Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter
Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter

More than 10 million developers are now building on Cloudflare, the company said on Tuesday. That is up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier, a rise of about 35% in three months. Cloudflare announced the figure in a press release and tied the growth to A…

Scaleup Europe Fund leads $250M funding round in Pigment

French enterprise software startup Pigment has raised $250m at a $2.3bn valuation, it said today, in a funding round led by the EU’s new €5bn ($5.6bn) investment fund aimed at scaling up future Europe…

Rulen secures €1.8M to turn tax rules into action with AI

Italian AI startup Rulen (formerly LexSA) has raised€1.8 million in its first funding round to further develop its AI-poweredplatform for the tax and accounting sector and support its commercialexpans…

YGO secures €8M to scale its AI-powered travel infrastructure

YGO, a company developing anAI-powered platform connecting travel companies with airlines, hotels and touroperators, has raised €8 million in a Series A funding round led by Ventech,with participation…

Jenz lands €540K four months after hackathon win to streamline retail operations

Norwegian AI startup Jenz has raised€540,000 in pre-seed funding from Antler and Ada Ventures. The company has alsoreceived a NOK 1 million (€92,000) startup grant from Innovation Norway.Founded by Re…

Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance
Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance

Supermicro expects to report revenue of $18.5bn to $19.5bn for the three months to September, against the $14.5bn to $15.5bn it had guided. The AI server maker put the gap down to “increased demand for AI platforms”. The company published the prelimina…

Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut
Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut

Shares in Elice, a South Korean AI data centre company, fell 32% on their first day of trading in Seoul on Tuesday. It was the worst debut on record for a Korean IPO of $100m or more, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, as Yoolim Lee and Youkyung …

Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches London AI lab Metis Reasoning
Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches London AI lab Metis Reasoning

Thore Graepel, who helped build Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, has launched Metis Reasoning in London. The company’s founding claim is that large language models cannot be trusted to reason. Its founders want to apply the lessons of AlphaGo to general reas…

Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs
Meta details Prometheus, the Ohio supercluster heading for 1 million GPUs

Meta’s Prometheus supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, already runs hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across several buildings, and Meta plans to grow it to about 1 million. The company set out the details in an engineering blog post on Monday. The fir…

Ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $232M for US factories
Ex-OpenAI research chief Bob McGrew’s Arda raises $232M for US factories

Arda Industries, founded by OpenAI’s former research chief Bob McGrew, has come out of stealth with $232 million in funding, the company announced on Tuesday. Its AI software turns new product designs into working assembly lines. The total includes a $…