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Mixpanel breach compromises some OpenAI API users’ account data
A breach at data analytics provider Mixpanel Inc. has compromised the account information of some OpenAI Group PBC users. The ChatGPT developer disclosed the incident on Wednesday. Mixpanel’s namesake analytics platform enables companies to collect data about how users interact with their applications. The software tracks metrics such as customer retention, uptime and performance. At ...
Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus reportedly acquires AI startup General Agents
Project Prometheus, a new company co-led by Jeff Bezos, has reportedly acquired a low-profile artificial intelligence startup called General Agents. Wired reported the deal today. The amount of the deal wasn’t revealed. The existence of Project Prometheus was revealed by the New York Times last week. The company is co-led by Bezos and Vik Bajaj, ...
Paxos acquires crypto wallet startup Fordefi for $100M+
Paxos Trust Company LLC has acquired Fordefi Inc., a startup with a crypto wallet platform used by more than 200 institutional investors. Fortune reported on Tuesday that the deal is worth more than $100 million. That’s a premium over the $83 million valuation Fordefi is believed to have received following its most recent funding round last ...
Prominent tech executives back $36M round for cybersecurity startup Clover Security
Clover Security Ltd., a new startup that provides cybersecurity software for developers, launched today with $36 million in funding. Notable Capital and Team8 led the round. They were joined by more than a half-dozen other investors including Wiz Inc. co-founders Assaf Rappaport and Yinon Costica, cybersecurity entrepreneur Shlomo Kramer and executives from several publicly traded ...
Nvidia shares drop on report Meta may buy AI chips from Google
Shares of Nvidia Corp. closed 2.6% lower today following a report that Meta may buy Google LLC’s TPU artificial intelligence chips. Sources told The Information that the tensor processing unit processor deal could be worth billions of dollars. It’s believed Meta may kick off the partnership next year by leasing TPUs hosted in Google LLC. ...
Chip startup Rapidus reportedly plans to build 1.4-nanometer fab
Rapidus Corp., a Tokyo-based chip manufacturing startup, reportedly plans to build a fab capable of making 1.4-nanometer processors. Nikkei Asia reported the initiative today. The fab could create more competition for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which plans to start producing 1.4-nanometer chips in 2028. Intel Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. are in the process of ...
Financial AI startup Model ML nabs $75M investment
Model ML Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for investment professionals, has raised $75 million in funding to support its growth efforts. The startup disclosed today that investment bank FT Partners led the Series A raise. It was joined by QED, 13Books, Latitude, Y Combinator and LocalGlobe. The latter two firms previously led a ...
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 ...