Atira raises $17.5M to bring AI orchestration to industrial sales

Munich-based AIcompany Atira has raised $15 million in seed funding to expand its platform forautomating industrial sales engineering. The round was led by Accel, withparticipation from UVC, Fortino, …

Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone
Vara wins world’s first CE mark for AI that clears mammograms alone

A Berlin company has won the world’s first regulatory clearance for AI that closes a breast screening case. No radiologist looks at it. Vara, which trades as MX Healthcare GmbH, announced the certification on Wednesday in a statement issued through Bus…

Snowflake beat on almost everything. One number went the other way
Snowflake beat on almost everything. One number went the other way

Snowflake beat expectations on revenue, on profit and on guidance, and its shares rose more than 20% after hours. One number in the release went the other way, and it is the one that looks furthest into the future. Remaining performance obligations, th…

The FAA just let a pilotless cargo plane fly out of a working airport
The FAA just let a pilotless cargo plane fly out of a working airport

An aircraft with nobody on board flew itself out of a working Louisiana airport last week. It carried spare parts, medical supplies and cans of water. Its route took it over people’s houses. Elroy Air said on Wednesday it had completed the first uncrew…

The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it
The US Army used a laser weapon on American soil, then bought it

In late August the US Army fired a high-energy laser at three drones near the Mexican border. All three came down. A week later the Army signed the contract to buy the production version. AeroVironment announced on Wednesday that it has won a $464.8m a…

CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout
CrowdStrike put OpenAI in the product and Anthropic at the checkout

CrowdStrike said on Wednesday that it will run OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber inside a purpose-built cyber harness. That word is doing a great deal of work. It is also the word that made this week’s other cybersecurity story alarming. The expanded OpenAI partn…

Zeit AI raises €5M to give Europe’s mid-market its own data engineer

Zeit AI, a startup developingautonomous data engineering technology, has raised €5 million in funding toexpand its platform for mid-sized European companies. Investors in the roundinclude Y Combinato…

A cheap piece of software erased Booz Allen’s own AI threat ranking
A cheap piece of software erased Booz Allen’s own AI threat ranking

Booz Allen put 18 of the world’s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One of them finished the job. The consulting firm says the ranking it produced is the wrong thing to take away from it. The Cyber Weapo…

CrowdStrike unveils coordinated multi-agent investigations across five domains
CrowdStrike unveils coordinated multi-agent investigations across five domains

CrowdStrike has announced coordinated multi-agent investigations on a shared context layer, with customers setting autonomy from human-in-the-loop approval to fully autonomous execution. NIS2 starts its 24-hour reporting clock from becoming aware of a …

Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says
Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says

Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release the weights for version 1.2. The AI Act exempts genuinely open-source general-purpose models from part of Article 53, but that exempti…