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Bedrock Robotics • Unknown

Bedrock Robotics, focused on autonomous excavators, has secured $600M in new funding, bringing its valuation to $4.1 billion. The investment addresses a growing shortage of skilled operators in the industry.

Google announced Genie 4, its new world model for generating interactive experiences. The company says the model produces more realistic worlds, allows real-time updates via natural language prompts, generates audio, and runs on Gemini 3.8 Flash.

AI Models • The Verge AI

Rock Matrix open-sourced EdgeRock-4B, built from Qwen3.5-4B with HKUST and CMU. The model keeps a fixed 72 MiB KV cache at 256K context, down from 8 GiB, and serves 6.42 times the throughput while retaining most of its reasoning scores, according to the company.

AI Models • Pandaily

Avante • Series A

Avante, which builds an AI platform to help companies manage employee healthcare and other benefits, raised a $30 million Series A, following a $10 million seed round in 2024.

Machenta • Seed

London-based Machenta, which is building an AI model that can teach robots new physical tasks after seeing them performed just once, raised a $40 million seed round.

Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model it says delivers significant gains in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. Google claims Carbon tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

AI Models • The Verge AI

Google opened Android Studio to third-party AI agents via a 'Bring Your Own Agent' feature supporting more than 40 coding agents, including Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex. Google says new terminal tools help agents finish UI tasks 77% faster while using up to three times fewer tokens.

Developer Tools • The Decoder