Disruptive announces $10 billion fund for late-stage AI and defense bets
Disruptive announced a $10 billion fund Tuesday to back at least 10 late-stage companies, with individual investments of up to $1 billion, TechCrunch reported. The Dallas investment firm is targeting capital-intensive AI and defen...
General Compute raises $100 million for inference cloud infrastructure
General Compute raised $100 million in Series A funding led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures, valuing the company at $800 million post-money, TechCrunch reported. A customer deal worth $100 million in annual recurring r...
ASM raises 2027 revenue forecast to more than €5.7B
ASM International raised its 2027 revenue forecast to more than €5.7B from above €4.6B forecast in July, as memory and advanced AI chipmakers expand production. The chip-equipment maker said the revised outlook would reach its 203...
Avante raises $30M Series A for employee benefits platform
Avante raised a $30M Series A for its AI platform that helps companies manage employee healthcare and other benefits, GeekWire reported. The financing follows a $10M seed round in 2024 and adds capital to the employee benefits sof...
London robotics startup Machenta raises $40M seed round
London-based Machenta has raised a $40M seed round, Business Insider reports. The robotics startup is developing an AI model intended to teach robots new physical tasks after seeing them performed once, pursuing an approach that s...
Ghostty 1.4.0 fixes terminal-output and command-execution vulnerabilities
Ghostty released version 1.4.0 on October 27, fixing vulnerabilities that could let malicious terminal output read or delete files outside permitted temporary directories in limited cases. Its release notes also describe fixes for...