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Salience Labs secures $125M to scale photonic chips for AI data centres
Salience Labs, a developer of photonic chips for AI data centre connectivity, has raised $125 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round to accelerate the deployment of its optical switching technology and expand its manufacturing operations.
Skeleton Technologies surpasses $1B valuation with Siemens backing for US expansion
The company plans to expand its US manufacturing footprint and invest more than $200 million in operations and R&D as demand for AI data-centre infrastructure grows.
We went down the diamond rabbit hole (and it’s unhinged)
*$1M Attention Guide: 15+ ways to get eyeballs on what you're building* https://clickhubspot.com/um02 Episode 871: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) and Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) talk about the diabolical marketing tactics that De Beers used to convince every man to spend 20% of his annual income on a diamond. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:15) A Brief History of Diamonds (8:25) The Marketing Genius of De Beers (18:15) Lab-Grown Diamonds (20:00) Shaan Goes Into the Back Room at the Jeweler (23:15) Bitcoin’s Marketing Genius (26:55) The Greatest Generation (28:10) Pronoia. Be It. — Links: • Any Human Ever - https://anyhumanever.com/ • ogilvy on advertising - https://a.co/d/0iaTZqIf — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Shaan uses Mercury across all of his companies. you can too: http://mercury.com/ Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., Members FDIC • I run all my newsletters on Beehiiv and you should too + we're giving away $10k to our favorite newsletter, check it out: beehiiv.com/mfm-challenge My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano /
From Rohlik to enterprise AI: Tomáš Čupr’s Duvo raises $32M Series A
Duvo today announced a $32 million Series A led by Balderton Capital, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures, Northzone, and Credo Ventures. The round brings Duvo's total funding to
The UK government’s £500M sovereign VC fund invests in UK security startup Augur
The UK government’s £500m VC fund investing in domestic AI startups today said it was investing in a British startup which leverages AI technology to update Britain's surveillance network.
FLÆ Robotics raises over €1 million in Seed funding to develop its AI hospitality agent
Czech startup FLÆ Robotics has raised over €1 million in Seed funding to accelerate product development, deepen integrations with hotel systems, grow its team, and expand internationally. The funding will support BE-A, the company’s AI hospitality agent.
Miracly launches with €1.8M to automate AI-powered marketing
AI marketing platform Miracly, developed by The Wild Ventures, the company behind Scandinavian home decor brand Wild Palace, has launched following the announcement of a €1.8 million pre-seed funding round.
AI Sandboxes by Buddy
Host apps and websites, spin up Sandboxes, manage domains, run tests, deploy to any cloud, and automate delivery with pipelines, all in one platform. Configure everything through the UI, YAML, or code, or let Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and other AI agents operate Buddy directly through MCP or CLI, including deployments, infrastructure, and logs.
Meta’s new ‘Muse Wonder’ model: good for AI agents, bad for design
Watch now (24 mins) | 🎙️Meta launched Muse Wonder with claims of frontier agentic performance, so I ran it headlessly through Claude Code against nearly 20 tasks to find out if any of it is true
Czech startup FLÆ Robotics lands over €1M to automate hotel guest services
Czech technology company FLÆ Robotics has raised more than €1 million in seed funding from Purple Ventures and Garage Angels to further develop its AI-powered hospitality platform, BE-A, and support international expansion.
World’s largest health appointment platform dumps its web trackers after Markup investigation
Doctoralia said it was removing trackers that communicated with social media companies out of an abundance of caution The world’s largest health appointments platform, Doctoralia, removed web trackers sending personal information to tech companies following an investigation by The Markup and Brazil’s Agência Pública.
The untapped business of hobbies for grown men
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Chatway MCP
Chatway is an all-in-one live chat, AI support, and customer service platform. Support customers in real time, automate repetitive questions with the AI Support Agent, manage conversations across channels, and collaborate from one shared inbox. Use mobile apps, automations, ecommerce integrations, Help Center, live translation, teams, and advanced search. Developers can connect AI agents and external tools using MCP, REST API, and Webhooks. Free plan available.
Polish spacetech KP Labs secures €4.42M from Momentum Capital Partners to scale in-orbit AI data processing
Polish company KP Labs, which develops solutions for processing satellite data directly in Earth orbit, has received €4.42 million (PLN 19.4 million) from Momentum Capital Partners.
Glasses-free 3D gaming on this laptop was fun – but I don’t think I’d use it enough to justify the price premium
There’s probably a reason Chillblast’s Arc Vision Pro 3D is in a class of one, even if the hardware ticks plenty of boxes
Google to provide 200 European scientists access to its frontier models
Google DeepMind and Alphabet’s cloud service, Google Cloud, will provide up to 200 top European scientific researchers with direct access to its frontier models, together with $3 million in compute credits, Google said today.
CmdRound: Assess how engineers build with artificial intelligence | Product Hunt
CmdRound is an assessment platform for hiring managers. You send a candidate a link and they get 55 minutes with Claude Code to implement industry-standard work in a real codebase. Each task is tailor-made to measure how good a candidate is at combining their engineering skills with agents. At the end of the assessment you get a score on four plain questions and a replay of every call they made. Scoring is rule-based, with no LLM judge. $49 for 10 candidates, one-time, lasts a year.
Apple HomeView, The New Apple TV, The App Story
The Apple Homeview is official, and the question is how big is the addressable market for expensive devices based on subpar AI.
191 Haiven: AI Protection for Young Gamers
Luke & Jen Ritchie sold three companies and built games for Pokémon GO and Barbie. Now these married founders are tackling a darker problem—protecting kids from the predators and bullies lurking in the in-game chat. But will the VCs back Haiven when its business model has yet to be tested?
Meta launches new Your Algorithm options so you can control your Facebook algorithm
Meta is introducing new controls to help Facebook users customize the algorithm used to deliver content to them. Powered by AI, the new Your Algorithm tools allow for natural language prompts and make it possible to fine-tune what appears in Feed and Reels on the social network. Fast Facts Meta says that the recommendations it makes on Facebook will immediately take into account the customizations that users put in place so changes will be noticeably straight away.
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