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AI Security Startup HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million as Companies Race to Protect Their AI Systems
Annual revenue grew more than tenfold in a year. Now HiddenLayer wants to be the security guard standing between your business and the people trying to hijack its AI.

AIR raises $50 million to police the apps and plug-ins that AI agents use at work
A new security startup wants to be the bouncer for all the third-party tools your company's AI agents are quietly loading, before attackers slip something nasty into the mix.

Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200 million to expand driverless freight routes
The California company already runs dozens of autonomous trucks for customers like PepsiCo and Kroger. Now it has the cash to scale to thousands.

Lovable raises $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation
The European startup that lets anyone build web apps by typing plain-language instructions has doubled its valuation in eight months and now hosts 60 million user projects.

A startup called Naïve wants AI software to run your entire company, and 30,000 developers signed up to try it
Naïve just raised $28.5 million to let AI agents handle the paperwork, phone numbers, payments and cloud setup that normally eat a founder's first weeks. The real prize, though, is cutting the runaway cost of keeping those agents running.

A $20 million startup wants AI to fix its own deployment mess
Getting AI to actually work inside a large company is so painful that a new wave of expensive consultants has emerged just to handle it. June thinks software can replace them.

Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build a voice AI that you cannot tell is a machine
The startup wants AI phone agents to sound so natural that callers never notice they are not speaking to a person. Here is how it plans to do that, and what it means for anyone who ends up on hold.

Dili raises $21.7 million to use AI for the paperwork nightmare of America's construction boom
A startup called Dili has secured fresh funding to help infrastructure projects, think data centres and factories, stay on the right side of the overlapping federal rules that govern wages, safety and the environment.

Ropedia's HOMIE: The Wearable Tech Changing How Robots Learn
Ropedia raises $22 million to boost its AI-driven device, HOMIE, which captures human movement to train smarter robots.

Yope Bets on Private Social Networks with $12.3M Boost
Yope aims to redefine social connections with small, private groups, backed by new funding.

A $1.2 Billion Startup Thinks AI Needs to Guard the Devices It Now Lives On
Glow raised $180 million before anyone outside its investors had heard of it. Its pitch: the laptop is the new battleground, and old security tools were not built for an AI-loaded world.

Databricks Soars to $188 Billion Valuation as AI Momentum Builds
Databricks' ambitious funding round highlights its shift from big data to AI, marking a significant leap in valuation.