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With $25M in funding, Alta AI aims to accelerate go-to-market automation

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Agentic go-to-market automation startup Alta AI Inc. said today it has raised 25 million in an early-stage round of funding as it tries to accelerate its mission to enhance customer acquisition for en

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Amazon launches $25B bond sale to fund AI infrastructure

Amazon.com Inc. is back in the bond market, this time to raise at least 25 billion for its artificial intelligence buildout, according to Bloomberg. The offering is split into eight parts, senior unse

Anthropic brings Cowork out of the desktop and onto web and mobile

Anthropic PBC today announced it’s bringing its Claude Cowork agentic artificial intelligence assistant to mobile and the web, breaking it free from the desktop. Cowork allows users to harness the com

Anthropic inks $19B AI data center lease with TeraWulf

Anthropic PBC will pay 19 billion to lease a TeraWulf Inc. data center for 20 years. TeraWulf, a Nasdaq-listed developer of artificial intelligence infrastructure, announced the deal today. The compan

Assail launches Sidewinder, an offensive security AI that fixes its own mistakes

Autonomous security company Assail Inc. today launched Sidewinder, a rebuilt version of its Ares offensive security platform that runs on a new 31 billion-parameter model designed to audit its own fin

Barracuda Networks acquires access management startup Evo Security

Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced that it has acquired Evo Security Inc., a startup with a platform for managing employee access to business applications. The terms of the deal were not disclose

CyberProof launches agentic MXDR to automate two-thirds of investigations

CyberProof Inc., a co-managed security services company owned by UST Global Inc., today launched an agentic artificial intelligence service that it says can autonomously handle up to two-thirds of sec

Encryption management startup Keyfactor raises $1B+ in funding

Keyfactor Inc., a provider of software tools that help enterprises encrypt their data, has raised more than 1 billion from investment firm Summit Partners. The company announced the deal on Monday. Ke

‘GitLost’ vulnerability let GitHub’s AI workflows leak private repositories

Researchers at artificial intelligence security company Noma Security Inc. today disclosed a critical prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub Inc.’s new Agentic Workflows feature that allowed an unau

IBM debuts compact z17 mainframes and LinuxONE servers for on-premises enterprise AI

IBM Corp. today announced a massive expansion of its on-premises enterprise infrastructure lineup, with new single-frame and rack-mount versions of its iconic z17 mainframes and more compact LinuxONE

Memory chipmaker SK hynix seeks to raise $28B through US IPO

SK hynix Inc., the South Korean firm that rivals Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Micron Technology Inc. as one of the world’s top memory chipmakers, said today it will sell almost 17.8 million shares

Microsoft is reportedly ditching OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models in favor of its own to cut costs

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly transitioning away from using OpenAI Group PBC’s and Anthropic PBC’s most advanced artificial intelligence models in favor of its own — increasingly leaning on the new Mi

Norm Ai nabs 120M at 1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to the law

Nomos Ai Inc., a company building a platform to embed legal operations into artificial intelligence agents, today announced it has raised 120 million in new funding, bringing the company’s valuation t

Picus Security launches autonomous platform to validate exposures in one loop

Cybersecurity validation startup Picus Security Inc. today launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, a system that merges breach and attack simulation, autonomous penetration testing

Radware adds Claude Code protection and compliance reporting to agent security

Application and network security company Radware Ltd. today expanded its Agentic AI Protection product with compliance reporting, deeper visibility into artificial intelligence agent activity, and new

Report: China’s DeepSeek follows OpenAI in developing its own custom inference chips

DeepSeek Ltd., one of China’s most visible artificial intelligence companies, is pushing to design its own, in-house silicon aimed at inference workloads, according to a report by Reuters today. The r

Samsung says memory chip demand will drive 19-fold jump in operating profit

Record-breaking memory chip sales and prices are set to drive a 19-fold increase in Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s second-quarter operating profit, according to a preliminary earnings report issued by

Storage gets promoted in the agentic AI era

The year 2026 could be remembered as the moment when storage technology received a massive promotion. The reason is that the current transition from simple chatbots to agentic AI systems has raised th

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Syntiant, which makes low-power chips for on-device AI, files for initial public offering

A chipmaker called Syntiant Corp. that specializes in making low-powered processors that run artificial intelligence locally on devices has filed to go public. The company filed its initial public off

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Tangos grabs $20M in funding to take on the bad guys by automating financial crime investigations

Tangos AI Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to conduct financial crime investigations at unprecedented scale, said today it has closed on 20 million in seed funding. The round was led

What to expect at the AMD Advancing AI event: Join theCUBE July 22-23

Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure has become as critical to AI success as the models themselves. As organizations move AI into production, attention is increasingly shifting toward the

AI agent exploits Langflow in first fully autonomous ransomware attack

Cloud security company Sysdig Inc. has documented what it says is the first ransomware operation carried out from start to finish by an autonomous artificial intelligence agent, a campaign it calls Ja

AI post-training startup Bespoke Labs raises $40M in funding

Bespoke Labs Inc., a startup working to streamline the post-training phase of artificial intelligence projects, has raised 40 million in funding. The company stated today that the capital arrived in t

Smart glasses startup Even Realities raises $150M

Even Realities Ltd., a Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup, has raised 150 million in funding at a 1 billion valuation. TechCrunch reported today that the round was led by Meituan, China’s largest fo

The token economy: The state of AI mid-2026

Gigawatt factories in the Texas scrub. Thirty trillion tokens a day. A $30 billion storage company, a search engine built for machines, and a continent trying to buy its independence one graphics proc

When the sovereign AI diagnosis goes prime time

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp went on CNBC this week and delivered what one outlet generously called a “televised nervous breakdown.” He called the artificial intelligence indus

Alex Karp, frontier models and the real fight for Enterprise AI

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s ar

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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users

Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer accepting new customers for its decades-old Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. Launched in 200

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AI data center builder Crusoe reportedly raising 3B at 30B valuation

Data center builder Crusoe Inc. is reportedly in talks to raise a 3 billion funding round. Bloomberg on Thursday cited sources as saying that the deal could value the company at 30 billion. That’s abo

4 Jul 2026

Anthropic reportedly in talks with Samsung to manufacture custom AI chip

Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics Co. to produce a custom artificial intelligence chip. The Information today cited sources as saying that the discussions are in an early s

Chipmakers urge White House to avoid broad memory market interventions

A chip industry association has urged the White House not to make major changes to the way the memory market is regulated. The group, SEMI, represents most of the world’s major semiconductor equipment

Luxonis raises $14M to develop the vision layer for intelligent automation

Denver-based Luxonis Holding Corp. announced Thursday it raised 14 million in early-stage funding to transform industrial automation with cameras and machine vision, providing a perception layer for r

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta’s agentic AI efforts aren’t progressing as fast as he had hoped

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall meeting that the company’s work on artificial intelligence agents hasn’t progressed as quickly as he had hop

Meta to release new AI model with advanced coding capabilities ‘soon’

Meta Platforms Inc. is gearing up to release a new version of its flagship Muse Spark artificial intelligence model. Alexandr Wang, the company’s chief AI officer, wrote on X today that the update wil

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OpenAI offers feds a stake, Anthropic gets out of AI model jail and Meta wants to be a neocloud

OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well. This no doubt has traditional anti-indus

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15 examples of real-world challenges: Insights from the AWS Summit Washington, D.C. event

As organizations race to operationalize generative and agentic artificial intelligence, the conversation is shifting from pilots and proofs of concept to real-world AI deployments that deliver measura

AI stock trading startup EquiLibre raises funding at a $500M+ valuation

Prague-based artificial intelligence developer EquiLibre Technologies Inc. has raised funding at a valuation exceeding 500 million. The company stated late Tuesday that the Series A round was led by C

CarbonSix raises $40M to deliver intelligent learning machines to the factory floor

CarbonSix Inc., a developer of deploy-ready robotic artificial intelligence solutions, announced Wednesday it raised 40 million in early funding to change how manufacturing works. The company focuses

Dell/Microsoft partnership: Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Dell Technologies World

For more than 35 years, Dell Technologies Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have collaborated on a wide range of enterprise technology offerings. From support for Azure hybrid cloud to server-based Windows sol

Global venture funding hits record $510B in first half as AI boom accelerates

Startups worldwide raised a record 510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put in

Google disrupts NetNut residential proxy network built on 2 million devices

Google LLC has disrupted NetNut, one of the largest residential proxy networks in operation, degrading a service that had turned more than 2 million home devices worldwide into relays for other people

Homebuilding AI startup Higharc bags $90M in Series C funding

Homebuilding artificial intelligence startup Higharc said today it has raised 95 million in a new round of funding to transform the way construction projects are planned and run. Today’s Series C roun

Microsoft launches AI-focused professional services business with $2.5B investment

Microsoft Corp. has formed a new business that will help organizations build and manage artificial intelligence applications. The Microsoft Frontier Company, as the venture is called, launched today w

OpenAI could reportedly give 5% stake to US government

OpenAI Group PBC has reportedly floated the idea of giving a 5% stake to the U.S. government. Sources told the Financial Times today that the ChatGPT developer’s executives made the suggestion during

Hardware

Palantir CEO Alex Karp doesn’t hold back in interview as he rails against AI industry

Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp appeared to go into meltdown mode during an interview with CNBC today where for 20-odd minutes he went off script after being asked to discuss his

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Pinecone releases Nexus into public preview to bring business knowledge to AI agents

Pinecone Systems Inc., an artificial intelligence infrastructure company providing fully managed vector databases, Wednesday launched the public preview of Pinecone Nexus, which curates and distribute

Safety

Sam Altman calls for US-led international forum to set global AI standards

Sam Altman is calling for a US-led international forum to set global safety standards for artificial intelligence, arguing that no single country should be left to dominate the technology. In an op-ed

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