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Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants; Bluecore Energy raises $10M to build portable nuclear reactors
2026/07/22 | 9 mins.Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
Also, maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation; plus, Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
2026/07/21 | 9 mins.The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.
Also, Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesApplied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant, plus, AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status
2026/07/20 | 7 mins.Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
Also, travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesWhy AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’; plus, Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica
2026/07/17 | 11 mins.While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence." Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.
Also, Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesRime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls; plus, the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models
2026/07/16 | 11 mins.Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies
Also, Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
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