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Microsoft says it "has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon exploiting" the SharePoint zero-day vulnerabilities (@serghei / BleepingComputer) bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/… techmeme.com/250722/p17#a25…
US investment firm Carlyle agrees to acquire a majority stake in IT consultancy and services provider Adastra, sources say valuing it at $400M including debt (@swetha_gopinath / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250722/p6#a250…
Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45M (@julie188 / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/rob… techmeme.com/250722/p16#a25…
Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can "steer" laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF (@rebecca_szkutak / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/ama… techmeme.com/250722/p15#a25…
Miaan Group: a number of Iranians received spyware threat alerts from Apple in H1 2025 in the months prior to the Iran-Israel war, the first such cases in Iran (Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250722/p14#a25…
UK startup Inforcer, which helps SMBs automate and manage Microsoft 365, security, and more, raised a $35M Series B, a source says at a $200M+ valuation (@alexrkonrad / Upstarts Media) upstartsmedia.com/p/inforcer-rai… techmeme.com/250722/p13#a25…
Ashby, which offers an AI-powered talent platform combining applications, CRM, search, and more, raised a $50M Series D, following a $30M Series C in 2024 (Judy Rider / Crunchbase News) news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-pow… techmeme.com/250722/p11#a25…
Reka AI, which aims to make more efficient LLMs, raised $110M from Nvidia, Snowflake, and others at a $1B+ valuation, up from ~$300M in 2023, per PitchBook (Brunella Tipismana Urbano / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250722/p10#a25…
AMD and Stability AI launch the industry's first Stable Diffusion 3.0 Medium AI model optimized for AMD's XDNA 2 NPUs, designed to run locally on Ryzen laptops (@antonshilov / Tom's Hardware) tomshardware.com/tech-industry/… techmeme.com/250722/p9#a250…
A London judge rules that HPE lost ~£730M after acquiring Mike Lynch's Autonomy, after a 2022 fraud finding against Lynch, who died in 2024; HPE was seeking $4B (@jonny_browning / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250722/p7#a250…
Seoul-based chip designer FuriosaAI signs a deal with LG to use its AI chip RNGD, its first major contract, after rejecting Meta's $800M buyout offer in March (@yoolimleenews / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/250722/p4#a250…
While AI hasn't yet led to new physics discoveries, the tech is proving powerful in the field, aiding in experiment design and spotting patterns in complex data (@anilananth / Quanta Magazine) quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-wi… techmeme.com/250722/p3#a250…