Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup

AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount.

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Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces and $4.3M from a tweet

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Former Y Combinator president Geoff Ralston launches new AI ‘safety’ fund

This AI startup just raised $7.5m to fix commercial insurance for America’s 24m underprotected small businesses

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AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company

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OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this week

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Hammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuation

Infinite Reality will acquire agentic AI firm Touchcast for $500M

Futureverse acquires Candy Digital to build AI-powered fan experiences

Capsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brands

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Adobe takes stake in Synthesia, startup behind AI clones for corporate videos

Marshmallow, the UK insurance startup for migrants, raises $90M at a $2B+ valuation

Kore.ai teams with G42’s Inception to develop AI-powered products for the enterprise

Phantom Neuro grabs $19M to help amputees put their phantom limbs to use

Moveworks joins AI agent library craze

Anthropic launches research tool and Google Workspace integration

Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business

OpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai

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Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’

Telli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its AI voice agents