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- aiDataCanvas files for Hong Kong IPO after shifting from AI software to computing infrastructureReported, single sourceTechNode
- recordFunding record refreshed: 109,539 rounds, 71,253 companies, 276 sources, 145 countriesRefreshfundingdata.com
- aiPerplexity adds Gemini 4 Argon for Pro and Max subscribers, cites WANDR recordOfficial@perplexity_ai on X
- aiSiliconANGLE: AI safety concerns grow as officials urge regulation and states sue OpenAIReported, single sourceSiliconANGLE
- roundxFarm Technologies raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth round from BlackRockGrowthCH · startupticker.ch
- modelOpen weights: Qwen3-8B-DSpine-b16 by TencentConfirmedModel Tracker
- roundSUNMMIO raises $299M in a Series A round from Yizhuang State Investment$299MSeries A · CN · technode.com
- recordEntalpic raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth/Late round from NvidiaRecord writtenFrance · tech.eu
- scienceAccelerating field: Renaming PCOS to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome156 papersaccelerating · 228 institutions · research desk
- aiSchwab blocks unauthorised AI agents from moving client money, CEO tells Bloomberg TVReported, single sourceThe Next Web
- aiIn its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI…Reported, single sourceBloomberg
- aiMark Wahlberg tells TechCrunch Disrupt he is open to AI in film and an AI likenessReported, single sourceTechCrunch
- aiQualcomm CEO says AI firms want 100-billion-parameter models on phones by 2028Reported, single sourceThe Next Web
- aiTencent posts Qwen3-8B-DSpine-b16 model on Hugging Face with empty READMEOfficialTencent
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- aiDataCanvas files for Hong Kong IPO after shifting from AI software to computing infrastructureTechNode
- recordFunding record refreshed: 109,539 rounds, 71,253 companies, 276 sources, 145 countriesfundingdata.com
- aiPerplexity adds Gemini 4 Argon for Pro and Max subscribers, cites WANDR record@perplexity_ai on X
- aiSiliconANGLE: AI safety concerns grow as officials urge regulation and states sue OpenAISiliconANGLE
- roundxFarm Technologies raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth round from BlackRockCH · startupticker.ch
- modelOpen weights: Qwen3-8B-DSpine-b16 by TencentModel Tracker
- roundSUNMMIO raises $299M in a Series A round from Yizhuang State InvestmentCN · technode.com
- recordEntalpic raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth/Late round from NvidiaFrance · tech.eu
- scienceAccelerating field: Renaming PCOS to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome228 institutions · research desk
- aiSchwab blocks unauthorised AI agents from moving client money, CEO tells Bloomberg TVThe Next Web
- aiIn its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI…Bloomberg
- aiMark Wahlberg tells TechCrunch Disrupt he is open to AI in film and an AI likenessTechCrunch
- aiQualcomm CEO says AI firms want 100-billion-parameter models on phones by 2028The Next Web
- aiTencent posts Qwen3-8B-DSpine-b16 model on Hugging Face with empty READMETencent
- aiNTT Docomo Business trials ElevenAgents voice agent for older residents in Aizuwakamatsu@ElevenLabs on X
- aiPalantir, Apple, Microsoft Prepare for Democratic Oversight Push in CongressBloomberg
- aiOxipital AI launches Foreign Material Detection for food production linesPR Newswire
- aiAI 'espionage' is a reality that companies need to be 'wary of,' DNI Jay Clayton saysCNBC
- aiLovable adds WhatsApp integration so apps can message customers@Lovable on X
- roundBending Spoons raises $330M in a Growth round from Berkshire HathawayIT · ilsole24ore.com
- aiAlibaba's Tmall president says AI will enter merchants' workflows on Taobao and Tmall in 2027SCMP
- aiReflection launches open-weight Beam model; Ollama offers it free for a limited timeOllama
- aiGermany plans AI deal with Nvidia for industry next week, Handelsblatt report saysReuters
- aiNebius Academy and NVIDIA launch two hands-on AI courses powered by Nebius@nebiusai on X
- aiDeepSeek adds Search and Fetch APIs to pricing page at $0.75 per 1,000 requestsDeepSeek
- aiCloudflare introduces trust bands to track Verified bots' compliance with site preferences, Cloudflare saysCloudflare
- aiMeshy launches Meshy Edit, a part-selective 3D model editing tool on a new in-house modelPR Newswire
- aiReflection AI releases Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight model, under Apache 2.0Reflection AI
- aiNational Design Studio and Cognition launch six-month American Forge engineering residencyCognition
- roundPuente OS raises $200K in a Pre-Seed round from Platanus VenturesCL · ecosistemastartup.com
- recordRuit raises €880K in a Pre-Seed round from Abac NestSpain · elreferente.es
- recordPigment raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth/Late round from NvidiaFrance · tech.eu
- recordConstrik raises €350K in a Pre-Seed round from Plus PartnersSpain · elreferente.es
- recordElevatry raises €3M in a Pre-Seed round from Martin Berr-Sorokin, Jan Henner-Theißen and 6 moreGermany · deutsche-startups.de
- recordPlaced raises €1.8M from Angel Invest Ventures, Ventic Ventures and 4 moreUK · deutsche-startups.de
- recordGoodweek raises $12M in a Seed round from Fj Labs, BY Venture Partners and 7 moreFrance · eu-startups.com
- recordMicrobiotica raises £36M in a Series C round from Seventure Partners, Cambridge Innovation Capital and 4 moreUK · businesscloud.co.uk
- recordDoctolib raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth/Late round from NvidiaFrance · tech.eu
- aiWaymo plans to launch robotaxi service in Toronto in 2028, its first in CanadaThe Next Web
- aiIntuit acquires UK fintech Sequence in deal reportedly worth about $200mTech.eu
- roundCareHub raises €14M in a Growth round from Capital Dynamics and Quadrivio Groupforbes.es
- roundEstuary Biotherapeutics raises $93M in a Series A round from RA Capital Management, Deep Track Capital and 3 moreUS · biopharmadive.com
- scienceAccelerating field: YOLO26 object detector adoption and analysis181 institutions · research desk
- scienceAccelerating field: 2026 Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak in DRC/Uganda263 institutions · research desk
- scienceAccelerating field: Benchmarking named frontier LLM versions1,039 institutions · research desk
- scienceAccelerating field: Hantavirus and Andes virus cardiopulmonary syndrome331 institutions · research desk
- scienceAccelerating field: Autonomous LLM coding agents (Claude Code)86 institutions · research desk
- ledgerResearch desk run 86 written to the ledger: hash chainedchain 5618b08f
- roundAerium raises $2.5M in a Seed round from Gutter CapitalCA · betakit.com
- correctionCorrected in public (fact): RapidCanvas raises about $29 million Series B led by Vertex Venturespublic corrections log
- roundRamp raises $1.8B in a Growth round from Dragoneer, Thrive Capital and 2 moreUS · capitalbrief.com
- correctionCorrected in public (fact): FFR and Faraday Future launch $2,490 FF Nova humanoid robot and $299 Nova Minipublic corrections log
- modelOpen weights: Hy-Memory-30B-A3B by TencentModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B-DFlash2 by NVIDIAModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: granite-switch-4.1-30b by IBMModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: granite-switch-4.1-8b by IBMModel Tracker
- correctionCorrected in public (fact): Claude Devs says Opus 5.5 fast mode leaves research preview, waitlist removedpublic corrections log
- modelOpen weights: Kimodo-SOMA-RP-v1.2 by NVIDIAModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: Kimodo-SOMA-RP-ArdyRep-v1.2 by NVIDIAModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: ARDY-SOMA-RP-30FPS-KimodoRep-Horizon60 by NVIDIAModel Tracker
- correctionCorrected in public (fact): Employees who exceed that must find a project or team (WBS) to fund the restpublic corrections log
- ledgerResearch desk run 78 written to the ledger: hash chainedchain e8142246
- aiDataCanvas files for Hong Kong IPO after shifting from AI software to computing infrastructureTechNode
- recordFunding record refreshed: 109,539 rounds, 71,253 companies, 276 sources, 145 countriesfundingdata.com
- aiPerplexity adds Gemini 4 Argon for Pro and Max subscribers, cites WANDR record@perplexity_ai on X
- aiSiliconANGLE: AI safety concerns grow as officials urge regulation and states sue OpenAISiliconANGLE
- roundxFarm Technologies raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth round from BlackRockCH · startupticker.ch
- modelOpen weights: Qwen3-8B-DSpine-b16 by TencentModel Tracker
- roundSUNMMIO raises $299M in a Series A round from Yizhuang State InvestmentCN · technode.com
- recordEntalpic raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth/Late round from NvidiaFrance · tech.eu
- scienceAccelerating field: Renaming PCOS to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome228 institutions · research desk
- aiSchwab blocks unauthorised AI agents from moving client money, CEO tells Bloomberg TVThe Next Web
- aiIn its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI…Bloomberg
- aiMark Wahlberg tells TechCrunch Disrupt he is open to AI in film and an AI likenessTechCrunch
- aiQualcomm CEO says AI firms want 100-billion-parameter models on phones by 2028The Next Web
- aiTencent posts Qwen3-8B-DSpine-b16 model on Hugging Face with empty READMETencent
- aiNTT Docomo Business trials ElevenAgents voice agent for older residents in Aizuwakamatsu@ElevenLabs on X
- aiPalantir, Apple, Microsoft Prepare for Democratic Oversight Push in CongressBloomberg
- aiOxipital AI launches Foreign Material Detection for food production linesPR Newswire
- aiAI 'espionage' is a reality that companies need to be 'wary of,' DNI Jay Clayton saysCNBC
- aiLovable adds WhatsApp integration so apps can message customers@Lovable on X
- roundBending Spoons raises $330M in a Growth round from Berkshire HathawayIT · ilsole24ore.com
- aiAlibaba's Tmall president says AI will enter merchants' workflows on Taobao and Tmall in 2027SCMP
- aiReflection launches open-weight Beam model; Ollama offers it free for a limited timeOllama
- aiGermany plans AI deal with Nvidia for industry next week, Handelsblatt report saysReuters
- aiNebius Academy and NVIDIA launch two hands-on AI courses powered by Nebius@nebiusai on X
- aiDeepSeek adds Search and Fetch APIs to pricing page at $0.75 per 1,000 requestsDeepSeek
- aiCloudflare introduces trust bands to track Verified bots' compliance with site preferences, Cloudflare saysCloudflare
- aiMeshy launches Meshy Edit, a part-selective 3D model editing tool on a new in-house modelPR Newswire
- aiReflection AI releases Beam, a 501B-parameter open-weight model, under Apache 2.0Reflection AI
- aiNational Design Studio and Cognition launch six-month American Forge engineering residencyCognition
- roundPuente OS raises $200K in a Pre-Seed round from Platanus VenturesCL · ecosistemastartup.com
- recordRuit raises €880K in a Pre-Seed round from Abac NestSpain · elreferente.es
- recordPigment raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth/Late round from NvidiaFrance · tech.eu
- recordConstrik raises €350K in a Pre-Seed round from Plus PartnersSpain · elreferente.es
- recordElevatry raises €3M in a Pre-Seed round from Martin Berr-Sorokin, Jan Henner-Theißen and 6 moreGermany · deutsche-startups.de
- recordPlaced raises €1.8M from Angel Invest Ventures, Ventic Ventures and 4 moreUK · deutsche-startups.de
- recordGoodweek raises $12M in a Seed round from Fj Labs, BY Venture Partners and 7 moreFrance · eu-startups.com
- recordMicrobiotica raises £36M in a Series C round from Seventure Partners, Cambridge Innovation Capital and 4 moreUK · businesscloud.co.uk
- recordDoctolib raises an undisclosed amount in a Growth/Late round from NvidiaFrance · tech.eu
- aiWaymo plans to launch robotaxi service in Toronto in 2028, its first in CanadaThe Next Web
- aiIntuit acquires UK fintech Sequence in deal reportedly worth about $200mTech.eu
- roundCareHub raises €14M in a Growth round from Capital Dynamics and Quadrivio Groupforbes.es
- roundEstuary Biotherapeutics raises $93M in a Series A round from RA Capital Management, Deep Track Capital and 3 moreUS · biopharmadive.com
- scienceAccelerating field: YOLO26 object detector adoption and analysis181 institutions · research desk
- scienceAccelerating field: 2026 Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak in DRC/Uganda263 institutions · research desk
- scienceAccelerating field: Benchmarking named frontier LLM versions1,039 institutions · research desk
- scienceAccelerating field: Hantavirus and Andes virus cardiopulmonary syndrome331 institutions · research desk
- scienceAccelerating field: Autonomous LLM coding agents (Claude Code)86 institutions · research desk
- ledgerResearch desk run 86 written to the ledger: hash chainedchain 5618b08f
- roundAerium raises $2.5M in a Seed round from Gutter CapitalCA · betakit.com
- correctionCorrected in public (fact): RapidCanvas raises about $29 million Series B led by Vertex Venturespublic corrections log
- roundRamp raises $1.8B in a Growth round from Dragoneer, Thrive Capital and 2 moreUS · capitalbrief.com
- correctionCorrected in public (fact): FFR and Faraday Future launch $2,490 FF Nova humanoid robot and $299 Nova Minipublic corrections log
- modelOpen weights: Hy-Memory-30B-A3B by TencentModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B-DFlash2 by NVIDIAModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: granite-switch-4.1-30b by IBMModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: granite-switch-4.1-8b by IBMModel Tracker
- correctionCorrected in public (fact): Claude Devs says Opus 5.5 fast mode leaves research preview, waitlist removedpublic corrections log
- modelOpen weights: Kimodo-SOMA-RP-v1.2 by NVIDIAModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: Kimodo-SOMA-RP-ArdyRep-v1.2 by NVIDIAModel Tracker
- modelOpen weights: ARDY-SOMA-RP-30FPS-KimodoRep-Horizon60 by NVIDIAModel Tracker
- correctionCorrected in public (fact): Employees who exceed that must find a project or team (WBS) to fund the restpublic corrections log
- ledgerResearch desk run 78 written to the ledger: hash chainedchain e8142246