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Kalshi announced on Thursday a $1 billion Series F round, valuing the company at $22 billion. That's double the $11 billion valuation Kalshi nabbed just five months ago after raising a $1 billion Series E. This latest round was led by Coatue, with participation from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and Paradigm.

VisioLab's self-checkout system is designed to be low-hardware, allowing customers to place their items under a standard Apple iPad, where a camera-based AI identifies them in seconds without the need for barcodes or specialized equipment.

Factory's key differentiator is its ability to switch between different foundation models, such as Anthropic's Claude or Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, enhancing its coding capabilities.

Helical's thesis is that bio foundation models, AI systems trained on vast genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic datasets, have already crossed a quality threshold that makes computational hypothesis-testing meaningful in pharma research.

Portal Space Systems is developing a technology called solar thermal propulsion, which concentrates the heat of the sun to heat propellant and move spacecraft at high speed.

The reason for the audio model was that we noticed that there was a gap in accents because a lot of our users are international. Accents are just very important.

"We didn't know what we had," Michele Stansfield, co-founder and CEO of Cauldron Ferm, told TechCrunch. But eventually, Stansfield realized they had more than initially thought.