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Security- and AI-related startups have raised $855M across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, on track for an all-time high (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) [44d]
OpenAI and Anthropic release statements in support of the "Pacing the Frontier" initiative; Anthropic says Dario Amodei and several co-founders have signed it (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters) [44d]
NXP reports Q2 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.5B, vs. $3.46B est., as it struggled to impress investors with a generally upbeat Q3 forecast; NXPI down 5%+ after hours (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg) [44d]
Sources: the OpenAI agent that breached Hugging Face also compromised a customer at AI infrastructure company Modal Labs (Reuters) [44d]
Bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company Ionic Digital surged more than 25% to nearly $63 in its Nasdaq debut, giving it an implied valuation of ~$2.75B (Kyle Baird/The Block) [44d]
Hugging Face publishes a timeline of the OpenAI agent intrusion, including how the agent took ~17.6K actions, and details using GLM-5.2 to analyze the attack (Hugging Face) [44d]