SoftBank and Nvidia complete $30B OpenAI funding pledges
SoftBank and Nvidia have each made a final $10 billion investment to complete their respective $30 billion pledges to OpenAI's last funding round, The Information reported. The payments complete the two investors' commitments to t...
DIG Ventures closes $120M fund for European AI infrastructure startups
London-based DIG Ventures has closed its third fund at $120M to back around 30 European pre-seed and seed-stage startups building software infrastructure for AI. Institutional backers include Horsley Bridge, Sofina, Granite and an...
SpaceXAI releases Grok iOS app for Intune-managed organizations
SpaceXAI has released Grok for Intune on the App Store, giving organizations a dedicated iOS version of its AI assistant that supports Microsoft's application management system. The company says the app honors workplace restrictio...
Armadin raises $255.5 million Series B for AI cybersecurity agents
Armadin said Thursday it raised $255.5 million in a Series B round led by a16z and Accel, Reuters reported. The AI cybersecurity company, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build cybersecurity agents, said the financing v...
Photon raises $4.5 million for agents that work through messaging services
Photon raised $4.5 million in seed funding to develop tools that let developers build and operate AI agents through messaging services, TechCrunch reported. Gradient and A* co-led the round, with participation from Vercel, HongSha...
Volantis raises $88 million for laser links between AI and memory chips
San Francisco semiconductor startup Volantis said Thursday it has raised $88 million in venture capital, Reuters reported. The company aims to transmit data between AI and memory chips using vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers...
