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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.
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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.
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.
For the 25th anniversary of the original iPod, all we get is an Easter egg in Apple Music.
Medical researchers in Washington state are tracking an unusual spike in H1N1 flu cases, aided and abetted by a new mutation that protects the virus against some preexisting antibodies.
Even if the next-gen Xbox console costs more than $1,200, the handheld is the device you should be paying attention to.
Skerritt also starred in ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Steel Magnolias.’
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