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Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.

Google DeepMind built an AI that can predict football plays before they happen. TacticAI uses geometric deep learning to model player movement, forecast dynamics up to eight seconds into the future, and recommend tactical adjustments, all from broadcast-style visual data. Brazilian club Palmeiras is the first to use it for live open-play analysis. The system […]

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Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, alongside Bezos himself. Total funding now exceeds $18 billion. The company is building what Bezos calls an “artificial general […]

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AI bubble fears are spreading, even as SpaceX readies the biggest IPO ever

On the day SpaceX prices the largest stock-market debut in history, the market underneath it has a case of nerves. The cause is not rockets. It is AI. Several warning lights are flashing at once. Together they amount to the first serious test of a trade that has carried global markets for two years. The […]

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Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf

One of Europe’s oldest deep-tech specialists is opening a London office, and pitching it as a fresh expansion into new territory. Companies House tells a slightly different story. Vsquared Ventures, founded in Munich and known for raising one of Europe’s largest early-stage deep-tech funds, quietly incorporated its UK entity back in October 2024, some 18 […]

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What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it

The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going public may have little to do with rockets, or with Musk. It is what […]

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NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in record robotics round backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether

German robotics company NEURA Robotics has announced up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding to scale its cognitive robotics platform. The round values the company at approximately $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. NEURA says it is the largest funding round ever raised by a full-stack robotics company. The investor list spans crypto, chips, cloud, […]

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TensorWave raises $350M led by AMD to build an Nvidia-free AI cloud

TensorWave, a cloud provider that runs its AI data centres on AMD chips rather than Nvidia’s, has raised $350M in a Series B round led by AMD and the hedge fund Magnetar Capital. The deal values the Las Vegas startup at $1.55bn. That is nearly four times the roughly $400M valuation it carried a year […]

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Cambridge Aerospace is in talks to raise $300M at a $3.5bn valuation, almost nine times its worth a year ago

Cambridge Aerospace, a British defence-technology startup building systems to shoot down drones and cruise missiles, is in talks to raise around $300M at a valuation of about $3.5bn, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. Venture firm DFJ Growth is in talks to lead the round, the people said. The financing […]

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Rotomate raises €2.1M pre-seed to put a reliability engineer inside every factory

Rotomate, a Finnish industrial AI startup, has raised €2.1M in pre-seed funding to expand a platform that reads machine data and recommends maintenance actions the way a senior reliability engineer would. The round was led by Helsinki-based Kvanted, with Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Accel’s scout programme, and Business Finland also taking part. Angel investors Jiri […]

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The $2 trillion AI infrastructure problem no one is talking about, and the engineer solving it

The AI infrastructure earnings calls of the past eight quarters have given the public a precise vocabulary for what the build-out costs in capital. Hyperscaler GPU procurement. Power purchase agreements. Real-estate footprints. The vocabulary they have not given the public is for what it costs to keep the clusters healthy on a recurring basis after […]

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