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Efficient Computer raises $97M Series B at $650M valuation
Efficient Computer Corp. has raised a $97 million Series B round, valuing the startup at $650 million.
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Garuda Aerospace raises $10M pre-IPO at $320M valuation
Garuda Aerospace has raised $10 million in pre-IPO funding at a $320 million valuation, according to reports.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Prosus in talks to invest $40M in India’s Kiwi
The discussions come as Kiwi seeks fresh capital, following earlier reports of its plans to raise up to $40 million.
Reporting: economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Meta, Walmart, Stripe back Sierra’s AI agent commerce standard
Meta, Walmart, and Stripe have joined Sierra Technologies in developing a new standard for AI agent interactions with businesses online.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Former Amazon SVP Rohit Prasad takes CEO role at Boston Dynamics
A former Amazon senior vice president, Rohit Prasad, has reportedly been named CEO of Boston Dynamics, according to GeekWire’s weekly executive roundup.
Reporting: geekwire.com
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SailPoint pivots focus toward real-time identity security
SiliconANGLE reports that SailPoint used its Navigate 2026 conference in Austin this week to signal a shift in its approach.
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Multiply Labs raises $75M for robotic drug manufacturing
Multiply Labs, a startup developing automation equipment for drugmakers, has raised $75 million in a Series B round.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Anthropic expands cyber verification tiers, eases AI safety blocks
Anthropic has restructured its Cyber Verification Program into three tiers.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Monid raises $7.7M to let AI agents pay for APIs per call
Monid has raised $7.7 million to create a platform where AI agents can identify, evaluate, and pay for third-party APIs each time they’re used.
Reporting: cryptobriefing.com
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Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal AI embedding model
Google has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model small enough to run on a smartphone.
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Vinci raises $250M at $1.5B valuation for AI-driven chip simulation
Vinci4D Inc. has closed a $250 million Series B round at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Advent, Temasek, and Xora, with participation from AMD Ventures.
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Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for AI workflow startup Melius
Former engineers from Ramp have secured $20 million for Melius, a platform they pivoted to after scrapping their initial product.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Lambda raises $4B at $14.5B pre-money ahead of 2027 IPO
Lambda, the Nvidia-backed AI compute startup, is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and Blackstone.
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Cline Bot’s open AI coding harness sparks debate amid agent rush
Cline Bot Inc. is making a case for an open AI coding harness, framing it as a potential counterbalance to the closed-agent platforms gaining traction.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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DeepSeek seeks $12B+ round at $74B valuation
The round, if completed, would join a series of high-profile AI funding deals this year.
Reporting: cn.ibtimes.com
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Canadian military procurement official courts startup founders
At Edmonton Startup Week, Sean Naugle, a procurement official, urged founders to consider defense contracts.
Reporting: betakit.com
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Mistral launches 1T-parameter open-source LLM, plans weight release
Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a large language model built on a mixture-of-experts architecture.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Sigil Wen launches Underdog, private on-device AI assistant
Sigil Wen, a Silicon Valley-backed AI founder, has launched Underdog, an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable of everyday tasks.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Dell adds agentic AI tools to enterprise data platform
Dell Technologies has expanded its AI Data Platform with new capabilities for its Data Orchestration Engine, designed to help enterprises manage agentic AI workloads.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Minerva Humanoids reveals remote humanoid built in five months
A San Francisco-based startup, Minerva Humanoids, has built a walking, remote-controlled humanoid robot in five months, according to MSN.
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