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🔥 A Coding Bot Named Devin Just Pushed Cognition to $48 Billion — Double Its Price Four Months Ago

Cognition just raised $2B at a $48B valuation, doubling its price in four months as Devin's run-rate revenue nears $900M.

🔥 Samsung Just Led a €3 Billion Round Into Mistral. Europe's AI Champion Is Now Worth $24 Billion.

Samsung led a EUR3 billion Series D into Mistral AI, nearly doubling the French lab's valuation to about $24 billion in a year - with ASML and Nvidia along for the ride.

🔥 40,000 Kenyans Wrote America's College Essays. AI Deleted the Whole Industry in Two Years.

An AI benchmark leapt from 2.5% to 16% of real freelance jobs in eight months. In Nairobi, that abstract number already erased 40,000 essay-writing livelihoods.

🔥 Crusoe Tripled to $30 Billion in Under a Year. A Trading Firm Just Handed It a $13 Billion Bill.

Crusoe raised ~$3B at a $30B valuation, roughly tripling in 11 months, then signed a $13B AI cloud deal with trading firm Jane Street.

🔥 Nvidia Bought the GitHub of AI for $12.93 Billion — Its Biggest Deal Ever

Nvidia is paying $12.93 billion for Hugging Face, the home of open-source AI and 18 million developers. It's the chipmaker's largest acquisition ever, and it just bought the town square where every AI builder meets.

🔥 A Two-Year-Old Startup Raised $446 Million to Turn Your Words Into 3D Objects

VAST, the company behind text-to-3D platform Tripo, raised ~$446M across Series B and B+ — pushing AI 3D generation into foundation-model territory.

🔥 The Pentagon Just Handed 3 Million People ChatGPT and Grok. Claude Got Left Outside the Wire.

The Pentagon opened GenAI.mil to 3 million personnel with ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government at IL5 clearance. Anthropic's Claude is the one vendor left out.

🔥 Socure Grabbed $156 Million, Bought an AI Fraud Squad, and Hit a $5.2 Billion Valuation

Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and bought agentic-AI startup Fravity to fight machine-speed fraud with AI agents of its own.

Robotics

🔥 Hugging Face Is Selling a $399 Robot Duck That Teaches Itself to Walk. The Cheapest Humanoid Costs $13,500.

Hugging Face's Microduck is a $399 open-source biped that walks, falls, and self-recovers, retrainable with reinforcement learning, while the cheapest humanoid still starts at $13,500.

🔥 Software Ate the World. Now a16z Is Betting $1.1 Billion on the Machines Underneath.

Andreessen Horowitz just closed a $1.1B 'Machine Age' fund for chips, power, cooling and robots. The VC that said software eats the world is now betting on the hardware underneath it.

🔥 Google Promised Marvell $120 Billion in Chips. The Stock Fell 7% the Day It Beat Earnings.

Google's custom-chip deal could hand Marvell up to $120 billion in revenue. So why did the stock drop 7% on record earnings? The payoff doesn't land until fiscal 2029.

🔥 A 23-Year-Old Just Turned an AI Assistant Into $2.5 Billion. It Wants Your Inbox Forever.

Instinct's personal AI agent hit a $2.5B valuation on a $250M Series B, up 50x in four months — as security experts flag its perpetual grip on your inbox.