AI news from the United States: companies, funding, launches and policy.
CrowdStrike has signed a definitive agreement to buy Fiddler AI, whose tools record and explain the actions of AI agents; it announced a separate deal for AI security testing firm Dreadnode the same day.
Chipmaker onsemi will pay $600 million in cash at closing, plus up to $175 million more on revenue milestones, for Ferric, a maker of integrated voltage regulators for AI processors.
Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cresta, whose AI voice agents resolve customer calls end to end; it is Salesforce's second AI acquisition in a week.
AI cloud company Modal has raised a $750 million Series D led by Accel at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation, after crossing $1 billion in annualized run rate.
