Coding agents are supposed to save developers time. In thousands of cases, they also published sensitive company material to the open internet, and nobody seems to have noticed.
Security startup Glow Security says it found more than 13,000 screenshots from internal software projects sitting in public GitHub repositories. The images came from 343 organizations. The list includes Fortune 500 companies, financial firms and AI labs. According to the findings, AI agents uploaded the files themselves while doing routine development work.
A normal habit, an unexpected detour
The leak started with a common practice. When an agent changes a user interface, developers often have it capture screenshots of the screen before and after the edit. Colleagues can then check the visual result without running the code themselves.
General Intuition Inc. has closed a $220 million funding round that values the company at $6.2 billion. The startup builds world models, AI systems that generate synthetic video which can be used to train other AI models, including those that control robots.
The round brings in a long list of investors: Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Seven Seven Six, Point72, Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. It lands roughly a year after General Intuition was spun out of Medal B.V., a video sharing startup.
A gaming clip library as training data
The company's origin explains its data advantage. Medal offers a free tool that lets players capture and record footage from video games. General Intuition uses that footage to train its own AI models.
EliseAI, which builds AI software for two very different customer groups, property managers and healthcare providers, has closed a $350 million funding round. The deal values the company at $4 billion.
Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer co-led the investment. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Sapphire Ventures and Navitas Capital also took part, according to the company's announcement on September 29.
The money will go toward broadening EliseAI's automation features. The company also plans to hire more engineers, software deployment specialists and salespeople.
From rental leads to repair tickets
EliseAI, formally Elise A.I. Technologies Corp., was founded in 2017. It started out in rental housing, and that market is still the core of its business. The company says its platform now supports the management of more than one in six apartments in the United States.
ElevenLabs, the voice AI company behind some of the most realistic synthetic speech on the market, is now valued at $22 billion. The company has not raised new growth capital to get there. The figure comes from a $300 million tender offer that lets employees sell part of their vested shares to outside investors.
The new number is twice the $11 billion valuation ElevenLabs reached in February, when it raised $500 million. That gap closed in roughly seven months.
What the deal actually is
A tender offer is a structured way for a private company's shareholders, usually staff, to sell existing shares to new buyers. The money goes to the people selling, not into the company's bank account. That makes it different from a funding round, but it still sets a price per share, and therefore an implied valuation.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to acquire World Labs Inc., the world model startup founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li. AMD is paying $8.2 billion, entirely in stock. The chipmaker expects the transaction to close by the end of the year.
The deal comes only seven months after AMD took part in a $1 billion funding round for World Labs that valued the startup at $5 billion. Nvidia Corp., AMD's main rival in AI chips, also joined that round. That means Nvidia now stands to earn a substantial return from a company its competitor is buying.
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