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Workday Inc. today announced that Carl Eschenbach has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer and executive chair. Shares of the company declined more than 5% on the news. The drop came amid a broader selloff in enterprise stocks, which …
Databricks closes $7B+ financing round at $134B valuation
Databricks Inc. today announced that it has raised more than $7 billion in equity and debt financing to accelerate its growth efforts. The company first disclosed the investment late last year when it was still in the process of finalizing the financial …
Report: SambaNova is raising $350M+ from Intel-backed consortium
Chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. is in talks to raise more than $350 million from investors, Reuters reported today. The deal is expected to be led by Vista Equity Partners. That’s notable partly because the private equity firm has until now invested …
Salesforce to stop selling enterprise Heroku subscriptions, scale back upgrades
Salesforce Inc. is shifting resources away from its Heroku platform-as-a-service offering to prioritize other parts of its business. Nitin Bhat, the chief product officer of Heroku, announced the move in a blog post published today. He wrote that Salesforce will stop offering …
Sapiom reels in $15.75M to equip AI agents with payment features
Artificial intelligence tooling startup Sapiom Inc. has raised $15.75 million in seed funding from a consortium led by Accel. The investment, which was announced on Thursday, also included the participation of Alphabet Inc.’s Gradient fund, Anthropic PBC, Coinbase Ventures and Okta Ventures. …
Goodfire raises $150M in funding to enhance its AI interpretability platform
Goodfire Inc., a startup working to uncover how artificial intelligence models make decisions, has raised $150 million in funding. B Capital led the Series B round. Goodfire stated in its funding announcement today that the deal also drew contributions from Salesforce Inc., …
Fundamental launches with $255M and an AI model optimized for tabular data
Artificial intelligence startup Fundamental Technologies Inc. launched today with $255 million in initial funding from a group of prominent investors. The company raised the bulk of the capital through a $225 million Series A round led by Oak HC/FT. The firm was …
OpenAI introduces Frontier agent management platform and new GPT-5.3-Codex model
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a platform called Frontier that companies can use to build and manage artificial intelligence agents. The offering debuted alongside a new version of the company’s programming-optimized model. GPT-3.3-Codex, as the algorithm is called, is better than its …
Resolve AI raises $125M at $1B valuation to automate application maintenance
Resolve AI Inc., a startup with a platform that makes it easier to fix issues in production applications, has closed a $125 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation. Lightspeed led the Series A investment. Resolve AI said in its announcement …
Cerebras raises $1B more for its wafer-size AI chip
Four months after closing a $1.1 billion funding round, chip startup Cerebras Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional $1 billion from many of the same investors. Tiger Global led the Series H deal. It was joined by Advanced …