Bloom Security lands $20 million seed as AI rewrites what runs on the enterprise endpoint
Bloom Security lands $20 million seed as AI rewrites what runs on the enterprise endpoint

Work does not look like it did three years ago. Employees now assemble their own toolkits daily: AI agents that act on their behalf, browser extensions that reshape how they read and write, code packages pulled from public registries, MCP servers conne…

AI agents are about to run the enterprise. Onyx raised $113M to keep a human in the loop.
AI agents are about to run the enterprise. Onyx raised $113M to keep a human in the loop.

Enterprises are handing more of their work to AI agents. Onyx Security just raised $113m to make sure a human can still say no. The Israeli startup’s Series B, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, values it at about $640m, Calcalist reported. That is a se…

Highland Europe closes a €1.1bn fund to keep backing European scale-ups
Highland Europe closes a €1.1bn fund to keep backing European scale-ups

Highland Europe has closed a €1.1 billion fund, its sixth, giving the growth-stage investor fresh capital to keep backing European technology companies as they scale. The firm announced Fund VI on 30 July, alongside the promotion of two investors to pa…

The AI race built faster chips. Now the chips are too fast for their own wires.
The AI race built faster chips. Now the chips are too fast for their own wires.

For three years, the AI race has been a race for faster chips. Eliyan just became a $1bn company by pointing out that the chips are now too fast for their own wires. The Santa Clara startup said it closed an oversubscribed $145m Series C at a $1bn valu…

Blue Owl’s Stack seeks a $5.9bn loan, feeding the AI data-centre debt boom
Blue Owl’s Stack seeks a $5.9bn loan, feeding the AI data-centre debt boom

Stack Infrastructure, the data-centre arm of the private-credit giant Blue Owl, is seeking a loan of about $5.9 billion, Bloomberg reported. The deal, if it closes, would rank among the larger single financings in a market that has become the engine ro…

This Cambridge startup is building a ‘foundation model’ for the chest to speed drug trials
This Cambridge startup is building a ‘foundation model’ for the chest to speed drug trials

Most AI imaging startups build one model per disease. A Cambridge company has raised $20m to build a single model for the whole chest. Then it can spin the rest out of that. Qureight makes AI imaging tools for lung and heart clinical trials. It closed …

Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency
Fish Audio gives its voice AI away, and charges for the latency

Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a round it still calls a seed, first reported by TechCrunch. It arrives at a company with an unusual shape. It gives its best models away, and charges for the wiring around them. The startup …

AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.
AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.

A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any more, so stop trying. Act Security launched on Tuesday, Calcalist reported. It…

NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky
NextEra and Brookfield plan a $100bn data campus in Kentucky

NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported. The project would rank among the largest single commitments yet in the American build-out of computing capacity for artifici…

Nvidia partner ChipAgents raises $60M for agentic chip design
Nvidia partner ChipAgents raises $60M for agentic chip design

ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors, has raised $60 million. The company, a partner of Nvidia, is betting that the same agentic AI reshaping software can be turned on the painstaking business of making chips. Th…