AI
Omni raises $120M round for its AI analytics platform
Omni Analytics Inc. today announced that it has closed a $120 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, more than double what it was valued at last year. ICONIQ led the Series C…
AI
Google Cloud inks AI infrastructure deal with Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines Lab Inc. will expand its use of Google LLC’s cloud platform as part of a partnership the companies announced this morning. TechCrunch cited a source as saying that the deal is valued…
AI
Google launches AI research agents powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro
Google LLC has released two artificial intelligence agents that can generate research reports about user-specified topics. The agents made their debut on Tuesday. Deep Research and Deep Research Max are the successors to an…
AI
SpaceX partners with Cursor on AI training, floats potential $60B acquisition
SpaceX Corp. will help Cursor, a venture-backed vibe coding startup, train artificial intelligence models optimized for programming tasks. The companies announced the initiative on Tuesday. According to SpaceX, the partnership agreement gives it the…
AI
Octen raises $10M in seed funding to speed up AI agent search queries
Octen, a startup with software that enables artificial intelligence agents to search the web, launched today with $10 million in seed funding. Square Peg led the investment. It was joined by Singapore-based venture capital…
AI
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0, Codex Labs developer training service
OpenAI Group PBC today launched ChatGPT Images 2.0, an upgraded version of the image generator built into its popular chatbot. The company also debuted a new technical training service called Codex Labs. It’s designed to…
Infra
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…
AI
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…
AI
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…
Security
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,…