LivePerson stockholders voted to approve the company’s acquisition by SoundHound AI at a special meeting held on September 2, 2026, clearing the deal’s final shareholder hurdle and putting the transaction on track to close within days. LivePerson announced the result through its investor relations channel, stating that the transaction is expected to close on September…
Tim Hudson is co-author of SSLeay and one of the organizers of the OpenSSL Conference, Prague October 13-15 2026. He has over 30 years of experience in system and network security and is President of OpenSSL Corporation and Chief Technology Officer at Cryptsoft Pty Ltd. Since 1995, his work has included co-founding SSLeay with Eric…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic, telling Axios in an interview on September 1, 2026, that the AI company has done what the administration asked of it. The statement closes months of open conflict between the government and the Claude maker over national security and AI safeguards. Asked directly whether…
iPronics has raised $125 million in Series B funding to accelerate the commercial deployment of its programmable optical networking technology for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. The round was co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with NVIDIA joining as an investor alongside Triatomic Capital, Bosch Ventures, Catalight Capital, the European Innovation Council Fund…
HiddenLayer, an Austin-based AI security company, announced on September 2, 2026 that it has raised a $100 million Series B round led by Delta-v Capital, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, and Booz Allen Ventures. The company said it will use the funding to deepen its enterprise platform, including…
Huskeys has raised $27 million in Series A funding, led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, as the cybersecurity startup looks to address a growing problem created by fragmented cloud infrastructure and rapidly increasing AI-driven internet traffic. The round brings Huskeys’ total funding to $35 million following an earlier $8 million seed round. The Wall Street Journal…
Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or passenger may need to react rapidly to prevent a collision. To help humans better anticipate a vehicle’s mistakes, researchers from…
Catch has emerged from stealth with $5 million in seed funding to expand an agentic AI assistant designed to take over the administrative work that consumes a significant portion of an executive’s day. The round was co-led by Entrée Capital and Pitango, with participation from Seedcamp and Factorial Capital. Rather than building another AI tool…
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) and Equinix, Inc. have completed their US$4 billion acquisition of atNorth, the Nordic high-density colocation and built-to-suit data center developer and operator, the organizations announced on September 2, 2026. The close finalizes a deal first signed in February and reshapes the ownership structure around one of the region’s…
Owkin announced on September 2, 2026 that it has entered a license agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim covering K Pro, Owkin’s AI Scientist for biopharma research, together with multimodal patient data aimed at speeding discovery across multiple indications in oncology and immunology. Under the agreement, Owkin will license multimodal oncology data to Boehringer Ingelheim and will…