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Fresh from €1.2bn, NEURA buys its second company in eleven days

NEURA Robotics is buying a company that makes cleaning robots, and says it wants to replace their brains. The German firm is acquiring 100% of Adlatus Robotics, an Ulm maker of autonomous cleaning and sweeping machines. It announced the deal on Monday, datelined Stuttgart, Hamburg and Ulm. Neither company disclosed a price. What Adlatus already […]

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The 28-year fight over who owns Linux is nearly over

A US appeals court has thrown out the last live claim in the long fight over who owns Linux. Simon Sharwood reported the ruling for The Register on Sunday. The dispute began in 1998. The company still fighting it, Xinuos, now has one long-shot move left. What the court decided Three judges of the US […]

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Google says Gemma has passed a billion downloads

Google says its Gemma family of open models has passed a billion downloads. Developers have published more than 100,000 Gemma variants over the past two years, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and Olivier Lacombe, a product director there, wrote it. Google calls the […]

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Astromech raised $20mn at $3.8bn to forecast how biology breaks

Astromech has raised $20mn at a $3.8 billion valuation to build AI that predicts how living systems will change. The company says its models learn from 3.8 billion years of biological history. The valuation and the training window are the same number, and nobody has said whether that is a coincidence. Bob Nelsen led the […]

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Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book

Starcloud has raised $250mn to put AI compute in orbit, and a large part of the money is earmarked for rockets it cannot yet book. The Series A extension values the company at $2.3bn post-money, the company said. Its total raised now stands at $450mn. Starcloud was founded in 2024, and its March round valued […]

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Micron is spending $10bn on a lab betting the memory cycle has changed

Micron is putting $10bn into a research lab built on the premise that AI has permanently changed what memory is worth. The company announced Micron Research Labs on Thursday, headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with a planned $10bn over the next decade. It is separate from the more than $250bn Micron has committed to American manufacturing […]

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Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions

Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions co-founder and chief executive Sunghyun Park at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters this week, people familiar with the matter told the news agency. They asked not […]

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Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff

Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs to 109 of its staff. It is also investing $1bn in what remains, at a $12bn pre-money valuation. The terms come from a letter Poolside sent its investors, first reported by Newcomer. The […]

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DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the company’s API platform. It takes the text-only V4-Flash and adds the ability to read images and screenshots. […]

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Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

Castelion has raised $1bn at a $13bn valuation. Three SpaceX executives founded the company in 2022 to build missiles. Its first product is Blackbeard, a hypersonic strike weapon designed for quantity rather than craft. The structure repays a close read. The round is $800m in equity plus $250m of committed financing for a revolving credit […]

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