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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Busy Time For Robotics, Defense Tech And AI

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Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal […]

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Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, co-founders of Skild AI.

Robotics Startup Skild AI Lands $1.4B, Tripling Valuation To $14B In Just 7 Months

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Skild AI, a robotics company building an “omni-bodied” brain to operate any robot for any task, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1.4 billion, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion. The fundraise comes just over seven months after Skild raised a $135 million Series B at a $4.5 billion valuation. SoftBank Group led the

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: xAI Leads As 2026 Is Off To A Brisk Start

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From cloud to factory – humanoid robots coming to workplaces

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The partnership announced this week between Microsoft and Hexagon Robotics marks an inflection point in the commercialisation of humanoid, AI-powered robots for industrial environments. The two companies will combine Microsoft’s cloud and AI infrastructure with Hexagon’s expertise in robotics, sensors, and spatial intelligence to advance the deployment of physical AI systems in real-world settings. At

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Grab brings robotics in-house to manage delivery costs

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Rising labour costs and tighter delivery margins are pushing large platform operators like Grab to look at automation. It’s moved to bring robotics capability in-house by its acquisition of Infermove. Grab operates at a scale where small efficiency gains can have out-sized effects. Its platform supports millions of deliveries in Southeast Asia, many of them

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AGI in 2025 |Do you think what matters today will still matter in the coming months? TL;DR: No!

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OpenAI, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, xAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Google, Apple… all these companies are racing to build AGI by 2025, and once achieved, it will be replicated by dozens of others within weeks. The idea of creating a compressed knowledge base of humanity, extracting information, and iterating on outputs to optimize results is no longer

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How to Avoid the Next AI Winter It’s time to end the AI summer/winter cycle once and for all. Five ways to get real.

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The introduction of the cotton gin wasn’t accompanied by an entire genre of Hollywood movies dedicated to the gin “singularity”. Nor did we usher in Golden Age of telecommunications with blockbuster killer “phone web” stories. Artificial Intelligence is different. Like other disruptive technologies, it is having far-ranging effects, good and bad. But uniquely, quality AI

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These Startups Went From Zero To Unicorn In Under 3 Years

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Every year, some young startups manage to secure ultra-high valuations. Still others quickly raise multiple big funding rounds. And a few manage to do both. It looks like this year was a boom period for the latter category. Forty-six companies founded in the past three years both held or obtained unicorn status in 2025 and

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Scientists built an AI co-pilot for prosthetic bionic hands

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Modern bionic hand prostheses nearly match their natural counterparts when it comes to dexterity, degrees of freedom, and capability. And many amputees who tried advanced bionic hands apparently didn’t like them. “Up to 50 percent of people with upper limb amputation abandon these prostheses, never to use them again,” says Jake George, an electrical and

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Runway claims its GWM-1 “world models” can stay coherent for minutes at a time

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AI company Runway has announced what it calls its first world model, GWM-1. It’s a significant step in a new direction for a company that has made its name primarily on video generation, and it’s part of a wider gold rush to build new frontier of models as large language models and image and video generation

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