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Offensive cybersecurity startup RemoteThreat Inc. launched today with $7 million in new funding to push its O/C/O Platform out to enterprise red teams and U.S. government customers. Some of the money will also go to new features. RemoteThreat offers what it calls …
SpaceX puts Starship into orbit for the first time, deploys 26 Starlink satellites
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. put its Starship rocket into orbit for the first time today on the vehicle’s 14th test flight. Liftoff came at 8:49 a.m. EDT from Starbase in South Texas. The upper stage was back down in the Pacific a …
Defense cyber intelligence company RedLattice to go public in $1.25B SPAC deal
Defense cyber intelligence company RedLattice Inc. announced today that it plans to go public on the Nasdaq by merging with special-purpose acquisition company Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. The deal values the company at $1.25 billion before any new money. It’s expected to …
Voice AI startup Modulate raises $25M to bring audio-native models to more developers
Voice artificial intelligence startup Modulate Inc. today announced it has raised $25 million in new funding to get its audio-native models in front of more developers. Modulate offers AI models that work on the raw audio of a conversation. Emotion, tone and …
Ninja Enterprise bundles AI employees and GPUs into one fixed yearly fee
Artificial intelligence agent startup NinjaTech AI Inc. today launched SuperNinja Enterprise to let large companies run what the startup calls AI employees inside their own cloud environments for a fixed yearly fee. The graphics processing units those agents need are part of …
Researcher links 16,000 scans of a UN statistics portal to OpenAI agents
An independent researcher has tied more than 16,000 scans of a United Nations statistics portal to artificial intelligence agents the researcher considers highly likely to have been run by OpenAI Group PBC. When the portal turned requests away, the agents used proxies …
Akamai shares jump more than 20% on $11.6B Anthropic computing deal
Shares of Akamai Technologies Inc. jumped more than 20% in after-hours trading today after the cloud and cybersecurity company revealed an $11.6 billion, seven-year deal to supply computing capacity to artificial intelligence developer Anthropic PBC. The agreement is built around central processing …
Amazon to spend $100M on Indiana plant, its fourth site for building robots
Amazon.com Inc. is spending more than $100 million on a factory in Greenwood, Indiana, to build equipment for its warehouse robots, according to plans the company released today. The Wall Street Journal reported that Greenwood will be the fourth plant Amazon uses …
Groundcover picks up Kubernetes optimization startup Wand in its first acquisition
Observability company groundcover Inc. today disclosed its first acquisition, picking up Kubernetes resource optimization startup Wand Cloud Ltd. for an undisclosed sum. Wand’s founders and employees are moving across to groundcover as part of the deal. The purchase is part of a push …
Dataiku debuts cross-platform Agent Management, expands Cobuild building agent
Enterprise artificial intelligence platform company Dataiku Inc. today launched Agent Management, a standalone product that finds and tracks every AI agent a business runs, including those built on other vendors’ platforms. Dataiku also expanded Cobuild, its natural-language agent for building AI projects. …