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Nuclear energy startup X-energy raises $700M in funding
X-energy Reactor Co., a startup developing miniature nuclear reactors, today announced that it has raised $700 million in late-stage funding. Jane Street led the oversubscribed Series D investment with participation from more than ten other institutional investors. The deal comes about a year after Amazon.com Inc.’s Climate Pledge Fund backed a $500 million Series C-1 ...
Amazon details internal ATA cybersecurity automation system
Amazon.com Inc. has shared details about an internally developed artificial intelligence system it uses to find vulnerabilities in its infrastructure. The system is known as Autonomous Threat Analysis, or ATA for short, Wired reported today. Amazon engineers developed it during an internal hackathon. Scanning a large technology environment for vulnerabilities is a labor-intensive task. The ...
Anthropic releases new flagship Claude Opus 4.5 model
Anthropic PBC today launched Claude Opus 4.5, its new flagship large language model. The company says Opus 4.5 is its safest and most capable LLM yet. The model is rolling out a few weeks after the two other entries into the Claude 4.5 series: Sonnet 4.5 and Haiku 4.5. The LLMs are positioned as midrange ...
Gainsight breach compromises major tech firms’ Salesforce instances
A breach at software provider Gainsight Inc. may have compromised the data of more than 200 Salesforce Inc. customers, including several large tech firms. The cyberattack was disclosed by Salesforce late Wednesday. Today, a Google LLC cybersecurity researcher told TechCrunch that the search giant “is aware of more than 200 potentially affected Salesforce instances.” Atlassian ...
Archetype raises $35M to automate sensor data analysis with AI
Archetype AI Inc., a startup that provides artificial intelligence agents optimized to process sensor data, has raised $35 million in early-stage funding. IAG Capital Partners and Hitachi Ventures led the Series A investment. Archetype stated on Thursday that the round was joined by Bezos Expeditions, the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Ventures and several others. ...
Genspark raises $275M in funding for its AI productivity suite
Genspark, a startup with a suite of artificial intelligence automation tools for knowledge workers, today announced that it has raised $275 million in funding. The Series C round gives the company a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion. It was led by early Salesforce Inc. backer Emergence Capital Partners with participation from SBI Investment, LG Electronics ...
Google launches Nano Banana Pro image generation model with reasoning features
Three months after releasing its Nano Banana image generator, Google LLC today introduced an improved version that is better at generating complex content such as infographics. The new model is called Nano Banana Pro. It will be available for free in Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence app. Enterprises and consumers with paid Google accounts will receive ...
Report: Trump could sign executive order to preempt state AI laws
U.S. President Donald Trump could reportedly sign an executive order that would limit states’ ability to regulate artificial intelligence. Trump may sign the order as soon as Friday, sources told Politico today. In recent months, California and Oregon have passed AI laws that require model developers to take steps such as disclosing their risk mitigation ...
Nvidia backs $250M funding round for AI music startup Suno
Suno Inc., a startup with a popular music generation service, today announced that it has closed a $250 million Series C investment. Menlo Ventures led the funding round. It was joined by Hallwood Media, Lightspeed, Matrix and Nvidia Corp.’s NVentures startup fund. Suno is now worth $2.45 billion, more than quadruple the valuation it received ...
Multimodal AI developer Luma AI raises $900M in funding
Luma AI Inc., a developer of image and video generation models, today announced that it has closed a $900 million funding round. Saudi artificial intelligence company HUMAIN led the Series C investment. AMD Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Amplify Partners and Matrix Partners participated as well. CNBC reported that Luma is now valued at more than $4 ...