Yann LeCun reportedly leaving Meta to launch new AI startup
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Yann LeCun, Meta's longtime Chief AI Scientist and a pioneer of deep learning, is reportedly preparing to leave the company to launch his own AI startup.The article Yann LeCun reportedly leaving Meta to launch new AI startup appeared first on THE DECODER.
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Delvitech Raises $40M To Expand AI-Driven Optical Inspection Technology
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Swiss deeptech company Delvitech has secured $40 million in a Series B funding round. The round was led by EGS Beteiligungen (EGSB), the investment arm of the Ernst Göhner Foundation, alongside CREADD Ventures with additional participation from several pr…
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YQuantum Secures €161K To Develop Scalable Next-Generation Quantum Hardware
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Swiss company YQuantum has secured €161,000 (CHF 150,000) from Venture Kick to advance the development of miniaturized hardware components for next-generation quantum computers. Quantum computers hold immense promise for drug discovery, materials science,…
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Meta announces plans to spend $600B in the US over three years
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Meta Platforms Inc. today pledged to invest $600 billion in the U.S. as part of its artificial intelligence push. The company plans to spend the capital over three years. It will invest in new AI data centers, supporting infrastructure such as power trans…
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Moonshot launches open-source ‘Kimi K2 Thinking’ AI with a trillion parameters and reasoning capabilities
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Chinese startup Beijing Moonshot AI Co. Ltd. Thursday released a new open-source artificial intelligence model, named Kimi 2 Thinking, that displays significantly upgraded tool use and agentic capabilities compared to current models. The company said the …
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Balnord Launches €70M Fund To Back Frontier And Dual-Use Tech In The Baltics
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Balnord, an early-stage investor focused on the Baltic Sea region, has surpassed its €70 million fund target and is aiming for a final close of €100 million by mid-2026. The firm focuses on companies driving Europe’s technological reindustrialisation, wit…
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Elon Musk's Road to $1 TRILLION Paved by Tesla Robots and Robotaxis video
Jesse Orrall / cnet - Flanked by a couple of Optimus Robots, Elon Musk took to the stage at Tesla's Annual Shareholder Meeting after investors voted to award him a $1 trillion performance award, provided he hits some very ambitious goals.
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Google Boosts Finance Platform with Gemini-Powered ‘Deep Search’ and New Data Tools
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google is upgrading its Finance platform with a Gemini-powered 'Deep Search' for complex queries, prediction market data, and live earnings analysis.The post Google Boosts Finance Platform with Gemini-Powered ‘Deep Search’ and New Data Tools appeared firs…
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Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts
Julian Chokkattu / wired - A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts. And it’s powered by—you guessed it—an AI chatbot.
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Adaptronics Raises €3.15M To Transform Robotic Gripping And Handling
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Adaptronics, a deeptech startup developing electro-adhesive grippers for industrial automation and space robotics, has raised €3.15 million. The round was led by 360 Capital and included participation from Galaxia, the aerospace technology transfer hub ba…
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Armilar’s new €120 million fund targets DeepTech and digital transformation ventures in Spain and Portugal
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Armilar, a leading Lisbon-based venture capital firm, has announced the first closing of its Fund IV, securing over €120 million to invest in disruptive technologies in Portugal, Spain, and the rest of Europe. Armilar IV has attracted a notable base of in…
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GitLaw Raises $3M Pre-seed Led by Jackson Square Ventures To Launch Its AI Legal companion
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - GitLaw, an AI-powered legal companion for businesses, has raised $3M in pre-seed funding led by Jackson Square Ventures, with participation from Flex Capital, Background Capital, and angel investors. Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneur Nick Holzherr, G…
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Samsung Electronics, Nvidia to Build AI Factory in New Chip Deal
Kimberley Kao / wsj - Samsung Electronics will deploy more than 50,000 Nvidia graphics processing units, embedding artificial intelligence throughout the semiconductor manufacturing flow.
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Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
Brandon Vigliarolo / theregister - 100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these syst…
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Rotterdam’s Builders raises €3M to scale enterprise AI startups and launch €25M fund
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Rotterdam-based venture studio Builders has raised an additional €3 million, bringing its total funding to €4.5 million. The…
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Oxford Spin-Out Astut Raises €1.8M For Transparent, Reasoning-Based AI
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Astut, an AI startup spun out of Oxford University mathematics research, has raised €1.8 million in Seed funding to commercialise its breakthrough technology, designed to help organisations tackle unprecedented crises where traditional AI fails due to lim…
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The Willow chip marks a new milestone in Google’s quantum race
Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Google researchers announced the first verifiable quantum advantage, using their Willow processor to map a molecule’s features 13,000 times faster than a modern supercomputer by employing a technique called “quantum echoes.” The experiment utilized Google…
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YouTube’s likeness detection has arrived to help stop AI doppelgängers
Ryan Whitwam / arstechnica - Likeness detection will flag possible AI fakes, but Google doesn't guarantee removal.
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New Deepseek model drastically reduces resource usage by converting text and documents into images — 'vision-text compression' uses up to 20 times fewer tokens
tomshardware - Developers of the Chinese Deepseek artificial intelligence have found a novel way to reduce the number of tokens it uses, particularly when accessing memories. By converting blocks of text into images and leveraging visual processing rather than text pars…
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Chipmind Exits Stealth With $2.5M To Launch AI Agents For Faster Chip Design
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Zurich-based Chipmind has secured $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Founderful, with participation from semiconductor industry angels. The startup is also launching Chipmind Agents, AI-powered tools that help engineering teams streamline chip design…
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