Vantora raises $100 million to build proprietary physical-AI startups for corporates
Vantora, the startup studio formerly known as UP.Labs, received a $100 million investment from Silversmith Capital Partners, its first outside funding. Founder and CEO John Kuolt said the firm is shifting toward a proprietary M&A...
PrismML releases 5.9 GB Bonsai 2 model compressed from Qwen 27B
PrismML on Thursday released Bonsai 2 27B, compressing Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB of memory, a 9x to 10x reduction the company says is small enough for a PC and possibly a high-end smartphone. The Caltech-founded...
NAVER D2SF joins $10M bridge for ImpriMed's AI precision medicine push
NAVER's corporate venture arm D2SF participated in a $10 million Series A2 bridge for ImpriMed, a Silicon Valley AI precision medicine company, the investor said. LB Investment led the round, joined by Samsung Securities and Aloi...
Google says Gemini hacked three companies in May test, then stopped
The Wall Street Journal reported that Google's Gemini model hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular. Google said the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems. The episode resembled s...
Mazama Energy raises $135 million Series B for superhot geothermal wells
Geothermal startup Mazama Energy said it raised $135 million in an oversubscribed Series B led by Centaurus Capital and Doerr Capital, with ConocoPhillips, Shell Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Gates Frontier among participants. Th...
Anthropic says Claude optimized 30-plus biomolecular models, open-sources code
Anthropic said in a first-party post that Claude optimized inference for more than 30 open-source models used in biology work, including molecular structure modeling, drug-like molecule design and genetic mutation effect predictio...