British AI-chip startup Fractile raised $720 million in a Series C round at a $7 billion valuation, with investors including major venture funds, Google’s CapitalG and UK public investment vehicles.
Fractile is developing processors for AI inference, the stage when trained models generate answers. The company says its design can increase speed while reducing energy use and operating costs.
The London- and Bristol-based company plans to launch its first commercial chip in 2027, entering a market dominated by Nvidia and a small group of Asian manufacturers.
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Meta and TikTok joined Google in opposing planned Indonesian copyright revisions that would require payments to publishers for displayed news and add rules for artificial intelligence.
CloudSek researchers said the Kazakhstan-linked Silent Lynx group used the open-source Hermes agent framework in an operation that stole more than 2,000 national-security-related documents from Tajikistan.
German defence-technology company Helsing introduced Clarity, software designed to cross-check information from drones, satellites, military reports and open sources and show confidence levels and supporting evidence.