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Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels
Daytona is building a cloud for agents that’s like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it says.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems gets $85M to build better fusion-ready semiconductors
Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advance conductors for fusion power plants.
What some of Anthropic’s backers are reportedly worth before its IPO
Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.
Lab testing giant Quest Diagnostics confirms patients’ personal and health data was compromised during breach
Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months.
Introducing Arduino Alvik and UNO R4 Support in PictoBlox 10.0.0
[[{“value”:” What if you could build a robot that navigates obstacles, controls electronic devices with hand gestures, or displays live sensor readings on an LED matrix, all with beginner-friendly block coding? With PictoBlox 10.0, these possibilities expand with three new Arduino boards: Arduino Alvik, Arduino UNO R4 Minima, and Arduino UNO R4 WiFi. The new integrations […] The post Introducing…
Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback
Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai’s robotaxis in Kazakhstan’s capital in the first half of 2027.
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta
A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the “billionaire’s tax,” should the measure be voted into law.