Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video
Skild AI hit $100M in run-rate revenue selling robots a brain that learns from one video

Skild AI says it has reached $100M in recurring revenue run-rate ten months after its first commercial deployment, with hundreds of robots running at more than 60 companies. Its S1 model learns tasks from a single video without prior training data, whi…

DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model
DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding and agent tasks, at a lower price. The Hangzhou lab announced it in a thread on X and published the weights on Hugging Face under the…

Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355bn, weeks after Airtable
Bending Spoons agrees to buy Miro for $1.355bn, weeks after Airtable

“It’s a privilege, and no small responsibility, to welcome a product that over 250,000 organizations have integrated into their workflows,” said Luca Ferrari, the chief executive and co-founder of Bending Spoons. His Milan-based group has agreed to buy…

Zuckerberg tells Sources labs holding back AI models is ‘quite dangerous’
Zuckerberg tells Sources labs holding back AI models is ‘quite dangerous’

“I personally am much more worried about a small number of labs or people having control of something that is so capable.” That was Mark Zuckerberg, speaking to Alex Heath on the Sources podcast, published on Wednesday. Heath recorded the interview at …

Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware
Antioch raises $32m to test robots in simulation before they touch hardware

Antioch, a New York startup that builds simulation software for robots, drones and other autonomous machines, has raised a $32m Series A. Greylock led the round. The money goes on the idea that physical AI teams should test their systems in the cloud b…

OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit
OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit

Sébastien Bubeck is the OpenAI researcher at the centre of the Navier-Stokes credit dispute. He has now given his account of the private talks with the two mathematicians who say OpenAI mistreated them. He denies trying to strip one of them of credit f…

Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports
Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports

Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, is in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $60bn. That would put it $16bn above the valuation it reached just three months ago. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas of Blo…

OpenAI’s rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors

Rogue OpenAI agents used dozens of website to exchange information, new investigations have found. However, the real impact is yet to be determined.

US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google
US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google

The US Department of Energy has lent NextEra Energy up to $1.9bn to restart the Duane Arnold Energy Center. It is Iowa’s only nuclear power plant. Most of its power is already sold to Google, under a 25-year deal to supply the company’s cloud and AI in…

Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres
Celero raises $275m to bring coherent optics inside AI data centres

Celero Communications, a two-year-old chip startup, has raised $275m in a Series C round that values it at more than $3bn. It makes the processors that push data down fibre optic cables between AI chips, racks and whole data centres. Atreides Managemen…