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Microsoft extends Azure Foundry with new AI development tools
Microsoft Corp. is upgrading its Azure Foundry service with new features that will make it easier for developers to build artificial intelligence applications. The company debuted the enhancements today at an event marking its 5oth anniversary. Executives also introduced a new version of Copilot, Microsoft’s consumer-focused chatbot. It now offers more personalization options and a ...
Google makes its reasoning-optimized Gemini 2.5 Pro model available in public preview
Google LLC today made Gemini 2.5 Pro, an advanced large language model it debuted last month, available in public preview. Until now, the LLM was accessible through a free application programming interface with low usage limits. Developers could only send 25 requests per day at a rate of up to five a minute. The new ...
Trump fires NSA director, deputy and ‘at least’ five NSC aides
President Donald Trump has fired General Timothy Haugh, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency. The dismissal was first reported by the Washington Post on Thursday. A few hours later, the top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees confirmed the development. Haugh’s dismissal reportedly came a day after a White House meeting in ...
Data management startup Hydrolix reels in $80M
Data lake provider Hydrolix Inc. today announced that it has raised $80 million in funding to finance growth initiatives. QED led the investment. It was joined by a dozen other backers, including Akamai Technologies Inc., which resells Hydrolix’s technology to its customers. The round follows a year in which the startup’s revenue grew eightfold. Portland-based ...
Financial technology startup Plaid closes $575M investment at $6B valuation
Plaid Inc., a startup that provides software for connecting financial applications with one another, has raised $575 million in fresh funding. The raise was led by a group of new investors that included Franklin Templeton, Fidelity and BlackRock. Plaid detailed in its announcement of the round today that several returning backers chipped in as well. ...
AI video generation startup Runway raises $308M round at $3B valuation
Runway AI Inc. today announced that it has closed a $308 million funding round led by General Atlantic. The growth equity firm was joined by several other investors including Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, SoftBank Group Corp. and Nvidia Corp. The chipmaker also backed Runway’s previous $141 million funding round in 2023. Bloomberg reported that the artificial ...
Adaptive Security raises $43M for its AI cyberattack simulation platform
Adaptive Security Inc., a startup that helps companies test their cybersecurity posture using simulated social engineering attacks, has raised $43 million in fresh funding. Andreessen Horowitz and the OpenAI Startup Fund led the Series A round. Adaptive Security detailed in its funding announcement today that more than a half-dozen other backers chipped in as well. ...
Cyberhaven nabs $100M for its AI-powered data protection platform
Data security startup Cyberhaven Inc. today announced that it has closed a $100 million funding round to support its growth efforts. The Series D investment was led by StepStone Group with participation from Schroders and Industry Ventures. The raise values Cyberhaven at more than $1 billion, or about seven times what it was worth following ...
Qualcomm weighing acquisition of publicly traded chip designer Alphawave
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. may seek to buy Alphawave IP Group PLC, a U.K.-based designer of connectivity chips. The potential deal was disclosed on Tuesday. In a filing with the London Stock Exchange, Qualcomm stated that it’s weighing an acquisition but “there can be no certainty that any firm offer will be made, nor as to ...
Cerebras wins DARPA contract to build AI system with co-packaged optics
Cerebras Systems Inc., the creator of a wafer-scale chip with nearly 1 million cores, has won a hardware development contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Reuters reported that the agreement is worth $45 million. As part of the project, Cerebras will develop a new “high-performance computing system” for DARPA. The system will ...