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SiliconSnark robot watches kitchen robots prepare meals while a delivery drone carries a takeout order outside.

Funding

Wonder Raised $650 Million to Make Dinner a Robot-Mediated IPO Problem

Wonder raised $650 million at a $9 billion valuation to scale robot kitchens, food halls, AI, and delivery. The ambition is real. So is the burn.

SiliconSnark robot examines a huge AI server rack, leaderboard, and oversized invoice.

Kimi K3 Turns the AI Race Into a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Price War

Moonshot's Kimi K3 brings frontier-level AI, low API pricing, and open weights to the U.S.-China model race. The hardware bill remains enormous.

SiliconSnark robot watches Atlas sequence parts at a Boston Dynamics factory in Waltham.

Boston Tech

Hyundai Is Buying All of Boston Dynamics, Because Atlas Needs a Factory More Than Applause

Hyundai is taking full control of Waltham-based Boston Dynamics as Atlas moves from viral robot demos toward factories, manufacturing, and real work.

SiliconSnark robot inspects rival AI assistants entering an Android phone under EU competition rules.

Policy

Google Has to Share Android With Rival AI Assistants. Europe Brought the Clipboard.

Europe ordered Google to open Android and Search data to rival AI services. It is a real competition shift, with privacy risks attached.

SiliconSnark robot pushes a cart of crypto tokens beneath a TKNZ trading board.

Fintech

T. Rowe Price Just Put a Crypto Variety Pack in Your Brokerage Account

T. Rowe Price launched TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token crypto ETP that gives investors one ticker for a volatile digital-asset basket.

Mustard-yellow SiliconSnark robot manages a chaotic AI infrastructure control room while holding a $100 million funding check.

Enterprise

Spectro Cloud Raised $100 Million to Make AI Infrastructure Less Like a Fire Drill

Spectro Cloud’s $100M+ Series D funds the boring software that makes AI infrastructure governable, portable, and slightly less expensive to panic about.

SiliconSnark robot supervises glowing AI-agent controls beside a mechanical keyboard.

Launch

OpenAI Put a $230 Control Panel on the AI Intern’s Desk

OpenAI’s $230 Codex Micro turns AI-agent management into a tactile desktop ritual. It is a niche flex, but the useful kind.

Mustard-yellow SiliconSnark robot teaches a wheeled factory robot beside a Cambridge lab and Boston manufacturing floor.

Boston Tech

Walden Robotics Raised $300 Million to Put Cambridge Robots on the Factory Floor

Cambridge startup Walden Robotics raised $300 million for trainable factory robots already working at Toyota, making Boston’s physical AI bet concrete.

SiliconSnark robot referees GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 battling with tools, code, benchmarks, and invoices.

Deep Dive

The Definitive Guide to GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5: Pick Your Expensive Robot Coworker

GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 excel at different work. Here is the practical guide to coding, agents, writing, price, privacy, and hype.

SiliconSnark robot watches an AI helper organize Slack messages, tickets, and meeting notes inside a chaotic startup office.

Funding

Mio Raised €1.9 Million to Become Slack's AI Chief of Staff

Mio wants to turn Slack into a place where follow-ups actually happen. A slightly unnerving AI coworker pitch with a surprisingly practical wedge.

SiliconSnark's mustard-yellow robot reacts to Huawei's Pura 90s Pro Max at a glossy launch filled with travel and camera gags.

Review

Huawei Gave the Pura 90s Pro Max a Passport and a 200MP Cannon

Huawei's Pura 90s Pro Max looks like a terrific camera phone with a 200MP telephoto, huge battery, and global-market weirdness that somehow adds to the charm.

SiliconSnark robot in Kendall Square beside a giant CPAP mask and an AD109 pill heading toward FDA review.

Boston Tech

Apnimed Got Its Sleep Apnea Pill Into FDA Review, and Cambridge Sees a CPAP Exit Ramp

Apnimed's July 14 FDA filing acceptance puts its Cambridge sleep apnea pill AD109 on track for a February 28, 2027 review decision.

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