• Reflection AI raised $2 billion at $8 billion valuation, led by Nvidia, to develop open-source frontier AI models. — TechCrunch

• SoftBank acquired ABB's robotics division for $5.4 billion, adding a segment growing at 20% annually. — TechCrunch

• EvenUp raised $150 million Series E at $2 billion valuation for its AI legal platform. — Fortune

• Invisible Technologies raised $100 million at $2 billion+ valuation to scale its AI training platform. — Business Wire

• Havoc AI raised $85 million for maritime autonomous systems. — Pulse 2.0

• Kernel raised $22 million Series A for its agentic software development platform. — Axios

• Dell raised AI growth forecasts through 2030, doubling projected sales on enterprise infrastructure demand. — Bloomberg

• FurtherAI raised $25 million Series A from a16z for insurance AI. — Axios

• Feedzai raised $75 million at $2 billion+ valuation for its AI-powered financial crime platform. — Pulse 2.0

• Phaidra secured over $50 million Series B to build AI agents for industrial optimization. — Pulse 2.0

• n8n secured $180 million Series C at $2.5 billion valuation to expand its AI orchestration platform. — Pulse 2.0

• Reflection AI raised $2 billion at $8 billion valuation, led by Nvidia, to develop open-source frontier AI models. — TechCrunch

• OpenAI Developer Day unveiled Apps in ChatGPT, AgentKit, GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 video model, and enhanced API features. — OpenAI Blog

• Microsoft rolled out updated Copilot app for Windows Insiders, creating Office files and connecting to email/calendar. — The Verge

• Intel launched Robotics AI Suite software and Panther Lake chip for humanoid robot development. — Yahoo Finance

• Deep Robotics unveiled DR02, the first IP66-rated all-weather humanoid robot. — The AI Insider

• Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot upgraded with three-fingered gripper and Toyota's Large Behavior Model integration. — Boston Dynamics

• Zendesk introduced autonomous voice agents claiming 80% resolution of support issues, plus video support and advanced analytics. — VentureBeat

• IBM released Granite 4.0, hybrid enterprise AI models optimized for efficiency on less powerful hardware. — IBM

• Alibaba released Qwen3 family including 1-trillion-parameter Max, multimodal VL, and audio-visual Omni models. — DeepLearning.AI

• Google launched Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, outperforming competitors on web and mobile navigation tasks. — Google DeepMind

• Figure AI unveiled Figure 03 humanoid robot with near-human dexterity, capable of folding laundry and sorting parts. — Figure AI

• Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 with state-of-the-art coding benchmarks and enhanced agentic capabilities. — Anthropic

• Google DeepMind released CodeMender, an AI agent that automatically identifies and fixes software vulnerabilities. — Google DeepMind

• Google launched Gemini Enterprise, a unified AI platform enabling businesses to deploy agents and automate tasks without coding. — Google Cloud Blog

• Sam Altman stated ChatGPT has surpassed 800 million weekly active users, with the API processing over 6 billion tokens per minute. — YouTube

• Meta plans to invest $600 billion in AI infrastructure through 2028, signaling massive commitment to AI development. — Barron's

• Jeff Bezos predicts space-based data centers within 10–20 years, potentially outperforming Earth facilities due to falling launch costs. — AI Invest

• BMW operated figure robots on its production line for five months, running 10-hour days. — Reddit

• Minecraft gamer built a 5-million-parameter ChatGPT model in Minecraft using 439 million Redstone blocks. — Tom's Hardware

• Zelda Williams criticized AI deepfakes of her father Robin Williams, calling them disgusting. — The Guardian

• Former UK PM Rishi Sunak joined Microsoft and Anthropic as a senior advisor on AI policy. — BBC News

• Anthropic research shows 250 poisoned documents can create LLM backdoors, regardless of model size. — Anthropic

• Senate report predicts nearly 100 million U.S. jobs could be eliminated by AI within the next decade. — Axios