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Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace with third-party cloud services
Anthropic PBC today launched an e-commerce store that will enable enterprise customers to buy software from third parties. The Claude Marketplace features services that use the company’s eponymous large language model series. The initial catalog includes products from six partners: Snowflake Inc., GitLab Inc., Harvey AI Corp., Rogo Inc., Replit Inc. and Lovable Labs Inc. ...
OpenAI introduces Codex Security to help developers fix software vulnerabilities
OpenAI Group PBC today debuted Codex Security, a new tool in its Codex programming assistant that can help developers find and fix code vulnerabilities. The launch comes two weeks after Anthropic PBC introduced a competing product. Claude Code Security can analyze an application’s code base, identify vulnerabilities and suggest fixes. Codex Security works in a ...
Anthropic says it’s in ‘productive’ discussions with Pentagon about Claude but still plans to sue on ban
Anthropic PBC has shared an update about its artificial intelligence safety feud with the Pentagon. In a Thursday blog post, Chief Executive Dario Amodei stated that the company has been “having productive conversations” with defense officials. He also addressed several other aspects of the disagreement. Last June, Anthropic PBC won a contract to provide the ...
Hardware testing startup Nominal raises $80M at $1B valuation
Engineering software startup Nominal Inc. today announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation. Founders Fund led the Series B-2 investment. It was joined by Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Red Glass. The deal comes less than a year after Nominal’s previous raise. Complex physical ...
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 ...