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General Robotics Technology Inc. said today that its GRID robot intelligence platform now automates its own engineering work, cutting the time needed to get a new robot into production from about a month to as little as two hours. The Redmond, Washington-based …
Cymphony launches with $30M to track what AI agents can reach
Enterprise security startup Cymphony Inc. formally launched today with $30 million in funding and software that tracks what artificial intelligence agents and employees can reach inside company systems. The two-year-old company is now worth more than $100 million, TechCrunch reported. Cymphony’s platform …
Orchid Security gives enterprises a kill switch for rogue AI agents
Identity security startup Orchid Security Inc. today added identity drift detection and application-level kill switches for artificial intelligence agents to its Identity Control Plane. The controls are meant to let security teams strip an agent of its authority the moment its behavior …
Radware finds web DDoS attacks doubled as the patch window turns negative
A new report out today from Radware Ltd. finds that web distributed denial-of-service attacks more than doubled over the first six months of 2026. Mitigations rose 110.6% against the same period last year, and 36.3% against the second half of 2025. The …
Geordie launches Cost Intelligence to tie AI spending to agent activity
Agent security startup Geordie AI Ltd. today launched Cost Intelligence, a capability that links enterprise AI spending to the agents and workflows that generate it. The launch stretches the company’s agent risk management pitch past security and into financial governance. AI spending …
IonQ launches Superion 256, a quantum computer built for volume production
Quantum chip developer IonQ Inc. today launched Superion 256, a 256-qubit quantum computer built around control chips made on standard semiconductor lines, which IonQ says lets it produce the systems in volume. Superion 256 is IonQ’s sixth generation of quantum computer, and …
Antioch raises $32M to move robot testing into simulation
Simulation software startup Antioch Inc. today announced $32 million in new funding for product development, engineering hires and deeper simulation capabilities aimed at its customers — robotics, autonomy and perception teams. Antioch is going after the way autonomous machines get tested today. …
AI coding startup Cognition raises $2B at $48B valuation as revenue nears $900M
Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. today announced that it has raised more than $2 billion in late-stage funding at a $48 billion valuation, nearly doubling the price investors put on the company in its last round. Before this Series E …
Rubrik extends data protection to Apache Iceberg tables on AWS
Cloud data management and data security company Rubrik Inc. today announced Rubrik Apache Iceberg Protection, a backup and recovery capability for Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon Web Services Inc. The target is a gap Rubrik argues native tooling leaves open. Iceberg snapshots …
Bluecore Energy raises $50M to build its first floating nuclear system
Maritime nuclear startup Bluecore Energy Inc. today announced a $50 million seed round, seven weeks after the company formally launched with $10 million behind a plan to mount small reactors on barges. Most of the new capital will go toward getting its …