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Hopper raises $7.6M to accelerate software development with streamlined risk management
A startup called Hopper Inc. says it wants to transform the way enterprises deal with open-source software security risks after raising $7.6 million in seed funding today. The round was co-led by Meron Capital and New Era, and saw participation from numerous other backers, including Sequoia Scout Fund, M-Fund and a number of entrepreneurs who ...
IBM’s open-source TerraMind AI uses 9 data modalities to transform Earth observation
IBM Corp. is partnering with the European Space Agency to create an artificial intelligence system that will keep tabs on climate change and other global issues, such as water scarcity, in real time using space-based data. IBM says the new system, called TerraMind, is the most advanced “Earth observation” model ever conceived, and it’s being ...
Google hits back as DOJ pushes to break its stranglehold on web search
The future of Google LLC is up in the air amid a high-stakes courtroom battle that kicked off today, beginning three weeks of hearings to determine how it’s punished for using its revolutionary search engine to establish an illegal monopoly. The proceedings, known as a “remedy hearing,” are likely to hear from a parade of ...
Databricks buys feature engineering startup Fennel to enhance AI model development
Databricks Inc. said today it has swooped to acquire a young company called Fennel AI Inc. for an undisclosed price so it can enhance its data intelligence platform with real-time feature engineering capabilities. According to Databricks, Fennel has developed a modern, incremental compute engine that supports the development of more refined data pipelines, for batch, ...
AI evaluation platform LMArena is becoming a real startup
The founders of the popular generative artificial intelligence benchmarking platform LMArena have said they’re founding an official company called Arena Intelligence Inc. to help them improve the project in future. LMArena’s founders wrote in a blog post today that the new company will enable it to acquire the resources they need to implement significant improvements to ...
Foundation EGI raises $7.6M to transform manufacturing with ‘engineering general intelligence’
A startup called Foundation EGI says it’s ready to transform product design, development and lifecycle management with artificial intelligence agents after raising $7.6 million in seed funding. Today’s oversubscribed round was led by investors including E14 Fund, Union Lab Ventures, Stata Venture Partners, Samsung Ventures, GRIDS Capital and Henry Ford III.Foundation EGI is the brainchild ...
Monte Carlo puts AI agents to work on data reliability
Big-data observability startup Monte Carlo Data Inc. is the latest technology company to jump on the agentic artificial intelligence craze, launching a suite of Observability Agents designed to automate monitoring and speed up incident response times. The suite consists of two AI agents at this time, including a monitoring agent that helps out by recommending ...
China’s DeepSeek labeled national security threat in bipartisan House committee report
A bipartisan House committee said today that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek Ltd. represents a “profound threat” to America’s national security, accusing it of serving as an “open-source intelligence asset” that funnels data on U.S. users back to China. The House Select Committee on China also accused DeepSeek of training its models on data ...
Trump’s latest export controls rattle chipmakers and their stocks plunge
Warnings from chipmakers Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. about higher costs related to new controls on exports to China sparked yet another slump in technology stocks today. In a filing late Tuesday, Nvidia said it’s expecting to take a $5.5 billion hit in the first quarter after being told by the Trump administration ...
Kyndryl wants to help enterprises leverage their most sensitive data in AI workloads
The information technology consultancy Kyndryl Holdings Inc. said today it’s ready to help enterprises deploy artificial intelligence in private cloud environments, where it can tap into their most sensitive data. The company has just announced the launch of its AI Private Cloud services, lending its expertise to help customers design and deploy “enterprise-grade AI solutions” that ...