XPeng's robotics unit raised over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation in its first external round — before the IRON humanoid has shipped a single unit.
AMD is buying Toronto startup Taalas, which etches AI model weights directly into silicon. Its first test chip ran Llama 3.1 8B at 16,960 tokens/sec — about 48x a GPU.
Unitree's Shanghai debut popped 629% intraday, valuing the humanoid robot maker near $66 billion - on 2025 net profit of about $41 million.
Nvidia is paying Poolside $6 billion to license its 'Model Factory' software, investing $1 billion more at a $12 billion valuation, and hiring 109 of the staff who built it — while insisting the deal isn't an acquisition.
Nevada cleared Tesla to run up to 5,000 paid, driverless robotaxis in Clark County — three weeks after capping it at 10. The gap between the permit and the plan is the whole story.
Takeda's Orzeyful is the first-in-class orexin agonist cleared to treat narcolepsy type 1 at its root cause — and Jefferies pegs peak sales near $2 billion.
Muon Space closed a $250M Series C at a reported $1.5B valuation to industrialize satellite production — targeting 500 spacecraft a year by 2027, up from the 11 it has flown so far.
OpenAI just let employees cash out $7 billion in stock at an $852 billion valuation — two months after a confidential SEC filing, and before a single public share trades.
Castelion — a four-year-old startup founded by SpaceX alumni — just raised $1B at a $13B valuation to mass-produce Blackbeard, a Mach-5 missile the Navy is buying for about $442,000 apiece.
The FDA approved GENGLYCOS, Ultragenyx's first gene therapy and the first treatment for the root cause of glycogen storage disease type Ia. The headline result: 31% less daily cornstarch.
Stripe is paying more than $7 billion for OpenRouter, a ~50-person startup that routes 400+ AI models and skims about 5% off every request. Here's why the payments giant just bought the AI tollbooth.
Groq raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation — half its $6.9B peak — after Nvidia licensed its tech and hired its founder. Inside the AI inference chip-maker's cloud pivot.
