HiddenLayer Raises $100M Series B as Enterprises Rush to Secure Agentic AI
Posted on 4th Sep 2026 06:05:40 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
AI security startup HiddenLayer has closed a $100 million Series B led by Delta-v Capital, with Microsoft's M12, Morgan Stanley, Ten Eleven Ventures and Booz Allen Ventures participating, after annual recurring revenue grew more than 10x. The Austin company is expanding from model defense into securing autonomous AI agents and coding agents at runtime.
Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: Frontier AI for Coding, Cyber Defense and Science
Posted on 3rd Sep 2026 06:04:21 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 ship the same frontier model at two safeguard levels, cutting costs by up to 45 percent while setting new records in coding, scientific research and cyber defense.
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard Brings AI Agents Into the Physical World
Posted on 2nd Sep 2026 06:04:47 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Anthropic's new Model Hardware Standard (MHS) gives AI agents a universal, model-agnostic way to operate laboratory and factory equipment — cutting integration time from weeks to hours.
Cohere Parse 5: The 2.3B Vision Model Turning Enterprise Documents Into AI-Ready Data
Posted on 1st Sep 2026 06:07:05 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Cohere's Parse 5 (parse-v5.0) converts PDFs, slides and scanned pages into clean Markdown at $1.50 per 1,000 pages. A 2.3B-parameter vision-language model with no separate OCR stage, it wins the price-performance argument even while conceding raw accuracy to GPT-5.5.
Tencent Hy4 Preview: The 770B Open-Source MoE Model Reshaping the Productivity AI Race
Posted on 31st Aug 2026 06:04:41 in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Tencent has open-sourced Hy4 preview, a 770B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context window that tops blind engineering evaluations against GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3.
