Pluto Security raises $42 million for AI-use security. Pluto Security came out of stealth with $42 million in total funding, an $8.5 million seed led by TLV Partners and a $34 million Series A led by Jump Capital. The company sells visibility and control over the AI tools employees use and build, and says it has passed $2 million in annual recurring revenue with more than 30 enterprise customers since selling began in April. Single-sourced: TechCrunch.
DayOne lines up $3.67 billion for Malaysia. Seven lenders including CIMB, DBS, Maybank, OCBC and Standard Chartered provided a combined $3.67 billion in multicurrency financing for DayOne’s Malaysian data center buildout, split between a $2.4 billion offshore term loan and a 5.5 billion ringgit Murabahah facility, as reported by The Business Times via Datacenter Dynamics. DayOne reports 962 MW in service and 1.3 GW under construction ahead of a planned Nasdaq IPO. The infra-deals beat owns the full story.
NTT reportedly building $6.3 billion Anthropic site in Osaka. Datacenter Dynamics, citing reports, said NTT plans a data center of about $6.3 billion for Anthropic in Japan. It is a report, not an announcement, and neither company has confirmed it; treat accordingly. Single-sourced: Datacenter Dynamics.
D-Wave signs SkyWater to make its quantum chips. D-Wave agreed a quantum chip manufacturing deal with SkyWater Technology, the Minnesota-based US foundry, putting fabrication of its superconducting quantum processors onshore. Terms were not disclosed in the report. Single-sourced: Datacenter Dynamics.
Denmark breach touches 8.8 million people. A data breach in Denmark affecting about 8.8 million people has been linked in reporting to a trivially weak password, “123456”, a reminder that credential hygiene still fails at national scale. Single-sourced: The Register.
Google Play opens to private vibe-coded apps. Google will let anyone build private, AI-generated apps that run on Android and are hosted through Play, extending the Gemini-era app creation push to non-developers. The guardrails for quality and abuse are the open question. Reported by TechCrunch and Ars Technica.
FBI arrests OpenAI employee over recording device. The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee accused of planting a hidden recording device in a company conference room, according to TechCrunch. The case lands while a judge has separately ordered OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple’s trade secrets suit against it. Single-sourced: TechCrunch.
Scaleway plans GPU clusters in Sweden and Copenhagen. French cloud provider Scaleway plans GPU cluster deployments in Sweden and in Copenhagen, extending European-owned AI compute capacity in the Nordics. Capacity and timing were not detailed in the report. Single-sourced: Datacenter Dynamics.