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Nous Research, the AI agent startup behind the Hermes model family, is in talks to raise at least seventy-five million dollars at a valuation of one point five billion. The round is being led by Robot, with Union Square Ventures among the participants — a signal that investor appetite for specialized model builders remains strong even as the broader AI market consolidates.
Shifting to infrastructure, a British company called SuperDielectrics is making a quiet but serious pitch to the data center industry. Their water-based zinc battery cells, tested by QinetiQ, demonstrated cycle life up to thirteen times longer than conventional alternatives and can discharge fully in thirty-six seconds — with zero thermal runaway risk. The company is positioning the technology as a power shock absorber for AI facilities, and its first commercial deployment is targeted for early two thousand twenty-seven.
And on the security side, a free API has surfaced aggregating two hundred forty-eight million VEX statements — that's vulnerability exploitability exchange data — covering nearly half of all known CVEs. The striking finding: forty-five percent of those vulnerabilities are flagged as not actually affecting the systems they appear in, which raises real questions about how organizations are prioritizing their patch cycles.
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