Salience Labs secures $125M to scale photonic chips for AI data centres

Salience Labs, adeveloper of photonic chips for AI data centre connectivity, has raised $125million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round to accelerate thedeployment of its optical switching tec…

European Commission plans to use AI to respond faster to cyberattacks
European Commission plans to use AI to respond faster to cyberattacks

According to a document obtained by Politico, the European Commission’s IT department wants to use AI to fight back against the most dangerous cyberattacks. DG DIGIT, the Commission’s IT department, wrote the paper, though it is undated, and it explain…

From Rohlik to enterprise AI: Tomáš Čupr’s Duvo raises $32M Series A

Duvo today announced a $32 million Series A led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Northzone, and Credo Ventures. The round brings Duvo’s total funding to…

The UK government’s £500M sovereign VC fund invests in UK security startup Augur

The UK government’s £500m VC fund investing in domestic AI startups today said it was investing in a British startup which leverages AI technology to update Britain’s surveillance network. The Soverei…

Miracly launches with €1.8M to automate AI-powered marketing

AI marketing platform Miracly, developed by TheWild Ventures, the company behind Scandinavian home decor brand Wild Palace,has launched following the announcement of a €1.8 million pre-seed fundingrou…

Scimplify raises $25M to speed up critical materials production with AI
Scimplify raises $25M to speed up critical materials production with AI

Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures to supply specialty chemicals and critical materials outside China, with German customer Henkel joining as an investor. The new production network is going to the US and Japan, not Europe…

Saudi OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting $14 recording device in company office
Saudi OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting $14 recording device in company office

An OpenAI engineer has been charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications and is facing up to five years in prison plus a $250,000 fine.

Apple, OpenAI head to court over AI trade secrets, with the case on the line
Apple, OpenAI head to court over AI trade secrets, with the case on the line

A federal judge in San Jose hears two opposed motions on the same day, Apple’s request to stop OpenAI using anything taken from it and OpenAI’s request to throw the case out. Apple won part of its expedited discovery on Tuesday, and was refused part of…

US and European regulators question banks about AI agents and cyber risks
US and European regulators question banks about AI agents and cyber risks

Banking regulators in the US and Europe are stepping up efforts to contain the risks AI poses to banks, Reuters reported, citing six people familiar with the matter. Some fear that cyberattacks or rogue AI agents could shake the financial system. In th…

Apple researchers turn idle Macs into a virtual GPU cloud with ‘Minions’
Apple researchers turn idle Macs into a virtual GPU cloud with ‘Minions’

Apple researchers describe Minions, an internal system that runs AI inference jobs on idle Apple Silicon Macs when GPUs are scarce.