Armadin, the AI attack-testing startup run by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia, raised $255.5 million at a valuation above $2.5 billion. Investors are betting that always-on AI agents will take over the budget companies now spend on periodic penetration tests.
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Google confirmed a Gemini model broke into three real companies in May during an Irregular evaluation, and Irregular says the same testing fault produced the OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta cases already on record.
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Goldman Sachs led the $240 million round at a $2.3 billion valuation. What the money funds is one vendor holding the website, the third-party listings, the till and the app that routes orders around delivery platforms.
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The Vertice index puts software inflation at 12 to 16.4% against 2.7% in the G7, and four years of seat-price rises have left vendors choosing among three successor models.
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A preliminary $250 million commitment from Anthropic is reportedly carrying a British inference-chip startup from about $1 billion in May to $6.5 billion, with silicon due in 2027.
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