This Cambridge startup is building plug-and-play AI inspectors for global factories, with $14M to scale

Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - London-based Matta, a deep-tech spin-out from the University of Cambridge, has raised $14 million in seed funding to…

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Multimodal AI provider fal nabs $140M amid rapid growth

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Artificial intelligence startup fal today announced that it has raised $140 million through its third funding round of the year. Sequoia led the Series D investment. It was joined by the venture capital arms of Nvidia Corp., Salesforce Inc. and Shopify In…

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Exclusive: Hinge CEO Justin McLeod steps down

Yasmin Gagne / fastcompany - Justin McLeod, founder and CEO of dating app Hinge, is consciously uncoupling from his app. Hinge’s president and chief marketing officer Jackie Jantos—recently named one of Fast Company’s CMOs of the year—will succeed him in the role of CEO, effective im…

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Assaia Secures $26.6M Series B To Expand AI-Driven Airport Operations

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Assaia, the Zurich-based aviation technology company, has raised $26.6 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Armira Growth, with participation from existing investors. As air traffic exceeds pre-pandemic levels and airports face staff…

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Report: Nvidia and SoftBank to invest $1B in robotic brains startup Skild AI

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Nvidia Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. are reportedly holding talks with the robotic artificial intelligence startup Skild AI over a $1 billion investment. The proposed round would bring the startup’s valuation to more than $14 billion. Skild AI was last v…

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Anthropic and Snowflake launch 200 million dollar AI partnership

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Anthropic and Snowflake have signed a multiyear, 200 million dollar partnership.The article Anthropic and Snowflake launch 200 million dollar AI partnership appeared first on THE DECODER.

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OpenAI tests "Confessions" to uncover hidden AI misbehavior

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - OpenAI is testing a new method to reveal hidden model issues like reward hacking or ignored safety rules. The system trains models to admit rule-breaking in a separate report, rewarding honesty even if the original answer was deceptive.The article OpenAI …

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Track Titan Secures $5M For AI-Powered Motorsport Tracking Platform

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Track Titan, an AI-powered motorsport tracking platform, has raised a $5 million seed round co-led by Partech and Game Changers Ventures, the fund led by Alpine F1 co-owner Roger Ehrenberg. Other investors include Colton Parayko, Trevoh Chalobah, Sequel, …

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OpenAI acquires AI tooling provider Neptune to enhance its model training workflows

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to buy Neptune Labs Inc., a startup with a platform that identities areas for improvement in artificial intelligence models. The companies didn’t disclose the acquisition terms. Bloomberg reported that OpenAI plans t…

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Microsoft (MSFT) Stock Falls as Azure Foundry AI Sales Miss Growth Targets

Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Multiple Microsoft sales divisions missed growth targets for Azure Foundry AI product in fiscal year ending June 2025 Less than 20% of salespeople in one U.S. Azure unit met the 50% Foundry sales growth target Microsoft initially denied lowering quot…

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Anthropic Confirms ‘Soul Document’ Used to Train Claude 4.5 Opus Character

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Anthropic has confirmed the existence of a 14,000-token "Soul Document" used in Supervised Learning to define Claude 4.5 Opus's character, emotions, and safety protocols.The post Anthropic Confirms ‘Soul Document’ Used to Train Claude 4.5 Opus Character a…

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Anthropic acquires developer tool startup Bun to scale AI coding

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Audio language model startup Gradium raises $70M to create more realistic voice AI systems

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Audio artificial intelligence startup Gradium is launching today after closing on an impressive $70 million seed funding round, just three months after it was founded. The startup is backed by investors that include FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, which le…

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Retail operations automation startup Duvo raises $15M

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Automation startup Duvo says it’s ready to provide retail and e-commerce teams with an artificial intelligence agent workforce that handles their day-to-day operations after raising $15 million in seed funding. Today’s round was led by Index Ventures and …

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