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Tractian Technologies Inc., a startup using internally developed sensors and artificial intelligence to optimize industrial equipment, has raised $120 million in funding. Sapphire Ventures led the Series C investment, which was announced today. General Catalyst, Next47 and NGP Capital chipped in as …
US urges use of encrypted messaging apps following Salt Typhoon hack
U.S. officials are urging Americans to use encrypted messaging apps in order to prevent their correspondence from falling into the hands of hackers. NBC News reported the release of the new guidance on Tuesday. A senior FBI official and Jeff Greene, the executive …
OpenAI to host 12-day product announcement series with new reasoning model, Sora expected
OpenAI will host 12 livestreams over 12 days to announce new artificial intelligence products. The ChatGPT developer previewed the product launch series today. The company didn’t specify what it plans to announce, saying only customers can expect “a bunch of new things, …
MLCommons releases new AILuminate benchmark for measuring AI model safety
MLCommons today released AILuminate, a new benchmark test for evaluating the safety of large language models. Launched in 2020, MLCommons is an industry consortium backed by several dozen tech firms. It primarily develops benchmarks for measuring the speed at which various systems, …
System Two Security raises $7M to automate detection engineering with AI
System Two Security Inc., a startup helping companies detect cyberattacks more efficiently, today announced that it has raised $7 million in funding. Costanoa Ventures led the round. It was joined by Runtime Ventures, The Hive, Webb Investment Network and several angel investors. …
Marvell tops quarterly expectations thanks to strong ASIC, interconnect demand
Marvell Technology Inc. today posted quarterly financial results and guidance that handily topped the consensus analyst estimate. Shares of the chipmaker rose more than 8% in after-hours trading. Marvell supplies semiconductors for data centers, carrier infrastructure and cars. It sells specialized processors …
AWS details Project Rainier AI compute cluster with hundreds of thousands of chips
Amazon Web Services Inc. today detailed Project Rainer, a compute cluster powered by hundreds of thousands of its custom AWS Trainium2 chips. The company is using the system to support the artificial intelligence development efforts of Anthropic PBC. AWS parent Amazon.com Inc. …
Microsoft faces £1B UK lawsuit over software licensing fees
Microsoft Corp. has been sued in the U.K. over the way it licenses its software to customers of rival cloud providers. Maria Luisa Stasi, a market regulation expert, filed the complaint today with the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal. The class-action lawsuit is …
AWS expands cybersecurity portfolio with AWS Security Incident Response
Amazon Web Services Inc. is expanding its cybersecurity portfolio with a new service that will make it easier for customers to detect and remediate breach attempts. The offering, AWS Security Incident Response, made its debut on Sunday. It’s one of several platform …
AI data center builder Nebius raises $700M in funding
CoNebius NV, a publicly traded provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure, today announced that it has raised $700 million in funding. The company received the capital through a private placement that saw investors buy about 33.3 million shares for $21 apiece. That represents …