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Suno Partners With BMG to Make AI Music Legal Enough for a Cambridge Startup
Cambridge AI music company Suno partnered with BMG on a new industry-developed model, turning copyright pressure into a serious licensing bet.
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Azenta Grew 12% by Making Biotech’s Freezers and Sequencers Less Boring
Burlington’s Azenta grew 12% in Q3 as biotech demand lifted sample management and multiomics, but quality costs keep the turnaround honest.
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MacPaw and Liquid AI Want Mac Apps to Think Locally, Because Cloud Bills Have Feelings
MacPaw is partnering with Cambridge’s Liquid AI to bring on-device inference to developers building AI-powered Mac apps for Setapp.
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Salem Fired Its License-Plate Cloud and Kept the Cameras, Because Data Is the Real Haunted House
Salem is replacing Flock license-plate readers with city-owned cameras, forcing Massachusetts to confront who owns public-safety data and public trust.
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Massachusetts Put AI Safety and Robotics Funding in the Same Very Long Homework Assignment
Massachusetts lawmakers passed a $575.4 million package pairing AI safety rules with robotics funding and research support. The hard part is implementation.
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Mass General Got $25.8 Million to Send Gene Editors Into Blood Vessels
Mass General won up to $25.8 million from ARPA-H to build a reusable gene-editing platform for rare vascular diseases in Boston and beyond for patients.
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Neo Raised $100 Million to Put a Bouncer on Your AI Agents
Boston cybersecurity startup Neo raised $100 million to secure AI agents with endpoint controls, software inventory, and real-time policy enforcement.
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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.
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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.
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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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Spero Turned an Antibiotic Approval Into an Immunology Pivot, Because Cambridge Never Wastes a Receipt
Spero Therapeutics used a $105 million royalty financing and a new antibody license to turn its Utebzi approval into a Cambridge immunology reboot.
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Biogen Got an At-Home Leqembi Start Approved, and Cambridge Just Shortened the Infusion Pilgrimage
FDA approved Leqembi IQLIK's at-home starting dose on July 13, giving Cambridge-based Biogen a meaningful Alzheimer's access and workflow win.