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Blackwall Reportedly Raises $100M at $2.2B Valuation to Tame AI-Agent Traffic
Estonia's Blackwall raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to help web hosts police bot and AI-agent traffic, TechCrunch reports. AVP led the Series C.
Waymo Reportedly Plans to Quintuple Its Robotaxi Fleet to 20,000 by End-2027
Waymo plans to grow its fleet from 4,000 cars to 8,000 by end-2026 and 20,000 by end-2027, Semafor reports, citing sources. Waymo declined to comment.
US Sanctions the Chinese Backers of an Ex-Google Engineer’s AI Start-up
The US has sanctioned Shanghai Zhisuan, founded by ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, and investor MiraclePlus under a trade-secret theft law.
Japan Launches MMX Mission to Bring Back Samples From Mars’s Moon Phobos
JAXA launched its MMX spacecraft on an H3 rocket to land on Mars's moon Phobos and return at least 10 grams of samples to Earth in 2031.
fal Launches FLUX 3 Max Video Model, Built With Black Forest Labs
fal and Black Forest Labs launch FLUX 3 Max, a video model fal says makes a 10-second clip in under 11 seconds, with a preliminary 1,139 Elo.
OpenAI Says Its Latest Models Are Far Better at COBOL and Fortran Code
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol score far higher on its own COBOL and Fortran coding evals, though production use still needs expert review.
Anthropic Could Double Its Nscale Bet With a Second $45bn Deal, Reports Say
Nscale is reportedly in talks to sell Anthropic about $45bn more of AI computing power from a second West Virginia building, Bloomberg and Reuters report.
Amazon Bedrock Brings SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.7 to AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Bedrock now offers SpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 in AWS GovCloud (US), AWS says, bringing the coding and agent model to US public-sector customers.
Dream Labs Exits Stealth With $90M Seed and a Public API for Its Robot Model
Robotics start-up Dream Labs exits stealth with a $90M seed and Dream-1, a robot model on a public API from $3 an hour. Capability claims are its own.
Endurance Energy Says Seafloor Geothermal Test Made Net-Positive Power
Endurance Energy says its Adélie test plant made net-positive power for 8.7 seconds on an underwater volcano off Oregon. It is a test, not a power plant.
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