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Luminvera dropped its AR wearable and narrowed from industrial engineering to robotics software just as it graduated from the Founder Institute, betting that an AI-driven spatial design tool can win against better-funded incumbents.

The EU is preparing preliminary findings in its Meta addictive design probe, which could bring a fine worth up to 6% of global sales.

The cybersecurity market has perfected discovery but neglected remediation. Reclaim Security argues the next phase of the industry will be defined by how efficiently organisations eliminate known risks, not how many they can find.

Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150mn a month for compute through 2029. The SpaceX Reflection AI deal puts Nvidia on both sides of the trade.

The Astral Systems £23M raise will scale medical isotopes for cancer scans, from a rare fusion firm already running reactors and earning revenue.

Groq has confirmed a $650M raise to rebuild as an AI inference cloud, six months after Nvidia hired its founder and licensed its chip technology.

Nearfield Instruments has raised $380M at a $1.6bn valuation in the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, as AI makes chip inspection critical.

The Qualcomm Modular deal would value the AI-infrastructure software startup at about $4bn, as the chipmaker builds out a challenge to Nvidia.

Abu Dhabi's MGX AI fund has raised nearly $50bn from outside investors and is already deploying it across OpenAI, xAI, chips and data centres.

Google is building an AI startup incubator drawing on its network of former employees, according to Bloomberg, as ex-staff leave to found their own ventures.