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Source: AI inference provider Baseten is in talks to raise $1B at a post-money valuation of $11B, up from $5B after its $300M Series E announced in January (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-inference-…

AI Inference Provider Baseten in Talks to Raise $1 Billion at $11 Billion Valuation
AI startup Baseten has recently been in talks with investors to raise $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation including the money, according to a person with knowledge of the fundraise. That would more than double the company’s $5 billion valuation from its last round, which was announced just ...

Derrière la guerre de Vladimir Poutine, le rôle croissant du FSB, l’agence de renseignement russe
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/05/27/derriere-la-guerr…

Derrière la guerre de Vladimir Poutine, le rôle croissant du FSB, l’agence de renseignement russe
Le service fédéral de sécurité, successeur du KGB, duquel est issu le maître du Kremlin, ne cesse d’accroître son pouvoir sur les choix militaires et sur les décisions politiques. Entre blocages d’Internet, propagande à l’école et poursuites judiciaires, sa toile s’étend sur toute la société russe.

Atlanta-based e-commerce logistics company Stord raised $250M led by Strike at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B after a $200M Series E announced in May 2025 (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/amazon-fulfillment-competito…

Amazon fulfillment competitor Stord raises $250M at $3B valuation | TechCrunch
Stord was founded in 2015 by then-college students CEO Sean Henry and CTO Jacob Boudreau while they were still at Georgia Tech.

Federal judge Zahid N. Quraishi, on Thursday said that the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey
👉had lost its credibility and
👉was intentionally violating immigration-related orders,
the latest rebuke from a judiciary that has grown increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration.
Judge Quraishi, added that if the Trump administration continued to make immigration arrests under a rationale that had already been found legally unacceptable,
💥 those arrests w…

Judge Says U.S. Is Intentionally Violating the Law on Immigration
Judge Zahid N. Quraishi said federal prosecutors in New Jersey had lost credibility on immigration issues. He’s the latest federal judge to show impatience with the Trump administration.

This is both sick and most likely a Constitutional violation as well as a violation of various Federal statutes.
But the trumpies seem to think they live in a private, not governmental, world and keep trying to employ the worst of private practices to the Federal government..
An interesting twist to this is how it might apply to people who are part of the "revolving door" in which high ranking Federal people leave government to take lucrative private sector jobs, often …

Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation after being valued at $4B in October 2025 (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/…

Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a pre-money valuation of $25B; JPMorgan is in talks to participate (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-backed-st…

Sources: Aetherflux, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to develop orbital data centers, aims to raise $250M to $300M in a Series B at a $2B valuation (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/orbital-data-

Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/04/21/android-andy-rubin-gen…

Scoop: Android creator Andy Rubin's humanoid robotics company gets $1b valuation
Android founder Andy Rubin compares robotics opportunities to smartphones.

ComfyUI, which gives creators granular control over image, video, and audio outputs from diffusion models, raised $30M at a $500M valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/24/comfyui-hits-500m-valu…

ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media | TechCrunch
ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.