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Syenta raises $26M in funding to speed up chip interconnect production
Australian chip manufacturing startup Syenta Inc. today announced that it has raised $26 million in funding to expand its production capacity. Playground Global and Australia’s National Reconstruction Fund led the Series A deal. They were joined by Investible, Salus Ventures, Jelix Ventures and Wollemi Capital. Playground Global general partner Pat Gelsinger, the former Chief Executive ...
Amazon to invest up to $25B in Anthropic as part of expanded cloud partnership
Amazon.com Inc. plans to invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic PBC and provide the company with a significant amount of additional computing capacity. The collaboration, which was announced today, builds on an existing partnership that stretches back three years. Amazon previously built an AI cluster called Project Rainier to host Anthropic’s internal workloads. It ...
Moonshot AI releases Kimi-K2.6 model with 1T parameters, attention optimizations
Moonshot AI today released Kimi-K2.6, the latest addition to its popular Kimi series of open-source large language models. The Chinese artificial intelligence startup says that the algorithm outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 across several AI benchmarks. Each of an LLM’s artificial neurons includes modules called weights that prioritize input data based on relevance. From ...
Developer tooling provider Vercel discloses breach that exposed some users’ data
A hacker has stolen a limited amount of customer data from Vercel Inc., a major developer tooling provider. The company disclosed the incident late Sunday. Vercel, which received a $9.3 billion valuation last year, provides tools that help developers build web applications. It also operates cloud infrastructure that can be used to host those applications. ...
Supply chain AI startup Loop secures $95M investment
Loop Payments Inc. today announced that it has raised $95 million in funding to upgrade its supply chain optimization platform. Valor Equity Partners and the Valor Atreides AI Fund led the Series C round. They were joined by several other institutional backers, including J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners. The invoices that change hands when a ...
AI chip developer Cerebras Systems files to go public amid rapid revenue growth
Cerebras Systems Inc., the developer of the wafer-size WSE-3 artificial intelligence chip, today filed to go public. The move comes about 18 months after the company’s first attempt to list its shares. It filed for an initial public offering in September 2024, but withdrew the paperwork late last year. Cerebras explained at the time that ...
Anthropic launches Claude Design to speed up graphic design projects
The latest addition to Anthropic PBC’s product portfolio is Claude Design, a tool that enables users to generate visual assets with prompts. The company launched the offering into public preview today. It’s available to Claude users with Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise subscriptions. The first component of the Claude Design interface is a “Let’s prototype” ...
Resolve AI raises $40M at $1.5B valuation to optimize production environments
Resolve AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises make their infrastructure more reliable, has raised $40 million in funding. DST Global and Salesforce Ventures led the investment. It comes as an extension to a $125 million Series A round that Resolve AI announced in early February. The company said today that it’s now valued at ...
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with coding, visual reasoning improvements
Anthropic PBC today opened access to Claude Opus 4.7, the latest addition to its popular line of large language models. The company says that the LLM is significantly better than its predecessor at coding tasks. Opus 4.7 scored 64.3% on the SWE-Bench Pro programming benchmark, nearly 10% higher than Opus 4.6. The new model also ...
Data center, consumer device chips boost TSMC’s revenue
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. today posted first-quarter revenue and profit numbers that topped the consensus estimate. The company’s data center and consumer device chip businesses played a major role in the earnings beat. TSMC closed the first three months of the year with sales of 1.134 trillion new Taiwan dollars, or about $35 billion, a ...