Standard Bots becomes a robotics unicorn
Standard Bots raised $200 million at a $1 billion valuation to scale robots that learn tasks by demonstration instead of traditional programming.
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Cursor plans a London European headquarters and wants to grow its regional team to about 200 people by year-end.
Anthropic prices Fable 5 at twice Opus
Anthropic opened Claude Fable 5 broadly at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, double Opus 4.8.
OpenAI reframes AI research as human-AI tandem work
OpenAI now says fully automating everything is not the future it wants, shifting from autonomous AI researcher language toward work in tandem with people.
Meta and Reliance plan a 168MW AI data center
Meta is partnering with Reliance on a built-to-suit AI data center in Jamnagar, India, starting with 168MW and green power contracts.
PhysicsX raises $300M for industrial physics AI
PhysicsX raised a $300 million Series C led by Temasek, valuing the UK startup at about $2.4 billion.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 with safety fallbacks
Claude Fable 5 is Anthropic’s strongest public model, adapted from Mythos and designed to fall back to Opus 4.8 for cyber, bio, chemical and distillation risks.
SoftBank's OpenAI-Backed Loan Stalls at $6B
Banks remain cautious after SoftBank cut a planned OpenAI margin loan from $10 billion to $6 billion, exposing the liquidity gap behind private AI valuations.
KPMG rolls Microsoft Copilot and Agent 365 across 138 markets
KPMG is giving 276,000 staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent 365 and its own Workbench platform, showing how large audit firms are moving toward multi-vendor AI stacks with tighter agent governance.
PhysicsX raises $300M to build large physics models
London-based PhysicsX has raised $300 million at a valuation of about $2.4 billion, with Temasek leading and Nvidia, Siemens and Applied Materials joining to back AI-driven engineering simulation.