Nvidia Corp.-backed Australian artificial intelligence data center company Firmus Technologies Pty. Ltd. today said it has raised $505 million in new funding on a $5.5 billion valuation ahead of an expected initial public offering on the Australian Stock Exchange later this year. Founded in 2019, Firums develops and operates data center infrastructure designed to support AI ...

U.S. venture capital activity surged to unprecedented levels in the first quarter of 2026, driven by a small number of outsized artificial intelligence deals that reshaped the overall market profile, according to a first look at the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released early Friday. According to the report, $267.2 billion in deal value was recorded during the quarter, ...

Researchers from quantum computing companies Quanscient Oy and Haiqu Inc. today announced that they have developed a new quantum computing algorithm designed to make computational fluid dynamics simulations more practical on quantum hardware. Developed and tested on IBM Corp.’s largest available quantum computer, the IBM Heron R3, the algorithm reduces the number of qubits required ...

Twenty-four years ago, two young coders launched a fork of the b2/cafelog log code called WordPress, a content management system for the then-emerging blogging world that over two decades later has grown into the most-used CMS on the planet. Though WordPress is now estimated to power around 40% of sites on the internet, not only spawning ...

Inbound marketing and customer relationship management platform HubSpot Inc. today announced it’s changing how customers pay for artificial intelligence with the introduction of an outcome-based pricing model for two of its core AI tools that ties cost directly to results rather than usage. The company is shifting its Breeze Customer Agent and Breeze Prospecting Agent ...

Cloud monitoring as a service company Datadog Inc. today announced the launch of Datadog Experiments, a new product that allows teams to design, launch and measure product experiments and A/B tests directly within its platform. The new offering is being pitched as giving teams the data and insights they need to understand how every change ...

Customer service and support software firm Freshworks Inc. today announced an expansion of its Freshservice platform with the launch of redefined IT Asset Management, a service that provides visibility into how infrastructure supports the services that businesses depend on. The redefined ITAM offering integrates continuous infrastructure discovery and dependency mapping directly into Freshservice and combines it with information ...

The nonprofit International Information System Security Certification Consortium, also known as ISC2, today published new exam guidance outlining how artificial intelligence security concepts are being incorporated across its entire cybersecurity certification portfolio. The new Exam Guidance for Artificial Intelligence seeks to address the growing need for professionals to secure AI systems and manage AI-related risks ...

Decision intelligence platform startup Omniscient SASU today announced that it has raised $4.1 million in funding to develop its product further and scale up its commercial rollout. Omniscient offers a decision intelligence platform that is designed to address the fragmentation of data and tools used by large organizations to monitor corporate reputation and external risk ...

Security intelligence and management solutions company Exabeam Inc. today announced an expansion of its Agent Behavior Analytics platform that adds detection and monitoring of artificial intelligence agent activity across tools such as OpenAI Group PBC’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot and Google LLC’s Gemini. The expansion seeks to address the issue whereby, without direct visibility into how employees ...