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Insider Brief Agility Robotics and Fort Robotics have expanded a multiyear partnership to develop safety systems for Digit 5, Agility’s next-generation humanoid robot, as the companies prepare the platform for broader commercial deployment.
Insider Brief Hitachi and Fanuc have formed a strategic partnership to develop and commercialize physical AI systems for manufacturing, combining Hitachi’s AI technology with Fanuc’s industrial robots and testing the systems first inside Hitachi factories.
OpenAI is in talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in a pre-IPO funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at roughly $1.4 trillion, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
AI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is nearing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion valuation, according to a source familiar with the deal.
Boston-based voice intelligence startup Modulate has raised $25 million in new funding led by Future Ventures, with participation from Hyperplane and Lakestar. PitchBook data shows the company had previously raised $41 million at a $170 million valuation.
Insider Brief Neura Robotics is expanding into healthcare with a dedicated business unit and an autonomous mobile robot designed to move empty beds and sterile goods through hospitals.
Seligman Ventures, the venture arm of Seligman Investments, has doubled its deployable capital from $500 million to $1 billion less than a year after launching in February 2026, as it deepens its focus on technologies supporting the AI infrastructure build-out.
Denver-based AI data center builder Crusoe has ended its plan to use stationary power plants from fellow Denver company Boom Supersonic, scrapping a $1.25 billion agreement for 29 of Boom’s 42-megawatt Superpower natural gas turbines that were due for delivery starting in 2027.
British AI neocloud Nscale has secured $3.36 billion in convertible note financing ahead of its planned U.S. IPO later this year, the company announced on Friday. The round highlights the enormous capital needed to build out AI data center infrastructure.
Insider Brief Japanese chemicals company DIC Corp. has made an undisclosed strategic investment in California-based Mantis Robotics. Mantis develops high-speed industrial robots designed to work alongside people without fences or segregated areas.
Insider Brief AMD agreed to acquire World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion, adding the spatial-intelligence startup’s AI research team as the chipmaker looks to shape future computing platforms around emerging AI workloads.
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