Category Funding

Acti Bets on the Smartphone Keyboard as AI’s New Front Door

Acti launches an AI keyboard for iOS and Android that can take actions, run Skills and keep context local-first. The startup raised $5.3 million.

DeepMind alumni EquiLibre raised a Series A at a $500 million valuation, using reinforcement learning to trade equities and crypto.

Wayve launches an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation as it expands toward Uber pilots and Nissan plans.

Proception settles a Tesla trade secret suit, raises $11 million and starts shipping its robot hand to researchers and robotics firms.

AI leaderboard Arena says it has reached $100M in annualized revenue as demand for model evaluation and post-training services surges.

Base44 is rolling out its own model to strengthen vibe coding defensibility, cut costs and turn user data into a moat.

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Europe’s AI sovereignty drive is accelerating as Trump-era policy shocks expose the risks of relying on American models and infrastructure.

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General Intuition raises $320M to build video game AI that can transfer gameplay learning into robots, agents and real-world tasks.