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Anthropic to triple international headcount, add offices following latest funding round
Anthropic PBC will triple its headcount outside the U.S. to support its international growth efforts, CNBC reported today. The hiring push comes a few weeks after the artificial intelligence developer closed its most recent funding round. Anthropic raised $13 billion from ICONIQ, Fidelity Management, Lightspeed and other backers at a $183 billion valuation. It was ...
CISA instructs federal agencies to patch new flaws in Cisco firewall devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has instructed federal agencies to patch two zero-day or unpatched vulnerabilities that affect certain Cisco Systems Inc. devices. CISA officials issued the directive on Thursday. The zero-day vulnerabilities in question, CVE-2025-20362 and CVE-2025-20333, affect some systems in Cisco’s ASA 5500-X Series family of firewall appliances. The company provides ...
Apple calls on EU lawmakers to repeal DMA tech regulation
Apple Inc. has called on European Union lawmakers to scrap a piece of tech industry legislation known as the Digital Markets Act. “The DMA should be repealed while a more appropriate fit for purpose legislative instrument is put in place,” Apple stated in a filing submitted late Wednesday to the European Commission. The DMA is ...
AI data center builder Nscale raises $1.1B round backed by Nvidia
Data center startup Nscale Global Holdings Ltd. today announced that it has raised $1.1 billion in funding to grow its infrastructure footprint. Norwegian investment firm Aker ASA led the Series B round. It was joined by Nvidia Corp., Dell Technologies Inc., Nokia Corp. and several other backers. “This allows Nscale to provide our customers access ...
Glean introduces Enterprise Graph, new personalization features for AI assistant
Glean Technologies Inc. today introduced a new version of Glean Assistant that is better at automating multistep tasks and offers more customization options. Palo Alto, California-based Glean received a $7.2 billion valuation in June. It offers three artificial intelligence services designed to make business users more productive. One of those services is Glean Assistant, which ...
Flox raises $25M to make software development environments more efficient
Flox, a startup that helps software teams create software development environments, has raised $25 million in funding to finance growth initiatives. Addition led the Series B round. Flox said in its announcement of the deal today that NEA, Hetz, Illuminate Financial and D. E. Shaw participated as well. The startup spun out of D. E. ...
Snowflake launches new program for startups
Snowflake Inc. today launched Snowflake for Startups, a new program that will provide capital and other resources to startups building software on its platform. The big-data and AI company operates a popular cloud data platform that helps companies analyze their business information. Additionally, customers can use that information to build artificial intelligence applications. AI is ...
Vibe coding startup Emergent nabs $23M in funding
Emergent Labs Inc., a startup with an artificial intelligence platform for building applications, today announced that it has raised $23 million in funding. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the Series A round. It was joined by Y Combinator, Google LLC Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and several other backers. The investment brings Emergent’s total outside funding to ...
OpenAI to build five more Stargate data centers in the US with Oracle and SoftBank
OpenAI today announced plans to build five new data center sites in the U.S. as part of its Stargate initiative. Launched in January, Stargate is intended to provide the artificial intelligence provider with 10 gigawatts’ worth of computing infrastructure. The project is expected to cost $500 billion over four years. OpenAI is partnering with Oracle Corp. ...
Microsoft adds new code modernization features to GitHub Copilot and Azure Migrate
Microsoft Corp. today updated its GitHub Copilot and Azure Migrate services with new features designed to help companies modernize their legacy applications. The enhancements are rolling out alongside a professional service offering called Azure Accelerate. Similarly to the feature additions, it focuses on speeding up application upgrades. Programming languages and development tools sometimes receive updates ...