Nscale commits $3.5B of AI cloud compute to Figure (intent past $6B), takes an undisclosed stake, and becomes preferred provider for Helix and humanoids.
Valencia’s iPronics raised $125M Series B (Maverick Silicon + Light Street) for silicon-photonics optical circuit switching in AI data centers. Total funding ~$177M.
Lyte just closed a $165M Series C at $1.6B so robots get trustworthy eyes first — Maverick Silicon–led, Face ID / PrimeSense founders, LyteVision shipping to factories.
Anthropic’s threat chief told CNBC that Moonshot’s Kimi K3 was illegally trained off Claude — the same day Reuters sources said the lab confidentially filed a Hong Kong IPO.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93B, putting the open-model hub inside the chip giant while promising developers can keep choosing their hardware.
Wonderful more than doubles to a $5B valuation with a $550M Series C — Insight leads again, Salesforce joins, and the bet is an AI OS for enterprise agents.
Meta Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and the Model API — ~20% fewer tool calls, longer-horizon agents, max reasoning still in safety testing.
HiddenLayer closes a $100M Series B led by Delta-v as enterprises fund AI runtime and agent-harness security. ARR up 10×; TechCrunch and PR Newswire detail the round.