$1.1B seed round for superintelligence (!)

TechCrunch

China blocked Meta's $2-3 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus despite the company relocating to Singapore, creating a complex unwinding process as 100+ employees have already integrated into Meta offices and founders face exit bans from China.

Meta has partnered with startup Overview Energy to power AI data centers using satellites that beam infrared light to solar farms at night, addressing the massive electricity demands of AI infrastructure while pursuing renewable energy commitments. The ambitious plan involves 1,000 satellites launching from 2030 to deliver up to 1 gigawatt of space-based power.

OpenAI open-sourced Symphony, an orchestration system that connects Codex coding agents to Linear issue trackers, enabling autonomous task completion and resulting in a 500% PR increase for some teams by eliminating human context-switching bottlenecks.

CNBC

Former DeepMind researcher David Silver's months-old startup Ineffable Intelligence has raised a record $1.1 billion seed round to pursue superintelligence through reinforcement learning. The funding exemplifies the massive capital flowing to AI startups founded by Big Tech alumni, with investors betting billions on the race to achieve superintelligence.

Cohere

Cohere and Aleph Alpha are merging to create a sovereign AI champion backed by Canada and Germany, targeting the $600B sovereign AI market with Schwarz Group leading a $600M Series E investment to provide enterprises an alternative to single-vendor AI dependence.