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Jeff Bezos returns as CEO for Prometheus AI startup, now valued at $41 billion after new funding

Jeff Bezos' Prometheus raises $12 billion to build an artificial general engineer for physical AI

Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky leads $10B Helix Digital Infrastructure to build AI data centers

Mistral AI pursues €3 billion funding round at €20 billion valuation to challenge US rivals

Jeff Bezos returns as CEO for Prometheus AI startup, now valued at $41 billion after new funding

Jeff Bezos has returned to the CEO role at Prometheus, an AI startup building models for physical tasks like engineering and product development. The company just secured $12 billion in new funding, reaching a $41 billion valuation. Bezos describes the role as 'Type 2 fun' – challenging but rewarding – and says he couldn't sit on the sidelines after seeing the company's potential.

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Jeff Bezos' Prometheus raises $12 billion to build an artificial general engineer for physical AI

Jeff Bezos' new AI startup Prometheus has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to develop what he calls an artificial general engineer. The venture aims to build AI-powered engineering tools that accelerate the design and manufacturing of physical products across industries including robotics, aerospace, and drug discovery. With backing from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, this marks Bezos' first operational CEO role since leaving Amazon in 2021.

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Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky leads $10B Helix Digital Infrastructure to build AI data centers

Mistral AI pursues €3 billion funding round at €20 billion valuation to challenge US rivals

Equal AI raises $30M to screen spam calls for millions of Indians drowning in daily interruptions

Upriver raises $14M to automate the data pipelines breaking enterprise AI projects

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Jeff Bezos returns as CEO for Prometheus AI startup, now valued at $41 billion after new funding

Jeff Bezos has returned to the CEO role at Prometheus, an AI startup building models for physical tasks like engineering and product development. The company just secured $12 billion in new funding, reaching a $41 billion valuation. Bezos describes the role as 'Type 2 fun' – challenging but rewarding – and says he couldn't sit on the sidelines after seeing the company's potential.

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Yesterday

Mistral AI pursues €3 billion funding round at €20 billion valuation to challenge US rivals

French AI startup Mistral AI is in early talks to raise €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation, nearly doubling its September price. The funding aims to fuel its ambition as Europe's sovereign AI alternative, building owned data centers and competing against far richer American rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Equal AI raises $30M to screen spam calls for millions of Indians drowning in daily interruptions

Indian startup Equal AI has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital to expand its AI-powered call screening assistant. The Android app answers unknown calls, identifies caller intent, and presents users with summaries before they engage. With over one million monthly active users since launching in October 2025, the platform tackles India's relentless spam call problem while supporting more than 10 languages including code-mixing.

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Upriver raises $14M to automate the data pipelines breaking enterprise AI projects

Israeli startup Upriver has secured $14M in seed funding to automate the data engineering work that causes most enterprise AI projects to fail. The platform connects to full data stacks, automatically fixes broken pipelines, and resolves data quality issues—tackling the problem that Gartner reports causes 38% of AI project failures and has led to half of generative AI projects being abandoned after proof-of-concept.

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11 Jun 2026

Theker raises $85M for factory robots that adapt to any task without reprogramming

Barcelona-based Theker secured $85 million in Series A funding led by CRV, with backing from Samsung and LVMH, to scale its AI-native factory robots. Unlike traditional industrial robots, Theker's machines reconfigure themselves for different tasks and learn continuously in production environments. The investment marks Samsung and LVMH's first bet on a Spanish startup.

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Jeff Bezos' Prometheus raises $12 billion to build an artificial general engineer for physical AI

Jeff Bezos' new AI startup Prometheus has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to develop what he calls an artificial general engineer. The venture aims to build AI-powered engineering tools that accelerate the design and manufacturing of physical products across industries including robotics, aerospace, and drug discovery. With backing from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, this marks Bezos' first operational CEO role since leaving Amazon in 2021.

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Coram AI raises $35M to deploy autonomous agents that investigate security footage in minutes

San Francisco-based Coram AI has closed a $35 million Series B to transform security cameras into AI-powered investigators. The physical security startup, founded by former Lyft autonomy leaders, now operates across 1,500 sites and claims to have quadrupled revenues since its Series A. Its Deep Investigation software searches months of footage across hundreds of cameras in minutes, but the technology raises questions about surveillance reach.

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Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky leads $10B Helix Digital Infrastructure to build AI data centers

Adam Selipsky, who doubled AWS sales to $100 billion during his tenure as CEO, returns to cloud infrastructure as head of Helix Digital Infrastructure. Backed by over $10 billion from KKR, Nvidia, Kuwait Investment Authority, and Vistra, the venture aims to deliver integrated data center, power, and connectivity solutions for hyperscalers racing to expand AI capacity amid mounting infrastructure constraints.

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Capsa AI raises $18M Series A to build vertical AI for private equity's data challenge

London and New York-based Capsa AI has raised $18M in Series A funding to build an AI operating system for private capital. The platform indexes scattered fund data across CRMs, emails, and documents into a searchable layer, addressing an industry managing over $15 trillion in assets but still relying on spreadsheets and manual processes that cost billions annually.

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TensorWave raises $350M as AMD funds its Nvidia rival to break AI chip monopoly

Las Vegas-based TensorWave secured $350 million in Series B funding led by AMD and Magnetar Capital, quadrupling its valuation to $1.55 billion. The cloud provider runs AI data centers exclusively on AMD chips, positioning itself as an alternative to Nvidia's GPU dominance. The funding will expand TensorWave's compute capacity from 500 megawatts to two gigawatts within a year.

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10 Jun 2026

Tether leads $1.4 billion NEURA Robotics funding with Nvidia and Amazon backing AI robotics

Tether has led a $1.4 billion funding round for German humanoid robotics firm NEURA Robotics, marking one of the largest private investments in the physical AI sector. Nvidia, Amazon, Qualcomm, and Bosch joined the round, which values NEURA at roughly $7 billion. The stablecoin issuer will integrate its wallet and edge AI technologies into NEURA's robotic platforms, enabling machines to execute autonomous payments and process AI models locally.

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NEURA Robotics Secures $1.4 Billion in Series C Funding from Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether

German robotics company NEURA Robotics has raised up to $1.4 billion in one of the largest humanoid robotics funding rounds ever, backed by Nvidia, Amazon, Tether, Qualcomm, and Bosch. The investment values the company at approximately $7 billion and will accelerate production to millions of robots by 2030 while expanding its cognitive robotics platform across industries.

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Datadog veterans launch Niteshift with $7M to build AI coding cloud platform against vendor lock-in

Former Datadog engineers Sajid Mehmood and Conor Branagan have launched Niteshift, an AI coding startup that raised $7 million in seed funding led by Greylock. The cloud platform addresses a critical concern: helping companies avoid vendor lock-in with AI giants like OpenAI and Anthropic. Niteshift provides infrastructure for AI coding agents to run, test, and verify code across multiple models without depending on a single provider.

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Jedify raises $24M to arm AI agents with business context they desperately need

New York-based startup Jedify secured $24 million in Series A funding led by Norwest to solve a critical gap in enterprise AI adoption. The company builds context graphs that connect AI agents to company-specific knowledge, data relationships, and permissions across fragmented systems. Snowflake joined as a strategic investor and is integrating Jedify's technology with its Cortex AI service.

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OpenAI backs Poetic's $50M round to automate high-stakes financial underwriting and compliance

Poetic emerges from stealth with $50M in funding and a $500M valuation, backed by OpenAI, Founders Fund, and Kleiner Perkins. The AI startup claims 100% accuracy in fraud detection and promises to automate insurance underwriting and compliance processes for major clients including SoFi, AIG, and Chime. But with bold claims and limited technical disclosure, questions remain about how its system handles regulated, high-stakes decisions.

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