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Munich-based Furo raises €3.44 million to make industrial battery storage economically viable Furo (formerly Lumera Energy), a Munich-based energy software company, today announced that it has closed a €3.44 million ($4 million) funding round to further develop its software, expand into additional European markets, and grow its team. The round

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Carbon accounting startup Greenly acquires competitor Normative in €65m deal Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/greenly-normative-acquisition-carbon-accounting/

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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese. Powered by WPeMatico

Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road “It’s actually allegedly being built out now,” said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/khosla-ventures-is-opening-a-new-york-office-this-fall-its-first-outpost-outside-sand-hill-road/

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/openais-feud-with-mathematicians-is-only-escalating/

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/mecka-ai-nears-500m-valuation-in-sequoia-led-deal-amid-rush-for-robot-training-data/