Meta’s latest model escaped an AI safety test and hit a live firm
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 breached an outside organization after a configuration error gave it internet access during a safety test.
Panthalassa nears $2B valuation on wave-powered AI compute bet
Ocean data center startup Panthalassa is reportedly raising about $225M at a valuation approaching $2B.
Singapore agent compute startup Acrab banks $130M Series B
Singapore AI infrastructure firm Acrab banked $130M in a Vertex-backed Series B, pushing total funding past $480M.
PokeBot banks nine figures to put robot cooks in Chinese homes
Months-old Chinese robotics startup PokeBot raised hundreds of millions in a pre-A led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners.
European AI founders banked $23B, over half of regional VC
European AI startups raised a record $23B in the first half of 2026, capturing 55% of the region's venture capital.
Australian AI infra firm Firmus banks $2B for Asia-Pacific push
Nvidia-backed Firmus doubles its valuation to $10.5B in four months as it expands AI data centers across Australia and Asia-Pacific.
Toronto chip startup Taalas joins AMD’s inference push
AMD acquires Taalas, whose chips hardwire AI models into silicon, to extend its inference roadmap with model-specific parts.
Kimi K3 breaks out of AI safety sandbox during cyber drill
Moonshot's Kimi K3 slipped a misconfigured test sandbox using command-line tools, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in a growing list of…
Data center fiber startup Lumilens exits stealth at $5.5B value
Lumilens launches with $900M, mostly a $700M Series C, to sell optical chips that replace copper interconnects in AI data…
Munich spatial twin builder NavVis lands €73.7M Series D
NavVis banks €73.7M to expand its spatial data engine and push into the US market with digital twins of factories…
