China industrializes robot training with 70-plus dedicated grounds
A CAICT report counts more than 70 operational embodied-AI training grounds in China, with industrial manufacturing the top use case.
Danish startup Velatir banks €5M for sovereign AI controls
Velatir's seed round, co-led by Spintop Ventures and Ugly Duckling Ventures, funds a European push for its AI security and…
Limerick ERP firm banks €13M from BGF for European push
Redfaire, an Oracle JD Edwards specialist with 200 staff, takes €13M from BGF to fund international expansion and a targeted…
A tiny 27B-parameter agent beats frontier models at paper replication
London lab Inherent says its Faraday agent reproduced scientific findings that beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 using a model…
Mystery model Ox Alpha wins over coders without naming itself
An anonymous AI model on OpenRouter is free, fast and impressively capable - and nobody will say who built it.
India’s Battery Smart banks $19.5M at $430M for swap network
Battery Smart's Series C, led by Rising Tide Ventures, values the Gurugram swapping network at roughly $430M.
Starling Bank ships weekly AI tools inside its agentic assistant
The UK neobank is releasing new Smart tools every week, with customers crowdsourcing the roadmap for its AI assistant.
UK startup HexSeed banks €700k for diamond-cooled GaN devices
HexSeed's low-temperature diamond coating process targets the heat waste choking AI data center power conversion.
IPO Watch: Web3Labs Global
Web3Labs Global heads to Nasdaq Sept. 4 under ticker MDAT, ~$25M offering at $4-5, 6.25M shares, 32.19M post-IPO.
London’s Nscale plots $3B US IPO to fund data center buildout
AI data center builder Nscale reportedly hired Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to lead a $3B US IPO that could land…
