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Snorkel AI raises $350 million at $3.5 billion valuation

Snorkel AI raised $350 million in fresh funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, CEO Alex Ratner told Reuters. The company sells a data-development platform that combines people and AI agents to create and vet data used in AI systems....

Capital AI
Capital AI

Spott raises €18.3 million to expand recruitment software

Leuven-based Spott has raised €18.3 million ($21 million) in a Series A led by Balderton Capital, with Base10 Partners, Y Combinator and Fortino participating. The recruitment-software company plans to use the funding for expansio...

Security Infrastructure
Security Infrastructure

Public research shows SharePoint flaw permits authenticated code execution

A SharePoint Server vulnerability Microsoft initially rated as a moderate spoofing issue can let an authenticated attacker execute code, according to technical details and working exploit markup published by Viettel Cyber Security...

Capital Infrastructure
Capital Infrastructure

Morphotonics raises €40 million for optics manufacturing and data-center push

Dutch manufacturing startup Morphotonics has raised €40 million in an extended round backed by investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, Invest-NL and the European Investment Bank. The company makes machines that sta...

Capital Products
Capital Products

Benford raises €5 million to build technology-led audit firm

Benford raised €5 million in a pre-seed round led by firstminute capital to build a financial-audit firm serving small and midsized European businesses. Global Founders Capital and Sondo also participated. The Oslo- and London-bas...

Capital Infrastructure
Capital Infrastructure

Lightspring raises €3.1 million to industrialize photonic-chip packaging

Lightspring closed a €3.1 million seed round led by Atlantic and OVNI Capital to move its optical-coupling process from the laboratory to a production line. Concept Ventures, Ixcore, Plug and Play Ventures and business angels part...

Security
Security

Quest breach update identifies payment and identity-document exposure

A forensic update on the Quest Apartment Hotels breach found nearly two million affected customers, expanding the incident beyond the contact information emphasized in August. Parent company The Ascott Limited said 344,466 credit ...

Capital AI
Capital AI

Mirendil seeks funding at $5 billion valuation

Mirendil, an AI startup founded by former Anthropic researchers, is in talks to raise as much as $1 billion at a $5 billion post-investment valuation, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Kleiner Perkins is ...

Products
Products

Google opens Android Auto game publishing to all developers

Google moved game support for Android Auto out of limited beta, allowing all developers to submit compatible titles to Google Play's open-testing and production tracks. Roughly 30 games are currently available on the platform. De...

Security AI
Security AI

Palo Alto Networks launches continuous AI penetration-testing service

Palo Alto Networks launched Continuous Frontier AI Defense, a worldwide subscription service that repeatedly tests customers' web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, code repositories and networks. Unit 42 software routes ta...

AI Science
AI Science

AWS opens limited access to neuron-derived video AI model

Amazon Web Services began offering selected customers limited-preview access to a video-generation model from The Biological Computing Company, expanding distribution beyond the startup's previous neocloud channel. The company stu...

Policy AI
Policy AI

US and China propose hotline for national-security AI incidents

The United States and China have proposed creating a notification channel for artificial-intelligence incidents that could threaten national security or be mistaken for an attack. The proposal would let either government warn the ...

Security
Security

Researcher releases tool that can block Microsoft Defender updates

Security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri released a proof-of-concept tool that he says lets a standard Windows user prevent Microsoft Defender from receiving platform and signature updates. The tool, called BigDiskBuster, must remain...

AI
AI

Tencent launches preview of Hy Image 3.5 model

Tencent launched a preview of Hy Image 3.5, its latest image-generation model. The release gives users access to a new Tencent system for creating images during the company's competition with Alibaba and ByteDance. Tencent said i...

Security AI
Security AI

Researcher reports Meta Muse flaw that exposes Mac control token

Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle reported a zero-day vulnerability in Meta's Muse agent that could let malware already running locally redirect the app's cloud transcription endpoint and capture the token controlling a user'...

AI Science
AI Science

AstroForge plans autonomous spacecraft controlled by in-house AI

AstroForge plans to fly a spacecraft under its in-house transformer-based control system in 2027 on Stoke Space's first rocket launch. The NASA-backed mission is expected to collect data about the sun, while an earlier vehicle sch...

AI Products
AI Products

JetBrains unifies agent development tools under Air platform

JetBrains introduced Air, a system connecting coding agents, team workflows and organization-wide controls across its development products. Air in JetBrains IDEs lets developers direct agents and inspect their code, while Air Team...

Products
Products

Iris Global files for IPO with up to ₹200 crore in new shares

Indian technology distributor Iris Global Services filed draft IPO papers with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, beginning regulatory review of a proposed offering. The plan includes up to ₹200 crore in newly issued shar...

AI Products
AI Products

ChatGPT Plus and Pro conversations hit by elevated errors

OpenAI reported elevated error rates affecting the Conversations component for ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers on September 22. Its status page classified the incident as degraded performance and said engineers were implementing ...

Products
Products

Apple Music plans 600-capacity London concert and broadcast venue

Apple Music plans to open a 600-capacity concert hall beneath Apple's European headquarters at Battersea Power Station in the coming weeks. The venue will sell tickets for one-off performances by established and emerging artists, ...

Science AI
Science AI

Preprint finds language models falter during sequential emergency triage

A preprint evaluating six language models found that their emergency-department triage performance deteriorated when patient information arrived turn by turn rather than as a completed record. Across 425 simulated and 50 physician...