Europe’s Largest Defense Fund for Startups Set for €500 Million

Christina Kyriasoglou / bloomberg - German investor Digital Transformation Capital Partners GmbH is on track to raise Europe’s largest-ever dedicated venture capital fund for defense startups, signing its first big backers for a fund targeting €500 million ($580 million).

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises $252 million for brain computer interface venture — but Merge Labs is still in an early research phase

tomshardware - OpenAI has signaled its intentions to become a major player in brain computer interfaces (BCIs) with a $252 million investment in Merge Labs.

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Amsterdam’s Optics11 Raises €25M EIB Loan To Boost Europe’s Subsea And Energy Security

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a €25 million venture debt agreement with Amsterdam-based Optics11, a DeepTech scale-up developing advanced fibre optic sensing solutions. The Dutch company will use the funding to advance research and develop…

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Dutch VC PureTerra launches €150M water tech fund, lands €10M from Invest-NL

Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - As droughts intensify and regulations tighten, companies are discovering that access to clean, reusable water directly affects their…

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Thinking Machines Lab Loses Key Leaders as They Return to OpenAI

eWEEK Staff / eweek - Two co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, are heading back to OpenAI, alongside Sam Schoenholz, another former OpenAI staffer who had joined the startup.The post Thinking Machines Lab Loses Key Leaders as They Return to OpenAI appeared first on eWEEK.

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Open ISA champ SiFive leaps aboard Nvidia's proprietary interconnect bandwagon

Tobias Mann / theregister - You might call it a RISC-V/NVLink Fusion ... or a bad day for UALink RISC-V champion SiFive has joined a growing number of chip companies by throwing its weight behind Nvidia's proprietary NVLink Fusion interconnect tech, a move that casts doubt on the vi…

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Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Mira Murati ousted CTO Barret Zoph for "unethical conduct." Hours later, OpenAI welcomed him back along with two other researchers. The competing narratives can't both be true.

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Quantum software startup Haiqu raises $11M to launch hardware-aware operating system

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Quantum software startup Haiqu Inc. announced today that it has raised $11 million in new funding to accelerate the launch of its operating system for quantum applications, which will include a hardware-aware quantum software stack for running near-term a…

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Real-time voice AI unicorn Deepgram raises $130M to streamline human-to-machine interactions

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. has reasons to think the new year could be a good one after raising $130 million in funding at a $1.3 billion valuation. It also unveiled its latest acquisition, buying an AI-native voice start…

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Touchwaves Raises €1.5M For Next-Generation Wearable Technology

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Touchwaves, a Dutch deeptech startup and spin-off from TNO, has raised €1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by SecFund, which supports startups and scale-ups addressing innovation needs of the Dutch Ministry of Defence, in collabora…

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Ex-Google execs’ Ahead Health raises $6M to catch cancer, heart disease years early with AI

Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Diseases are often caught late, data is scattered across systems, and advanced diagnostics remain expensive and hard to…

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DeepSeek to Unfurl AI Model with Enhanced Coding Capabilities in February: Report

Jon Swartz / techstrong - DeepSeek is preparing to launch its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, V4, in mid-February, according to a report in The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the company's plans. The upcoming release marks the Chinese s…

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Boston Dynamics Unveils First Commercial Atlas Humanoid Robot

Jason Nelson / decrypt - Boston Dynamics said manufacturing on its humanoid Atlas robots will begin immediately, with all 2026 deployments already reserved.

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Boston Dynamics unveils production Atlas designed for warehouses and factory floors

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Boston Dynamics is turning its humanoid robot Atlas into a commercial product. The first fleet ships to Hyundai in 2026, where the 1.9-meter-tall robot will handle heavy lifting in warehouses and factories.The article Boston Dynamics unveils production At…

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DeepSeek Kicks Off the Year With New Paper Introducing the mHC Architecture

pandaily - DeepSeek has unveiled a new research paper proposing mHC, a novel architecture designed to stabilize large-scale model training while preserving performance gains.

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Nvidia's $20 billion Groq IP deal bolsters AI market domination — hardware stack and key engineer behind Google TPUs included in bombshell agreement

tomshardware - Nvidia has announced a $20 billion deal to acquire Groq’s intellectual property, though not the company itself, and absorb key members of its engineering team.

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Mistral Launches OCR 3 AI Model, Beating Google and OpenAI on Price and Win-Rate

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Mistral AI has released its OCR 3 document digitization model claiming superior accuracy over Google and OpenAI while cutting costs to just $2 per 1,000 pages.The post Mistral Launches OCR 3 AI Model, Beating Google and OpenAI on Price and Win-Rate appear…

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