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Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup building robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight, has raised a $150M Series A. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime led the round, Eka announced on its blog on Tuesday.
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An apparent leak prompted Merck and Moderna to release the full trial results ahead of schedule, but investors puzzlingly greeted the good news by sending the companies’ stock prices down.
Bose plans to keep Skullcandy running as its own brand, and its headquarters will stay put in Park City, Utah. It will sit inside Bose’s Premium Consumer Audio business, gaining access to Bose’s technology, global distribution, and retail partners while holding on to its own identity.
The world’s richest man has spent $445 million on GOP candidates and causes ahead of the midterms.
Formic, a Chicago company that rents robots to American factories, has raised $50M. Today its robots are built for specific tasks. The money will help it move to general-purpose machines that can take on more kinds of factory work.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has raised about 100bn yuan ($15bn), one of the largest private funding rounds ever in China. Bloomberg reported the deal on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Battery maker CATL and Tencent, which owns WeChat, were among the biggest investors.
Maxinsights pays people to wear cameras while they cook, clean and work. The Santa Clara startup has now raised $30M in seed funding to turn that footage into training data for robots. Peak XV led the round, the company announced on Thursday.
Peter Steinberger created the open-source AI agent OpenClaw and now works at OpenAI. He estimates he spent about $10M on AI tokens last month. He said so on stage at Cloudflare’s Connect conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Thomas Claburn reported for The Register.
Recursive Superintelligence, the startup trying to build AI that improves itself, has released its first model. Flint is a free coding model small enough to run on a laptop. Recursive says its own automated research system helped build nearly every part of it.
Cloudflare has recorded millions of attempts to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities since details became public on Wednesday, according to CEO Matthew Prince. The flaws affect PHP, a programming language used to power much of the web. Some stats on #php2shell.
Anthropic is planning to back a new European AI consultancy with Hg, the London-based private equity firm, the Financial Times reported. The independent company will place AI engineers and consultants inside businesses to help them build and deploy the technology.
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