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Cybersecurity
Irregular, an AI security company formerly known as Pattern Labs, has raised $80 million in new funding to expand its efforts in safeguarding artificial intelligence systems. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures, with additional participation from Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport, valuing the company at $450 million,
Military & Defense
Palantir Technologies is close to securing a contract worth nearly $1 billion (£750 million) with the U.K. Ministry of Defence, according to a report by The Times of London. The deal is expected to be announced during President Donald Trump’s visit to the U.K. Under the agreement,
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
OpenAI announced plans to bring its Stargate compute capacity to the United Kingdom, marking a significant expansion of the company’s global infrastructure footprint. The generative AI leader will initially take space in multiple Nscale data centers, with an exploratory deployment of up to 8,000 GPUs and the potential
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Nvidia on Tuesday unveiled plans to deploy tens of thousands of its latest AI GPUs across the United Kingdom, marking a major step in the country’s ambitions to cement itself as a global hub for artificial intelligence innovation. The initiative, announced by CEO Jensen Huang, forms part of what
Pharmaceutical
British drugmaker GSK announced Wednesday that it will invest $30 billion in U.S. research, development, and supply chain infrastructure over the next five years, marking one of the company’s largest commitments to date. The move coincides with U.S. President Donald Trump’s second state visit to Britain,
Software Development
Speed is everything in today’s AI-driven software world — and Blacksmith is betting it can help developers ship code faster and cheaper. The San Francisco–based startup announced a $10 million Series A led by Google Ventures (GV), just four months after raising its $3.5 million seed round. Rapid
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Google’s parent company Alphabet has unveiled plans for a £5 billion ($6.8 billion) investment in the United Kingdom’s artificial intelligence sector, offering a significant economic lift just as the country braces for U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit. The announcement comes at a pivotal moment
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Microsoft is committing £22 billion (approximately $30 billion) to the United Kingdom over the next three years in what is being billed as one of the most significant tech sector investments in the country’s history. The multibillion-dollar plan, set to run from 2025 through 2028, will finance both new
Software Development
When Harjot Gill launched FluxNinja, an observability startup he co-founded after selling his first company Netsil to Nutanix in 2018, he didn’t expect his next big idea would emerge from watching his own engineers at work. “We had a team of remote engineers who were starting to adopt AI
Robotics
Humanoid robotics startup Figure has reached a staggering $39 billion valuation following its largest fundraising round to date, underscoring surging investor enthusiasm for robots designed to work alongside humans. The San Jose, California–based company announced Tuesday that it raised a Series C round exceeding $1 billion, led by Parkway
Transportation
Waymo has taken a major step toward expanding its self-driving ride-hailing service in the Bay Area. The company announced that it has secured a Testing and Operations Pilot Permit to begin operating at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), one of the busiest travel hubs in the United States. The permit,
Pharmaceutical
Eli Lilly announced Tuesday that it will invest $5 billion to build a new manufacturing facility in Goochland County, Virginia, aimed at boosting U.S. production of cutting-edge cancer drugs and other treatments. The project marks the first in a series of four new domestic sites the pharmaceutical giant plans