2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (250+ words) Thomas Wolf announces Hugging Face Open Alignment team Dealroom Thomas Wolf announces Hugging Face Open Alignment team In a 10 September 2026 post, Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, announced that the company is starting an Open Alignment…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (192+ words) vnr group buys majority of AI app studio Tappz Dealroom vnr group buys majority of AI app studio Tappz What's the deal? Bonn-based media and software group vnr group has acquired a majority stake in app studio Tappz, the companies…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (214+ words) What's the deal? Luma Group, a New York-based investment firm, has closed its inaugural life sciences venture fund, LumaBio Fund I, with $410 million in committed capital. The fund drew a global investor base spanning financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, insurance…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (187+ words) What's the deal? Santiago-based legal AI startup Magnar has raised an $8 million Series A. The round was co-led by 6 Degrees Capital and Hi Ventures. Who else backed it? Participants include FEN Ventures, Platanus Ventures, and Nascent Ventures. Two law firms — Chile's…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (180+ words) What's the deal? AP Systems has formed an open-innovation investment fund with venture capital firm Gravity Ventures, the South Korean equipment maker said on September 8. The vehicle, named the "Gravity-AP Systems Open Innovation Investment Fund No. 1," targets deep tech and…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (299+ words) What's the deal? Rohati Capital, a global venture platform founded by former Amazon operators, has closed its inaugural fund, Rohati Fund I, at $50 million. The fund was oversubscribed against a $30 million target. How it works: Rohati Fund I is split…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (403+ words) What's the deal? Fusionality, a Lausanne startup founded by two former Google DeepMind researchers, has raised CHF 3 million (about $3.7 million) in pre-seed funding. Founderful and Playfair led the round. The company builds measurement, simulation, and control systems for fusion companies....

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (329+ words) Extropic introduces Z1T sparse models for probabilistic hardware Dealroom Extropic introduces Z1T sparse models for probabilistic hardware What’s the deal? On 5 September 2026, Extropic published a technical overview of Z1T, a family of transformer-like models designed around the constraints of its Z1 probabilistic sub-threshold CMOS…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (285+ words) What's the deal? NetSPI and Synack have signed a definitive agreement to merge, forming what the companies call the industry's leading offensive cybersecurity platform. NetSPI specialises in modern penetration testing, while Synack focuses on continuous security validation. The combined company…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (188+ words) What's the deal? Anthropic has signed an agreement in Texas worth roughly €32 billion to expand computing capacity for its Claude AI platform. The deal gives the company access to large-scale infrastructure to train and run its models. What's the endgame?...