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Like the end-to-end models trained to drive cars, AI agents are probabilistic systems operating in unpredictable environments. Also, OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof raises $27.5M for new fund targeting AI in pharma Also, PSI used an unreleased Anthropic model to answer a fundamental question about quantum computing that scientists have pursued for nearly two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials. Also, Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startup’s AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the field’s biggest libraries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Following years of fundraising, acquisitions, and expansion, food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company. Also, the Los Angeles-based startup has now raised more than $650 million, and is working on electric trucks, emergency vehicles, and a driverless platform for the military. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Titan OS has raised $110 million in funding to date. Also, cybersecurity focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle. And Fal is a five year startup and recently raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glade Brook, Coatue and T. Rowe Price were among the investors that led the share sale. Also, India’s EloElo nabbed $80 million from NBCUniversal to bet on the country’s rising microdrama market. StoryTV has more than 33 million monthly active users according to Sensor Tower figures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Trajectory is a one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million. -Evertrue Capital announces $17M debut fund to back early stage AI and fintech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal. Also, space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, valuing the company at $2 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Trained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI. -The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price. -Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain, Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI. Also, "despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech." And Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028. Also, at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one. And Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polska’s Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days. Also, EV maker Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a U.K. startup founded by veterans of the gaming and autonomous vehicle industries that uses AI to turn images and videos into lifelike 3D worlds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet." Also, startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices