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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 ...
Augment Code makes its semantic coding capability available for any AI agent
Augment Computing Inc., the maker of an agentic artificial intelligence coding tool for developers, today announced the launch of Model Context Protocol support for its service, which will enable AI coding agents and platforms to use its tools. Under the hood, the company uses what it calls the Context Engine, a powerful semantic search capability ...
Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.6 with 1 million-token context support
Anthropic PBC today debuted the next upgrade to its flagship large language model Claude Opus, its largest frontier artificial intelligence model, with 4.6, a direct upgrade over 4.5, which the company says raises the bar for knowledge work and complex tasks. In addition to the launch of Opus 4.6, Anthropic announced a bevy of other ...
Clearnote debuts legal AI platform for music and entertainment professionals
Clearnote, the artificial intelligence-powered legal platform for the entertainment industry, founded by the team at record label Good Boy Records, today announced its official public launch following months of public beta testing. Originally built to handle deals in the music industry, Clearnote is expanding to assist other specialties across entertainment, including legal agreements in film, ...
Higgsfield launches ‘vibe’ editor for creating motion graphics
Generative artificial intelligence startup Higgsfield Inc. today announced the launch of a no-code “vibe” generator for motion graphics that allows nontechnical users to produce animations and the underlying code. The company said this is the first in a series of what it calls “vibe editing” for business users and creative professionals who want to act ...
Positron AI raises $230M at over $1B valuation to build energy-efficient AI accelerator hardware
Positron AI, a builder of custom silicon and hardware for energy-efficient artificial intelligence inference, today announced it has raised an oversubscribed $230 million funding round at a $1 billion valuation. The Series B round was co-led by Arena Private Wealth, Jump Trading and Unless, with participation from new and strategic investors Qatar Investment Authority, Arm ...