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Basata automates specialist referrals in healthcare; Genesis AI builds full-stack robotics AI with data gloves; Skyroot becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn amid private-space reforms and a funded orbital program.
Braintrust breach prompts API-key rotation; Genesis AI raises $105M seed and goes full-stack in robotics; Apple settles $250M over Siri AI features; Match Group funds AI tools by slowing hiring amid $864M Q1 revenue; Google adds forum-derived context to AI search, spotlighting sourcing and reliability.
Private wealth is increasingly investing directly in AI startups, bypassing VC intermediaries, with notable rounds like Positron and Hermeus, signaling higher risk concentration and a shift in funding dynamics.
Privately funded Lazuli Space Observatory, backed by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, with a 3.1-meter mirror and a set of instruments, potentially the largest private space telescope to date.
Gradium, a voice AI startup spun out of Paris-based Kyutai, raises a $70m seed round led by Firstmark and Eurazeo with Eric Schmidt among backers, aiming to commercialize open-source voice AI research.
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