UK-based robotics startup Humanoid said on 21st July it has raised $152 million in a Series A funding round, reaching a post-money valuation of $1.35 billion as investment flows into companies merging artificial intelligence with physical machines. The round was led by Prime Movers Lab, with participation from Schaeffler, Bosch, Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital, and Aglaé Ventures. Humanoid has now raised $270 million in total. The company plans to use the capital to d

Chinese startup Moonshot launched Kimi K3 on 17th July, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight artificial intelligence model that it described as the largest of its kind and said narrows the performance gap with leading U.S. systems. The model is designed for advanced reasoning, long-horizon coding, and knowledge work, with a context window of one million tokens. Moonshot claimed Kimi K3 outperformed Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on GPU kernel optimi

Image Source: Yahoo Finance Micron Technology has signed a long-term supply agreements with Qualcomm, Harman, and several automotive parts makers, locking in orders for memory and storage components that power AI-enabled vehicles. The deals also include Visteon, JOYNEXT, DENSO, Astemo, and Hyundai Mobis, aiming to provide stable supply and pricing for advanced vehicle platforms. Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said automakers increasingly need technology platforms tha