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AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Down the Stack Into Chips, Energy and the Physical World
AI is no longer attracting capital as a single technology category. It is starting to pull entire industries into its orbit. This week, investors backed everything from AI data infrastructure and photonic networking to physical-AI processors, energy systems, construction robotics, satellite computing, healthcare and fintech. The breadth matters because the funding is no longer clustering […]
AGI vs ASI: The Difference That Could Define AI’s Next Era
Artificial general intelligence and artificial superintelligence are often discussed as if they are simply two stages of increasingly powerful AI. The difference is more important than that. In its From AGI to ASI report, Google DeepMind uses AGI to describe AI with roughly human-level general intelligence. ASI sets a much higher bar: intelligence that broadly […]
Meta Muse Spark Open Brings 816B Agentic AI to Local Hardware
Most frontier AI models still come with a requirement: someone else’s datacenter. Developers can build with them through an API. The model itself the infrastructure behind it and often the data path remain outside their control. Meta is testing a direction with Muse Spark Open, an open-weight agentic model large enough to compete with leading […]
NetApp Excellerator Accelerates Deep-Tech Innovation for the AI Era with Cohort 15
Bengaluru, India. – 16 October 2026 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced the launch of the 15th cohort of its flagship startup accelerator program, NetApp Excellerator, welcoming five startups driving the next wave of AI innovation in the global deep tech ecosystem. The new cohort focuses on AI-powered software engineering, […]
Figma Expands Its AI Platform With Specs for Product Context, Design and Code
Introducing Specs: Technical context for your designs. When you use AI to create something, it’s surprisingly easy to turn an idea into a screen. What’s not easy is teaching the machine everything your team already knows. A designer might know the checkout button should be removed once payment is complete, a product manager might know […]
Meet Apple HomeView, a Shared Screen Built to Keep the Whole Home Connected
A phone belongs to one person. A television belongs to the room. Apple HomeView is trying to sit somewhere between the two. Apple’s new 7-inch smart display is designed to be shared by an entire household, but it does not treat everyone in that household the same. HomeView can recognize up to six people by […]
Affinity Labs raises $2M to build software companies with creators
Building an app is becoming easier. Getting people to care about it is not. That is the problem London-based Affinity Labs is building around. The startup has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding, led by Fuel Ventures alongside Antler, with the financing package also including a £497,787 Innovate UK grant. Angel participants include investors and […]
Breaking: Character.ai is under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy system
Character AI, an AI startup that enables people to converse with fictional AI companions, has submitted documents for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Character AI says it intends to conduct a sale of all, or substantially all, of its assets under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy system, […]
SpaceX CRS-35: Final ISS Solar Arrays and Science Cargo Explained
SpaceX’s CRS-35 may look like another routine cargo run to the International Space Station, but the mission connects three different phases of orbital operations at once: reusable transportation, continued ISS modernization and research designed for missions beyond low Earth orbit. SpaceX’s mission plan pairs a Dragon spacecraft flying for the fourth time with a Falcon […]
Mesa School Raises ₹110 Crore for AI-First Business Education
Most education funding rounds are bets on software. Mesa School of Business is a bet on the campus itself. The Bengaluru institution has raised ₹110 crore, comprising roughly ₹85 crore in Series A equity co-led by Dharana Capital and existing investor Elevation Capital, plus ₹25 crore in venture debt from InnoVen Capital and Alteria Capital. […]
Clueso Raises $10M to Turn Business Video Into an Agent-Managed Workflow
Most AI video tools consider the job finished when a video is exported. Clueso is building around what happens afterward: the product changes, the screenshots become outdated, the training library falls behind and someone has to make the video again. The Bengaluru-founded company has raised $10 million in Series A funding, led by Dharana Capital. […]
Microsoft-Decision-1 Splits AI Decisions From Generative Reasoning
Microsoft-Decision-1 is not designed to write, summarize or reason in paragraphs. Its job is narrower: make fast, structured decisions inside AI systems, then return probabilities that software can act on. That distinction matters because modern AI applications increasingly contain many more decisions than generative steps. An agent might use a powerful reasoning model to understand […]