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Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field |
In a Pacific conflict, the nearest U.S. drone factory is thousands of miles away. Ships and planes carrying parts to the front lines would be…
In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants |
Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking…
ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand |
AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads are over-provisioned, and cloud costs…
Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales |
As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a…
Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch |
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is…
Why China’s humanoid robot industry is winning the early market |
China’s humanoid robots grabbed global attention with kung fu flips at the nation’s televised Spring Festival Gala, while Chinese phone maker Honor is set to…
China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead |
While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new…
Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data |
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of…