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Terra AI raises $20M to Accelerate Mineral and Reservoir Exploration to Meet Global Critical Mineral and Energy Demands

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The fundraiser included a Series A investment led by Khosla Ventures and strategic investment from BHP Ventures

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 3, 2026 /CNW/ — Terra AI, the artificial intelligence platform helping solve subsurface uncertainty for mineral and energy development, today announced it raised $20 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures and strategic investment from BHP Ventures.

Terra AI’s patented technology integrates nearly every type of exploration data to generate millions of geological models, enabling teams to evaluate a comprehensive range of potential subsurface scenarios. This allows project teams to identify the best drilling and geophysical approaches to reduce key uncertainty and rigorously assess project economics earlier than ever before. By going beyond geological visualization and delivering risk-quantified decision insights, Terra AI helps explorers on virtually every important decision across their portfolio from determining which assets to acquire in a portfolio to accelerating and de-risking resource development efforts. The outcome: resource pipelines are developed faster and more efficiently to help the world meet its resource needs.

“Explorers today face increasing complexities like rising project uncertainty and immense pressure to bring new resources online faster,” said John Mern, CEO Terra AI. “This investment enables us to move to the next phase of Terra AI’s growth by scaling our generative modeling engine, accelerating enterprise-grade deployments, and advancing the subsurface inference technology the industry needs to meet critical mineral demand.”

Typically, new discoveries require an average of 17 years to advance to production. Terra AI’s platform integrates explorers’ full dataset to produce geologically realistic 3D models that map assets and uncertainty in minutes, allowing developers to make more informed decisions faster. Its geology reasoning agent works with operators to create precise and optimized exploration plans, enabling teams to develop critical assets with minimal time, cost, and environmental disruption. The same platform is now being applied to carbon storage sites where understanding subsurface uncertainty is equally critical to selecting safe, permanent storage locations.

“The world’s ability to discover and develop critical resources is fundamentally constrained by outdated, fragmented exploration,” said Rajesh Swaminathan, Partner at Khosla Ventures. “Terra AI is defining a new, AI-native exploration approach with their continuously improving 3D Earth model. We believe their technology will dramatically accelerate the development of the critical minerals the world needs, and we’re excited to help them scale this vision globally.”

Over the past year, Terra AI has demonstrated modeling capabilities on mining and reservoir projects from early exploration through production and has built strong early momentum with a growing roster of commercial customers across copper, gold, REE, and reservoir projects.

Its technology addresses the longest, most capital-intensive, and uncertain phase of subsurface resource development. Terra AI’s modeling will dramatically compress the time and capital required to define deposits and reservoirs, opening ways to assess and develop resources at higher fidelity.

“Successful exploration depends on reducing geological uncertainty and progressing opportunities efficiently,” said Laurel Buckner, VP of Ventures at BHP. “Terra AI’s technology has the potential to improve drill targeting, support faster prospect evaluation, and help explorers focus capital on the highest-value opportunities.”

The capital will accelerate deployment of Terra AI’s generative geological modeling platform across mining, enhanced geothermal, and carbon storage.

To learn more, read Terra AI’s Series A Announcement.

About Terra AI:
Terra AI solves the world’s most critical subsurface problems with cutting-edge artificial intelligence. The company’s patented platform fuses geophysics, geochemistry, and drilling data to generate probabilistic models of the underground–driving faster, more accurate, and lower-cost resource exploration. Backed by Khosla Ventures, BHP Ventures, Rio Tinto, and others, Terra AI is already being adopted in the field and creating value for priority projects with the world’s leading resource companies. Learn more at www.terraai.com.

About Khosla Ventures:
Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in artificial intelligence, financial services, healthcare, consumer, enterprise, and sustainability sectors. It is known for making early capital investments in startups such as OpenAI, Instacart, Affirm, DoorDash, and Block. https://www.khoslaventures.com/

About BHP Ventures:
BHP Ventures is the in-house venture capital arm of BHP Group Limited. The fund invests in breakthrough technologies, shaping the future of BHP and the global resources industry. BHP Ventures complements the innovation already underway within BHP by enabling new partnerships and creating opportunities to strengthen the company’s portfolio and lower emissions. BHP is a global resources company that produces essential commodities the world needs, including iron ore, copper, steelmaking coal – and soon potash. With operations and projects in over 90 countries around the world, BHP is the world’s largest copper producer.

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Saturn Cloud and OpenNebula Systems Partner to Enable AI Token Factory Infrastructure for Neoclouds

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Organizations running OpenNebula-managed AI Factories can now offer engineers managed fine-tuning, model serving, and per-token inference without having to build it in-house.

NEW YORK, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Saturn Cloud, the AI token factory platform, today announced a partnership with OpenNebula Systems, the developer of OpenNebula, an open enterprise cloud and virtualization platform widely used for AI factories and neocloud environments. The integration combines OpenNebula’s GPU virtualization, secure multi-tenant orchestration, elastic Kubernetes integration, and bare-metal lifecycle management with Saturn Cloud’s fine-tuning, model serving, distributed training, and managed environment capabilities, creating a unified token factory stack for AI infrastructure operators.

OpenNebula is used by organizations building sovereign AI Factories across neoclouds, HPC centers, telecom operators, and enterprise data centers. Its open, vendor-neutral architecture gives operators full control over their GPU infrastructure, with support for NVIDIA GPUs, NVLink, GPU passthrough, Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning, BlueField DPU offload, and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. What operators still need is the application layer, where fine-tuning, model serving, and inference actually happen.

Saturn Cloud fills that gap with its token factory platform. AI teams on OpenNebula-managed infrastructure can fine-tune open models (full-weight or LoRA), deploy them to OpenAI-compatible inference endpoints, and meter usage per token, all within the operator’s branded environment. Training jobs automatically configure multi-GPU DeepSpeed, with Saturn Cloud handling orchestration, retry, and checkpoint output across frameworks including Axolotl, vLLM, Unsloth, TRL, PEFT, and DeepSpeed. The platform also provides managed environments for development and experimentation, as well as distributed training.

“OpenNebula provides the sovereign, vendor-neutral infrastructure layer for building and operating AI environments with full control over GPU resources and governance. While it delivers the foundation for infrastructure and orchestration, organizations still need a consistent application layer to enable AI development. This partnership closes that gap, enabling seamless, end-to-end AI workload execution,” said Ignacio M. Llorente, Managing Director, OpenNebula Systems.

This is especially relevant for organizations that have moved away from proprietary virtualization stacks and adopted OpenNebula as an open alternative. Many of these operators have solved the infrastructure problem, but still lack a standardized way to deliver AI workloads to their users.

The partnership addresses that directly: OpenNebula handles everything from hardware provisioning and GPU scheduling to tenant isolation and governance, while Saturn Cloud handles the platform layer.

“GPU cloud operators have invested heavily in infrastructure, but their tenants and teams still need a real platform on top of it for fine-tuning, serving, and inference. Saturn Cloud and OpenNebula together turn that infrastructure into a self-service token factory, giving operators a ready-made platform layer and giving engineers the tools to start producing value on day one,” said Sebastian Metti, Founder, Saturn Cloud.

The result is a consistent workflow across sovereign European data centers, neocloud facilities, enterprise on-premises environments, and major cloud providers.

Saturn Cloud is available today on OpenNebula-managed infrastructure. Organizations interested in evaluating the integrated stack can contact Saturn Cloud or OpenNebula Systems.

About Saturn Cloud

Saturn Cloud is the AI token factory platform for neoclouds, AI Factory operators, and enterprises. The platform provides managed environments, distributed training, fine-tuning, OpenAI-compatible model serving with per-token billing, and enterprise security and governance. Saturn Cloud supports NVIDIA Hopper, Blackwell, and Grace Blackwell GPU architectures and deploys across public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments. Learn more at saturncloud.io.

About OpenNebula Systems

OpenNebula Systems is the developer of OpenNebula, an open, vendor-neutral enterprise cloud and virtualization platform designed for sovereign clouds and AI factories. The company provides SLA-based support and professional services to enterprises, service providers, and public-sector organizations worldwide.

OpenNebula is increasingly adopted as a VMware replacement platform, enabling organizations to modernize and consolidate their infrastructure while preserving existing hardware investments and operational practices. At the same time, the platform has evolved to support AI Factories and AI Gigafactories, acting as a unified control plane for GPU-accelerated infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and large-scale AI workloads.

With a global presence and offices in Europe and the United States, OpenNebula Systems is a trusted partner for large-scale, mission-critical deployments, supporting more than 5,000 cloud deployments worldwide and infrastructures that scale to thousands of hosts and tens of thousands of GPUs.

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Tetrate and Ory Bring Dynamic, Granular Control to Enterprise AI Agents

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Joint solution combines Ory’s authorization engine with Tetrate Agent Router Enterprise, built on Envoy-based AI gateway, to enforce dynamic policy on live MCP tool calls and request parameters at enterprise scale.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tetrate and Ory today announced a strategic partnership to help enterprises secure AI agents in production. The joint solution combines Ory’s identity and authorization platform with Tetrate Agent Router Enterprise, applying dynamic, granular policy at the point where agents actually call tools, including governance over the parameters of each MCP tool call.

Many MCP runtimes only decide which tools an agent can see or call. The Tetrate-Ory joint solution goes further, enforcing policy on every live request. AI agent security has two distinct layers: the network/gateway layer (where Tetrate enforces policy on live traffic, tool calls and request parameters) and the authorization/policy layer (where Ory determines what agents and users are actually permitted to do at the resource level). When a call exceeds a defined risk threshold, Tetrate can pause the request, trigger an authentication and approval flow through Ory, issue short-lived elevated access, and record the full approval path for audit.

The timing reflects a clear market need. As companies move AI agents from pilots into real business use, they face growing risks around agent identity, overbroad permissions, unsafe tool access, data exposure, and weak runtime controls.

From customer to partner

Ory first worked with Tetrate as a customer. To improve the infrastructure behind its global IAM and CIAM platform, Ory migrated to Tetrate Enterprise Gateway for Envoy, a move that cut Ory’s resource use by 40 percent and improved product operations and observability. Tetrate exhibited its ability to help customers run Envoy in production at enterprise scale. As Ory expanded its focus to securing AI agents, the relationship grew into a strategic partnership.

Identity, authorization and runtime enforcement

The joint solution combines Ory’s identity layer with Tetrate’s runtime enforcement layer. Ory treats AI agents as first-class identities. Tetrate Agent Router Enterprise enforces those policies when agents call models, tools and enterprise services, including parameter-level control over MCP tool calls. Tetrate can enforce not only which tools an agent may use, but also which request parameters are allowed, based on policies defined in Ory Keto.

“The challenge with AI agents isn’t just controlling which tools they can access—it’s controlling how they use those tools,” said David Wang, head of product management at Tetrate. “Tetrate Agent Router Enterprise enforces fine-grained authorization on MCP tool invocations down to the parameter level, based on policies defined in Ory, and does so through a globally distributed Envoy-based gateway layer. That gives enterprises the precision, scale and control that production deployments demand.”

“AI agents must be treated as first-class identities with explicit authentication, authorization and governance,” said Jeff Kukowski, CEO, Ory. “Together with Tetrate, Ory is helping enterprises secure AI agent deployments end to end, from identity and access decisions to runtime enforcement and policy control.”

Envoy foundation

The solution is built on Envoy AI Gateway, the open source project used in production by organizations such as Bloomberg and other large enterprises. Tetrate is a major contributor to Envoy and Envoy Gateway, and brings that traffic layer to enterprises that need to enforce policy consistently across providers, geographies and environments.

Ory’s use of Tetrate Enterprise Gateway for Envoy helps validate that foundation. It shows that Tetrate can deploy and operate a robust, distributed Envoy-based traffic layer globally for demanding enterprise environments before extending those same strengths into AI agent security.

Key capabilities

Agent identity: Ory gives agents and users verifiable identities.OAuth2 and OIDC token flows: Ory Hydra issues and manages the tokens used to represent agent and user identity, support consent and step-up flows, and carry scoped access into runtime enforcement.Fine-grained authorization: Ory Keto applies least-privilege access policies.Dynamic runtime enforcement: Tetrate evaluates live requests to models, tools and enterprise systems at runtime, not just static tool visibility or allow lists.Parameter-level MCP control: Tetrate enforces Ory Keto policies on both tool access and request parameters, enabling step-up authorization based on the actual content and risk of each request.Visibility and auditability: Security teams can monitor agent behavior, privilege changes and policy enforcement.Proven Envoy foundation for large enterprises: The solution runs on Tetrate’s Envoy-based AI gateway, giving enterprises a robust traffic layer for distributed enforcement of central policy across providers, geographies and environments at global scale.

Use cases

Examples of ideal uses cases for the Tetrate-Ory joint solution include:

Retail: An agent can issue a refund up to an approved dollar amount, but a larger refund triggers step-up approval based on the refund amount parameter.Financial services: An agent can process routine transfers or account actions within policy, but larger transactions, higher-risk destinations or more sensitive account changes trigger step-up approval.Healthcare: An agent can access standard records or routine actions within policy, but requests involving sensitive records, higher-risk medication changes or larger data exports require step-up authorization.Government: An agent can complete routine case or records actions within policy, but access to restricted data, larger benefit disbursements or exception handling can require step-up approval.Customer support: An agent can apply normal credits or account updates, but larger refunds, sensitive account disclosures or high-risk account changes trigger step-up authorization.IT operations: An agent can handle low-risk automation tasks, but production changes, privileged access requests or actions with larger blast radius require step-up approval.HR: An agent can complete routine employee service actions, but compensation changes, access to sensitive personnel records or broader data exports require step-up authorization.

Availability

The joint solution is available now. Tetrate and Ory will collaborate on customer engagements, reference architectures, technical enablement and go-to-market efforts. The companies will also showcase the partnership at Identiverse 2026.

Please visit the Tetrate blog to learn more about this joint solution.

About Tetrate

Tetrate helps enterprises run AI inference with an intelligent routing layer. Tetrate Agent Router Enterprise provides an enterprise AI gateway for routing and governing model, MCP, and agent traffic across providers, regions, and environments. Built on Envoy AI Gateway, Tetrate gives teams a consistent way to route, observe, and control AI traffic at scale. More at tetrate.io.

About Ory

Ory is the modern choice for CIAM, B2B and Agent IAM, and one of the world’s most widely adopted IAM platforms. Ory manages more than 2.5 billion identities across open source and commercial deployments. Its infrastructure powers 10 percent of the top 40 websites and serves leading enterprises in financial services, technology, media, and other sectors requiring flexible, high performance identity solutions. With over 45,000 GitHub stars and 700 million downloads, Ory delivers enterprise grade security with developer-friendly flexibility. The company is backed by investments from Insight Partners, Balderton Capital, PHX Ventures, and IQT. For more information visit www.ory.com  

Tetrate Media Contact:
Cristin Connelly
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cristin@cathey.co

Ory Media Contact:
Ory Corp
Press@ory.com 

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Brother Offers New 32″ Direct-to-Film Roll Solution

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BRIDGEWATER, N.J., June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Brother International Corporation announced the launch of the DTRX, its new flagship all-in-one direct-to-film (DTF) printing system designed for high-volume production environments, combining industrial-grade reliability with streamlined operation and seamless plug-and-play integration.

Built on proven expertise, the DTRX core components – including the print heads, ink delivery system and maintenance station – derived from years of designing printers engineered to handle the demands of textile white ink. DTRX combines uncompromising print quality with proven dependability, giving business owners the confidence to scale their business. 

Designed for demanding production environments, the DTRX features 32″ (80 cm) print width, maximum print speed up to 19.52 meters, sustainable inks developed specifically for this DTF system and Brother DTF printhead technology for consistently sharp, vivid results. The industrial maintenance station with automatic ink circulation and wet wiper cleaner minimizes downtime and keeps your production running smoothly.

“With the DTRX, we’re bringing a new level of consistency and uptime to DTF printing in the Americas,” said Lawrence Davenport, vice president of the Industrial Products Division at Brother International Corporation. “We’ve designed this system so shops can scale production without reworking their entire workflow – with quality, reliability and efficiency.”

The Brother Industrial Products division is a part of Brother International Corporation and a world leader in the production of industrial sewing machines and garment printers. The Brother Industrial Product division operates behind the scenes across a range of industries, including apparel, automotive safety systems (such as airbags and seat belts), luggage and travel goods, environmental and personal protection, medical and biological fields and industrial digital printing.

About Brother International Corporation
Brother International Corporation delivers innovative products and solutions that simplify and enrich how people live, work and create. With more than a century of manufacturing expertise, Brother is known for building reliable, hardworking products customers can count on when it matters most. Brother International Corporation, headquartered in Bridgewater, N.J. operates throughout the Americas as a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan‑based Brother Industries, Ltd., which reports global annual sales of approximately $6 billion. Brother is proud to remain At Your Side for customers around the world.

For more information, visit www.brother-usa.com.

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