Air defense startup Singularity Defense Corp. formally launched today, announcing that it has raised $80 million in new funding at a $400 million valuation to mass-produce low-cost interceptors that can knock down the cheap drones and missiles now common on the battlefield. Cost is the problem Singularity says it can fix. An interceptor can cost ...

New York became the first state in the U.S. to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers today after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order pausing state environmental permits for large facilities for up to a year. Executive Order No. 62 took effect on signing and covers hyperscale data centers that draw 50 ...

Boundless Network Inc., a distributed computing company that built its graphics processing unit network to generate zero-knowledge proofs for the cryptocurrency industry, is expanding its network toward artificial intelligence inference, the process of providing responses to AI queries. The company said today it will open its network of about 4,000 GPUs to AI workloads and ...

Identity-centered security solution company Entrust Corp. today launched the Agentic AI Trust Accelerator, a co-development program that brings together enterprises and technology partners to build the identity infrastructure companies need to move autonomous AI agents from pilot projects into production. The program targets a gap that has kept many AI agents stuck in testing. Organizations want the ...

Fortinet Inc. today expanded its FortiEndpoint platform with a set of features aimed at helping companies monitor employee use of artificial intelligence tools and stop sensitive data from leaking into them. The update adds AI visibility and controls, built-in data loss prevention and an AI assistant for security teams to the endpoint product, which Fortinet ...

Software-defined test and measurement startup Liquid Instruments Pty. Ltd. today launched GenInst Studio, software that turns a plain-language description into a custom, ready-to-run test instrument on the company’s reconfigurable Moku hardware. GenInst Studio takes the request through a chat interface and hands back a validated, application-specific instrument, with no field-programmable gate array code for the user to ...

Cloudflare Inc. today opened general availability for Precursor, a bot detection system that tracks how a visitor behaves across an entire browsing session instead of testing them once on arrival. Precursor runs inside the browser. It streams interaction signals back to Cloudflare’s edge, where servers score them in real time for evidence of automation. The ...

Artificial intelligence training data company Mercor.io Corp. announced today that it has acquired Deeptune Inc., a startup that builds simulated software environments used to train AI agents. Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal closed nearly four months after Mercor Chief Executive Brendan Foody wrote a personal angel check into Deeptune’s $43 million Series A ...

Cybersecurity startup QIZ Security Ltd. today announced it has raised $17 million in seed funding to expand a platform that discovers and governs the encryption buried across enterprise systems ahead of the migration to quantum-safe algorithms. Founded in 2025, the company offers a platform that connects to enterprise systems over application programming interfaces rather than ...

Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised $97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ran past $300 million, according to the company, more than three times what the round finally took. Founded in 2019, the company sells real-time and ...