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HeroDevs raises $125M to provide long-term support for legacy open-source software
HeroDevs LLC, a leading provider of security and compliance solutions for deprecated open-source software, today announced it raised $125 million in strategic growth investment from PSG. Deprecated open-source projects are those where the original developers no longer recommend using them or are planning to stop updating them in the future. They are essentially legacy projects ...
Holistic AI report: Red teaming could have prevented Grok 4’s public collapse
Artificial intelligence large language models are being deployed more frequently in sensitive, public-facing roles, and sometimes they go very wrong. Recently Grok 4, the LLM developed by X.AI Corp. and deployed on X, made headlines for all the wrong reasons. During the second week of July, Grok went on what can only be described as ...
Robot guard dog firm Asylon raises $26M for autonomous security
Asylon Inc., a provider of robotic perimeter security, today announced it has raised $26 million in early-stage funding led by global software investor Insight Partners. Veteran Ventures Capital, Allegion Ventures and the GO PA Fund also participated in the company’s Series B funding round. Asylon is best known for its robotic guard dogs, built by ...
CircleCI launches Platform Team Toolkit to reduce strain between developer speed and centralized control
Circle Internet Services Inc., which provides a continuous integration and delivery platform for DevOps teams, today announced the release of a new solution that eliminates the need to choose between organizational control and developer speed. The new tool, named Platform Team Toolkit, allows software development administrators to manage organization-wide work from a single configuration while ...
Multimodal AI startup Reka AI raises $110M at $1B valuation
Multimodal large language model research startup Reka AI Inc. today announced it has raised $110 million in fresh funding backed by Nvidia Corp. and Snowflake Inc. Founded in 2022, Reka develops multimodal models focusing on ultra-efficient training and serving infrastructure for delivering inference at low cost. The company offers multiple AI models including Reka Flash, ...
Telegram receives built-in crypto wallet for millions of US users
Telegram Messenger LLC, best known for its cloud-based encrypted messaging app Telegram, today announced that starting today the cryptocurrency Wallet in Telegram will begin to roll out across the United States. The crypto wallet, developed by The Open Platform, will give millions of U.S. users access to a crypto wallet within Telegram, eliminating the need for ...
Mistral AI brings deep research to Le Chat, alongside image editing, voice mode and more
French generative artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS today announced multiple updates for Le Chat, the company’s AI chatbot assistant, including a deep research capability, image editing, voice mode, projects and advanced image editing. Le Chat is Mistral’s competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google LLC’s Gemini, Anthropic PBC’s Claude and other AI assistants on the market. ...
AI vibe coding startup Lovable raises $200M at $1.8B valuation
Swedish artificial intelligence software development startup Lovable Labs Inc. today announced it has raised $200 million in an early-stage round that values the company at $1.8 billion. Founded in 2023, the company’s product allows software developers to prototype and build websites and apps rapidly using a method called “vibe coding.” That’s an AI-assisted development approach ...
Photonics processor maker Q.ANT raises $72M to transform AI computing
Stuttgart, Germany-based Q.ANT GmbH, a photonic processor solutions company, today announced it raised €62 million, around $72.4 million, in early-stage funding to accelerate the commercialization of its energy-efficient light-based processors for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The company’s Series A round was co-led by Cherry Ventures, UVC Partners and imec.xpand. Other investors also participating in ...
Anthropic upgrades Claude Code with visibility dashboard for software teams
Large language model developer Anthropic PBC today rolled out an update for Claude Code, an agentic artificial intelligence software tool for developers that helps turn ideas into code, upgrading it with a metrics dashboard for administrators. Claude Code launched into general availability alongside the launch of Claude 4, the company’s flagship frontier AI model family, ...