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Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end
Efficient Computer Co. says it’s going to make the dream of low-energy artificial intelligence computing a reality after raising $60 million in early-stage funding today. The Series A round was led by Triatomic Capital and saw participation from Eclipse, Overlap Holdings, Union Square Ventures, RTX Ventures, Toyota Ventures, Overmatch Ventures and others, bringing its total ...
With $20M in funding, Solid Data has a solid plan to improve the reliability of AI agents
Solid Data Inc. is trying to help enterprises get around the problem of error-prone artificial intelligence agents after raising $20 million in seed funding today. The round, led by Team8 and SignalFire, will help Solid to accelerate the deployment of its AI-ready semantic models, which are designed to help AI systems verify, prepare and understand ...
Meta agrees to buy millions more AI chips for Nvidia, raising doubts about its in-house hardware
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed a new deal with Nvidia Corp. to buy millions of its next-generation Vera Rubin graphics processing units and a similar number of Grace central processing units to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions. The deal, announced today, is likely to be worth billions of dollars. In a statement, Meta Chief Executive ...
Mesh Optical Technologies raises $50M to mass produce American-made data center links
Three SpaceX Corp. alumni who helped the rocket company develop optical communications for its Starlink satellite Wi-Fi service have raised millions of dollars to commercialize that technology for data centers. Mesh Optical Technologies, co-founded by its Chief Executive Travis Brashears, President Cameron Ramos and Vice President of Product Serena Grown-Haeberli, said today it has raised ...
Braintrust lands $80M funding round to become the observability layer for AI
Artificial intelligence-native observability startup Braintrust Data Inc. believes it’s on a fast track to becoming an essentially infrastructure layer for AI models and agents in production after raising $80 million in a middle-stage funding today. The Series B round was led by Iconiq and saw participation from high-profile backers, including Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, basecase capital ...
Glean adds a bit more sheen to its enterprise AI assistant
Agentic artificial intelligence startup Glean Technologies Inc. said today it’s boosting the capabilities of its digital coworker Glean Assistant, making it much more customizable than before. Users are getting all kinds of new goodies, including real-time voice support, the ability to generate on-brand content, proactive templates and agent sandboxes for sensitive tasks. They’re also getting ...
Quantum algorithms enhance network resilience in Classiq, Comcast, AMD trial
Quantum software startup Classiq Technologies Ltd. said today it has partnered with Comcast Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to showcase how quantum computers can dramatically enhance network resilience and improve internet delivery, even when multiple network sites go down. In what was described as a “groundbreaking trial,” Classiq used quantum algorithms to tackle one ...
Manus launches personal AI agents in Telegram, with more messaging apps to come
Meta Platforms Inc.’s agentic artificial intelligence unit Manus said today it’s going to integrate its platform with popular messaging applications, including Telegram, WhatsApp, LINE and Slack. To kick things off, it’s launching Manus Agents in Telegram, giving users of that app the opportunity to create their own personal AI agent. Unlike traditional chatbots, Manus is designed ...
Construction robotics startup Sitegeist raises €4M to automate arduous concrete repair jobs
German startup Sitegeist GmbH said today it has raised €4 million (about $4.75 million) in pre-seed funding to help accelerate the renovation of Europe’s infrastructure with robotic automation. Today’s round was led by b2venture and OpenOcean and saw participation from UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators and several angel investors, plus strategic partners in the construction and ...
Pentagon officials threaten to blacklist Anthropic over its military chatbot policies
The U.S. Department of War is reportedly considering cutting all business ties with the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC and designating it as a “supply chain risk” amid disagreements over how it intends to use its chatbot tool Claude. If the War Department went ahead with the move, it would be a severe blow to ...