Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$7.5B post-money valuation — Company runs AI-powered factories that aim to speed up manufacturing — Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian Automation Inc …
Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ — Cybersecurity company Varonis Systems Inc. is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest, according to people familiar with the matter.
The FCC says an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised $3.5B+, which will largely be used to fund the replacement of Chinese telecom equipment in the US — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Thursday an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised more than $3.5 billion …
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present — Administration set an ambitious new 2028 target for a system that can conduct scientific research
Sources: Meta internally exposed data from its employee-tracking program meant to help train its AI models, including full prompts and private conversations — Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks — Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system …
San Diego-based Aether AI, which is building “causal world models” to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching, raised a $20M seed led by MPCi — Aether AI, founded by UC San Diego causality researcher Biwei Huang, has raised a $20mn seed round to build “causal world models” for robots.