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Cloud cost optimization startup CloudZero closes $56M investment
Startup CloudZero Inc. has raised $56 million from investors to enhance its namesake software platform, which helps enterprises lower their cloud expenses. The company announced the Series C round on Wednesday. It was led by BlueCrest Capital Management and Innovius Capital with participation from MongoDB Inc., Matrix Partners, Threshold Ventures, Underscore VC and G20 Ventures. ...
Hugging Face introduces two open-source robot designs
Hugging Face Inc. has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more than $390 million in funding from Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp. and other investors. It operates a GitHub-like platform for sharing open-source artificial intelligence projects. It ...
Meta and Anduril partner to develop wearables for the US military
Meta Platforms Inc. and Anduril Industries Inc., a defense technology startup, announced today that they’re partnering to develop wearable devices for the U.S. military. Anduril received a $14 billion valuation in its most recent funding round last year. The company develops aircraft, subsea sensors and other hardware systems for the defense sector. It also provides artificial ...
Buildots raises $45M for its AI-powered construction management platform
Buildots Inc., a construction software startup helping Intel Corp. build fabs faster, today announced that it has raised $45 million in late-stage funding. Qumra Capital led the Series D investment. It was joined by OG Venture Partners, TLV Partners, Poalim Equity, Future Energy Ventures and Viola Growth. The round brings Buildots’ total outside funding to ...
ClickHouse reels in $350M for its high-speed columnar database
ClickHouse Inc., the developer of an open-source columnar database that can store petabytes of information, has closed a $350 million funding round. The company announced the Series C investment today. It was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Index Ventures, Lightspeed and more than a half-dozen others. ClickHouse’s total outside funding now stands at ...
AMD acquires photonics startup Enosemi to develop co-packaged optics
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced that it has acquired Enosemi Inc., a low-profile startup focused on developing photonics chips. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. AMD did, however, detail that the acquisition will support internal engineering initiatives focused on artificial intelligence hardware. Large-scale AI clusters comprise multiple server racks. Those racks, in ...
Google Cloud rolls out new BigLake and BigQuery features to ease analytics projects
Google LLC’s cloud unit today introduced new features for its BigLake and BigQuery services, which enable companies to run analyses on large datasets. Both updates focus on an open-source technology called Apache Iceberg, which suggests that Google is making the announcements to get out ahead of two rivals in data management. Snowflake Inc. is holding ...
Elon Musk’s xAI inks $300M AI deal with Telegram
Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. will pay messaging app developer Telegram $300 million in cash and equity to broaden the reach of its Grok chatbot. Telegram Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov announced the deal today in a post on X. Under the one-year agreement, the company will more extensively integrate Grok into its app. Telegram will ...
Report: Most of CISA’s senior leaders are leaving the agency
Most of the senior leaders at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, have left or will do by the end of the month. Cybersecurity Dive reported the development today, citing an internal agency memo sent last week. The departures mark at least the third round of workforce reductions at CISA since the ...
Check Point, Zscaler ink startup acquisitions in latest round of cybersecurity consolidation
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. and Zscaler Inc., two publicly traded cybersecurity providers, today both announced startup acquisitions designed to bolster their product portfolios. Check Point is buying vulnerability detection specialist Veriti Security Ltd. Zscaler, in turn, has inked a deal to purchase Red Canary Inc., a venture-backed provider of managed detection and response services. ...