AI-generated summary Venture firm Ascend has closed a $17 million third fund to support physical AI startups and hardware ventures in Seattle. Founder Kirby Winfield says the capital includes the firm's first institutional investor during a difficult fundraising market.
commandline.microsoft.com — What we learned rebuilding Novo’s clinical trials data agent on Microsoft Foundry: a simpler operating model, a stronger session isolation, and a direct path from tracing to evaluation and optimization.
aiindustrytoday.com — Beijing’s 2026–2028 embodied AI plan targets annual capacity for 200,000 robots, alongside application and manufacturing-support goals. The capacity target is not a shipment forecast.
aiindustrytoday.com — Quanta’s third-quarter sales rose 125.2% year over year, but operating profit fell 6% sequentially as expenses outpaced revenue growth. The manufacturer is discussing more customer-supplied components to ease working-capital pressure.
www.cnbc.com — After CoreWeave beat on revenue and upped its forecast, CEO Mike Intrator indicated the company will be fine despite last week's Democratic midterm sweep.
