Healthcare AI platform CARPL.ai has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by IFC, with participation from Stellaris Venture Partners and other investors. The company will use the funding to expand its AI marketplace, partner network and global operations. CARPL plans to broaden its platform beyond radiology into pathology, genomics and general medicine.

Quanfluence, a Bengaluru-based startup, has reportedly built a quantum computer that operates at room temperature by using light instead of superconducting electrical circuits. Unlike most quantum computers, its technology does not require cooling to extremely low temperatures. Quanfluence was founded by former Texas Instruments engineers Sujoy Chakravarty, Ravi Mehta, and Biman Chattopadhyay.

A team of former employees in US' Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has launched a military startup named Cathedral. The startup has raised $160 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion, Reuters reported. The startup is reportedly planning to acquire a data centre or partner with a data centre provider to gain compute power for its cyber operations.

Farm Watt Innovations has raised ₹32.5 crore in a funding round co-led by IAN Alpha Fund and Rainmatter. The company will use the capital to expand biomass collection networks, aggregation hubs, machinery and its workforce. It plans to strengthen India’s bioenergy supply chain and expand into CBG, bio-pellets, biochar and digital biomass solutions across several states.

Indian-origin software engineer Prakshal Jain has announced that he quit his $300,000-a-year (nearly ₹2.89-crore) job at Meta to launch an AI startup. Jain announced that he and co-founder Alex Morris are coming to launch their startup Mitosis Labs after spending seven months building it. Mitosis Labs has already developed three products, Mitosis Cortex, Yappy, and UFA & Wikipedia, Jain said.

AI-InsurTech startup NeuralKart has raised ₹2.35 crore in a seed funding round led by Inflection Point Ventures. The company will use the funds for product development and AI/ML engineering, customer acquisition, go-to-market expansion and working capital. Founded in 2024, NeuralKart develops AI platforms for insurance operations & industrial safety, serving enterprise customers in these sectors.

BUSINESSNEXT has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round from ServiceNow Ventures at a valuation of $700 million. The funds will be used to support its autonomous banking and Private AI capabilities. BUSINESSNEXT provides technology for banks and financial institutions, including customer experience, lending and AI-based decision-making tools.

Bengaluru-based extracurricular learning startup Upkraft has raised ₹1.6 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by PedalStart. The funds will be used for AI product development, expansion in Bengaluru and Gurugram, and strengthening its technology and operations teams. Upkraft offers extracurricular learning programmes at homes, schools and residential communities.

OpenAI revealed that its models went rogue and hacked the systems of Hugging Face. During an internal cyber capabilities evaluation, OpenAI's models, while trying to find a solution for the benchmark ExploitGym, gained access to the internet. After determining that Hugging Face hosted a solution for ExploitGym, the models successfully found ways to gain access to its secret information.

OpenAI on Wednesday announced plans to develop a 3.2-gigawatt AI data centre in US' Georgia under its Project Camellia. The AI firm plans to spend more than $30 billion on developing the data centre, Bloomberg reported. OpenAI said the data centre will use a closed-loop cooling system that recirculates water rather than continuously withdrawing and discharging it.