Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025  —  Apptronik, a fast-growing startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, has secured about $520 million …

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
GitGuardian, which integrates with GitHub to offer nonhuman identity and AI agent security, raised a $50M Series C, taking its total funding to ~$106M  —  Non-human identity security platform company GitGuardian SAS today announced that it had raised $50 million in new funding to fuel …

New York Times:
xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk tells staff that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space  —  In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.

Bloomberg:
Filing: San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, set to run for California governor to succeed Newsom, gets donations from Sergey Brin, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, and others  —  A group of billionaires, including Sergey Brin, is backing San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's campaign for California governor …

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature that supports 50+ languages, coming “this spring” in beta and available on 4G LTE and 5G  —  Live Translation will be available to beta testers ‘this Spring.’  —  T-Mobile is preparing to test …