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7AI raises $130M to automate cybersecurity investigations with AI agents
Cybersecurity automation startup 7AI Inc. today announced that it has closed a $130 million funding round led by Index Ventures. The Series A deal also included the participation of Blackstone Innovations Investments, Greylock, CRV and Spark. They were joined by the investors who backed 7AI’s $36 million seed raise last June. Boston-based 7AI offers a ...
Intel scraps plan to spin off NEX networking chip business
Intel Corp. has scrapped plans to sell its multibillion-dollar NEX networking chip business. The company announced the move on Wednesday in a statement issued to Tom’s Hardware. The reversal comes about six months after rumors first emerged that Intel had considered offloading NEX. The company confirmed the initiative in July, telling employees that it was ...
OpenAI acquires AI tooling provider Neptune to enhance its model training workflows
OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to buy Neptune Labs Inc., a startup with a platform that identities areas for improvement in artificial intelligence models. The companies didn’t disclose the acquisition terms. Bloomberg reported that OpenAI plans to finance the deal with stock. An AI model comprises a large number of relatively simple code snippets ...
Security device startup Verkada raises funding at $5.8B valuation
Verkada Inc., a startup that helps enterprises secure their facilities and spot air quality issues, has raised funding at a $5.8 billion valuation. The company didn’t disclose the size of the round. CNBC reported today that Verkada raised $100 million. CapitalG, an Alphabet Inc. fund that invests in late-stage startups, led the investment. Verkada sells ...
Vinci nabs $46M to speed up chip simulations with AI
Vinci4D Inc., a provider of simulation software for chip designers, has secured $46 million in funding to enhance its technology. The startup raised the capital over two rounds that it announced on Tuesday. The financing came from Xora Innovation, Eclipse and Khosla Ventures. A new chip design goes through many rounds of testing before it’s ...
Lemurian Labs raises $28M for its efficiency-optimized AI model compiler
Artificial intelligence tooling startup Lemurian Labs Inc. today announced that it has closed a $28 million funding round. Pebblebed Ventures and Hexagon jointly led the Series A investment. They were joined by Oval Park Capital, which led a seed round for Lemurian three years ago, and more than a half dozen other backers. An AI ...
Zafran Security nabs $60M for its vulnerability management platform
Fast-growing cybersecurity startup Zafran Security Ltd. today announced that it has raised $60 million in a Series C funding. Menlo Ventures led the round with participation from Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, PSP Growth, Vintage Investment Partners and Knollwood Investment. The deal comes less than two years after Zafran’s previous funding round. According to the company, its ...
Cloud backup startup Eon raises $300M at $4B valuation
Eon.io Inc., a startup that helps enterprises use their backup data in analytics projects, has closed a lale-stage $300 million funding round. The company detailed today that prominent tech investor Elad Gill led the Series D raise. He was joined by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, BOND and several others. Eon is now valued ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly declares ‘code red’ after rivals launch new AI models
OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman reportedly declared “code red” in a memo sent to the company’s employees on Monday. The Wall Street Journal and The Information reported the internal announcement today. The publications’ sources also provided new details about OpenAI’s development roadmap. The company is reportedly working on a personal assistant, advertising ...
Runway, DeepSeek release new foundation models
Startups Runway AI Inc. and DeepSeek today released two foundation models that they say can outperform algorithms developed by the tech industry’s largest players. Runway’s new algorithm, Gen-4.5, provides text-to-video features. DeepSeek, in turn, has released an updated version of its namesake reasoning model. The Chinese startup says that DeepSeek V3.2 is better at coding ...