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Dutch chipmaker Euclyd BV today announced that it has raised more than €200 million, or $230 million, from a group of prominent investors. Samsung Electronics Co., Somerset Capital Partners and the Scaleup Europe Fund led the Series A deal. They were joined …
Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding
Aron Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to ease the work of procurement teams, launched today with $8 million in funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The first was led by Menlo Ventures while the second, more recent deal, …
Software reliability specialist Temporal valued at $12.55B in $550M round
A month after reports emerged about its fundraising plans, Temporal Technologies Inc. today confirmed that it has closed a $550 million investment at a $12.55 billion valuation. Lightspeed and Wellington Management co-led the Series E round. They were joined by Goldman Sachs, …
Kaiko raises $53M to grow its crypto data platform
Kaiko, a French startup that provides market intelligence about digital assets, has raised $53 million in funding. S&P Global led the investment. Kaiko stated in its announcement of the deal today that Nasdaq Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, BNP Paribas and several other institutional …
Researchers link another hacking campaign to OpenAI agents
Artificial intelligence agents tied to OpenAI Group PBC reportedly hacked a popular code hosting service earlier this year. The Wall Street Journal detailed the breach today. The malicious activity was discovered by a research group that included Nightingale, an AI safety nonprofit. Last week, …
Salesforce introduces new AI agents to automate sales, support tasks
Salesforce Inc. today introduced a series of artificial intelligence agents designed to make sales and technical support teams more productive. The agents are rolling out alongside a new version of Agentforce Coworker, an automation tool built into several of the company’s cloud …
Chinese AI chip developer Enflame raises $912M in IPO
Shares of Shanghai Enflame Technology Co. closed 179% higher today following an initial public offering that raised 6.12 billion yuan, or about $912 billion. The listing drew particularly strong demand from retail investors. Such investors ordered 6,109 times more shares than the …
Salesforce introduces Enterprise AI Harness, AI Control Plane
Salesforce Inc. today previewed two offerings that will help customers build and manage artificial intelligence agents. Developers turn a large language model into an agent by extending it with various add-ons. Those add-ons can include prompts, database connectors and a range of …
Defense startup Mach Industries raises $600M amid manufacturing push
Mach Industries Inc. has raised $600 million in funding to expand its manufacturing capacity. The investment, which was announced today, extends a Series C round that the company closed in June. That deal included the participation of Ribbit Capital, Infinite Capital, Bedrock …
Chipmaker Positron nabs $875M to speed up inference with consumer-grade memory
Positron AI Inc., a developer of inference appliances that don’t include high-bandwidth memory, today announced that it has raised $875 million in funding. NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, SemiAnalysis Capital and Silicon Graphics Inc. and Netscape Inc. co-founder Jim …