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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.

4 min read
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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 Aproxima-se de Avaliação de $6 Mil Milhões com Investidores a Apostarem em IA que Compreende Espaço Físico

A startup está a treinar agentes de IA para se moverem no mundo real, não apenas para responder a perguntas. Uma nova ronda de financiamento poderá avaliá-la em $6 mil milhões antes de chegar um único dólar de investimento externo.

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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.

4 min read
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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

Startup francesa Kog diz que os GPUs existentes da sua empresa podem executar IA dez vezes mais rápido. Veja como.

Kog afirma que apenas o software pode acelerar dramaticamente a inferência de IA nos chips que as empresas já possuem. Isso poderia ser muito importante se funcionar em larga escala.

4 min read
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AI Business

Databricks queria arrecadar $1 milião. Investidores ofereceram $15 mil milhões. Aceitou $5 mil milhões.

A empresa de dados com inteligência artificial fechou uma ronda de financiamento de $5 mil milhões a uma avaliação de $190 mil milhões, depois de um relatório de notícias vazado ter desencadeado uma enxurrada de chamadas de investidores que nunca havia solicitado.

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AI Business

Uma startup que verifica código escrito por IA saltou de uma avaliação de 60 milhões para 550 milhões de dólares em menos de um ano

A Blacksmith arrecadou 45 milhões de dólares para resolver um problema que as ferramentas de codificação por IA criaram discretamente: quem verifica o código que as máquinas escrevem?

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AI Business

Accel Levanta $550 Milhões para a Índia em Semanas, Apostando que IA Alimentará a Próxima Onda de Startups do País

A empresa de capital de risco fechou seu novo fundo para a Índia enquanto mais de metade do seu fundo anterior permanecia não investido, sinalizando confiança invulgarmente forte dos investidores em aplicações de IA indianas e software empresarial.

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