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ScaleOps reels in $130M to make cloud environments more efficient
Startup ScaleOps Inc. today announced that it has raised $130 million in Series C funding at a valuation exceeding $800 million. Insight Partners led the investment with participation from Lightspeed Venture, NFX, Glilot Capital Partners and Picture Capital. ScaleOps’ total outside funding now stands at more than $210 million. Allocating too little infrastructure to a ...
LLM developer Mistral AI raises $830M in debt financing to add data center capacity
Mistral AI SAS today disclosed that it has raised $830 million in debt financing from a group of banks. The consortium included Bpifrance, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, La Banque Postale, MUFG and Natixis CIB. Paris-based Mistral will use the funds to build a data center in a suburb of the French capital. The ...
Iran-linked hackers breach personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel
An Iran-linked hacking group has compromised the personal email account of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel. The breach came to light today. The hacking group, Handala Hack Team, gained access to photos and documents from the compromised account. “The FBI is aware of malicious actors targeting Director Patel’s personal email information, and we ...
OpenAI introduces plugins for its Codex programming assistant
OpenAI Group PBC today quietly updated its Codex programming assistant with a feature that enables users to create custom plug-ins. The launch comes about five months after rival Anthropic PBC released a similar feature for Claude Code. Plugins enable users to extend the tools’ default feature sets with specialized capabilities. Such customizations can speed up ...
Anthropic to launch new ‘Claude Mythos’ model with advanced reasoning features
A configuration error in Anthropic PBC’s content management system has revealed that it’s testing a new large language model called Claude Mythos. The company confirmed the project in a Thursday statement to Fortune. According to the company, its engineers have finished training Claude Mythos and are piloting it with early customers. Anthropic added that the ...
Satellite navigation startup Xona Space nabs $170M investment
Xona Space Systems Inc., a startup working to build a more reliable alternative to GPS, today announced that it has raised $170 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Mohari Ventures Natural Capital. Samsung Next, ICONIQ and a number of other institutional backers contributed as well. GPS trackers rely on signals from ...
Google, Cohere launch new audio AI models
Google LLC and Cohere Inc. today released new artificial intelligence models optimized for audio processing tasks. The search giant’s algorithm, Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, can automate customer service interactions. Cohere’s new AI is designed to transcribe speech. Both models provide significantly higher output quality than their predecessors. Companies can use Gemini 3.1 Flash Live to ...
Defense startup Shield AI raises $2B, acquires flight simulation company Aechelon
Shield AI Inc. today announced that it’s raising a $2 billion late-stage funding round at a post-money valuation of $12.7 billion. Three quarters of the capital will be provided through a Series G round led by Advent International, a large private equity firm. The remaining $500 million will come from Blackstone in the form of ...
Google develops TurboQuant compression technology for AI models
Google LLC has unveiled a technology called TurboQuant that can speed up artificial intelligence models and lower their memory requirements. Amir Zandieh and Vahab Mirrokni, two of the researchers who worked on the project, explained how it works in a Tuesday blog post. One way to speed up AI models is to reduce the amount ...
Granola raises $125M at $1.5B valuation for its AI note-taking app
Granola Inc., the startup behind a popular note-taking app of the same name, has raised $125 million in funding to expand its workforce and feature set. Index Ventures led the Series C investment. It was joined by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Spark and NFDG. Bloomberg reported that the investment follows a quarter in which Granola’s revenue ...