Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more “predictable and auditable”, exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation  —  The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn't over yet.  A new company called Meridian has emerged from stealth …

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 …

Donna Collins lives about 20 miles from where Meta's biggest data center is being built, in a house her family has lived in for five generations. Construction has thrown the small agricultural community in North Louisiana into the spotlight as a high-profile example of how the infrastructure behind generative AI could impact nearby residents. For […]

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 …

No Man's Sky's new Remnant update is available to play as of Feb. 11, and introduces the Gravitino Coil multi-tool mod.