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- Robot.com Turns Its Delivery Robot Base Toward Workplace Humanoids
Felipe Chavez is using Kiwibot's deployment muscle to sell R-noid into restaurants, logistics sites and healthcare, with early autonomy still limited.
- Groq raises $650M for life after Ross and Nvidia
Adam Winter is taking Groq deeper into AI inference cloud after Nvidia licensed its LPU technology and hired away its founding CEO.
- Mr. Beast hires Pietra's Ronak Trivedi for Beast Industries' creator platform push
The move gives Beast Industries marketplace talent as Donaldson tries to turn creator sponsorships into a software business.
- Spiro adds $55 million from NewTrails as it pushes Africa EV network toward unicorn scale
The follow-on check lifts Spiro's June equity round to $270 million, but the valuation behind the unicorn claim remains undisclosed.
- Dino Mavrookas's Saronic leads an $18.8B robotics funding rush
Crunchbase says robotics startups have already topped 2025 funding, with maritime autonomy, humanoids and industrial robots pulling the biggest checks.
- Ocado's board is testing a founder handoff after 26 years under Tim Steiner
Sky News says Vonage CEO Niklas Heuveldop has been sounded out for Ocado's top job, but no appointment has been confirmed.
- Aadeel Akhtar's PSYONIC turns a bionic hand into robotics data infrastructure
The San Diego prosthetics company is using human Ability Hand data with NVIDIA Isaac Lab and ABB's GoFa cobot.
- Ethan Thornton is making Mach Industries' sprawl the strategy
Mach's 22-year-old founder is running six weapons programs, a rocket-motor unit and a Navy aircraft bet before any system reaches full-rate production.
- Samsung Electronics rolls out ChatGPT and Codex across Korea and global DX teams
Samsung Electronics will make ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex available across Korea and its global DX division, deepening an existing AI infrastructure tie-up.
- Yann LeCun calls xAI a failure and warns AI labs are running on investor subsidy
The AMI Labs founder is attacking Musk's talent losses and the economics behind frontier AI while selling a world-model alternative.
- Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent model API aimed at the export-control era
The Tokyo lab says Fugu Ultra can route work across model pools while matching top frontier benchmarks without relying on one vendor.
- Aaron Levie says agents will use software 100X more than people - and force new SaaS guardrails
The Box co-founder argues agents will query CRM, documents, analytics and corporate knowledge far more than employees do.
- Humble Robotics' $24M seed puts Eyal Cohen's cabless freight bet on the road
The San Francisco startup is aiming at short-haul, dock-to-dock freight instead of retrofitting a human truck for autonomy.
- Andrew Curran says a stronger Anthropic Mythos model has emerged from training
Andrew Curran says a stronger Mythos-class model has finished training, days after US export controls forced Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline.
- Apertus Mini pushes Switzerland's open AI bet onto smaller devices
The Swiss AI Initiative is using distillation and quantization to turn its public foundation model into deployable infrastructure.
- Renji John gets a second shot at greenhouse robots with Eternal.ag
The Cologne startup recently raised about $10 million to scale autonomous tomato harvesting, a hard robotics problem its CEO has already seen fail once.
- CleverCrow puts backers, not maintainers, on the hook for AI coding runs
The product routes GitHub issue funding into maintainer-approved agent work, with refunds for unused compute and a 20% platform fee.
- Shift's free cleaning bet just got its first apartment-level stress test
Business Insider let Shift workers film a New York apartment, showing both the appeal and the cost of trading privacy for robot data.
- Birch Geothermal launches with an oilfield engineer's bet on cheaper clean power
Mike Matson and his co-founders are applying subsurface oil-and-gas tools to enhanced geothermal systems as power demand rises.
- Polymarket's fake-bet videos put Shayne Coplan's trust pitch back on trial
The WSJ says paid creators showed trades and winnings that were not real as Polymarket pushes deeper into the U.S. mainstream.
- Ian Barber's warning: LLMs have entered the recsys phase
Barber argues model research now depends on composable kernels, not just cleaner agents.
- Z.ai's GLM-5.2 vs Gemini on Agent Arena: the viral claim needs context
A post said GLM-5.2 ranked #3 and topped Gemini 3.5 Flash. Agent Arena is a live, multi-signal leaderboard, so any rank needs a named signal and timeframe.
- NVIDIA reportedly acquihires Essential AI team including Ashish Vaswani
The reported move would put one of the Transformer authors inside NVIDIA's Nemotron model group, but deal terms and timing remain unclear.
- Jarred Sumner's Bun is testing shared-memory threads inside JavaScriptCore
The open oven-sh/WebKit pull request would let `new Thread(fn)` share normal JavaScript objects across cores, but it is not a shipped Bun feature.