☕ Blue Origin scrubs second New Glenn launch, OpenAI is exploring AI tools for personal health & China creates new visa to attract tech talent.
Meta plans $600 billion US spend as AI data centers expand & Nvidia CEO Huang sees strong demand for Blackwell chips.
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Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping.
OpenAI is exploring AI tools for personal health.
Blue Origin scrubs second New Glenn launch.
Tech titans are trying to create engineered babies.
China creates new visa to attract tech talent.
Nvidia CEO Huang sees strong demand for Blackwell chips.
Meta plans $600 billion US spend as AI data centers expand.
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Spectral Compute, a London, UK-based company behind SCALE, a software framework that enables CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) applications to run on any GPU, raised $6M seed in funding. The round led by Costanoa, with participation from Crucible and angel investors.
TRIP, a NYC-based drinks brand, raised $40M in funding. Backers included Joe Jonas, Alessandra Ambrosio, Paul Wesley, Ashley Graham, and consumer fund Coefficient Capital.
Arkyn, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based provider of a digital platform for asset maintenance operations on top of SAP, raised €4M in funding. The round was led by Compounding Capital and Trifork Labs.
1mind, a San Francisco, CA-based AI-led growth (AILG) company, launched with $40m in total funding. The funding included a recently closed $30m Series A led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Primary Ventures, Wing Venture Capital, Operator Collective, Harmonic Growth Partners and Success Venture Partners and executives from Monday.com, ZoomInfo, Databricks, Box, Gong, Braze and Verkada.
Digitail, a Toronto, Canada-based provider of a cloud-based, AI-native platform built to empower veterinary clinic including scheduling and intake, medical records, invoicing, inventory management, and client communication, raised $23M USD in Series B funding The round was led by Five Elms Capital, with participation from existing investors Atomico, Partech, Byfounders, Gradient, and others.
Struck, an Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based provider of a platform offering a comprehensive library of building regulations, raised €2M in Seed funding. The round was led by Value Factory Ventures, with participation from Antler and other industry investors.
Commonware, a US-based crypto infra company, raised $25m in funding. Tempo, the Layer 1 backed by Paradigm and Stripe, led the funding.
Partner Robotics, a Beijing, China-based provider of a multi-sensor perception system and a cloud-based simulation platform, raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding. The round was led by China Growth Capital, with participation from existing investors Cowin Capital and Redpoint China Ventures.
CampusKnot, a Starkville, a MS-based provider of an AI-powered teaching assistant platform for higher education, raised $1.1M in funding. Backers included Tulane Ventures, Boot 64 Ventures, Invest Mississippi Impact Fund, Momentum Fund, and Greaux Innovation Ventures, along with private angels from Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arizona.
Upward, a Seattle, WA-based fintech infrastructure platform provider, raised $8M in Seed+ funding. The round was led by Dundee Venture Capital and Breakwater Ventures Fund, with participation from Techstars, Altari Ventures, Cascade Seed Fund, and Outside Ventures.
The Beans, a San Francisco, CA-based financial operating system for Caring Professionals and a provider of workforce development for their employers, raised $5.4M in Seed funding. Backers included Alloy Alchemist Fund, Commerce Ventures, Impulsum Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Swing Ventures, Techstars, Esther Dyson, TruStage Ventures, Coyote Ventures, and an investment from Fabric VC.
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Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
The Wikimedia Foundation asked AI developers to access Wikipedia content through its paid Wikimedia Enterprise API instead of scraping the site, to reduce server strain and support its nonprofit mission.
The foundation revealed that AI bots had been scraping pages while disguising themselves as human users, leading to inflated traffic and an 8% drop in real human visits year-over-year.
Wikipedia urged AI companies to provide clear attribution to its contributors, warning that declining visits could reduce volunteer engagement and donations that sustain the platform.
OpenAI is exploring AI tools for personal health
Sources report that OpenAI is exploring its own consumer health tools, weighing options like creating a personal health assistant or a health data aggregator to consolidate individual medical records.
The company’s massive scale, with 800 million weekly ChatGPT users already asking medical questions, gives it a unique opportunity to succeed where other big tech companies have previously failed.
To lead its healthcare push, OpenAI hired Doximity cofounder Nate Gross to direct its strategy and brought on Ashley Alexander from Instagram as its vice president of health products.
Blue Origin scrubs second New Glenn launch
Blue Origin scrubbed the second New Glenn launch on Sunday due to adverse weather, which has postponed NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes mission intended for the red planet’s orbit.
The company’s next attempt from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for Wednesday, with an apparent exemption from new FAA rules that prohibit most commercial rocket flights.
This flight is also another chance to land the reusable first-stage booster on a sea-based platform, after the booster was lost during its landing descent on its inaugural flight.
Tech titans are trying to create engineered babies
A company called Preventive, backed by Sam Altman and Brian Armstrong, is quietly working to create the first baby born from an embryo that was edited to prevent hereditary disease.
Meanwhile, separate ventures are selling polygenic screening services that analyze an embryo’s DNA to generate probabilities for traits like intelligence, height, and various potential health conditions.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong floated a plan to work in secret and reveal a healthy genetically engineered child, hoping to shock the world into accepting the controversial technology.
China creates new visa to attract tech talent
China introduced a K-visa for science and technology workers to compete with the US, which is seeing uncertainties around its H-1B program due to tightened immigration policies.
The new program supplements existing schemes like the R-visa but comes with loosened requirements, letting foreign professionals apply for entry even without having a prior job offer in hand.
While intended to fill a skills gap, some young Chinese job seekers worry the policy will threaten local job opportunities in what is already a fiercely competitive employment market.
Nvidia CEO Huang sees strong demand for Blackwell chips
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company is seeing “very strong demand” for its Blackwell chips, highlighting deep collaboration with TSMC as it scales wafer production.
Huang confirmed Nvidia relies on memory suppliers SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron, noting that all have expanded capacity amid an AI-driven chip supercycle.
He added that Nvidia is not in active discussions to sell Blackwell chips to China due to U.S. export restrictions, as the company continues to dominate the global AI hardware market.
Meta plans $600 billion US spend as AI data centers expand
Meta announced plans to invest $600 billion in U.S. infrastructure and jobs over the next three years, primarily to build AI data centers powering its superintelligence ambitions.
Mark Zuckerberg told President Trump the company is “aggressively front-loading capacity” to prepare for future compute needs, with major new facilities in Louisiana and Texas.
Meta recently secured $27 billion in financing from Blue Owl Capital for its Louisiana data center — its largest global project — as capital expenses are set to rise notably next year.
DeepSeek researcher pessimistic over AI’s impact in startup’s first public appearance since success
In its first public appearance in nearly a year, DeepSeek senior researcher Victor Chen expressed pessimism about AI’s long-term effects, warning that automation could cause mass job losses within 10–20 years.
Chen said AI companies must act as “defenders” of society, even as he acknowledged the technology’s short-term benefits, speaking at China’s World Internet Conference alongside other leading AI firms.
DeepSeek, celebrated for its low-cost AI model that outperformed U.S. rivals earlier this year, has since maintained a low profile but remains central to China’s AI and semiconductor ecosystem.
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Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer
Google is rolling out Gemini to the Google TV Streamer, replacing Google Assistant and enabling more natural voice-based interactions for discovering and managing content.
Users can ask conversational questions like “What’s a movie we can watch together?” or “What happened at the end of Outlander last season?” and even get educational or DIY guidance via YouTube.
The update, rolling out over the next few weeks to users aged 18 and older, follows Google’s plan to bring Gemini to all devices, including select TCL, Hisense, and Walmart Onn streaming models.
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