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A startup betting on a different material for AI’s optics problem just raised $80mn from the people who build the hardware

AI’s next bottleneck is not the chips. It is the wiring between them. As clusters grow to hundreds of thousands of GPUs, the copper links that shuttle data between them are running out of road. So the industry is racing to move that traffic onto light instead. HyperLight, a startup spun out of Harvard, has […]

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France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy

France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at VivaTech on Friday. The goal […]

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A startup says it cracked the maths bottleneck holding back AI. It finally has the receipts.

A Miami startup says it has cracked a maths problem that has made AI models slow and power-hungry for almost a decade. The claim was bold enough to draw comparisons with Theranos. Now, though, the company has independent test results that back much of it up. The startup is called Subquadratic. It came out of […]

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GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry

Ask an industrial engineer how their plant would recover if a controller’s code got corrupted or encrypted, and the honest answer is often grim: a backup on someone’s laptop, in a folder named “final_backup_2”. Copia Automation wants to replace that with something closer to how software teams work. The New York startup has raised $26mn […]

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Architect Labs raises $24M to let any company design its own AI chip

Designing a chip is hard. It takes years, hundreds of millions of dollars, and a tiny pool of experts. Most of them sit inside a few large companies. Architect Labs wants to change that with AI. The Palo Alto startup left stealth on Thursday with a $24mn seed round. Its plan is to build an […]

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While Helsing and Anduril chase billion-dollar valuations, Comand AI raised €32M for the layer above them

The defence-tech land grab has a new front, and it sits above the drones and sensors that get the headlines. Comand AI, a Paris startup building AI software for military command, has raised a €32mn Series A led by Blossom Capital, with a strategic investment from Sweden’s Saab and renewed backing from Expeditions. The round […]

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85% of NATO’s defence-tech funding goes to the US. AVP and Earlybird raised €500M to change that.

Europe is pledging hundreds of billions to defence. Almost none of the venture money funding the technology behind it is European. Since 2019, the US has captured around 85 per cent of all NATO defence-tech venture funding, according to the founders of a new fund out today. Europe accounted for just 6.2 per cent of […]

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Pramaana Labs raised $27M to wrap AI in mathematical proof for law, tax, and drug discovery

As companies struggle to turn AI pilots into things they can actually rely on, a new startup is betting the fix looks less like a better chatbot and more like a mathematical proof. Pramaana Labs announced $27mn in seed funding on Wednesday, led by Khosla Ventures, with Accel, BoldCap, Nexus Venture Partners, Premji Invest, and […]

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NASA picked Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space to fly to Mars. It has never reached orbit.

NASA is partnering with Relativity Space, the rocket company run by former Google chief Eric Schmidt, to fly a science mission to Mars. Announced on June 17, the mission is called Aeolus, the first flight in Relativity’s new Interplanetary Sciences Program. The company will build the spacecraft, provide its Terran R rocket, and fly the […]

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MIT built a memory system that lets robots remember where you left your keys

Robots are still surprisingly bad at remembering where things are. You might recall that your keys were on the kitchen counter last night. A robot working beside you would struggle to connect that object and location in a useful way. MIT researchers built a system called DAAAM to fix that. DAAAM stands for Describe Anything, […]

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