Armada, which builds modular data centres for AI deployment in remote and sensitive environments, has closed a heavily oversubscribed Series B co-led by Overmatch, BlackRock, and 8090 Industries, bringing total funding to nearly $500 million. New strategic investors include Johnson Controls, NightDragon, Mitsui, and Singtel Innov8, alongside existing backers Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Felicis.…

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Milan-based Lexroom has closed a $50 million Series B led by Left Lane Capital, just eight months after its $19 million Series A, bringing its legal AI platform to more than 8,000 law firms and in-house teams across Europe. Base10 Partners, Eurazeo, and Acurio Ventures also participated. Founded in 2023 by CEO Paolo Fois, Martina…

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France’s Mistral AI has acquired Austrian startup Emmi AI for an undisclosed sum, adding specialised physics simulation capabilities — covering airflow, heat transfer, and material stress — to its growing industrial AI platform. Emmi AI raised €15 million in Austria’s largest funding round of 2025 before the deal. CEO Arthur Mensch said the acquisition strengthens Mistral’s position as a…

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SpaceX’s IPO filing has exposed a striking contradiction at the heart of Elon Musk’s empire: the same entrepreneur who built Tesla on a mission to eliminate hydrocarbon dependency is now spending $2.8 billion on natural gas turbines to power xAI’s data centres, while the NAACP pursues legal action over dozens of unpermitted generators already operating…

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IBM has partnered with Scuderia Ferrari HP to overhaul the team’s fan app using enterprise AI, bringing the technology giant into Formula One — one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States and an increasingly competitive arena for tech companies including AWS, Oracle, and Anthropic. The partnership centres on transforming the millions of data points generated…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Last week, OpenAI made headlines after announcing its AI cracked an 80-year-old mathematics problem. Turns out, it wasn’t the only one. Google DeepMind quietly did them eight (not one) better. The company’s AlphaProof Nexus autonomously solved nine open Erdős problems…

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Over the weekend: Musk, Zuckerberg, and Sacks killed Trump’s draft AI safety executive order in three Wednesday-night phone calls. Anthropic closed a $30B+ round the same Saturday — while Microsoft quietly cancelled its internal Claude Code pilot after token billing ate the entire annual AI budget, redirecting developers to Copilot. CISA logged 15,000 attacks on…

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Insider Brief A Virginia Tech study found AI image generators more accurately represented large metropolitan areas than smaller communities, highlighting potential geographic bias in generative AI systems. Researchers found OpenAI’s DALL·E 2 produced more recognizable depictions of cities such as Richmond, Virginia Beach and Washington, D.C., while smaller communities like Blacksburg often lacked defining landmarks…

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Insider Brief Kawasaki Heavy Industries launched a new center in San Jose to accelerate deployment of physical AI systems and expand Japan-U.S. collaboration in AI and semiconductors. The center will initially focus on healthcare and elder care, with plans to build AI-powered “hospital one-stop solutions” before expanding into sectors including semiconductors, mobility and manufacturing. Kawasaki…

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Insider Brief Doozy Robotics is expanding across the U.S., the Gulf region and Asia as the Singapore-based humanoid robotics startup prepares for a planned Series A and scales its AI-powered industrial workforce platform. The company is building a vertically integrated ecosystem combining humanoid robots, autonomous mobile robots and autonomous forklifts coordinated through its Eywa-OS orchestration…

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