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Physicl, a Paris-based start-up that creates training data for AI systems that work in the physical world, has raised $10M in seed funding. Inovia Capital led the round, announced on Friday, with U.S. Venture Partners also taking part. The company focuses on what researchers call edge cases.
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A few months after DOJ investigators were probing the deal, Fox just completed its $22B acquisition of the streaming giant Roku.
Fox has officially closed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku, the companies announced on Friday. With Roku under its umbrella, Fox now controls a major streaming platform that reaches more than 100 million households in the US.
Barcelona-based Titan OS, which makes an operating system for smart TVs, has raised $46M (about €40M). Existing investors Highland Europe and Mangrove Capital Partners put in equity. Funds and accounts managed by BlackRock added a credit facility, the company announced on Wednesday.
A Chinese regulator’s inquiry led OPay to halt its $304M New York listing hours after pricing it, Bloomberg reported. The Nigeria-focused payments company has no operations or revenue in China, according to the report.
Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.
Tesla will stop making most Cybertrucks at its Texas factory around the middle of next year, chief executive Elon Musk said on Friday. The space will instead be used to build more Cybercabs, the company’s two-seat robotaxis.
Brian Chesky’s AI lab paid Airbnb $7.1M for some of its intellectual property and to cover certain expenses, Airbnb disclosed in its quarterly filing on Thursday. Chesky, Airbnb’s chief executive, founded the lab and controls it.
Nothing will ship its first AI device in December, and it is built for work. Chief executive Carl Pei announced it on Wednesday in a long essay on X. He gave no name, price or launch date.
Meta has bought Conductor, a startup whose app lets software engineers run several AI coding agents at once. Its team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, chief executive Charlie Holtz said. Axios first reported the deal on Wednesday, and Meta did not disclose the price.
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