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Investing analytics software maker Clearwater agrees to be taken private in $8.4B deal
The investment and accounting software firm Clearwater Analytics Holdings Inc. said today it will be taken private by the private equity firms Permira Holdings Ltd. and Warburg Pincus LLC in a deal valued at $8.4 billion. The private equity firms said they have agreed to buy Clearwater at a price of $24.55 per share in cash, ...
AI-aided design software startup Neural Concept raises $100M to accelerate product engineering
Swiss artificial intelligence startup Neural Concept SA said today it has raised $100 million in funding to rethink how products are designed and engineered with computer-aided design software tools. The Series C round was led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and saw participation from Forestay Capital, Alven, HTGF, D.E. Shaw Ventures and Aster ...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.2-Codex advances software engineering with better reasoning and context understanding
OpenAI Group PBC today released a new version of GPT-Codex, its agentic artificial intelligence coding model that’s designed to automate complex software engineering tasks. The latest version, GPT-5.2-Codex, builds upon the capabilities of GPT-5.2, adding improvements in context compaction, large code refactoring, Windows environment performance and cybersecurity, the company said. According to OpenAI’s blog post, ...
Anthropic makes agent Skills an open standard
Anthropic PBC said today it’s updating its Skills feature, which enables companies to teach its powerful large language model how to perform very specific, work-related tasks. The update comes as the artificial intelligence industry doubles down on so-called AI agents, which are AI systems designed to work autonomously with minimal human supervision. As part of today’s ...
AI-native trucking insurance startup Nirvana Tech bags $100M late-stage round
Commercial trucking insurance startup Nirvana Tech Inc. said today it has raised $100 million in a late-stage round of funding that will fuel its expansion into new industry segments. The startup has built what it describes as the world’s first artificial intelligence-native operating system for insurance, combining telematics data with specialized large language models that ...
Patronus AI’s debuts Generative Simulators to support continuous evolution and improvement of AI agents
Artificial intelligence model training and testing tools startup Patronus AI Inc. today announced the availability of a new offering called “Generative Simulators” that are designed to help evaluate and improve autonomous AI agents. The new simulators are a core element of Patronus AI’s reinforcement learning environments, which are simulated worlds that enable thorough testing of AI ...
Oracle spooks the stock market after key partner refuses to fund $10B Michigan data center project
Shares of the cloud infrastructure and database giant Oracle Corp. fell more than 4% during regular trading today after a Financial Times report claimed that one of its key financial partners, Blue Owl Capital LLC, declined to fund the construction of a $10 billion data center project in Michigan. Blue Owl Capital had reportedly been ...
Micron crushes expectations on earnings and guidance amid soaring AI memory demand
Memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. crushed Wall Street’s expectations on earnings and revenue and offered jaw-dropping guidance for the current quarter, sending its stock higher in extended trading. The company reported first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $4.78 per share, easily beating the Street’s forecast of $3.95, while revenue jumped 57% ...
Google’s Gemini 3 Flash makes a big splash with faster responsiveness and superior reasoning
Google LLC is building on the successful launch of its all-powerful Gemini 3 Pro large language model with the debut of a more lightweight and streamlined version called Gemini 3 Flash. It’s the successor to Gemini 2.5 Flash, designed for applications that require lower latency and costs, and it’s being rolled out across multiple platforms starting ...
Chatbot visibility startup geoSurge launches to help brands get noticed by ChatGPT
So-called generative engine optimization startup geoSurge Ltd. is launching today to help brands ensure they can remain visible to generative artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT. The company said it’s pioneering an entirely new discipline it has christened “corpus engineering,” which aims to help companies understand and actively improve how they are positioned inside the memories ...