Everyone’s building a ‘GPT for cells.’ Relation’s bet is manufacturing the data to train it.
Everyone’s building a ‘GPT for cells.’ Relation’s bet is manufacturing the data to train it.

The race to build an AI “foundation model of the cell” has a fuel problem. The biological data needed to train one is scarce, messy and inconsistent. Relation Therapeutics thinks the answer is to manufacture that data itself, and GSK is paying up to $1…

Perceptron raises $6.5M to build decentralised AI data network

Perceptron, a decentralised AI data network, today announced the successful close of its $6.5 million strategic round, bringing together leading Web3 investors, trading firms, ecosystem partners, and …

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…

Procore’s AI could read the blueprints. For $845M, it just bought eyes on the site.
Procore’s AI could read the blueprints. For $845M, it just bought eyes on the site.

Procore’s AI can read a construction project’s paperwork. Now it is paying $845m to give that AI eyes on the actual site. The construction-software company said it will buy DroneDeploy, a reality-capture and robotics firm, for about $845m in cash, Proc…

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…

Mark Zuckerberg says billions will have a personal AI agent within five years
Mark Zuckerberg says billions will have a personal AI agent within five years

Mark Zuckerberg thinks almost everyone will soon have an AI that works for them. On Meta’s second-quarter earnings call on 29 July, he predicted that within five years “billions of people” will each have “a personal agent that understands your goals,” …

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology, which…

AI for spare parts startup Intropy raises $11M

A London-based AI for spare parts startup has raised $11m in new funding, as it targets US expansion. Intropy has raised a seed round from lead investor Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Ca…

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…