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China's Embodied AI Founders Turn to Incense and Altars as Funding Tightens
Founders of Chinese embodied AI startups are reportedly burning incense and kowtowing at altars for good luck as the sector's hype cools and investor cash dries up. The rituals mark a surreal collision of hustle culture and old superstition in one of tech's most pressured niches.
Benchmark Keeps Deliberate Investing Pace After $2 Billion Fundraise
Benchmark’s five general partners took the stage at a technology conference this week to describe a firm that has grown its funds but still makes only two or three new investments per partner each year.
Melius Raises $25M for AI Ad-Creative Platform After Scrapping Its First Product
The New York startup has pulled in $25 million across a Series A and seed round for an AI platform that generates ad campaigns, images and videos, after abandoning its original performance-marketing tool.
Sandbar CEO: Voice is key to winning in AI wearables
Sandbar, the startup behind the Stream voice ring, has raised $36 million and argues that voice-controlled wearables that keep users in charge will succeed where earlier AI notetakers failed.
Startup plans laser network to beam data between data centers
Endeavour Optical Networks has emerged from stealth with seed funding to build a space-based laser communications system it says will be the fastest yet, offering an alternative to undersea fiber cables.