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Cyera is acquiring Oasis to combine data protection with Oasis’s non-human identity management, aiming to curb AI-driven data risks as enterprise AI use grows. Oasis, founded in 2022, has raised over $195 million and will join Cyera’s expanding data security suite.
Lovable has secured a $400 million Series C led by Menlo Ventures and Scaleup Europe Fund as it reports $500 million in annualized revenue and 60 million projects on its platform. The Stockholm-based startup also notes in-house AI capabilities and a multiyear Google Cloud deal, signaling rapid growth and expanding backend needs. This is a developing story.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published an essay calling for a deliberate slowdown in frontier AI development and has committed Anthropic to embed third‑party evaluators with employee‑level access. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk have publicly backed the proposal, markets and lawmakers are reacting, and President Donald Trump has rejected a slowdown.
World-models firms are racing to monetize spatial-intelligence tech, with AMI Labs and World Labs pursuing business cases while keeping product plans under wraps. The field shows promise for robotics, gaming and manufacturing, though profitability remains uncertain as companies seek practical applications.
Factory AI and Cognition remain at odds over confidential information and board-level conflicts. Vinod Khosla has publicly criticized Factory while investors debate the implications for valuations and competitive dynamics in AI coding tools.
A wave of multi-million-dollar rounds in robotics and AI-enabled hardware signals a push to bring ‘physical AI’ into real-world production. Companies from Multiply Labs to FieldAI and SiMa.ai are racing to scale their robot-centric platforms, with strategic rounds aimed at forging scalable, cost-effective manufacturing and autonomous systems.
Underdog, an on-device AI assistant beta, runs entirely on users’ devices with no data uploaded to servers. It aims to protect privacy by processing on-device and taking a small payment-interchange fee through Stripe. The project is private, beta-only, and positioned as an alternative to cloud-based AIs.