Rundoo Inc., the creator of an AI-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $48 million. …
Prevalent AI Ltd., a cybersecurity data company, has raised $22 million in growth funding from Integrity Growth Partners, marking its first outside capital since its founding nine years ago. The compa…
Salesforce Inc. launched Headless Data 360 for Model Context Protocol, exposing more than 200 APIs as programmable endpoints so AI agents can access governed customer data directly. The offering enabl…
OpenAI Group PBC launched ChatGPT for Teens, a stricter version of its chatbot for users aged 13-17, with guardrails on topics like violence, self-harm, sex, and mental disorders, and features such as…
OpenAI Group PBC reported second-quarter revenue of $6.7 billion, up 18% sequentially from $5.7 billion, but its operating losses widened, according to the Wall Street Journal. The figures, disclosed …
Google LLC, the U.K. government, and the country's aviation industry launched Operation Blue Skies, a 30-month initiative using AI to reduce climate-warming contrails across the Shanwick airspace in t…
Etched Inc., an AI inference chip startup, raised $700 million in funding at a $21 billion valuation, more than doubling its previous valuation, in a round led by Jane Street and joined by Kleiner Per…
Neoclouds, AI-first cloud providers such as Crusoe Inc., are reshaping enterprise infrastructure by partnering with hardware and data platform companies to meet the demands of AI inference workloads, …
Fortinet Inc. announced Monday its intent to acquire Virtue AI Inc., a move aimed at helping businesses secure agentic artificial intelligence through AI runtime protection, automated AI validation, a…
Mozilla Corp. updated its Firefox browser with Smart Window, an AI assistant in beta that lets users check answers, summarize open tabs, and retrace search history while keeping context private. Head …
Toronto patent research startup NLPatent rebranded as Clerq and launched agentic patent research workflows that complete a full patentability analysis in about 10 minutes with cited conclusions, work …
Synthefy Inc. has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to expand its Structured Data Foundation Models (SDFMs), which are trained on numerical data rather than text. The round was led by Wing Venture C…
Alphabet Inc.'s Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Spirit Airlines Inc.'s internal business data for $10 million, outbidding AI training data company Mercor.io Corp. The data includes 100 …
Groq Inc., an AI startup, announced it has raised $350 million in a Series A round led by Disruptive, with Nvidia Corp. planning to join later. The funding comes less than three months after Groq clos…
Cyber resilience is becoming a business imperative as AI accelerates attacks, expands the enterprise attack surface, and gives autonomous systems greater access to sensitive data, according to theCUBE…
OpenAI Group PBC signed a 20-year lease for a 10-gigawatt AI data center campus in Ohio, to be built and operated by SB Energy, a SoftBank Group Corp. unit, with at least 10 gigawatts of new energy in…
TheCUBE Research analysts Dave Vellante and John Furrier debated the AI bubble on the latest episode of theCUBE Pod, with Vellante arguing that Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang's $500 billion commitment …
Higgsfield Inc. raised $400 million in Series B funding led by DST Global, quadrupling its valuation to $5.4 billion. The generative AI video and image platform, which serves over 30 million users glo…
Wispr AI Inc. raised $280 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from existing and new investors, bringing total funding to $361 million. The c…
Palona AI, officially incorporated as Proactive AI Lab Inc., has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Ardenwood Ventures to expand its AI automation platform for brick-and-mortar businesses. …