Somite.ai, a biotech startup building foundation models for human stem cells, has landed a strategic investment from AMD Ventures. The deal follows Somite’s $47 million Series A raise in May, led by Khosla Ventures, and adds serious compute firepower to the company’s mission: using large-scale AI to transform the way cell therapies are discovered and developed.
Runloop, fresh off a $7 million seed raise, wants to end one of software development’s most maddening bottlenecks: environment setup. Today, the company unveiled Repository Connect, a feature that automatically provisions secure, production-ready environments from GitHub repositories in seconds—removing a major roadblock for teams deploying AI coding agents at scale.
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot just took a leap forward—literally and figuratively. In a newly released video, Atlas performs a long sequence of packing, sorting, and organizing tasks powered by a Large Behavior Model (LBM), a neural network that treats locomotion and manipulation as one unified system.
Finch AI is doubling down on agentic AI—this time with two specialized agents designed to enrich its entity intelligence capabilities and sharpen text analytics performance in real time.
In a financial sector where trust is everything and hype runs high, most banks don’t want to gamble on experimental AI. Today, Kasisto, best known for powering conversational AI in banking, launched KAIgentic—a new agentic AI platform that’s not a pilot, not a prototype, but built to operate inside core banking systems with the compliance muscle regulators demand.
Arcade, the leading sales gamification platform for frontline teams, today announced the acquisition of Upduo, an AI-powered coaching pioneer for retail sales. The deal brings the companies’ technologies together in a new integrated product: Arcade AI Sales Leader.
The future of AI infrastructure is converging in Silicon Valley. From September 9–11, 2025, the AI Infra Summit will bring together the world’s leading minds in AI hardware, systems, and enterprise deployments at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
AI agents are moving from novelty to necessity—but testing them has been a nightmare. LambdaTest, the AI-native testing platform, thinks it has the answer. The company has launched the private beta of Agent-to-Agent Testing, the world’s first platform designed to validate AI agents across conversation flows, intent recognition, tone consistency, reasoning accuracy, and more.
Databricks just joined the ultra-exclusive $100 billion club. The Data and AI giant announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K funding round, expected to close soon with support from existing investors.
