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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 investment. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capital arm, Redpoint Ventures and others. Building a business intelligence dashboard historically ...
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 in the “single-digit billions.” Thinking Machines is an artificial intelligence startup led by Chief Executive Mira Murati, former chief technology officer ...
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 research tool that Google introduced in December. The tool used Gemini 3 Pro, which at the time was the company’s ...
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 option to buy Cursor for $60 billion by year’s end. If the space launch provider opts against an acquisition, it will ...
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 firm Argor and a group of AI researchers. An AI agent that requires the ability to browse the web can theoretically ...
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 help organizations adopt OpenAI’s Codex programming assistant. ChatGPT Images 2.0 can generate images with a maximum width of 2,000 pixels in ...
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 were joined by Investible, Salus Ventures, Jelix Ventures and Wollemi Capital. Playground Global general partner Pat Gelsinger, the former Chief Executive ...
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 partnership that stretches back three years. Amazon previously built an AI cluster called Project Rainier to host Anthropic’s internal workloads. It ...
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 several AI benchmarks. Each of an LLM’s artificial neurons includes modules called weights that prioritize input data based on relevance. From ...
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, provides tools that help developers build web applications. It also operates cloud infrastructure that can be used to host those applications. ...