Bland raises $50 million for long, difficult voice AI calls
Bland says its voice agents handled 175 million calls last year and now processes 3.5 million calls a week.
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Limitless Labs raised $20 million to build a CAM agent that captures machinist expertise and turns CAD files into safer tool paths.
DeepSeek raises $7.4B without giving investors control
DeepSeek closed its first outside round at a valuation above $50 billion, but commercial backers get no voting power.
Samsung gets a second look as TSMC fills up
AI chip demand has pushed TSMC capacity toward 2028, sending BYD, Google, AMD and Tesla to explore Samsung foundry capacity.
Qwen veteran Lin Junyang raises at $2B valuation
The former Alibaba Qwen lead is building a new lab around world models and embodied AI instead of another chatbot.
SpaceX moves to buy Cursor for $60B
Days after its IPO, SpaceX exercised an all-stock option to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor.
Qwen robot models triple cross-body transfer success
Alibaba's Qwen team released three embodied AI models, with RobotManip lifting cross-robot transfer success from 7.5% to 23.9% while RobotNav and RobotWorld cover movement and prediction.
Microsoft turns Work IQ into an agent data layer
Work IQ APIs are generally available, giving agents metered access to Microsoft 365 context through MCP, A2A and REST.
Radical Numerics raises $50M to model biology across layers
The Evo team is building general biological intelligence that reads DNA, RNA and proteins together, while keeping future models closed.
NewCore raises $66M for AI agent identity
The Tel Aviv startup wants to give enterprise agents identities, permissions and split-key credentials before old IAM systems buckle.