PALO ALTO, California -- A French startup founded by leading AI researcher Yann LeCun has raised $1.03 billion (890 million euros) from Toyota Motor's venture capital arm and Nvidia, LeCun told Nikkei on Monday.

Insider Brief Researchers at the University of Sydney built an ultra-compact nanophotonic AI chip that performs neural network calculations using light instead of electricity, enabling computation at the speed of light. The prototype encodes AI models directly into nanoscale photonic structures that manipulate photons to carry out machine-learning operations in picoseconds while generating far less

Glasswall / Key word(s): Product Launch Glasswall Introduces a New Class of File-Based Threat Intelligence with the Launch of Foresight 10.03.2026 / 11:05 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. New AI-powered Threat Prediction Gives Security Teams Visibility Into Unknown and Zero-Day File Threats WASHINGTON, March 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ —