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Sygaldry has secured $139 million in Series A and seed funding to build quantum-accelerated AI servers designed to reduce the cost and energy consumption of large-scale AI workloads.
Auctor has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital to develop an AI-native system for enterprise software implementation.
Artemis, a cybersecurity startup focused on autonomous threat detection and response, has launched publicly after raising $70 million across seed and Series A rounds led by Felicis, with participation from First Round Capital, Brightmind, and others.
Wafer has raised $4 million in seed funding led by Fifty Years, with participation from Liquid2, Y Combinator, and several notable angel investors, to develop AI systems that improve the efficiency of AI infrastructure.
Gravity has raised $10 million in funding, including a $7 million round led by Next Frontier Capital, to accelerate development of its AI-powered analytics platform Orion, which delivers proactive insights to business users.
Norm Ai has launched the Legal AGI Lab, a research initiative focused on building legal infrastructure to align AI agents with democratically determined law. The lab will explore topics such as AI legal reasoning, accountability, and liability in regulated industries.
Footwear company Allbirds has sold its brand and footwear assets to American Exchange Group and will rebrand as NewBird AI, using a $50 million convertible financing facility to enter the AI infrastructure market.
Maine lawmakers have approved a bill imposing a moratorium on data centers requiring more than 20 megawatts of power until November 2027, pending a study on grid and community impacts. The measure now awaits Governor Janet Mills' decision.
Toulouse-based Donecle has raised €10 million to accelerate the international expansion of its AI-powered drone inspection technology for aircraft maintenance, according to ePlane AI. The funding round was co-led by IRDI Capital Investissement and SWEN Capital Partners.
Tel Aviv-based Capsule Security has emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding led by Lama Partners and Forgepoint Capital International to secure AI agents operating inside business systems.
London-based Qalzy has secured pre-seed funding from Jenson Ventures following €204,000 in Kickstarter pre-orders for its AI-powered nutrition scale. The company plans to expand its AI food recognition technology and prepare for global launch.
DeepL has launched a voice-to-voice translation suite that enables real-time multilingual communication across meetings, mobile apps, and web conversations. The company also introduced an API for developers to build custom translation tools.
Danish startup Sapient Perception has secured €2 million in pre-seed funding to advance its 10K AI sensor technology for drones, with deployments planned in Ukraine and other contested environments.
Anthropic has received multiple investor offers for a potential new funding round valuing the AI company at around $800 billion, more than double its previous $380 billion valuation from February. The company has not yet accepted any offers and may consider raising funds later this year.
SK Telecom has detailed how its partnership with Ericsson will advance AI-powered radio access networks and AI-native 6G systems, focusing on performance, efficiency, and interoperability through 2031.
Adobe has introduced the Firefly AI Assistant, a new tool that can perform tasks across Creative Cloud applications such as Photoshop, Premiere, and Illustrator. The assistant, entering public beta soon, can execute multi-step workflows and adapt to user preferences over time.
Gitar, a startup founded by former Intel, Google, and Uber engineer Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, has emerged from stealth with $9 million in funding led by Venrock and Sierra Ventures to enhance code security using AI agents.
Parasail has raised $32 million in Series A funding to scale its cloud computing platform for AI inference, focusing on cost-efficient token processing across a global network of data centers.
Indian startup Emergent has launched Wingman, an autonomous AI agent that operates through messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, allowing users to assign and monitor tasks via chat.
Google has launched a native Gemini app for macOS, allowing users to access its AI assistant directly from their desktop. The app supports screen sharing, image and video generation, and is available globally for macOS 15 and later.
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