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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 …
Sales automation startup Clay boosts valuation to $7.1B in $115M funding round
Clay Labs Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make business-to-business sales teams more productive, today announced that it has raised $115 million in funding. Wellington Management led the Series D round. It was joined by Alphabet Inc.’s growth-stage CapitalG fund, Sequoia, …
Harvey raises $550M more to develop AI tools for legal teams
Six months after its last nine-figure funding round, Harvey AI Corp. today announced that it has raised $550 million at $15.5 billion valuation. Diffusion and Lightspeed Venture Partners led the deal. They were joined by more than a dozen other backers, including …
Anthropic researcher’s resignation sparks broad AI safety discussion
An Anthropic PBC researcher has resigned over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambling with our lives.” Jacob Coxon was part of the company’s AI pretraining team until today. He announced his resignation in a series of X posts that has been …
Celero reels in $275M for its coherent digital signal processors
Celero Communications Inc., a startup that develops data center networking chips, today announced that it has raised $275 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG fund, Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners. Returning backers Sutter Hill …