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Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-huma…

Exclusive: Humanoid, UK-Based Robot Maker, Becomes a Unicorn
Humanoid raised $150 million in the first tranche of a Series A funding round that values the London-based robotics company at $1.2 billion, excluding the new funds, according to someone with knowledge of the funding. The tranche closed earlier this week and the company is aiming to raise between $80 and $100 million in an extension round by September, the person said. The funding round is

from my link log —
VBR: version based reclamation.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13843
saved 2022-12-26 https://dotat.at/:/IVLGG.html

VBR: Version Based Reclamation
Safe lock-free memory reclamation is a difficult problem. Existing solutions follow three basic methods (or their combinations): epoch based reclamation, hazard pointers, and optimistic reclamation. Epoch-based methods are fast, but do not guarantee lock-freedom. Hazard pointer solutions are lock-free but typically do not provide high performance. Optimistic methods are lock-free and fast, but previous optimistic methods did not go all the way. While reads were executed optimistically, writes w…

Fresh Cherry Tomato And Chickpea Salad #plantbased

Fresh Cherry Tomato And Chickpea Salad
Vegan News: Plant Based News is the world's leading vegan news media, and plant-based health education platform. Vegan Celebrity stories, interviews with the leading vegan and plant-based doctors.

social_location: Location-based social networks
Two location-based online social networks, where nodes are accounts and edges are declared friendships. Networks includes checkins by these users.
This network has 58228 nodes and 428156 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Spatial
https://networks.skewed…

vibe based politics spans across the entire spectrum

"Deaths from ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled between 2020 and 2025, a ProPublica analysis found, " - needless deaths brought to you by the so-called #ProLIfe community.
Abortion bans make ‘evidence-based medicine’ impossible in some cases, new report says

Abortion bans make ‘evidence-based medicine’ impossible in some cases, new report says
Some 41 states restrict abortions, a ‘core component’ of maternal fetal practice, high-risk pregnancy non-profit says

"Deaths from ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled between 2020 and 2025, a ProPublica analysis found, " - needless deaths brought to you by the so-called #ProLIfe community.
Abortion bans make ‘evidence-based medicine’ impossible in some cases, new report says

Abortion bans make ‘evidence-based medicine’ impossible in some cases, new report says
Some 41 states restrict abortions, a ‘core component’ of maternal fetal practice, high-risk pregnancy non-profit says

Experimenting with skip-lists for malloc today. With a first-fit allocator, free() wants to merge adjacent blocks, so it needs to search for them. A single-linked list makes that O(N). A skip-list seems like an interesting option—non-recursive, low memory use and simple implementation. It's "working", but it's not pretty yet. Anyone else ever played with these?

stdlib: Rough version of skip-list based malloc · picolibc/picolibc@029cc74
Replace the single linked list of free malloc blocks with a skip-list. This converts free from O(N) to O(log(N)) and might serve as an alternative to the bucket-based allocation scheme currently bo...

New NERDS publication on fairness of human-AI collaboration in candidate recommendation
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/06/29/new-nerds-publication-on-fairness-of-human-ai-collaboration-in-candidate-recommendation/

Explota explota me expló, explota explota mi burbuja de la IA https://www.reddit.com/r/StockMarket/comments/1u73fqk/exclusive_openai_lost_385_billion_in_2025_based/

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/comand-ai-raises-e32m-for-…

Vegetation Fire
ACTIVE

1690 MISSION SANTA YNEZ DR, SOLVANG, CA
https://web.pulsepoint.org/

Mandating “Evidence-Based” Suicide Detection in Chatbots
https://fpf.org/blog/mandating-evidence-based-suicide-detection-in-chatbots/
@…

Based on the number of McAfee scam emails I get each day, I have approximately 5,738 subscriptions.

"A new review says the body can adjust over time. It can change how it absorbs and uses some nutrients."
What happens to your body after months on a plant-based diet https://www.earth.com/plants/what-happens-to-your-body-after-months-on-a-…

What happens to your body after months on a plant-based diet
Plant-based diets can trigger body changes that help people absorb and use some nutrients more efficiently over time.

Halfway the EU gas storage filling season, the Netherlands is lagging. Our storages are only at 31% now, way behind the EU average of 53%, and other major storage countries like France (52%), Germany (45%) and Italy (71%).
Based on security of supply advice by Gasunie, Dutch government had set a target of 80% by 1 November 2026. Our EU obligation is 74%. Both would practically seem out of reach by now, which is unfortunate in view of our dependence on LNG imports in an unstable world.

So the upcoming NPM publish token changes are a potential lock-out scenario for people who're not using CI-based "Trusted Publishing" (TP) and cannot switch to "Staged Publishing" (SP) for reasons of practicality or feasibility.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-

npm install-time security and GAT bypass2fa deprecation - GitHub Changelog
npm v12 is now generally available and tagged latest. This major release turns on the install-time security defaults we announced in June, and it’s also where we begin a deprecation…

Q&A with Fernando Alfonso III, NYT's first Texas-based editor, on leading a new team of five Texas reporters and editors as they cover the state's complexity (Sarah Bahr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/insider/new-york-times-texas.html

Why The New York Times Is Expanding in Texas
Members of a new team of Times reporters and editors are covering culture, economics and more in a state long known for its political clout.

"Trump officials claim that, in order to pay Iran $300 billion it is going to relieve sanctions based on the vague concept of good behavior rather than specific actions. This is a problem, however, because the sanctions — which were set in place by Congress — are tied to specific actions. So the White House’s claims in this regard are either illegal or nonsensical."
Republicans warn Trump deal gives Iran something not even Biden was willing to do - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-iran-peace-deal-2677042691/

Run #AIagents safely in local sandboxes
#docker

GP Lyf Hacks
Dissects good evidence-based healthcare principles into memorable bite-size chunks for GP registrars, Resident Medical Officers and Medical Interns alike...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/gp-lyf-hacks/

Was ist da los beim
@… ?
Offenbar Verschwendung im großen Stil, die auch eingeräumt wird. Schade, ich hatte von der Einrichtung eigentlich immer einen guten Eindruck und sie haben mit dem #minetest/#luanti Projekt tolle Dinge auf die Beine gestellt:

News - Unser Tool-Tipp: BLOCKALOT
Zukunft erleben, Ideen testen und Lösungen entwerfen: Die Plattform BLOCKALOT verbindet Game-based Learning mit gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung. Mit ihr können Lernbegleitende ganz einfach virtuelle Welten und Lernabenteuer gestalten.

At this year's Open Source #Firmware #Conference, I will be presenting on "Boot Chains and Build Systems"! 🥳🥳
(spoiler: it's complicated 🫠)

Boot Chains and Build Systems Open Source Firmware Conference 2026
It is clear that booting a system based on an application processor requires multiple binaries and possibly multiple hardware components - at the very least, one to initialize the DRAM and one to run in it. This implies that the various components of the chain, however many, need to be aware of the respective next and previous one somehow: Any component has to know the source, the protocol, and the destination for loading the next one, and the build system needs to create an overall image for t…

I have a feeling, based on nothing but behaviour that Bluesky's current problem is the restart, connect all nodes and all of them, including different PDS instances are doing this all the time.
The answer then is to leave it alone and wait.

Here's a short video of me using fisk-ai to make a local RAG based knowledge base using the Puppet documentation.
You can go from zero to fully built knowledge base in about a minute. No services to run, no databases to run etc.
You can optionally expose this as a local MCP server so you can teach other AI harnesses about your local documentation. But the aim is to build a all-local capable system for your private docs.
This is the main feature added in version 0.0.2.…

Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/comand-ai-raises-e32m-for-…

Comand AI raises €32M for its C2 software, adds Saab as a strategic backer
Europe is betting big on artificial intelligence playing a significant role in how defence will be planned and executed in

@… what ATV is the mountain goat based on? asking for totally-not-ridiculous-cosplay-purposes :P

I built a prompt-injection game based off Core Wars for an internal learning day and it was more popular than I thought. Here's the current version, come play!

https://promptwars.party

"Plastic food packaging blankets the world’s coastlines, study finds"
#Plastic #Plastics #Pollution

Plastic food packaging blankets the world’s coastlines, study finds
Food packaging ranks among the top plastic pollutants littering the world’s coastlines, a new study confirms. The study, published May 20 in the journal One Earth, analyzed data from 112 nations, including 5,300 shoreline litter surveys, to produce the first global index of macroplastic pollution by usage type. Based on 355 peer-reviewed studies, it found […]

"Was Anthropic macht, ist keine Magie. Es gibt bereits jetzt Open-Source-Projekte, die Ähnliches können wie Mythos und Fable" sagt Dirk https://erdgeist.org/ Engling
in https://

About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -

About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows
Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving

Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
https://ift.tt/CV3POZi
updated: Monday, June 15, 2026 - 5:53amfull name / name of organization: London Arts-Based Research…
via Input 4 RELCFP

My kids wanted to watch a Blink-182 video ("ahaha they run naked") which led me to think about the preponderance of "college" in US culture.
College movies, college music, college as definition of success (even for dropouts) and so many other examples.
In other words, almost our entire world is broadly based on what male twentysomethings find ideal.
And we wonder why everything's going to shit?

MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working;
The "customer experience" may become "sickness"
https://www.thebanner.com/community/public-health/moms-organic-market-face-mask-b…

MOM’s Organic Market bans employees from wearing face masks while working
Employees at MOM’s Organic Market locations across the state are demanding answers after the Rockville-based grocery chain instituted a policy prohibiting them from wearing medical face masks on the job.

Ultra-high-field MRI morphometry of the lateral geniculate nucleus in patients with advanced visual loss due to late-stage retinitis pigmentosa #RP leads to a sig…

I'm a bit of a nerd when it comes to fonts, so was very impressed with the font used on Norway's World Cup jerseys when I saw them play. Apparently a custom font based on Norse runes.
https://www.footyheadlines.com/2026/03/norway-2026-kit-font.html

Norway 2026 World Cup Kit Font Released - Norse Runic Inspired
Two days ago, during their international friendly match against the Netherlands, the Norway national team officially debuted their brand-new 2026 World Cup kit font.

future of scientific publishing my ass
#academicChatter
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11044-y

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature
Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce original results, answer new scientific queries and collaborate to generate novel insights.

NFL Future Power Rankings: We stacked all 32 teams based on expectations for 2027 to 2029 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49582613/2026-nfl-future-power-rankings-projections-32-teams-roster-coaching-quarterback…

Pewdiepie let his son wear a dress, and everyone who worshiped him as an ultra based right wing god is losing their shit over it #youtube #drama #pewdiepie

Getting to the CRUX of it.
The last couple of days I've been hanging out in Crux Linux and I really enjoyed doing just that. Reason why I did a write-up and how-to about my exploration into this source based distro.
#crux #cruxlinux

NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE from @… - Off-Topic - NomadBSD Forum
https://forum.nomadbsd.org/t/noma…

NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE from @pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org
From https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org/116943113470215738: … I built a version based on 15.1-release. https://pfriedma.org/NomadBSD-15.1-pfriedma.img.gz (edited to gz to save some bandwidth) It’s x64 only, doesn’t support secure boot, and is the UFS version. (I’m working on the ZFS version now to see if it’s any more performant) but it works and lets you try out things.

@… @… you mean the aspect ratio all office paper outside the United States has, based on the German DIN A series (in Europe and Korea) and B series (in Japan), precisely because A4 folded in half is A5?

I have to remember when building new systems I've never done before, to take regular snapshots so I dont have to blow everything away and start from scratch again. Speaking of, anyone installed Mailman3 on a RHEL based system? All the offical docs talk about is Debian (and apt), plus my venv understanding is weak so I messed that up to.

In the Russian city of Samara, the Progress Rocket and Space Centre,
which manufactures Soyuz rockets and spacecraft,
came under attack by Ukrainian Flamingo missiles on the night of 14-15 August.
These are used to launch satellites for the Rassvet low-Earth-orbit communications system, which is described as Russia's equivalent of Starlink.
"Building 106A operates under a high cleanroom standard: this is where onboard electrical systems, instruments and prin…

OSINT analysts show damage to plant in Russia's Samara where rockets for military satellite launches are equipped
The OSINT community CyberBoroshno, based on an analysis of satellite imagery, identified the location where FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles struck the Progress Rocket and Space Centre in Samara, Russia.

Filing: Paramount seeks a $1.88B bond from state AGs, based on its calculation of ticking fees and other costs it will have to pay due to the WBD deal delay (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/paramount-bond-merger-delay-costs.html

Fully Plant-Based Hospital Menus Can Hit Clinical Protein Targets, Dutch Study Finds https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/fully-plant-based-hospital-menus-hit-clinical-protein-targets-dutch-study-finds/

Fully Plant-Based Hospital Menus Can Hit Clinical Protein Targets, Dutch Study Finds - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Researchers at Amsterdam UMC have designed a week of entirely plant-derived hospital menus that meet clinical protein requirements, offering hospitals a

Just got confirmation that I will be documenting and helping with some maintenance works at Breslauer Hütte, before the main season starts. This hut, built in 1882, is one of the oldest high-alpine mountain huts in the eastern Alps, and located just below Wildspitze (3768m), Tyrol's highest mountain.
The hut belongs to the Breslau section of the Alpenverein (now based in Stuttgart) and it's their upcoming 150th anniversary next year. Aside from the repair work, for me it's a long await…

"VodafoneThree seeks UK-based carbon removal projects"
#VodafoneThree #UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions

VodafoneThree seeks UK-based carbon removal projects
VodafoneThree has opened a request for proposals (RFP) for UK-based carbon removal projects to account for 24,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
https://ift.tt/CV3POZi
updated: Monday, June 15, 2026 - 5:53amfull name / name of organization: London Arts-Based Research…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Eli Lilly to acquire psychedelics drugmaker for $2.8B
Eli Lilly announced on Thursday that it's buying psychedelic drugmaker AtaiBeckley for $2.8 billion, expanding into experimental treatments for severe mental illness prioritized by a recent White House executive order. AtaiBeckley is developing a series of drugs based on the hallucinogen DMT, as well as on MDMA, which is more commonly known as ecstasy.

Snap opens preorders for Specs, true AR glasses shipping this fall for $2195 https://www.uploadvr.com/snap-specs-design-revealed-preorders-open-price/ Bummer: "While on an underlying level Snap OS is Android-based, you can't install APKs on it"; w…

Snap Opens Preorders For Specs, True AR Glasses Shipping This Fall For $2195
Snap just officially revealed and opened preorders for Specs, fully standalone true AR glasses shipping this fall in the US, UK, and France for $2195.

The Space Development Agency(SDA) is a United States Space Force
direct-reporting unit
tasked with deploying disruptive space technology.
One of the technologies being worked on is space-based missile tracking using large global satellite constellations made up of
industry-procured low-cost satellites.
The SDA has been managed by the United States Space Force since October 2022.
By February 2024 the SDA had 38 satellites on orbit.
SDA intends to have…

Space Development Agency - Wikipedia

London-based Applied Computing, which is developing AI models for energy operations, raised $20M led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/16/applied-computing-lands-20m-to-expand-fo…

Applied Computing lands $20M to expand foundation AI for energy
Applied Computing, a British artificial intelligence company developing foundation models for energy operations, has raised $20 million in a funding round led by KBR, with participation from Databricks Ventures.Headquartered in London, with offices in Bengaluru and Houston, Applied Computing develops AI technology designed specifically for the energy sector. Check out our earlier interview with Dan Jeavons, the president of Applied Computing.Its flagship platform, Orbital, combines physics-…

NFL preseason Week 1 overreactions: Do Titans have Cam Ward problem? Niners have OROY candidate at WR

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-preseaso…

ABC News launches four experimental, half-hour programs on ABC News Live, based on web data about the news stories audiences are seeking out (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/abc-news-twist-live-stream-tv-news-gio-benitez-1…

ABC Unveils Twist for Live-Streamed News: Shows Respond to Web Queries
ABC Unveils Twist for Live-Streamed News: Shows That Respond to Viewer Queries, Needs

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 403 nodes and 1417485 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Munich-based Microagi, which collects factory and household data to train humanoid robots, raised $55M led by Hummingbird in Germany's largest ever seed round (Éanna Kelly/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/munich-robotics-startup-…

Munich robotics startup Microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round
The deal was led by VC firm Hummingbird, with participation from investors Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine.

Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research
https://ift.tt/CV3POZi
updated: Monday, June 15, 2026 - 5:53amfull name / name of organization: London Arts-Based Research…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Marvel Comics is moving from NYC to Burbank, CA, the headquarters of Marvel Studios, and asks 100 NY-based employees to move to California by July 2027 (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrepor…

Marvel Comics to Leave New York and Move Staffers to L.A. as Part of Major Overhaul (Exclusive)
The Disney-owned publisher is also getting a new editor in chief as 100 employees are being asked to relocate to Burbank by next July.

San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/sher

Exclusive: Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service | TechCrunch
The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

Peru Court Orders University To Provide Meals For Vegan Students https://plantbasednews.org/culture/law-and-politics/peruvian-court-university-meals-vegan-students/

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 403 nodes and 1417485 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Sources: Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B goal earlier in August after investor meetings (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona…

Peter Thiel-backed Objection, initially an AI "tribunal" assessing reporters' articles, rebrands as The Primary to rank journalists "on the rigor" of their work (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

Peter Thiel’s AI Tribunal Put Journalists on Trial. Now It’s Pivoted to Scoreboard Model
Rebranded as The Primary, the service ranks media outlets and reporters. Its LLM-based methodology has given The New York Times' A.I. beat journalists among the lowest scores.

Orange-Ginger Polenta Cake #plantbased

Orange-Ginger Polenta Cake
This orange-ginger polenta cake is a completely plant-based dessert that has a polenta crumb and citrusy, spicy notes

Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI)
https://www.unite.ai/pathway-raises-new-funding-at-500m-valuation…

Pathway Raises New Funding at $500M Valuation to Scale Post-Transformer AI
AI research company Pathway has secured additional funding at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed financing to $30 million as it prepares to scale a new generation of models built around its post-Transforme...

ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…

Midwest-based Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
is gearing up to challenge In-N-Out,
planning a major Northern California push after years of having only a handful of California locations
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/202

Midwest burger chain targets California, taking on In-N-Out
Watch out, In-N-Out; another chain is targeting California consumers with its big burgers.

Trump-backed WLF is collaborating with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of its 90 AI models are developed by Chinese entities flagged as security risks (Lawrence Delevingne/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-

Filing: Elon Musk quietly bought Jacksonville, FL-based APR Energy, which operates mobile gas and diesel turbines similar to those used in Colossus 2, for ~$1B (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/

Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok
Elon Musk quietly bought APR Energy, a 1 GW gas and diesel turbine fleet, to power xAI's Grok — years after building his brand on solar energy.

ecoli_transcription: E. coli transcription network (2002)
Network of operons and their pairwise interactions, via transcription factor-based regulation, within the bacteria Escherichia coli.
This network has 424 nodes and 577 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…

Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-Based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4c479227-567c-435e-a4d3-795dd957b347

4 Fantastic Plant-Based Peach Recipes #plantbased

4 Fantastic Plant-Based Peach Recipes
Try these four fantastic plant-based peach recipes from tasty breakfast ideas like oatmeal and grain bowls to a peach pasta salad

Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-Based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4c479227-567c-435e-a4d3-795dd957b347

Hugging Face says developers made 151K derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/state-of-open-models-summer-2026

State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Miami-based Cyclops, which sells an infrastructure platform that bundles crypto and stablecoin services to payments companies, raised a $20M Series A (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/15/exclusive-cyclops-20-millio…

Exclusive: Cyclops raises $20 million to help payment companies settle faster with stablecoins
The Miami-based startup, whose clients include MasterCard, raised a Series A led by Nava Ventures.

Amsterdam-based Monumental, which develops autonomous robotics and software for the construction industry, raised a $32M Series B led by Khosla Ventures (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/15/monumental-secures-32m-series-b-t…

Monumental secures $32M Series B to accelerate construction automation
Monumental, the Amsterdam-based construction technology company developing autonomous robotics and software for the building industry, has raised $32 million in a Series B funding round led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors Plural and Hummingbird.Founded by Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser, Monumental is addressing labour shortages in construction through autonomous bricklaying robots powered by its AI platform, Atrium. The company's electric robots com…

Crypto.com raised $400M from Citadel Securities in its first institutional funding round, valuing the Singapore-based crypto exchange at $20B (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/16/citadel…

Crypto.com lands $400 million investment from Citadel Securities at $20 billion valuation
The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.

Source: Demis Hassabis plans to hold meetings with US policymakers in Washington next week about his proposed US-based Standards Body for "Frontier-class" AI (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions (Amy Harder/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/tech-giants-launch-flexible-power-coa…

Tech giants launch flexible-power coalition for data centers
A new coalition is seeking a triple win for a data center industry that lately has struggled to notch any wins at all.

Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/video-generation-…

Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B | TechCrunch
Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said.

Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/motorola-leads-125m…

Motorola leads $125M round for Brinc, fueling 911 drone expansion amid U.S. import crackdown
Seattle-based 911 drone maker Brinc raised $125 million led by Motorola Solutions, at a valuation the company says has nearly doubled from a year ago. The funding will support expanded manufacturing and a new Seattle headquarters and factory later this year.

SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News)
https://techfundingnews.com/a16z-leads-40m-va…

a16z leads $40M Vals AI round at $400M valuation to test AI on real-world tasks — TFN
San Francisco startup Vals AI has closed a $40 million Series A at a $400 million valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz.

MA-based Walden Robotics, a Toyota robotics spin-off that has started selling humanoid robots, emerges from stealth with a ~$300M seed at a $1.1B valuation (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

NYC-based Hadrius, which provides AI-native compliance tools for financial services, raised a $22M Series A led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/07/14/hadrius-22m-series-a-crv

Exclusive: Financial compliance startup Hadrius raises $22M
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Rome-based Exein, which offers cybersecurity tools for connected devices including cars and home routers, raised $270M led by Headline at a $1.7B valuation (Tom Wilson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9fca2d3f-b689-4f08-801c-ee7f8475e7bc

Israel-based Oak, which is building an AI-native identity access management system, comes out of stealth with a $60M seed (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/15/backed-by-60m-in-fu…

Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse | TechCrunch
Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding. 

Israel-based Hemispheric, whose AI model can analyze brain activity measured non-invasively and turn it into quantitative metrics for diagnoses, raised $52M (Meytal Vaizberg/Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-neuroai-diagnostic-co-hemispheri…

NeuroAI diagnostic co Hemispheric raises $52m
The Israeli company’s AI model can analyze brain activity measured by non-invasive means and turn it into quantitative metrics designed to help doctors and researchers make diagnoses.

New York-based AI marketing startup Profound raised a $180M Series D led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8B valuation, taking its total funding to $335M (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Netherlands-based inference chip startup Euclyd raised a €200M Series A co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital, Scaleup Europe Fund, and Innovation Industries (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/samsung-euclyd-ai-chip-funding.html

Samsung backs Nvidia AI chip rival in $230 million funding round as GPU alternatives boom
Dutch startup Euclyd raised the funding in a round co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, the Scaleup Europe Fund and Innovation Industries.

Sources: Tokyo-based memory maker Kioxia is considering raising $10B through a 2027 US ADR listing as it seeks liquidity after billions in share buybacks (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-14/kioxia-is-s…

Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115M at a $1.6B post-money valuation (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/07/15/lumin-digital-banking-fun…

Exclusive: Digital banking startup Lumin Digital raises $115M
The company raised funds to pursue larger banks.

Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others (Giacomo Lee/SDxCentral)
https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/nvidia-ai-interconnect-darling…

Nvidia AI interconnect darling bags $136M funding from Arm, others
Data center interconnect disruptor Point2 Technology celebrates Series B success

Daniel Ek's Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans, raised $700M co-led by Lightspeed and O.G. Venture Partners, sources say at a ~$7B valuation (Bernhard Warner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/business/dealbook/neko-health-…

Tech Investors and Longevity Influencers Back Neko Health’s Mega Round
The health tech start-up co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek is worth billions more after a new $700 million funding round.

Grab agrees to acquire a 60% stake in Singapore-based BNPL platform Atome from Advance Intelligence Group and others for $1.49B; Atome had $470M in 2025 revenue (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Dallas-based Perry Weather, a weather monitoring software provider, raised a $110M Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners, taking total funding to ~$131M (John Egan/Dallas Innovates)
https://dallasinnovates.com/dallas-perry-weat…

Dallas’ Perry Weather Raises $110M to Automate Severe Weather Safety Decisions
Dallas-based Perry Weather raised $110M in a Series C led by Silversmith Capital Partners to grow its weather-safety platform and add 50+ Uptown jobs.

Munich-based NavVis, which provides enterprises with spatial data on factories, plants, buildings, and more, raised an $85M Series D led by The Jordan Company (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/08/munich

Munich-based NavVis raises €73.7 million to build its spatial data engine and accelerate AI roadmap | EU-Startups
NavVis, a Munich-based spatial twin platform for the built world, has raised a €73.7 million ($85 million) Series D round to build its massive spatial