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Google LLC today made two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, available through its cloud platform. The algorithms have highly similar application programming interfaces, which makes using them side-by-side relatively simple for developers. Flash-Lite TTS is …
UiPath introduces new workflow automation, software testing features
UiPath Inc. is updating its namesake automation platform with more than a dozen new features designed to save time for knowledge workers. The company debuted the enhancements today at its FUSION conference in Las Vegas. Many of the features are either available …
AI drug discovery startup Basecamp Research raises $140M
Basecamp Research Ltd. today announced that it has raised $140 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. S32, a fund affiliated with Google LLC co-founder Bill Maris, led the Series C round. It was joined by more than a dozen …
Training data provider Snorkel AI raises $350M at $3.5B valuation
Snorkel AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence training data, today disclosed that it has raised $350 million in funding. Insight and S32 led the Series E deal. They were joined by more than a half-dozen other backers including Alphabet Inc.’s GV …
Web scraping startup Firecrawl closes $75M investment
Firecrawl Inc., a provider of web scraping tools for artificial intelligence agents, today announced that it has raised $75 million in funding. Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Smash Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Y Combinator, Altos Ventures, …
Cyera raises $400M more amid AI agent security push
Cybersecurity startup Cyera Ltd. today announced that it has raised $400 million in funding from Goldman Sachs. The investment bank provided the capital as an extension to a Series G round that closed in June. The latter deal valued Cyera at $12 …
SpaceX launches Grok 4.7 with long-horizon processing, safety upgrades
SpaceX Corp. today introduced Grok 4.7, its most capable large language model to date. The Grok algorithm series was originally created by an Elon Musk-founded startup called xAI Corp. Musk merged the company with xAI Inc. last year. The combined organization was …
Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent from shopping on users’ behalf
Amazon.com Inc. has blocked Meta Platforms Inc.’s Muse artificial intelligence agent from accessing its e-commerce marketplace. The cloud and online retail giant notified users of the move late Sunday. Meta made Muse available in the U.S. earlier this month via a mobile …
Google fined $462M in Ireland over location data collection practices
Ireland’s privacy watchdog today fined Google LLC €403 million, or about $462 million, for collecting users’ location data in breach of GDPR. The tracking was done by three Google features: Web & App Activity, Timeline and GLA. Web & App Activity is a …
Data center builder Nscale files for IPO after multibillion-dollar Anthropic deal
Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which builds data centers optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, didn’t reveal how much it hopes to raise. Last month, sources told Bloomberg that Nscale is …