Press digest: new rounds and government contracts emphasize AI safety, security and infra bets

Multiple small‑to‑mid sized financings and government contracts in the last 48 hours underline investor interest in agent safety, cyberdefense, and AI infrastructure.

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- Raindrop raised a Series A bringing total funding to US$50 million, positioned on AI agent failure detection.
- Comp AI raised US$34 million for agentic compliance and cybersecurity tooling.
- TigerByte Cyber closed a US$3 million seed and disclosed more than US$7 million in government contracts (DARPA, Space Force) related to satellite and aircraft cyber‑defense.
- CoreWeave filed for a US$3.0 billion convertible senior note offering and confirmed ongoing high‑price compute capacity deals (also reported elsewhere).
- IQM and Riverlane announced geographic expansion and delivery plans for quantum systems and US HQ openings.
- IonQ published workload acceleration data relevant to compute for engineering applications.

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