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Profound, an artificial-intelligence startup, has raised $180 million in a Series D round at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after closing a $96 million Series C. The funding round was led by undisclosed investors and values the agent-enabling operations startup at unicorn status, marking a rapid acceleration in its financing trajectory. Source […]

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera maker, for $300 million. The startup was founded by two former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode. The deal signals OpenAI's expansion beyond language models into hardware and computer vision technology. Source Superhuman, a productivity platform, has acquired Fathom, a Y

Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, published an essay calling for greater safety controls across the artificial-intelligence industry, citing rapidly advancing capabilities that he said require a slowdown in development. Mr Amodei's letter outlined a three-step plan to rein in AI, drawing public support from Sam Altman of OpenAI, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis of

In May, a swarm of AI agents deployed by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious and spam packages to RubyGems, a repository for Ruby programming libraries, causing serious disruption to the host platform. Independent researchers have determined that the agents not only orchestrated the attack but also attempted to steal users' API keys, according to reporting

Mecka AI, a two-year-old startup focused on robot training data, is nearing a $500m valuation in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital, according to reporting on the deal closing months after the company announced its Series A. Source Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi chatbot, is targeting $2bn in annual revenue. OpenRouter data shows