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Autosana lands $3.2M to automate mobile and web UI testing with agentic AI
Autosana Inc., a startup building an agentic artificial intelligence platform for mobile and web app quality assurance, said today it raised $3.2 million in early-stage funding. Front-end user interface and user experience has long been one of the most complex frontiers in testing on mobile and web. In an interview with SiliconANGLE, Autosana co-founders Yuvan ...
Secure networking startup Tailscale launches identity-linked governance for AI tools and agents
Tailscale Inc., a startup that helps enterprises establish secure network connections, today announced Aperture in open alpha mode to offer centralized policy control and auditability for artificial intelligence agents to reduce data leakage. In the fast-moving world of AI, where usage is increasing by leaps and bounds, companies are finding themselves in a tight spot: ...
Deep Space Energy raises $1.1M to generate electricity on the moon
Latvian startup Deep Space Energy SIA announced Wednesday it has raised €930,000, about $1.1 million, in pre-seed funding to advance novel radioscopic generator technology for the European space and defense industry – then eventually power lunar surface exploration. The company raised €350K led by Outlast Fund and Linas Sargautis, an angel investor and a former ...
Manufact raises $6.3M to help developers connect AI agents with Model Context Protocol
Manufact Inc., formerly mcp-use, an infrastructure platform developing the next generation of artificial intelligence agents built on Model Context Protocol, today announced it has raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by Peak XV. Liquid 2 Ventures, Ritual Capital, Pioneer Fund and YCombinator also participated in the round, joined by angel investors, including the co-founder ...
Ai2 introduces AutoDiscovery, an automated scientific discovery AI system
Allen Institute for AI today debuted AutoDiscovery, a new artificial intelligence system, now available as an experimental feature that helps science researchers ask questions when they are overwhelmed with data. Discovering patterns across papers can be a tremendous burden for scientific research, becoming the single most time-consuming portion of everyday work. However, the biggest bottleneck ...
Mozart AI raises $6M to bring generative AI music creation to the masses
Mozart AI, also known as Artos Inc., today announced that it has raised $6 million in a seed round led by Balderton Capital to further its development of advancing its generative artificial intelligence music creation engine. Eventbrite Inc. founder Kevin Hartz, Oscar-winning director Charles Ferguson, Mercuri, EWOR and Emery Wells also participated in the round, ...
ChEmpower debuts polishing technology to advance semiconductor manufacturing process
ChEmpower Corp., a semiconductor materials company that develops polishing pads and chemical solutions, today announced Chakra, its first product designed to improve efficiency, reduce costs and promote sustainability in the chipmaking process. As semiconductors are etched and built up layer by layer, wafers must be planarized, or smoothed. This step, known as chemical mechanical planarization, ...
Apptronik raises $520M to produce humanoid Apollo robot commercial deployments
Apptronik Inc., the maker of artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, today announced it has raised $520 million more in early-stage funding, bringing the total capital raised by the company to nearly $1 billion. The Series A-X extension round follows a $415 million oversubscribed Series A raise in 2025. Existing investors, including B Capital, Google LLC, Mercedes-Benz ...
AI agent identity startup Keycard acquires Anchor.dev
Keycard Labs Inc., a startup developing software to manage identity and access security for agentic artificial intelligence, today announced it has acquired Anchor.dev, a startup focused on security certificate management. Through this acquisition, Keycard is bringing on a team with deep experience providing developer infrastructure for companies such as Cloudflare Inc., GitHub Inc. and Salesforce ...
Cadence announces ChipStack ‘Super Agent’ system for chip design and verification
Integrated circuit and electronic hardware design company Cadence Design Systems Inc. today announced the release of an artificial intelligence “Super Agent” designed to transform front-end silicon design and verification. The company said Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent will help revolutionize how engineers automate chip design by improving productivity and speeding up coding, design and testbench ...