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Cybersecurity startup Vega gets $65M in funding to replace SIEM with SAM
Israeli security operations startup Vega Ltd. said today its artificial intelligence-native threat detection platform is ready to rip out and replace legacy security information and event management or SIEM tools after raising $65 million in funding. The funding was spread across two rounds – an earlier, unannounced seed funding round and its Series A investment ...
Airia raises $100M from its co-founder to build the security foundation for enterprise AI
Cybersecurity startup Airia LLC says it has the money it needs to build the most effective governance and orchestration layer for AI agents after raising $100 million in funding today. The money comes from an unusual source, with the sole investor being Airia co-founder John Marshall, who is putting up $50 million now and making ...
Google’s Agent Payments Protocol provides a framework for AI to automate consumer purchases
Google LLC is giving artificial intelligence agents even more autonomy with the launch of a new protocol that makes it possible for them to make payments on behalf of their users. The Agent Payments Protocol, known as AP2, is backed by more than 60 merchants and financial institutions, and is aimed at AI agents that ...
GPU cloud startup Boost Run to go public via de-SPAC merger
Artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure startup Boost Run LLC said today it’s planning to go public through a de-SPAC merger with the publicly traded special-purpose acquisition company Willow Lane Acquisition Corp., with its shares set to list on the Nasdaq exchange later this month. The de-SPAC listing process is an alternative to a traditional SPAC merger, ...
Pulumi debuts its first AI agents to take on cloud platform engineering
Infrastructure-as-code company Pulumi Corp. says it wants to accelerate cloud infrastructure management automation with the use of agentic artificial intelligence. To do this, it has announced the launch of what it says is the cloud industry’s first “platform engineering AI agent,” which is designed to manage infrastructure on any public, private or hybrid cloud platform. ...
CodeRabbit gets $60M to fix AI-generated code quality
Artificial intelligence code review startup CodeRabbit Inc. has raised $60 million in a Series B funding, a round that it says demonstrates its growing importance at a time when AI-generated code is being spat out faster than ever. Today’s round was led by Scale Venture Partners and saw participation from NVentures, Nvidia Corp.’s venture capital ...
Agentic AI startup Druid AI targets growth after raising $31M and hiring a new CEO
Agentic artificial intelligence startup Druid AI S.A. says it’s ready to scale up the adoption of its enterprise-grade platform after closing on a $31 million round of funding and hiring an experienced new leader, former Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and General Electric Co. executive Joseph Kim. Today’s Series C round was led by Cipio Partners ...
Google’s VaultGemma sets new standards for privacy-preserving AI performance
Google LLC’s two major research units have made a significant advance in the area of large language model privacy with the introduction of a new model called VaultGemma, the world’s most powerful “differentially private LLM.” It’s a 1 billion-parameter model built on Google’s Gemma architecture that uses advanced mathematical algorithms to prevent sensitive data from ...
Anthropic lets Claude remember previous interactions to streamline work
The premium versions of Anthropic PBC’s Claude AI chatbot are getting a useful upgrade with the addition of “memory,” which will enable it to remember earlier interactions with users without any prompting. The new feature, which aims to improve Claude AI’s contextual understanding, is being launched for Team and Enterprise subscribers only. It will enable ...
Crypto exchange Gemini raises $425M in IPO and shares pop 40% before ending day up 14%
Updated with opening price: Cryptocurrency exchange operator Gemini Space Station Inc. raised $425 million tonight after pricing its initial public offering at $28 per share, up from an initial range of $17 to $19 per share and valuing it at $3.3 billion. The offering price was more than the $24 to $26 anticipated, indicating high demand for the issue. ...