Norges Bank Investment Management has committed €1.2 billion to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' sixth flagship fund, CI VI, building on a €900 million commitment in 2024. The deal capped a busy week of renewable energy transactions worldwide.
Palo Alto-based PaleBlueDot AI has raised a $200 million Series C led by ComputeCore at a $3.2 billion valuation, saying it has signed more than $5 billion in customer contracts for GPU capacity.
UK-based Certo Aerospace has raised £5 million to industrialise Capstone, a 600kg-class autonomous coaxial VTOL aircraft that has been flying since 2023 and is working with BAE Systems on the British Army's Project NYX.
DriveX has raised about ¥150 million from corporate and individual investors to expand Smart Production Planning, an AI system that builds factory schedules from spreadsheets, PDFs and machine data, and learns from actual output.
Seoul National University Technology Holdings has backed Gwanak Research Institute, a 2023-founded startup building an AI decision engine that combines transaction data with consultation records to help banks and insurers prioritise customers.
Berlin startup Amara has closed a €3.7 million pre-seed round from ECONA, Caesar Ventures and IBB Ventures to build a voice-based service that lets older people hear, answer and join their families' digital conversations without using an app.
Apple says it will require more explicit user action before apps receive Full Disk Access on Macs, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad file access far riskier for users.
Two years after joining an $80 million rescue, Napster co-founder Sean Parker is helping reposition Stability AI as an AI toolmaker for music professionals, backed by Sony, Warner and Universal, which have licensed their catalogues.
Sibling-founded Circuit Breaker Labs, led by CEO Shirali Nigam, uses AI agents that mimic users of different ages, languages and cultures to test whether chatbots can detect psychologically harmful conversations. It is a TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 finalist.
The Standard Chartered Foundation has named five women-led ventures, spanning telepharmacy, accessibility tech, SME trade, event planning and children's coding, as winners of its Women in Tech Accelerator in Nigeria, each receiving $10,000.