funding
Startup Neura Robotics GmbH is reportedly in talks to raise a funding round worth €1 billion, or about $1.2 billion. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal could include contributions from crypto giant Tether Limited Inc. The company is the issuer of USDT, the world’s most widely used stablecoin. Rumors that Tether may ...
Reclaim Security, ArmorCode raise funding to automate exposure management
Reclaim Security Inc. and ArmorCode Inc., two startups that develop exposure management software, have raised funding to support their growth efforts. Reclaim Security announced today that it recently closed a $20 million Series A round. The company earlier received $6 million in seed funding. ArmorCode, in turn, on Tuesday disclosed that it has raised $16 million ...
Google launches speedy Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite model in preview
Google LLC today debuted Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, the latest addition to its Gemini series of multimodal artificial intelligence models. The company’s engineers developed the algorithm with cost-efficiency in mind. Gemini 3.1 Pro, Google’s most capable model, starts at $2 per million input tokens and $18 per million output tokens. Those rates increase significantly for demanding ...
Co-packaged optics startup Ayar Labs raises $500M round backed by Nvidia, AMD
Networking startup Ayar Labs Inc. has raised $500 million in late-stage funding at a $3.75 billion valuation. The Series E round was led by Neuberger Berman. Ayar Labs stated in its late Monday funding announcement that Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and MediaTek Inc. participated as well alongside several other backers. The company’s total ...
OpenAI revises Pentagon contract to address surveillance concerns
OpenAI Group PBC is revising an artificial intelligence deal that it inked with the U.S. Defense Department last year. The ChatGPT developer published some of the updated legal language late Monday. The change is designed to ensure that the Pentagon won’t use OpenAI models for domestic surveillance. This morning, Axios cited sources as saying that the ...
Amazon to invest $21B more in Spain with focus on data centers
Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to spend €18 billion, or $21.05 billion, in Spain to expand its data center capacity and server supply chain. The sum comes on top of a €15.7 billion investment the company detailed in late 2024. Amazon’s data center construction plan centers on the Spanish region of Aragón, where it already ...
Behavioral health software startup Ease Health launches with $41M
Ease Health Inc., a startup that develops software for behavioral health providers, launched today with $41 million in early-stage funding. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ease will use the capital to expand the adoption of its software among large behavioral health providers. In addition, it plans to hire more engineers and ...