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Six months after its seed funding round, cybersecurity startup Sola Security Ltd. today announced that it has received an additional $35 million from investors. Returning backer S32 led the raise. It was joined by Microsoft Corp.’s M12 startup fund, Sequoia Capital Chair …
Atlassian acquires AI browser developer The Browser Company for $610M
Atlassian Corp. is buying The Browser Company Inc., a startup that develops browsers with embedded artificial intelligence features. The companies announced the deal today. It values The Browser Company at $610 million, or about $60 million than the valuation it reportedly received …
AI agent startup Sierra raises $350M in funding at $10B valuation
Updated with confirmation: Sierra Technologies Inc., an artificial intelligence startup with high-profile founders, is raising capital at a $10 billion valuation, the company confirmed Thursday. Sierra said it’s raising $350 million in the round. Greenoaks Capital is expected to lead the investment. The …
Nvidia backs $85M round for AI search startup Exa
Exa Labs Inc., a startup with a search engine that artificial intelligence models can use to browse the web, has raised $85 million in funding. Benchmark led the Series B round. The venture capital firm was joined by Nvidia Corp., Y Combinator …
You.com raises $100M to help developers build AI applications
Artificial intelligence startup SuSea Inc., which does business as You.com, today announced that it has raised $150 million in funding at a $1.5 billion valuation. Cox Enterprises led the Series C round. It was joined by several returning backers including Georgian, Norwest …
US limits TSMC’s ability to send chipmaking equipment to its fabs in China
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has lost a license that allowed it to export American chipmaking equipment to its fabs in China. TSMC announced the development today. In 2022, the Biden administration rolled out regulations that limited exports of American chipmaking equipment to …
Anthropic triples valuation to $183B in new $13B funding round
Anthropic PBC today announced that it has raised $13 billion in funding to support its artificial intelligence research and commercialization efforts. ICONIQ, Fidelity Management and Lightspeed led the Series F round. They were joined by more than a dozen other institutional backers. …
OpenAI previews new safety features for ChatGPT
OpenAI today announced plans to equip ChatGPT with new safety features that will enable it to respond in a more helpful manner if a user experiences mental or emotional distress. The first upcoming update will focus on the router component of GPT-5, the …
Tencent open-sources Hunyuan-MT translation model series
Tencent Holdings Ltd. today open-sourced a new lineup of language models, the Hunyuan-MT series, that is optimized for translation tasks. The Chinese tech firm says that the algorithms significantly outperform Google Translate on a popular artificial intelligence translation benchmark. The Hunyuan-MT series …
New secondary sale reportedly values Revolut at $75B
Financial technology startup Revolut Ltd. has reportedly launched a secondary sale that will value it at $75 billion. Sources told Bloomberg today that the company’s employees can sell up to 20% of their shares for $1,381 apiece. The transaction is expected to …