Thursday, July 23, 2026

Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to tackle AI-era endpoint security

Glow has come out of stealth with a $1.2 billion valuation and backing from Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Greenoaks Capital. The startup focuses on endpoint security risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools in enterprises.

Alphabet's Anthropic stake reaches $124 billion

Alphabet Inc.'s stake in AI startup Anthropic has soared to around $124 billion, making it one of the company's most lucrative bets. The valuation reflects Anthropic's rapid growth and the escalating demand for advanced AI.

Fields medalist Jacob Tsimerman joins OpenAI

Jacob Tsimerman, a Fields medalist and mathematician, has joined OpenAI. His specific role and responsibilities have not been disclosed.

GPT-Red: AI agents boost safety of next-gen models

Gigatoken: Rust BPE tokenizer encodes text at 24.

Gigatoken achieves 24.53 GB/s encoding speed on a single machine, up to 989x faster than HuggingFace tokenizers and ~100x faster than Tiktoken. Released under MIT license by Stanford PhD student Marcel Rød, it is written in Rust and available on GitHub.