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Anthropic debuts Project Glasswing, leveraging its powerful Mythos model to reinforce software security
Anthropic PBC said today it’s releasing a preview of the most powerful frontier model it has ever developed, making it available to a small coterie of partners and cybersecurity researchers to help secure the world’s software. The model, called Claude Mythos, is being released as part of a new cybersecurity initiative dubbed Project Glasswing, which ...
Natter lands $23M to encourage employees to open up about their organizations through AI video interviews
Conversation intelligence startup Natter said today it has raised $23 million in funding to replace the traditional surveys and focus groups used by organizations to obtain insights from their employees. The round was led by Renegade Partners and saw participation from Kindred Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Rackhouse Ventures, Village Global and Asymmetric Capital Partners, plus a ...
Agentic AI startup NeuBird raises $19.3M to help human site reliability engineers avoid alert fatigue
NeuBird Inc. said today it has just closed on $19.3 million in funding in order to eliminate the “firefighting” role in information technology operations through agentic artificial intelligence automation. Today’s round was led by Xora Innovation and saw participation from the likes of Mayfield, Microsoft Corp.’s M12, StepStone Group and Prosperity7 Ventures. NeuBird is trying ...
Samsung forecasts insane operating profit growth thanks to surging memory prices
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. forecast record quarterly profit thanks to rising demand for its memory chips to support artificial intelligence workloads, sending its stock up as much as 5% during today’s market session before it settled down to a 2% gain. The company, which is the world’s largest supplier of memory chips, forecast a first-quarter operating ...
Anthropic taps Google and Broadcom for yet more AI chips as revenue run rate tops $30B
Anthropic PBC said today its annual revenue run rate has now exceeded $30 billion, up from just $9 billion at the end of last year, after confirming an expanded partnership with Google LLC and Broadcom Inc. to power its artificial intelligence models. The company said it has seen accelerating demand for its Claude services this ...
Q-Factor emerges with $24M in funding and the next big bet to achieve quantum computing advantage
Tel Aviv-based quantum computing startup Q-Factor announced itself to the world today after closing on a $24 million seed funding round. The company’s mission is to develop a neutral atom-based quantum computer that can scale to one million qubits and beyond. Today’s oversubscribed round was led by NFX and TPY Capital, and saw participation from Intel ...
ZeroEyes expands AI-based threat detection into the physical realm to secure public spaces
ZeroEyes Inc., a startup that’s best known for its computer vision-based gun detection technology, is expanding its platform to spot people carrying knives and track suspects as it pushes to become a more comprehensive system for public safety. Today’s update transforms ZeroEyes from a niche threat detection tool into a full-fledged intelligence platform for physical ...
Alcatraz raises $50M to bring Apple Face ID-style security to physical buildings
Cupertino-based facial recognition security startup Alcatraz said today it has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by BlackPeak Capital, Cogito Capital and Taiwania Capital. Previous investors Almaz Capital, EBRD and Ray Stata also participated, bringing the company’s total funding to date to over $100 million. Alcatraz is the developer of physical ...
Google’s new Gemma 4 models bring complex reasoning skills to low-power devices
Google LLC is upping the stakes for open-weights artificial intelligence models with the release of Gemma 4, its most advanced “open” model family so far. Built on the same architectural foundation as Gemini 3, the models are designed to handle complex reasoning tasks and support autonomous AI agents running locally on low-power devices such as ...
Niobium brings fully encrypted AI workloads to the cloud with The Fog
A startup called Niobium Microsystems Inc. is bringing “The Fog” to the cloud, enabling organizations to run artificial intelligence and data processing workloads on their most sensitive data without ever needing to decrypt it. Though the new platform might sound like a 1980s-era horror flick, Niobium says The Fog is actually something developers will want ...