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Oneleet raises $33 million to deliver compliance through security
Oneleet Inc., an integrated compliance platform that combines cybersecurity services, said today it has raised $33 million in early-stage funding led by Dawn Capital. Investors also participating in the Series A round included Y Combinator, former Snowflake Inc. and ServiceNow Inc. Chief Executive Frank Slootman, Dropbox Inc. co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and several other leading founders. ...
EigenCloud launches platform for ‘verifiable’ AI infrastructure
Eigen Labs Inc., the developer of the verifiable cloud platform EigenCloud, announced Tuesday the launch of a verifiable computing layer for artificial intelligence using blockchain technology. The company released two solutions, EigenAI and EigenCompute, designed to enable developers to run AI models and receive the same level of security and transparency as using blockchain smart contracts. ...
Assort Health raises $76M to deliver AI agents for healthcare
Assort Health Inc., a patient experience platform powered by artificial intelligence agents, said Tuesday it raised $76 million in early-stage funding to reduce the pain of scheduling appointments, delivering lab results and handling patient communications. Lightspeed Ventures led the Series B round, bringing the total raised by the company to $102 million. Additional investments came ...
Slack expands AI developer tools to support context-aware apps and agents
Salesforce Inc. said today that its collaboration tool Slack is evolving to provide developers with new tools to connect artificial intelligence applications securely to conversational data. New additions to the platform for developers include a real-time search application programming interface, a Model Context Protocol server and enhanced developer tools for building, configuring and administering agentic ...
Cerebras secures $1.1B at $8.1B valuation to fuel US AI infrastructure leadership
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. said today it raised $1.1 billion in a late-stage funding, bringing its post-money valuation to $8.1 billion, as demand for AI inference services continues to surge. The Series G round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Co. and Atreides Management, joined by well-known venture firms including Tiger Global, ...
Shortcut debuts Korey, bringing AI orchestration to product management
Shortcut Software Co., a provider of simple project management tools for product development teams, today debuted Korey, an artificial intelligence project manager that orchestrates everything from planning to coordination of software projects. The company said Korey acts as a full-fledged member of the product team by turning ideas into structured, build-ready plans that teams can ...
Datawizz raises $12.5M to cut AI costs by routing smaller, smarter models
Datawizz, a company building specialized artificial intelligence language models as an alternative to large general-purpose models, today announced it has raised $12.5 million in a seed funding round. Human Capital led the round, with participation from BGV, 91VC and others. The company said it will use the fresh capital to accelerate product development, expand its ...
Harness acquires Qwiet AI to bring vulnerability detection into DevOps workflows
Harness Inc., a software delivery startup that provides artificial intelligence tools for developers to update and monitor applications as they go, today announced it acquired Qwiet AI, formerly known as ShiftLeft Inc., a leader in agentic AI-powered vulnerability detection and remediation. Harness uses agentic AI to give developers and operations teams, together known as DevOps, ...
Adobe expands Photoshop and Firefly Boards with new generative AI tools and third-party models
Veteran creative software company Adobe Inc. is updating its suite of products with more artificial intelligence models to support professionals where they work. The company announced today that Firefly Boards, an AI-native software workspace for users to explore, iterate and collaborate in real time, will receive new AI generative video models including Runway AI Inc.’s ...
Liquid AI debuts extremely small, high-performance foundation models for on-device processing
Liquid AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup building AI models with a novel architecture that provides high performance for size, today announced a breakthrough in AI training and customization for extremely small models capable of delivering OpenAI GPT-4o-level capability for specialized tasks. The new models, called “Nanos,” run between 350 million and 2.6 billion parameters, ...