Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout
Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout

The deal, Amazon’s second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company’s portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed…

The OpenAI Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion this year
The OpenAI Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion this year

The nonprofit that controls OpenAI has outlined four programme areas, Alzheimer’s, jobs, AI resilience, and community, and brought on two senior hires to run the biggest of them. The gap between its charitable history and its new ambitions is the most …

Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows
Zalos raises $3.6M to automate finance workflows

The YC Fall 2025 startup, founded by a former Agicap GM and a former Apple Pay engineer, converts screen recordings of finance workflows directly into computer agents, no API integration required. 14 Peaks led the round, with Cohen Circle and 20VC part…

NeuReality taps former Google AI director to steer its inference operating system into the market
NeuReality taps former Google AI director to steer its inference operating system into the market

When Jensen Huang told 30,000 attendees at GTC last week that the future data centre is a “token factory,” he was describing a world that a small Israeli startup has been quietly building toward for months. NeuReality, the Caesarea-based company behind…

Zevero raises $7M as sustainability reporting shifts from annual obligation to continuous data infrastructure
Zevero raises $7M as sustainability reporting shifts from annual obligation to continuous data infrastructure

The London-based carbon management platform, which has doubled its customer base and grown ARR 400% year-on-year, now has $14M in total funding and is pushing into Asia-Pacific and continental Europe,  backed by Spiral Capital, Gazelle Capital, and Dee…

Lace raises $40M to replace chip-making light with helium atoms
Lace raises $40M to replace chip-making light with helium atoms

Lace Lithography, founded by a University of Bergen physicist, uses a beam the width of a single hydrogen atom to etch chip features up to ten times smaller than what current extreme ultraviolet lithography can achieve. Atomico led the Series A, with M…

EU broadcasters urge tighter rules on Big Tech’s control for Smart TV
EU broadcasters urge tighter rules on Big Tech’s control for Smart TV

The Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe  (ACT) released a statement on Monday, urging the European Commission to designate smart TV operating systems and virtual assistant platforms as ‘gatekeepers’ under the EU’…

IBM Cloud, Nutanix, SUSE, and OVHcloud have all independently chosen Traefik as their Ingress NGINX replacement
IBM Cloud, Nutanix, SUSE, and OVHcloud have all independently chosen Traefik as their Ingress NGINX replacement

The Kubernetes community retired Ingress NGINX this month after years of under-resourcing. The migration scramble it triggered is now consolidating around one open source beneficiary, and Traefik Labs announced that convergence at KubeCon today. For ye…

Credo Ventures closes $88M fifth fund to stay the first cheque for CEE’s most ambitious founders
Credo Ventures closes $88M fifth fund to stay the first cheque for CEE’s most ambitious founders

The Prague and Krakow firm, whose earliest bets include UiPath and ElevenLabs, is doubling down on pre-seed in Central and Eastern Europe and its global diaspora, with a six-partner team and a $1–5M typical cheque. Credo Ventures has closed Credo Stage…

OpenAI is in talks to buy fusion energy from Helion
OpenAI is in talks to buy fusion energy from Helion

Axios reports that OpenAI could secure 5 gigawatts of electricity from Helion Energy by 2030, scaling to 50 gigawatts by 2035. Altman has stepped down as Helion’s board chair and recused himself from the deal talks, an echo of the same move he made at …