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Nscale Global Holdings Ltd., a London-based data center startup, today announced that it has raised $2 billion in funding. The Series C round was jointly led by Norwegian energy company Aker ASA and 8090 Industries. They were joined by Nvidia Corp., Dell …
Anthropic sues to scrap Trump administration’s Claude ban
Anthropic PBC is challenging the Trump administration’s recent decision to restrict the use of its software in the public sector. The artificial intelligence developer first announced its intent to litigate last month. Today, it filed two complaints with the U.S. District Court …
Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace with third-party cloud services
Anthropic PBC today launched an e-commerce store that will enable enterprise customers to buy software from third parties. The Claude Marketplace features services that use the company’s eponymous large language model series. The initial catalog includes products from six partners: Snowflake Inc., …
OpenAI introduces Codex Security to help developers fix software vulnerabilities
OpenAI Group PBC today debuted Codex Security, a new tool in its Codex programming assistant that can help developers find and fix code vulnerabilities. The launch comes two weeks after Anthropic PBC introduced a competing product. Claude Code Security can analyze an …
Anthropic says it’s in ‘productive’ discussions with Pentagon about Claude but still plans to sue on ban
Anthropic PBC has shared an update about its artificial intelligence safety feud with the Pentagon. In a Thursday blog post, Chief Executive Dario Amodei stated that the company has been “having productive conversations” with defense officials. He also addressed several other aspects …
Hardware testing startup Nominal raises $80M at $1B valuation
Engineering software startup Nominal Inc. today announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation. Founders Fund led the Series B-2 investment. It was joined by Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Red Glass. …
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with computer vision, tool use enhancements
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that it says is more adept at automating work tasks than its earlier algorithms. GPT-5.4 is available in ChatGPT, the Codex programming tool and OpenAI’s application programming interface. The company bills API …
Brain-computer interface startup Science raises $230M
Science Corp., a developer of brain-computer interfaces and other medical equipment, today announced that it has raised $230 million in funding. The capital came from a consortium that included Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, IQT and Quiet Capital. Science’s total outside funding …
Microsoft open-sources multimodal reasoning model with 15B parameters
Microsoft Corp. today released a hardware-efficient reasoning model, Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, that can process multimodal files such as scientific charts. The model is based on two existing algorithms called SigLIP-2 and Phi-4 Reasoning. SigLIP-2 compresses images into a numerical form that neural networks can …
Humanoid robot maker Neura Robotics reportedly raising $1.2B in funding
Startup Neura Robotics GmbH is reportedly in talks to raise a funding round worth €1 billion, or about $1.2 billion. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal could include contributions from crypto giant Tether Limited Inc. The company is the …