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  1. InterviewNo. 60

    Immo Polewka on Why Manufacturing Planning Breaks

    Co-founder, Zentio
  2. InterviewNo. 61

    Anton Vice on Why AI Still Depends on Human Data

    Co-founder & CTO, Grably
  3. FundingSeries B

    Nevis Raises $70M to Expand Wealth AI

    Led by EQT Ventures
  4. Funding

    Nous Raises $17M to Expand AI Household Agent

    Led by Heartcore Capital and Mosaic Ventures
  5. FundingSeries A

    adsilico Raises £10M to Expand Virtual Patient Models

    Led by PXN Ventures
  6. FundingSeed

    Epoch Raises $4.25M to Automate EUDR Compliance

    Led by Burnt Island Ventures and Sand River

Interviews

People A–ZAll interviews →
No. 96Defense & Security
We’ve already found vulnerabilities where developers just hardcoded a cloud LLM token into the app, which let anyone read every conversation users had with the AI.
Sergey ToshinFounder, OversecuredRead the interview →

  1. Chuck Lee

    ESTsoftOn bringing AI Humans Into Real-World Interaction

  2. Fangzheng Wang

    HopToOn the Constraints Shaping Hybrid Robotics

  3. Asad Tirmizi

    TrenerOn why Factories Are Moving from Programs to Models

  4. Ryan Saavedra

    Alt-BionicsOn why Robotic Hands Break at Reliability

  5. Christian Duriez

    Compliance RoboticsOn the Constraints Shaping Soft Robotics

  6. Julius Kümmerle

    SafeADOn why Autonomous Driving Still Needs Boundaries

  7. Fabio Bonomo

    qbroboticsOn why Robotic Hands Break at Durability

  8. Marco Prata

    Seed RoboticsOn why Robotic Hands Break at Reliability

  9. Rich Walker

    Shadow RobotOn the Trade-Offs Shaping Robot Dexterity

  10. Sicheng Yang

    DexcelbotOn why Embodied AI Breaks at the Hand

Funding

$15.3B across 198 verified rounds in October

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  1. $2.5M

    Weflayr Raises $2.5M to Build AI Model Routing

    Pre-Seed · 13books Capital
  2. $30M

    Maxinsights Raises $30M to Improve Physical AI Data

    Seed · Peak XV
  3. $5.5M

    BOB AI Raises $5.5M to Expand AI Banking Platform

    Seed · Mischief
  4. $5M

    Pennant Raises $5M to Automate Proxy Voting

    Seed · Urban Innovation Fund
  5. $2.2M

    RhymeQ Raises $2.2M to Scale Quantum Software

    Pre-Seed · Ground State Ventures
  6. €1.2M

    DatAIMed Secures €1.2M to Advance Clinical AI

    Maggioli Group
  7. $1B

    Flapping Airplanes Lands $1B to Optimize AI Compute

    Series A · Index and Lux
  8. $34M

    Mave Raises $34M to Stop Cyberattacks

    Series A · Red Dot Capital Partners
More roundsOct 23–27
  1. $600MBedrock Robotics Lands $600M to Expand Construction AI
  2. €5.4MSonexos Raises €5.4M to Scale Solid-State Noise Control
  3. $1MX Pay Secures $1M to Scale AI Agent Payments
  4. $237MPathos AI Secures $237M to Scale AI Drug Development
  5. $215MWarp Sciences Lands $215M to Build AI Drug Discovery Labs
  6. $52MKevel Raises $52M to Scale Retail Media AI
  7. $50MFormic Raises $50M to Deploy General-Purpose Robots
  8. $40MCognitive Credit Raises $40M to Expand AI Platform

Intelligence

Short briefs on the AI industry, built from local-language reporting

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  1. Consumer

    StepFun releases STEPX Neo agent phone for about $600

    Bundling models, an operating system, and monthly tokens into a phone turns consumer hardware into StepFun's distribution layer.
  2. Models & Infrastructure

    REA passes 110,000 GitHub stars linking models to decompilers

    The tool shows that standardized agent interfaces can automate static binary reconstruction, but its effectiveness remains bounded because it cannot parse virtualized code or conduct dynamic debugging.
  3. Consumer

    Utopai ranks second globally using post-trained MiniMax model

    Domain-specific post-training can push an open-source base model past dedicated foundation labs on standard video benchmarks.
  4. Models & Infrastructure

    StartLux open-sources decision models outscoring Jev on benchmark index

    Local decision weights shift agent routing from proprietary cloud APIs directly onto client machines.

Events

33 in the next 30 days

Full calendar →
  1. Oct 26–30

    webinale Munich 2026

    Munich, Germany · Hybrid
  2. Oct 26–30

    International PHP Conference Munich 2026

    Munich, Germany · Hybrid
  3. Oct 26–30

    International JavaScript Conference Munich 2026

    Munich, Germany · Hybrid
  4. Oct 27–29

    ODSC AI West 2026

    San Francisco, USA · Conference
  5. Oct 28–29

    Conversational AI & Customer Experience Summit 2026

    Munich, Germany · Conference
  6. Oct 28

    IBBC 2026

    Seville, Spain · Conference
  7. Oct 29

    J On The Beach 2026

    Malaga, Spain · Conference
  8. Nov 1

    AI Expo Europe 2026

    Bucharest, Romania · Conference
  9. Nov 2–6

    FinTech Week x StartmeupHK 2026

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong · Conference