Palantir alumni raise $32M for construction robotics at Monumental
The Amsterdam-based startup plans to bring 100 bricklaying robots to the US market to address a chronic construction labor shortage.
Syntetica raises $30M backed by Lululemon for nylon recycling
The Paris startup's patented process recycles both major nylon types in a single step, tackling fashion's textile waste crisis.
AI startup Emergent hits unicorn status with $130 million Series C
AI agentic platform Emergent reached unicorn status at $1.5 billion after raising $130 million in Series C funding.
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday, accusing the AI company of trade secret theft and alleging senior leadership…
AI agent startup Lyzr used its own bot to raise $100M
Lyzr, an enterprise AI agent startup, used its own AI agent SivaClaw to run its $100M Series B fundraise, fielding…
Anthropic hires Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield for compute team
Anthropic has hired Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield to work on its compute team, marking the latest big-name hire in the…
General Fusion goes public as first fusion energy company
The fusion power pioneer debuted on the Nasdaq as shares rallied 40 percent on the first day of trading.
Oratomic raises $300M series A for quantum computing
The Caltech-founded startup uses optical tweezers to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer with fewer qubits.
Paris AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed with Nvidia
The Kyutai spinout opened its seed round to new investors including Nvidia and plans a Bay Area office.
Nous Research nears $1.5B valuation in new funding round
The Hermes AI agent startup is set to raise at least $75M led by Robot Ventures with USV also participating.
