Swedish robotics startup 120ft Factory AB today launched construction of autonomous microfactories run by humanoid robots with €576,000 ($644,000) in new funding from 22 angel investors. 120ft builds and operates small factories that fit into three 40-foot shipping containers, and the overall length of these containers gives the company its name. Customers never buy a … Read more
According to a report today in the Financial Times, Anthropic PBC posted third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion – and also achieved profitability on an adjusted basis for the first time. The revelations came at a private meeting between Anthropic executives and investors interested in buying shares of the artificial intelligence company when it finally goes … Read more
Server consolidation gets a second look as agent AI triggers a surge in demand for general-purpose computing. Graphics processing units dominate the AI infrastructure conversation, but the agents running on these systems rely heavily on central processing units, and data centers don’t have enough power or space to add more servers. Dell Technologies Inc. sees … Read more
The edge security startup Huskeys Security Ltd. today added profiling to its platform to find out which parts of a company’s web applications the company depends on. The new feature solves a long-standing problem at the network edge, where most large enterprises operate a stack of third-party security products from multiple vendors. Content delivery networks, … Read more
Data sovereignty is becoming an architectural issue as companies focus artificial intelligence inference on their most sensitive information. Pipelines assembled from separate tools struggle to align embeds, permissions, and source data, leaving many valuable data sets beyond the reach of AI. The shift from model training to inference is transforming the performance of AI infrastructure … Read more
Chainguard Inc., a provider of secure software supply chain solutions, today introduced a vulnerability hunting service that leverages novel artificial intelligence models such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Mythos 5.1, as well as two products for securing AI coding agents and an expansion of the Chainguard libraries. All four attended the company’s Assemble conference in London … Read more
Pluto Security Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence security software, today announced that it has raised $42 million in financing. The company raised around a fifth of the sum through a seed round led by TLV Partners. The rest came in the form of a Series A investment led by Jump Capital. The latter deal … Read more
Sovereign AI control is becoming a business continuity issue as autonomous agents take over essential business operations. Part of the challenge is keeping data within national borders, but companies also need to have control over agent behavior, external dependencies and the economics of keeping these systems running. Regulated companies need more than just access to … Read more
American have major concerns about artificial intelligencebut that has OpenAI Inc., Nvidia Corp., IBM Corp. and not stopping others from moving forward. Last week saw shares of Nvidia, CoreWeave Inc., Oracle Corp. and Nebius Group NV declined after reporting that OpenAI’s annual net revenue was about $50 billion, about $20 billion lower than previously reported … Read more
Semiconductor industry giant Applied Materials Inc. today opened the doors to its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization Center, a massive new $5 billion facility in Silicon Valley designed to enable the next wave of breakthroughs in the commercial chip manufacturing industry. The so-called new EPIC Center was built by Applied to provide the industry … Read more