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Greek robotics startup Acumino raised $11.7 million in seed funding to scale commercial deployments of its hardware-agnostic physical AI for dexterous industrial automation tasks. The company was selected by Google DeepM…
Orel Zilberman, solo builder of WriteStack, spent 599 days building ten products that earned nothing before focusing on one tool for Substack creators, which became a six-figure business. He discusses how AI accelerated …
Lloyd's-backed MGA K2 PI targets larger professional indemnity risks, focusing on higher-risk accounts and international business through its broker-neutral model. Managing director Richard Smart says the firm's Lloyd's …
An Associated Press feature profiles a wave of startups and researchers shifting focus from language models to 'world models' that learn physical space and interaction. Computer scientist Louis Castricato left Brown Univ…
Emergent Ventures announced its 55th cohort of winners, supporting projects ranging from AI policy and longevity research to drone-acquired synthetic aperture radar for archaeology and science education initiatives. The …
Legal tech startup Legion sued the US government on Tuesday over an order requiring Anthropic to restrict access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models from foreign nationals, causing Legion to lose access to tools integr…
Japanese AI startup Sakana claims its Fugu Ultra model delivers frontier-level performance by selectively using other AI models like Claude and Gemini for specific tasks, outperforming competitors such as Fable 5, Gemini…
OpenAI spent $34 billion last year as it prepares for an initial public offering, according to a report. The spending spree underscores the high costs of developing advanced AI models. The planned IPO could value the com…
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03B at a $3.5B valuation to build world models using JEPA, signaling a shift from LLMs to physics-aware AI. NVIDIA's Cosmos platform, trained on 20 million hours of real-world data, provid…
MeltPlan, a Berkeley-based AI-native preconstruction planning engine, has raised $14M in seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The platform integrates building code compliance, quantity takeoffs, bid leveling, s…
The combined weight of India's software exporters in the Nifty index fell below 7.6%, a record low, as generative AI tools threaten the traditional outsourcing model worth up to $300 billion. The Nifty IT index plunged 2…
SK Biopharmaceuticals CEO Lee Dong-hoon announced the company is doubling down on AI and open innovation as core growth pillars, following a partnership with Insilico Medicine for AI-driven drug discovery. The company al…
S2.dev, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2024, has raised $3.85 million in seed funding led by Accel to develop a serverless API that treats durable real-time streams as a fundamental cloud storage primitive. The…
Fintech company Slash reported that an employee accidentally burned $80,000 in AI tokens building a 'brainrot shooter game' called Brainrot Shooter. The employee, Nicolas Brilliante, Slash's head of strategic verticals, …
SoftBank Group is in talks to invest in Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), Japan's largest utility, to secure stable electricity for its AI data center expansion. The conglomerate, which has invested over $30…
Tech stocks tumbled Tuesday, dragging the Nasdaq down about 2%, as investors sold off shares of AI-related companies amid concerns over sky-high valuations, massive data-center spending, and geopolitical risks. Chipmaker…
Cusman AI, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from NexWave Capital to develop an AI-powered customer success platform that unifies data from multiple business systems. …
Amazon launched Alexa+ Agentic Ads during Cannes Lions and Prime Day, allowing customers to make purchases via voice commands on Echo Show devices, but users and tech reporters have criticized the increased ad load. Mean…
Computer scientist Louis Castricato left his PhD at Brown University to found Overworld, a startup building AI 'world models' that understand physical environments, as a growing number of researchers pivot from language …
F2, an AI platform for private markets investors, raised $24 million in seed funding led by Highland Capital Partners. The startup, spun out from Arc Technologies in 2025, helps private credit, private equity, and commer…