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Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents


The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla Ventures participated. The gap between an AI agent that works in a demo and one that works in production is, […]



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Openreach expands collaboration with Google Cloud AI to plan its full-fibre rollout


The BT subsidiary, operator of the UK’s largest broadband network and the country’s second-largest commercial fleet, has built a digital twin of the UK’s transport and broadband infrastructure on Vertex AI, and is using Gemini Enterprise to cut engineering overhead by more than half. Openreach, the BT subsidiary that operates the UK’s largest broadband network, […]



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Epoch Biodesign closes $12M to prove its nylon recycling enzymes can work at scale


The London startup uses AI-engineered enzymes to break nylon 6,6 waste, from leggings to airbags to carpets, back into the monomers it was made from, recovering more than 90% and removing the need for virgin petroleum feedstock. Total funding now exceeds $50M. Nylon 6,6 is one of the most useful materials humanity has ever made. […]



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Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout


The deal, Amazon’s second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company’s portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed. The race to put a humanoid robot in every home has a new entrant. Amazon has acquired Fauna […]



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The OpenAI Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion this year


The nonprofit that controls OpenAI has outlined four programme areas, Alzheimer’s, jobs, AI resilience, and community, and brought on two senior hires to run the biggest of them. The gap between its charitable history and its new ambitions is the most striking number in their announcement. When OpenAI moved its operational activities into a for-profit […]



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