Data center company Crusoe Energy Systems LLC has reportedly raised $1.3 billion to acquire advanced hardware and support the rapid buildout of large-scale artificial intelligence data centers. According to the Financial Times today, the funding was raised on a valuation of about $10 billion. Crusoe hasn’t yet announced the funding. Founded in 2018, Crusoe started ...

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. revealed today that it has raised $280 million in new funding to help meet growing demand and accelerate its mission to make open-source software trustworthy by default. Founded in 2021, Chainguard helps organizations build, deploy and run open-source software with minimized risk from vulnerabilities and supply chain attacks. The ...

New research out today from browser security company SquareX Ltd. is warning of a new class of browser-based attack known as AI Sidebar Spoofing, which exploits users’ trust in artificial intelligence assistants built into modern browsers. The technique involves leveraging malicious extensions that impersonate trusted AI sidebar interfaces, tricking users into executing harmful commands that ...

Sesame AI Inc., a company building lifelike artificial intelligence voice companions and lightweight wearable devices that enable natural, continuous conversation with an ever-present digital assistant, said Tuesday it has raised $250 million in new funding to advance its voice-AI technology and accelerate development of its companion wearable devices. Founded in 2023 by Oculus co-founder Brendan ...

Intelligence platform startup Sumble Inc. formally launched today with an announcement that it has raised $38.5 million in new funding. It plans to use the money to expand its artificial intelligence-powered go-to-market intelligence platform, enhance integrations with sales and marketing tools, and grow its engineering and data teams. Founded in 2022 by Anthony Goldbloom and ...

Shares in Tesla Inc. declined 3% in late trading today after the electric car maker fell short on earnings in its fiscal third quarter, despite delivering a record number of vehicles. For the quarter that ended on Sept. 30, Tesla reported adjusted earnings of 50 cents per share, down from 72 cents per share in ...

Apple Inc. device management platform firm Kandji Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to Iru and launched a new artificial intelligence-powered information technology and security platform that unifies identity and access, endpoint security and management and compliance automation into a single system. The name change to Iru reflects an entirely new approach to the ...

Artificial intelligence- and blockchain-powered real estate technology company Propy Inc. today announced a $100 million expansion to modernize the U.S. title industry while also debuting Agent Avery, an AI escrow officer for real estate closings. The $100 million consists of a mixed financing package integrating private credit with blockchain-based DeFi loans. It will allow Propy ...

Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today announced the launch of Evo by Snyk, an agentic security orchestration system designed to secure artificial intelligence-native applications and tools, including generative and agentic AI. Snyk is pitching the new Evo offering as ushering in what it calls the “era of the empowered AI Security Engineer.” The AI can act as both ...

Cloud data management and data security company Rubrik Inc. today announced the launch of Rubrik Agent Cloud, a new service to accelerate enterprise artificial intelligence agent adoption while managing the risk of AI deployments. AI transformation has become mandatory in many organizations, but information technology leaders are constrained as agentic AI has significant risks, including hallucination as ...