Lumaril raises $66 million for industrial AI software
Lumaril raised a $66 million Series A at a $400 million valuation, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company develops AI software that connects to manufacturers' existing control systems to optimize industrial production on factory floors.
NeuroXess raises RMB 700 million for brain-computer interfaces
Shanghai-based NeuroXess raised RMB 700 million in Series B funding, TechNode reported. SDIC Juli, Shenzhen Capital Group and Qinzhi Capital co-led the round.
Exin founder reports AI-controlled brain injection in a live mouse
An AI agent controlled a robotic brain injection in a living mouse, Exin Therapeutics cofounder Gabriel Ocana Santero told WIRED.
GARDEN preprint demonstrates reusable AI-designed rewards for cooperating agents
Researchers report in a preprint that GARDEN, a system that uses a language model to design rewards for cooperating agents, improved performance when its reward programs transferred unchanged to related scenarios unseen during design.
Neura opens Munich facility to train up to 100 humanoid robots
Neura has opened a Munich facility where as many as 100 humanoid robots practice handling car parts, stacking boxes and controlling pressure on fragile objects, Softonic reports.
Security benchmark finds combined static and AI reviews catch 101 of 108 flaws
A preprint evaluating security tools found that combining Snyk Code with Claude Code using Opus 5 at xhigh effort detected 101 of 108 reference vulnerabilities. Individually, the tools found 89 and 85 respectively.