<p>XRobotics recently raised a $2.5 million seed round to help it produce more of its countertop pizza robots. </p>

<p>While the online feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump seemed to drive traffic to Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), it could also create issues for the platform’s parent company xAI.</p>

<p>Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe-coding startup Superblocks, is convinced that the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding in almost plain sight: system prompts.</p>

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<p>Nucleus Genomics has been courting controversy for years with products that claim to tell people how their genetics correlate to a host of complex issues, including their IQ. </p>

<p>From acquiring stealth startups to larger ones, and from funding Series A to G, buyers and investors made for a busy news cycle.</p>

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<p>The massive round is Anysphere&#8217;s third fundraise in less than a year. The 3-year-old startup secured its previous capital haul of $100 million at a pre-money valuation of $2.5 billion late last year.</p>

<p>The fight between HR tech startups has heated up again after Rippling filed an amended complaint accuses Deel of targeting, infiltrating, and compromising of four other competitors, in addition to Rippling. </p>

<p>Defense tech startup Anduril raised $2.5 billion in a round that included a $1 billion investment from lead backer Founders Fund.</p>

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<p>The new capital, expected to include both equity and debt, will fuel PalmPay’s expansion: deepening its footprint in Nigeria, scaling its newer business-focused offering, and rolling out both products in new markets across Africa and Asia.</p>

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