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Networking technology startup Ayar Labs Inc. said today it has extended its recent late-stage funding round to $650 million after raising an additional $150 million from an unnamed investor. The company originally disclosed it had raised $500 million in its Series E round back in March, which was led by Neuberger Berman. Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and MediaTek Inc. also participated in that round, which brought its total amount raised to $870 million. With today’s Series E extension, Ayar Labs has now raised just over a billion dollars in outside funding. The enormous amount of money being funneled its…
Data orchestration keeps complex pipelines from turning into chaos. But what does it take to keep trusted data moving across every tool and team? Data rarely moves through a business in one clean line. Customer records begin in the CRM. Product events arrive through streaming platforms. Finance data sits in billing tools. Support activity lives in another system. Each source has its own structure, schedule, and owner. Information must then undergo the right processes- cleaning and structuring. Dashboards consume it. Operational tools and AI systems may need the same data in different forms. Each component can work correctly while the…
More than 40 cars are listed on the platform currently Car shoppers in Singapore now have a fresh option to browse new and used vehicles, following the launch of Grab’s online car marketplace on Sep 9. At the time of writing, there were more than 40 cars listed on the website, including used ones belonging to dealerships such as SG Car Choice and CarTimes Automobile. Some also belong to Grab’s rental arm, GrabRentals. Used cars are priced between S$11,800 for a Mazda 3 Sedan with eight months left on its certificate of entitlement and S$204,997 for a Toyota Alphard Hybrid…
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Sysdig disclosed ENCFORGE later in July: the same operator, identified through a matching extortion contact address, returned to the previously compromised Langflow instance and staged a compiled Go ransomware binary purpose-built for AI infrastructure.Where the original campaign relied on improvised Python scripts and a database’s own encryption function, ENCFORGE targets roughly 180 file extensions across the AI/ML stack, including model checkpoints, vector databases, training data, and embedding indices.The operator escalated through an exposed Docker socket to reach root-level host access, then iterated through successive delivery scripts over roughly five minutes to work around failures before the payload landed.The recovery problem…
OpenAI has asked members of Congress in recent weeks for clear guidance about whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown on frontier AI development would be legal, people close to the company tell WIRED.Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may risk running afoul of antitrust law, the people say, which poses a significant obstacle to bringing major tech giants on board with the effort.Last weekend, OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, published a blog post arguing that the best path forward for the AI research world includes “coordinating to slow down future development,” which he thinks will be key to ensuring that…
Latch co-founders Jared Kofron (left) and Stefan Kalb. (Photo via Latch) Seattle startup veteran Stefan Kalb is back with a fresh brand and an ambitious vision for enterprise automation in the AI era. Rebranded earlier this year from Super Labs, Kalb’s latest venture, Latch, is positioning itself as the context layer for enterprise AI, helping companies observe, learn and document how work actually gets done. Kalb launched the startup alongside co-founder and CTO Jared Kofron, a University of Washington physics alum and former principal software engineer at Pioneer Square Labs last year. Kalb is well known in startup circles. In…
Ravie LakshmananSep 10, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News A lot of this week’s security news has the same awkward answer to one question: “Why was that allowed to work?” An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An old bug still gets results. An exposed system stays exposed. A package looks useful right up until it isn’t. Different stories, same basic problem: the path in was often already there. Nothing here needed magic. Mostly access, trust, weak edges, and someone willing to keep poking. That’s the week. The threats change…
Paris-based Arlequin AI SAS today announced it raised €28 million, about $32 million, in new funding to accelerate development of a new AI model architecture based on a different type of network that learns complex relationships at large scale. The new AI architecture is based on topological neural networks, rather than the graph-based neural networks that underpin most large language models. Arlequin said it has already built and implemented an easy-to-deploy, scalable platform that can use heterogeneous data, analyzing documents, transactions, video and operational information. European investors exclusively backed the Series A round, co-led by Redalpine and OTB Ventures, alongside…
Yoto just announced two new audio devices for kids. There’s the fourth-generation Yoto Player and an updated version of the Yoto Mini. The new Yoto Player is still a speaker with a pixel display, but the company has added some bells and whistles. Firstly, there’s a big green dial that kids can twist to play their “most loved audio.” This can access up to 20 pieces of content, including podcasts, stories and songs. This is done directly from the device, so there will be no need for a kid to borrow a parent’s phone. Additionally, the functionality doesn’t require Yoto…