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The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $852 billion, with Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia among the backers.

The Y Combinator graduate plans an 88,000-satellite constellation for orbital AI compute, backed by Benchmark and EQT Ventures.

Seattle-based XBOW raised $120 million in Series C funding led by DFJ Growth and Northzone, crossing the $1 billion valuation mark as it scales an AI platform that autonomously discovers and validates software vulnerabilities.

Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500M Series A led by Accel and a16z at $2B valuation, challenging humanoid robot trend with AI-powered industrial automation.

Sunday raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to deploy its household robot Memo to homes by Thanksgiving 2026, using a novel low-cost data capture approach.

Palo Alto startup Rhoda AI emerged from 18 months of stealth with a $450 million Series A at a $1.7 billion valuation, unveiling a robotics intelligence platform trained on hundreds of millions of internet videos.

Nominal, an Austin-based hardware data platform, reached a $1 billion valuation after raising an $80 million Series B extension led by Founders Fund, bringing total funding to $155 million in under ten months.

UK startup Wayve secures $1.5B from NVIDIA, Microsoft, Uber, and three automakers for its AI foundation model approach to self-driving, just as BMW and Mercedes shelve their in-house Level 3 programs.

A new 501(c)(3) nonprofit modeled on university endowments aims to generate sustainable returns for critical open source projects, backed by the founders of HashiCorp, cURL, and Vue.js.

Aviation automation startup Skyryse raises $300M Series C at $1.15B valuation to certify SkyOS, a fly-by-wire system replacing complex mechanical controls with a single joystick and touchscreens.

Waymo secures the largest autonomous vehicle investment ever, tripling to 15 million rides in 2025 and targeting 20+ new cities including Tokyo and London in 2026