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Bloomberg reports that Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund wants clients to co-invest in the AI data center startup at roughly double its September valuation.
The financial platform for self-employed owners combined a $40 million Series B with a $60 million growth facility from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund.
The Ottawa company's round, led by Vertu Capital, will fund AI agents that analyze footage from cameras retailers and restaurants already own.
Mistral says the mixture-of-experts model, now downloadable under a modified MIT license, is the best open-weight model for coding; its API costs $0.70 per million input tokens.
The Sequoia-led Series C triples the AI service-management startup's December valuation and funds a push beyond IT into HR, finance and legal.
The startup from Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, which builds mini-apps for groups of people, closed an IVP-led round weeks after pivoting to an AI messenger.
The AAA-rated company is borrowing as spending on AI data centers rises, with up to 10 tranches running from two to 40 years.
The Information says Kimi K3.1 Pro and DeepSeek V4.1-Flash 1017 benefited from distilling Astra after Anthropic tightened its defenses on Claude.
At its Shanghai Innovation Day, AGIBOT paired the new productivity metric with the AHA3 hardware platform, the GO-3 Preview model and the G2 Max industrial robot.
At its first Google for Health Summit, Google announced a local Google Research hub, clinician and population-health pilots, $7 million in funding, and a short CME-accredited AI course.
Claude agents flagged an uncharacterized phage reverse transcriptase system called ART. Its function is still unknown, and outside scientists are cautious.
The Devin maker is fielding offers weeks after closing a round at $48 billion. Talks are early and no deal has been announced.
S.9051B/A.10379C bars chatbots from pretending to be human, encouraging self-harm or sexual talk with kids, and requires age verification.
South Korea's National Growth Fund put in about $280 million. The money will fund RNGD production and a 2nm third-generation chip being developed with Broadcom.
Pro plans get credits equal to their tier. Business workspaces get $20 or $100 per paid seat, pooled and capped at $500. Plus doesn't qualify.
Shopify's 'Exponential' release puts Shop Pay checkout in personal AI agents, opens its billion-product Catalog to any agent, and gives merchants control over what agents are told.
Cloud grew 103% and Gemini passed one billion users, while capex of $51.4 billion pushed free cash flow negative for a second straight quarter.
The 'sense of the House' measure says insolvent AI firms should go through ordinary bankruptcy, and that any federal help in a downturn should go to workers instead.
The London startup's new Agentic Verification Engine targets design review, and the funding will pay for a U.S. headquarters.
Brazil, Mexico and the U.K. are slated for the fourth quarter of 2026, as Google works to monetize conversational search while core Search growth slows.