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Concentric AI buys startups Swift Security and Acante to expand scope of data protection platform
Data security startup Concentric Software Inc. said today it has snapped up a couple of smaller startups to bolster its comprehensive artificial intelligence-powered governance platform. It said the acquisitions of Swift Security and Acante Inc. will enable it to unify its expertise in data security posture management, adding data loss prevention and generative AI governance ...
Anysphere’s Cursor brings AI coding agents to web and mobile browsers
Well-funded artificial intelligence startup Anysphere Inc. is expanding beyond its viral generative AI code editor and into “agentic AI” with the launch of new web and mobile browser-based orchestration tools for coding agents. Anysphere last month closed on a bumper $900 million funding round that valued it at a cool $9.9 billion. It’s the company ...
Canadian legal tech startup Clio swoops to acquire vLex for $1B
Canadian legal software provider Clio has pounced on its second major acquisition of the year, buying an artificial intelligence startup called vLex LLC for $1 billion. The deal will help Clio, officially known as Themis Solutions Inc., to enhance its legal management software with vLex’s AI tool, which prevents lawyers from accidentally citing fake court ...
China’s Baidu declares war on OpenAI and others by open-sourcing Ernie AI model
Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc. today announced that it’s open-sourcing its powerful generative artificial intelligence foundation model Ernie 4.5, in a move that experts say will nudge the industry away from a battle over performance and into a price war. The company, which is often said to be “China’s Google” thanks to its dominance ...
Elon Musk says latest version of Trump’s budget bill is ‘utterly insane’ and will destroy clean energy sector
Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk has slammed the latest version of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill, calling it “utterly insane and destructive.” In a post on his social media platform X, Musk lambasted lawmakers, saying the Senate’s new draft bill would eliminate millions of jobs in the U.S. and cause “immense strategic harm” ...
HPE finally gets green light to buy Juniper and take on Cisco in AI networking
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has finally been allowed to proceed with its $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc. after settling a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ had tried to block the deal from going ahead by filing its lawsuit in January, arguing it would significantly harm competition in the ...
Report: DeepSeek’s newest model delayed by GPU export restrictions
China’s top artificial intelligence company DeepSeek Ltd. has reportedly come unstuck in its efforts to develop its next-generation R2 reasoning model, because it cannot get its hands on enough of Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing units, according to a report. The Information cited two anonymous sources who are familiar with DeepSeek’s efforts as saying that the ...
Salesforce chief Marc Benioff says AI now does up to half of all the work at his company
Salesforce Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff says his company is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence, using the technology to automate dozens of workloads that were, until recently, done by humans. In an interview with Bloomberg, Benioff (pictured) said AI agents are now performing as much as 30% to 50% of all the ...
DataBahn raises $17M to automate data pipeline management with AI agents
Intelligent data pipeline startup DataBahn LLC said today it has closed on a $17 million early-stage funding round. The Series A round was led by Forgepoint Capital and saw participation from S3 Ventures and GTM Capital, bringing its total amount raised to date to $19 million. The startup has developed a data pipeline platform based ...
AI hiring startup Metaview raises $35M to automate recruiters’ admin work
Artificial intelligence recruitment platform startup Metaview Labs Inc. has snagged $35 million in funding from investors including Google Ventures, building on a $7 million Series A investment that was closed one year earlier. Plural, Vertex Ventures, Seedcamp, Coelius Capita, True Equity and angel investors such as Victor Riparbelli and Barney Hussey-Yeo also participated in the ...