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Bristol leads a £9.8 million hub to help businesses use robots
The 23-partner project combines technical demonstrations with advice on investment and implementation.
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Startups, funding rounds and acquisitions in tech and AI, when the money says something about what a company actually builds.
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Mecka raises $60 million to capture robot training data
The company records human demonstrations and turns sensor signals into training material and deployments.
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Deno joins Cloudflare and sets a wind-down for Deploy
The team promises one more year of runtime updates and six months of hosting before shutdown.
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Atomic Machines unveils a fast switch built from digital code
The company says tiny moving contacts let PrimeSwitch open in 50 microseconds.
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Type One Energy raises $200 million for stellarator fusion
The funding supports a prototype and a planned power plant at Tennessee’s Bull Run site.
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Oratomic reports $775 million raised for quantum computers
The figure is total funding since March, rather than the size of a single new round.
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Suniva raises $835 million to grow its US solar cell output 5.5 times
A new South Carolina plant would take the only US-owned cell maker from 1 to 5.5 gigawatts a year.
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Stoke Space raises $1 billion for a reusable rocket that has not flown
The first Nova launch is now planned for early 2027, and a rocket five times larger is already on the drawing board.
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Positron raises up to $875 million for an AI chip without HBM memory
Its next chip uses cheaper phone-style memory instead of HBM, to run models with very long inputs.
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Nscale raises $3.36 billion in convertible notes ahead of its IPO
The British AI cloud company, backed by Nvidia, is preparing a New York listing that could value it at $35 billion.
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Kontext raises $4 million to check what AI agents do at work
The Munich startup weighs every action an AI agent tries to take against company policy before it runs.
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Databricks buys Row Zero to put live company data into spreadsheets
The spreadsheet startup handles billions of rows and will plug into Genie, Databricks' AI assistant, for every customer.