Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models into Autodesk products  —  Fei-Fei Li's World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk.

IDW Publishing collext three miniseries based on the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon

Bloomberg:
Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25  —  Robinhood Markets Inc. is seeking to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering of a closed-end fund designed …

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:
DG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures  —  Data centers face a conundrum: how to power increasingly dense server racks using equipment that relies on century-old technology.

Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses  —  - Amazon halts Blue Jay robot project amid strategic shift in warehouse technology.  — Blue Jay faced high costs and complexities …