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Everyday AI

A 23-year-old's AI assistant startup just hit a $2.5 billion valuation after raising $250 million

Instinct, the life-organising AI app from Spear Street Technology, closed a $250 million Series B round this week. The app is still invite-only, and privacy worries are already swirling.

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Robotics

Two ex-Meta researchers want warehouse robots to finally understand what they're looking at

Perceptron's Isaac 0.5 is an open-weight vision model built to help industrial robots handle complex, multi-step tasks on their own. The startup raised $21 million and is targeting factories, warehouses and logistics hubs.

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AI Business

This startup raised $10 million to give AI agents a practice arena before they touch real business software

Arga builds digital copies of tools like Salesforce and Outlook so AI agents can train on realistic, resettable environments. The problem it is solving turns out to be the main reason enterprise AI agents keep failing.

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Health

These AI-powered glasses want to replace your hearing aid

Legato has raised $12 million to build hearing-assistance technology into ordinary-looking eyeglass frames, targeting the 40 million Americans with mild to moderate hearing loss who never seek treatment.

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AI Business

Indian startup Runable raises $21 million to help small businesses find customers, not just build websites

The Bengaluru-based startup wants its AI agent to run ads, manage social media and grow a business from scratch, but it is still burning through cash to get there.

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AI Business

Replit's CEO Will Talk About What Happens When Anyone Can Build Software

Amjad Masad is bringing Replit's story to a major tech conference stage. Behind it sits a company whose revenue run-rate is closing in on a billion dollars and a valuation that tripled in six months.

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Robotics

General Intuition approche une valorisation de 6 milliards de dollars alors que les investisseurs parient sur l'IA qui comprend l'espace physique

La startup entraîne des agents d'IA à se déplacer dans le monde réel, pas seulement à répondre à des questions. Un nouveau tour de financement pourrait la valoriser à 6 milliards de dollars avant même qu'un seul dollar externe n'arrive.

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Policy

The DOJ Is Investigating a16z Over Board Seats at Competing Companies. Here Is What That Means.

A rarely used antitrust law from 1914 is at the centre of a federal probe into whether Andreessen Horowitz crossed a line by placing partners on the boards of rival firms.

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Science & Space

Starcloud raises $250 million to build AI data centres in space

The satellite startup is now valued at $2.3 billion and is betting that SpaceX's next-generation rocket will make processing data in orbit genuinely competitive with servers on the ground.

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AI Business

Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down

A startup called Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to roll out a type of fiber cable that sends data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines. The idea: give AI data centers room to breathe without paying a speed penalty.

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AI Business

Wispr raises $280 million and sets its sights on meetings, not just dictation

The AI dictation startup is now valued at $2 billion and just launched a new voice model that it says will cut speech errors by two-thirds.

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AI Business

La startup française Kog affirme que vos GPU existants peuvent exécuter l'IA dix fois plus vite. Voici comment.

Kog prétend que seul le logiciel peut accélérer considérablement l'inférence IA sur les puces que les entreprises possèdent déjà. Cela pourrait être très important si cela fonctionne à grande échelle.

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AI Business

Databricks voulait lever 1 milliard de dollars. Les investisseurs en ont proposé 15. Elle en a pris 5.

La société de données IA a clôturé un tour de financement de 5 milliards de dollars à une valorisation de 190 milliards de dollars après qu'un rapport d'actualité divulgué ait déclenché une avalanche d'appels d'investisseurs qu'elle n'avait jamais demandés.

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AI Business

Une startup qui vérifie le code écrit par l'IA vient de passer d'une valorisation de 60 millions à 550 millions de dollars en moins d'un an

Blacksmith a levé 45 millions de dollars pour résoudre un problème créé discrètement par les outils de codage IA : qui vérifie le code que les machines ont écrit ?

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AI Business

Accel lève 550 millions de dollars pour l'Inde en quelques semaines, pariant sur l'IA pour alimenter la prochaine vague de startups du pays

Le cabinet de capital-risque a clôturé son nouveau fonds Inde alors que plus de la moitié de son fonds précédent restait dépensé, signalant une confiance inhabituellement forte des investisseurs dans les applications d'IA et les logiciels d'entreprise indiens.

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