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NVIDIA will host a conference call on Wednesday, August 27, at 2 p.m. PT (5 p.m. ET) to discuss its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2026, which ended July 27, 2025. The call will be webcast live (in listen-only mode) on investor.nvidia.com. The company’s prepared remarks will be followed by a Q&A session, […]
OpenAI has launched GPT‑5. The company says GPT‑5 is a significant leap in intelligence over all its previous models, featuring state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, visual perception, and more. It is a unified system that knows when to respond quickly and when to think longer to provide expert-level responses. GPT‑5 is available to […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Promptfoo, an open‑source framework for AI red‑teaming and security testing, has landed an $18.4 million Series A financing led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. Founded in 2024, Promptfoo is steadily gaining recognition as an emerging standard for robust AI security testing, with over 100,000 developers using its open source tools and […]
WALLDORF and SAN FRANCISCO — German software giant SAP has agreed to acquire SmartRecruiters, a talent acquisition (TA) software company based in San Francisco. Terms of the deal weren’t revealed. SmartRecruiters’ deep expertise in high-volume recruiting, recruitment automation and AI-enabled candidate experience and engagement are considered an ideal addition to the SAP SuccessFactors human capital […]
PALO ALTO — Broadcom Inc. is now shipping the Jericho4 ethernet fabric router — a purpose-built platform for the next generation of distributed AI infrastructure. Designed to interconnect over one million XPUs across multiple data centers, Jericho4 breaks through traditional scaling limits with unmatched bandwidth, security, and lossless performance. With the Tomahawk 6, Tomahawk Ultra […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The market research boom is creating an unexpected casualty: the agencies themselves. In an industry where clients expect faster turnarounds, competitive pricing, and diverse capabilities, agencies are turning down work – not for lack of interest, but because outdated operational systems keep them from meeting client expectations. Metaforms, a startup born from […]
MENLO PARK — Prophet Security, a developer of agentic AI for Security Operations Centers (SOCs), has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures. The funding will accelerate Prophet Security’s platform expansion and go-to-market strategy, as the company brings the future of security operations into […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Wallarm, a provider of API and AI security, has closed $55 million in Series C investment led by Toba Capital. The funding will allow Wallarm to continue scaling its top line and innovating ahead of the curve in the API Security market by extending the company’s offering to further protect APIs in the AI […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Promptfoo, an open‑source framework for AI red‑teaming and security testing, has landed an $18.4 million Series A financing led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. Founded in 2024, Promptfoo is steadily gaining recognition as an emerging standard for robust AI security testing, with over 100,000 developers using its open source tools and adoption […]
Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg released the following letter last week about his vision for Superintelligence and AI at Meta: Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves. The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight. It seems […]
SAN JOSE & LUXEMBOURG — Lyten, a supermaterial applications company and leader in lithium-sulfur batteries, has secured more than $200 million in additional equity investment. This brings total investment to date in Lyten to more than $625 million. The additional investment is provided primarily from current investors. Lyten intends to accelerate its acquisition strategy and […]
SANTA CRUZ – Joby Aviation and L3Harris Technologies announced they are exploring opportunities to develop a new aircraft class for defense applications. The gas turbine hybrid vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is designed for low-altitude missions and offers the versatility of being optionally piloted, enabling both crewed and fully autonomous operations. The collaboration with […]