Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation

Sales automation startup Clay has raised a $100 million Series C at a $3.1 billion valuation in a round led by CapitalG, confirming TechCrunch’s report from June. The financing follows a $1.25 billion Series B round from six months ago and a $1.5 billion Sequoia-led tender offer announced a couple of months ago, which allowed … Read more

Motorola and Swarovski team up for a super fancy Razr

Motorola and Swarovski are teaming up to create the crossover they knew we always wanted: a . For those who just felt that their wasn’t special enough, the fancy new Pantone Ice Melt Razr features a 3D quilted leather-inspired finish with 35 hand-positioned Swarovski crystals, including one larger, 26-facet crystal on the hinge. The Pantone … Read more

ElevenLabs launches its own royalty-free AI music service

AI startup Eleven Labs just announced a service called Eleven Music, which generates fake songs that are cleared for commercial use. It’s a prompt-based affair, so it can create just about anything users dream up. The songs can feature vocals and lyrics. The Washington Post gave examples of prompts like “a smooth jazz song with … Read more

A ‘very low’ number of original Sonos Roam speakers

Sonos is having overheating issues with a “very low” number of its Roam speakers. reports that some users’ portable Bluetooth speakers are overheating around the device’s USB-C port. The company has not recalled any products as a result but it aware of the issue happening. “We’ve closely tracked a limited number of reports involving the … Read more

IBM: Shadow AI breaches cost $670K more, 97% of firms lack controls

Need smarter insights in your inbox? Join our weekly newsletters to get solely what issues to enterprise AI, information, and safety leaders. Subscribe Now Shadow AI is the $670,000 drawback most organizations don’t even know they’ve.  IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report, launched right this moment in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, reveals … Read more

‘Subliminal learning’: Anthropic uncovers how AI fine-tuning secretly teaches bad habits

Need smarter insights in your inbox? Join our weekly newsletters to get solely what issues to enterprise AI, knowledge, and safety leaders. Subscribe Now A brand new research by Anthropic exhibits that language fashions may study hidden traits throughout distillation, a well-liked technique for fine-tuning fashions for particular duties. Whereas these hidden traits, which the … Read more

Anthropic’s new Claude 4.1 dominates coding tests days before GPT-5 arrives

Need smarter insights in your inbox? Join our weekly newsletters to get solely what issues to enterprise AI, knowledge, and safety leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic launched an upgraded version of its flagship synthetic intelligence mannequin Monday, reaching new efficiency heights in software program engineering duties because the AI startup races to take care of its … Read more