Germany’s AI scale-up scene is unmistakably industrial in its instincts, even where the applications are consumer-facing. Berlin alone accounts for nearly half the companies on this list, spanning engineering intelligence, AI asset management, and voice assistants, while Munich, Cologne, and Stuttgart are producing the platforms rebuilding hospital operations, building energy efficiency, and enterprise compliance. From…

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Insider Brief Tesollo has begun preparations for a South Korean initial public offering after completing an undisclosed Series B funding round. The robotic hand developer appointed KB Securities as lead underwriter and plans to pursue a technology-special listing after 2027, with existing and strategic investors participating in the round. Tesollo develops multi-jointed robotic hands, grippers…

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Insider Brief Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2, a three-model AI system designed to give robots whole-body control, greater dexterity, multi-step reasoning and the ability to collaborate with other robots. Tests showed stronger performance with two-finger grippers than multifinger hands, while Apollo 2 demonstrated full-body tasks including walking, bending and placing objects on shelves. Gemini…

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the company’s second-quarter earnings call to lay out sweeping AI ambitions spanning enterprise services, personal assistants, and faster app development, even as investors sent Meta’s stock down nearly 10% following the results. Zuckerberg said Meta sees a large enterprise opportunity beyond the business AI agent it launched in June, including…

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Microsoft reported a $3.2 billion quarterly gain from its Anthropic investment and a $600 million write-down on its OpenAI stake, tucked into blockbuster fiscal fourth-quarter results showing $90 billion in quarterly revenue and $35.8 billion in net income. For the full fiscal year, ending June 30, Microsoft reported $331.8 billion in revenue and $133.7 billion…

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Natural has raised a $30 million Series A led by Kirsten Green at Forerunner, with continued backing from existing investors, bringing the company’s total funding to over $40 million. The round closed when the company was 193 days old and drew participation from Human Capital, Abstract, Genius Ventures, Torch Capital, and a range of individual…

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Insider Brief Alocity has completed its Series A round, led by a private investor group alongside founder Marco Quintero, with funds accelerating product innovation and expanding engineering, sales, marketing, and security integration partnerships The company’s platform is built around Aimee, an AI Operator for Physical Spaces that lets users describe intent rather than navigate separate…

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Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week she is stepping down from the startup, citing health concerns tied to the pace and stress of startup work. She said she had concluded over several months that the sustained workload had exceeded what her health could support. OpenAI confirmed Wednesday that Weng, who previously served…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 6,146 new readers who joined us yesterday. The sci-fi style breach that saw OpenAI’s models hack into Hugging Face happened weeks ago, but the victim list is still growing. A second company confirmed that a customer…

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The world still contains vast amounts of unused data. But the cheap, clean and permissionless text that powered the first LLM boom is becoming polluted by AI output, contested by its owners and costly to replace. This week, AI companies were reportedly buying old books while Nvidia released a simulator that teaches robots through video,…

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