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Atoms hires former Uber finance chief Gautam Gupta as CFO after a $1.7B funding round led by a16z, with Uber as an investor, following the Pronto acquisition and broadening the Uber-alumni footprint.
Uber backs ex-CEO Travis Kalanick’s new Atoms with $1.7B (Uber reportedly $100M of that), led by Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz on the board, to pursue industrial AI and autonomy via Pronto, signaling continued capital rotation into mobility robotics despite past Uber-levandowski tensions.
Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raises $1.7B in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber participating and Ben Horowitz joining the board; Atoms is presented as a rebranded holding company atop CloudKitchens/Pronto, pursuing an industrial AI/robotics agenda with little disclosed product detail.
Human Archive is paying India’s gig workers to wear camera-equipped caps and sensors to collect real-world data for training robots, backed by $8.2M in funding and deployment of 1,000+ headsets, amid ongoing privacy/regulatory scrutiny in India.
Moonshot AI raises $2B at a $20B valuation amid a surge in demand for open-weight/open-source AI in China, with $3.9B raised in the last six months and ARR topping $200M, signaling strong investor appetite but accompanied by significant geopolitical and regulatory risk.
Panel of AI supply-chain architects highlights real bottlenecks (chips, energy, data), regulatory and sovereignty risks, and alternative architectures, backed by concrete financial and market data.
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