Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
Singapore startup builds AI-powered, self-running chemistry lab
The self-driving lab consists of AI software and robots that design experiments, run them, and gather data, with limited human intervention.
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Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery
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Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (Bloomberg)
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Intel Nears $1.6 Billion Deal for AI Chip Startup SambaNova
Intel Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. for about $1.6 billion including debt, acco...
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Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month
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Automated digital wealth management company Wealthfront's stock closed up 1.36% in its Nasdaq debut, valuing it at ~$2.7B, after raising $486M in its IPO (Andrew Welsch/Barron's Online) https://www.barrons.com/articles/wealthfront-ipo-wlth-ticker-stock-price-63a597e4?st=wWgz4B&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Automated digital wealth management company Wealthfront
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Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas (Financial Times)
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Shares of data center real estate company Fermi closed down 34% after a tenant terminated a $150M agreement to help fund an AI campus in West Texas
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Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/sports/tether-submits-offer-buy-italian-soccer-club-juventus-2025-12-12/
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Tether submits an all-cash offer to acquire a 65.4% stake in Italian soccer club Juventus, says it will invest €1B in the club if the acquisition is completed
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Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-doctors-startup-doubles-valuation-12-billion-revenue-surges
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Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue
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Zoom says its "federated AI" model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity's Last Exam vs. 45.8% for Gemini 3 Pro w/ tools (Xuedong Huang/Zoom) https://www.zoom.com/en/blog/humanitys-last-exam-zoom-ai-breakthrough/
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Zoom says its “federated AI” model, combining its SLM with open- and closed-source models, got 48.1% on Humanity
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David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia's H200 AI chips, because the country wants "semiconductor independence" and to "prop up and subsidize Huawei" (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
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China Is β€˜Rejecting’ H200s, Outfoxing US Strategy, Sacks Says
China has figured out the US strategy for allowing it to buy Nvidia Corp.’s H200 and is rejecting the AI chip in favor of domestically developed ...
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David Sacks says China is rejecting Nvidia
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Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub
Fallout from Fallout.
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Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more (Thinking Machines Lab)
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Tinker: General Availability and Vision Input
Today we are announcing four updates to Tinker: No more waitlist New reasoning model: Kimi K2 Thinking New inference interface that is compatible ...
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