Ai Art

GenRobot AI • Series A+

GenRobot AI, a Beijing-based company providing data infrastructure for robot development, has completed a $100 million Series A+ funding round. Participating investors include SAIC Motor, Malaysia's Eastworlds, Baidu, Shoucheng Holdings, and Galaxy General Robotics, alongside financial investors including GL Ventures, CITIC Goldstone.

Casap • Series B

Casap, whose AI tools automate dispute and anti-fraud operations for banks, raised a $56M Series B led by Base10 Partners, bringing its total funding to $90M.

Omen AI → Aquatic Labs

Omen AI adds liquid know-how in a $16 million acquisition of Aquatic Labs. Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in the deal.

Revolut says it cut AI coding inference costs by roughly 90% in less than a year by making self-hosted GLM models its default over commercial tools like Claude Code. The move highlights a growing trend of enterprises replacing third-party coding assistants with in-house model deployments to control spend.

Enterprise AI • Techmeme

Fal • Unknown

AI inference startup Fal raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer, doubling its valuation to $16 billion as demand surges. The five-year-old startup's new valuation reflects strong investor appetite for AI infrastructure.

CyberKord • Pre-Seed

Italian cybersecurity startup CyberKord raised €2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round to support development of its AI-powered platform for automating IT and cybersecurity operations.

Granter • Unknown

Portuguese AI startup Granter raised €1.6 million in a funding round led by 3XP Global to expand its AI-powered platform that simplifies access to European funding programmes across Europe.

Solo fund by ex-Phoenix Court partner • Unknown

A former partner at London VC firm Phoenix Court launched her debut solo fund, a $17 million vehicle looking to unearth Europe's next AI success. The fund is not a direct startup funding round but a new venture capital fund.

PLTR

Palantir's quarterly results showed U.S. commercial revenue surpassing U.S. government revenue for the first time ever, a milestone that also contains a foreboding signal according to TechCrunch. The article does not specify exact revenue figures or stock movement.

AAPL

Apple posted its best-ever fiscal year for revenue and earnings per share, with iPhone revenue rising 17.5% in the fourth quarter and Mac sales growing strongly. The company is capitalizing on the AI boom without matching competitors' infrastructure spending.

CrowdStrike → Dreadnode

CrowdStrike agreed to acquire Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for approximately $95 million, mostly in cash. The acquisition is part of CrowdStrike's push to secure AI agent deployments.

The UK government has launched the AI Biosecurity Lab, which it says is the world's first dedicated AI biosecurity organization. The lab will focus on tackling emerging biological threats as part of the country's National AI Biosecurity Initiative.

Policy • Tech.eu

Hypersphere Technology • Angel

Shenzhen-based AI startup Hypersphere Technology has raised hundreds of millions of RMB in angel funding. Investors include Legend Capital, CAS Star, SenseTime Guoxiang Capital, and WestSummit Capital.

ANT

Anthropic has officially filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC for an IPO, planning to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol 'ANT'. The filing reveals record revenue of $11.6 billion in the latest quarter and plans to raise billions, with an unusual governance structure to preserve founder control.