Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google hires NBA star Stephen Curry as a “performance advisor” for its Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, including testing Fitbit's new personal health coach  —  Curry's role as Google's ‘performance advisor’ will involve providing feedback for Health, Pixel, and Cloud products.

Dan Primack / Axios:
FieldAI, which is developing “brains” for robots, raised $405M at a $2B post-money valuation from Nvidia and others; FieldAI raised an initial $91M in late 2024  —  FieldAI, a California-based developer of “brains” for robots, raised $405 million in venture capital funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft and Asus plan to launch the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X handhelds on October 16; leaks suggest the Ally and Ally X will cost €599 and €899, respectively  —  Microsoft also has a handheld compatibility program to showcase which games run well on the new Xbox Ally devices.

Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Sources: Amazon plans to revamp its Fire tablets and release a higher-end Android tablet as soon as 2026, after using its Android-forked Fire OS since 2011  —  Amazon (AMZN.O) is plotting a big change to its Fire tablet lineup following years of escalating gripes from consumers and app developers …

Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE:
NYC-based Bluefish Labs, which analyzes prompt responses for large brands to understand how LLMs answer consumer questions, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA  —  Bluefish Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence marketing platform for enterprise brands, said today it has raised $20 million …