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Anthropic debuts Sonnet 4.6, a highly capable creative and coding AI model
Anthropic PBC upgraded its Claude Sonnet model to version 4.6 today, adding stronger computer-use skills, long-context reasoning, agent planning and improved performance for knowledge work and design. The company said it brings the coveted 1 million token context window, recently introduced in the company’s flagship Opus 4.6 model, to Sonnet in beta test mode. For ...
AI field operations startup FYLD raises $41M to help build large-scale infrastructure
FYLD Ltd., a London-based artificial intelligence-powered startup that assists infrastructure and utility fieldwork operators, today announced it has raised $41 million in a Series B funding to accelerate the delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects. The round was led by New York-based Energy Impact Partners LP, with participation from European growth equity specialist Partech through its ...
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 ...