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Siemens and Nvidia's humanoid robot completed an eight-hour shift at a German factory
HMND 01 Alpha independently handled cargo at a rate of 60 operations per hour with over 90% precision at Siemens's Erlangen production facility.

Coral raised $12.5M for AI back-office automation in healthcare
New York-based startup Coral reads handwritten fax forms and onboards patients in five minutes—without changing clinic workflows.

Arnout ter Schure: Why AI Won't Replace Humans in Market Analysis
The founder of Intelligent Investing explains how AI accelerates data processing, but the analyst's live context remains irreplaceable.

Google builds chip supply chain with four partners to challenge Nvidia in AI inference
Google announced the most diversified custom chip manufacturing chain in the industry — with Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, and Intel as partners.

Semrush launches framework for measuring brand visibility in AI search
The company introduced Brand Visibility Framework and introduced the term Agentic Search Optimisation — amid a 61% drop in organic clicks.

Codex for Mac from OpenAI now takes screenshots and sends them to company servers
OpenAI has added the Chronicle feature to Codex for Mac: it periodically captures screenshots, sends them to servers, and saves summaries locally in unencrypted files.

Amazon to invest another $25 billion in Anthropic and lock in a 10-year AWS contract
Amazon will invest up to $25 billion in Anthropic in exchange for a 10-year cloud partnership with AWS — the company's second megadeal with a leading AI lab in two months after a $50 billion investment in OpenAI.

Bezos AI lab Project Prometheus nears a $10 billion round at a $38 billion valuation
Jeff Bezos' physical AI initiative has nearly closed a $10 billion mega-round — the lab will focus on robotics, aerospace and drug discovery.

VisioLab raises $11 million for barcode-free AI checkouts for stadiums and universities
German startup VisioLab has raised $11 million for AI checkouts: a camera recognizes food without barcodes in 10 seconds, and the system is already operating in NBA arenas and on university campuses.

OpenAI brings in Cognizant and CGI to bring Codex to the enterprise market
OpenAI is building a partner channel of system integrators for Codex, with Cognizant and CGI as the first partners to help the agent enter large enterprises.

Italian startup raises $4.2M for autonomous vessels
Mirai Robotics from Apulia raised pre-seed funding to build software-controlled ships and maritime AI.

Anthropic launches a Claude-based enterprise software marketplace
Anthropic is expanding the Claude ecosystem by launching its own marketplace for enterprise customers, despite regulatory pressure and political challenges.

Validio raises $30 million to solve a problem the entire AI industry stays silent about
The Swedish startup spent six years building infrastructure that checks whether enterprise data is ready for AI. It now has $30 million for global expansion — and a strong argument for why most AI projects fail.

Cardiff-based Antiverse raises $9.3M for AI antibody discovery
Welsh biotech startup Antiverse has closed a $9.3 million Series A round to scale a platform that uses AI to develop therapeutic antibodies. The funds will go toward computing infrastructure and preclinical research.

Outpost Bio raised $3.5 million to build AI models of the human microbiome
New startup Outpost Bio secured $3.5 million to develop AI models capable of decoding the highly complex ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, and microbes living in the human body. This could change approaches to treatment and

Advertising in ChatGPT: What It Means for Advertisers
OpenAI has begun testing advertising in ChatGPT but remains silent on the key issue — how brands will actually be able to place ads. We break down what is known so far and what businesses should expect from the new adver

OpenAI secures Pentagon military contract after ban on Anthropic
OpenAI will deploy its models in classified systems of the US Department of Defense. The agreement was reached immediately after Donald Trump barred government agencies from using Anthropic's technologies.

Why the “AI is easy to fool” narrative misses the point
BBC showed how a blog post can influence ChatGPT and Google AI responses. But is this really a “hack” — or are we misunderstanding how large language models work?

ElevenLabs and Google Cloud Bet on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
London startup ElevenLabs is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud, gaining access to the latest NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. The multiyear agreement is aimed at scaling voice AI for large enterprises.

Why AI Agents Lie About the Present: The Problem of Outdated Data
You ask an AI assistant who runs a company and get a confident answer — one that is several weeks out of date. How live search grounding is changing the rules for language models.

Callosum raises $10.25 million to challenge the monopoly in AI computing
London-based startup Callosum has secured $10.25 million to develop multichip infrastructure for AI. The company is challenging established computing models dominated by single-vendor platforms like NVIDIA.

AI training efficiency: why speed isn't everything
The AI industry is rethinking model training metrics. Instead of the familiar throughput, the concept of goodput is moving to the forefront — and changing the approach to training the largest language models.

Nvidia's quarterly report will determine the fate of the AI hardware market
Nvidia's fourth-quarter results will be a litmus test for the entire AI hardware industry. The stock is up 1500% over three years — but can the company live up to investors' sky-high expectations?

Berlin-based Plato raises $14.5 million for AI automation in wholesale distribution
Startup Plato has secured a major seed round from Atomico to bring generative AI to wholesale distribution — a trillion-dollar industry that still runs on Excel and phone calls.

Mistral AI acquires cloud startup Koyeb to expand its infrastructure
The French AI company is expanding its presence in the cloud computing market. The deal with Koyeb will allow Mistral to control not only the code, but also the deployment of neural networks.

AI agent developer Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
The creator of the popular open-source project OpenClaw is joining OpenAI. The move highlights the company's push to build a new generation of autonomous AI assistants.

Brand reputation management in the age of AI: new challenges for PR
Traditional PR is facing a serious threat: modern AI algorithms do not distinguish organic content from advertising. Learn how to protect a company's image in the world of neural networks.

Anthropic's Rise: $30 Billion Round and $380 Billion Valuation Reshape the AI Market
Anthropic closed a record $30 billion Series G round. The company's valuation surged to $380 billion, cementing its status as one of the world's most valuable private startups.

Naboo raises $70M for an AI platform to manage corporate events
Paris-based startup Naboo is turning event planning into a full-fledged procurement system. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which previously invested in Mistral AI.

Claude at Super Bowl: millions of dollars to troll OpenAI and promise of silence
Let's be honest: Super Bowl advertising is usually a parade of beer, chips, and expensive cars. It's a vanity fair where a second of airtime costs as much as a decent early-stage startup.