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Sereact Raises $110m Series B to Bring Robotics AI to the US
Stuttgart-based robotics firm Sereact has closed a $110m Series B led by Headline to develop its next-generation vision-language-action model and open a Boston office.
DeepSeek V4 Matches Closed-Source Rivals and Runs on Huawei Chips
DeepSeek released a preview of V4, an open-source model matching Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google on benchmarks whilst running on Huawei's Ascend processors.
Meta signs 1-gigawatt capacity deal with space solar startup Overview Energy
Meta has agreed to reserve up to 1 gigawatt of power from Overview Energy, which plans to beam infrared light from satellites to terrestrial solar farms from 2030.
Hyatt deploys ChatGPT Enterprise across global workforce with GPT-5.4 access
Hotel giant Hyatt has rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise to employees worldwide, giving teams access to frontier AI capabilities including GPT-5.4 and Codex for operations and guest services.
Anthropic Launches Cowork Agent for Non-Technical Users on Claude Max
Anthropic has released Cowork, a file-based AI agent for non-technical users, available as a research preview exclusively to Claude Max subscribers on macOS.
Anthropic's Claude Code creator shares parallel-agent workflow as product hits $1bn ARR
Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, has detailed a five-agent parallel workflow that has drawn widespread attention from the developer community.
DeepSeek V4 Launches as Open-Source Rival to GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus
DeepSeek released V4, an open-source model in two variants that the company says matches leading closed-source rivals at a fraction of the cost.
Anthropic Pours $5 Billion Into Anthropic as AI Tops Weekly Funding Charts
Anthropic invested $5 billion in Anthropic with up to $20 billion more pledged, leading a week where only half of the ten largest U.S. venture rounds crossed $100 million.
Cohere and Aleph Alpha Merge in $20bn Transatlantic AI Deal
Canadian AI firm Cohere will absorb Germany's Aleph Alpha in a deal valued at roughly $20 billion, backed by $600 million from Schwarz Digits.
Verda Raises €100m to Build a European AI Cloud Rival to US Hyperscalers
Finnish cloud provider Verda, formerly Datacrunch, raised €100m in debt and equity to expand its AI infrastructure across Europe, the US, and Asia.
Listen Labs raises $69M Series B at $500M valuation to scale AI interviews
Listen Labs has closed a $69 million Series B led by Ribbit Capital, valuing the AI-powered market research platform at $500 million after 15x revenue growth.
NVIDIA Expands Physical AI Toolkit for Robotics During National Robotics Week
NVIDIA marked National Robotics Week 2026 by detailing new open models, simulation tools, and physics engines designed to accelerate robot training and real-world deployment across industries.
Anthropic launches Claude connectors for creative software including Adobe and Blender
Anthropic released eight new Claude connectors for creative tools including Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, and Autodesk Fusion, enabling AI assistance within professional creative workflows.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with enhanced coding and vision capabilities
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, its latest flagship model featuring improved performance across coding, agents, vision, and multi-step reasoning tasks.
Anthropic secures multiple gigawatts of Google and Broadcom TPU capacity
Anthropic signed a major compute agreement with Google and Broadcom for next-generation TPU infrastructure starting in 2027, as revenue surpasses $30 billion run-rate.
KV Caching Explained: How Transformers Speed Up Text Generation
Key-Value caching optimizes transformer inference by storing attention computations, delivering 5x faster text generation compared to standard methods.