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Google finds quantum computers could break bitcoin’s encryption sooner than expected
Google LLC today published a paper that indicates a quantum computer with 500,000 qubits could be used to steal cryptocurrency. The cybersecurity risks posed by quantum computers were already well-known to researchers. However, it was believed that breaching cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin would require a machine with millions of qubits. Such computers may be decades ...
Cybersecurity services startup Tenex raises $250M in funding
Tenex.ai Inc., a provider of managed threat detection and response services, today announced that it has raised $250 million in funding. Crosspoint Capital Partners led the Series B round with participation from Shield Capital and DeepWork Capital. The cash infusion comes about a year after Tenex’s launch. The company says that its contracted revenue, or ...
Nvidia invests $2B in Marvell as part of new interconnect partnership
Nvidia Corp. today disclosed that it has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor designer. The cash infusion is part of a new partnership that will span several parts of the chip market. Santa Clara, California-based Marvell is a major supplier of data center chips. It makes processors optimized to power ...
Space data center startup Starcloud raises $170M at $1.1B valuation
Starcloud Inc., a startup that hopes to build a 5-gigawatt artificial intelligence data center in orbit, has closed a $170 million funding round. The company raised the capital in two tranches. Benchmark led the first transaction and co-led the second with EQT. The firms were joined by more than a half-dozen others, including Monolith Power ...
ScaleOps reels in $130M to make cloud environments more efficient
Startup ScaleOps Inc. today announced that it has raised $130 million in Series C funding at a valuation exceeding $800 million. Insight Partners led the investment with participation from Lightspeed Venture, NFX, Glilot Capital Partners and Picture Capital. ScaleOps’ total outside funding now stands at more than $210 million. Allocating too little infrastructure to a ...
LLM developer Mistral AI raises $830M in debt financing to add data center capacity
Mistral AI SAS today disclosed that it has raised $830 million in debt financing from a group of banks. The consortium included Bpifrance, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, La Banque Postale, MUFG and Natixis CIB. Paris-based Mistral will use the funds to build a data center in a suburb of the French capital. The ...
Iran-linked hackers breach personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel
An Iran-linked hacking group has compromised the personal email account of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel. The breach came to light today. The hacking group, Handala Hack Team, gained access to photos and documents from the compromised account. “The FBI is aware of malicious actors targeting Director Patel’s personal email information, and we ...
OpenAI introduces plugins for its Codex programming assistant
OpenAI Group PBC today quietly updated its Codex programming assistant with a feature that enables users to create custom plug-ins. The launch comes about five months after rival Anthropic PBC released a similar feature for Claude Code. Plugins enable users to extend the tools’ default feature sets with specialized capabilities. Such customizations can speed up ...
Anthropic to launch new ‘Claude Mythos’ model with advanced reasoning features
A configuration error in Anthropic PBC’s content management system has revealed that it’s testing a new large language model called Claude Mythos. The company confirmed the project in a Thursday statement to Fortune. According to the company, its engineers have finished training Claude Mythos and are piloting it with early customers. Anthropic added that the ...
Satellite navigation startup Xona Space nabs $170M investment
Xona Space Systems Inc., a startup working to build a more reliable alternative to GPS, today announced that it has raised $170 million in funding. The Series C round was led by Mohari Ventures Natural Capital. Samsung Next, ICONIQ and a number of other institutional backers contributed as well. GPS trackers rely on signals from ...