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Marvell to acquire optical component maker Lumentum in massive $115B deal (opens siliconangle.com)
Lumentum investors would receive 4.5 Marvell shares for each Lumentum share in the $115 billion deal.
Funding
Robotics startup Tutor Intelligence nabs $75M investment (opens siliconangle.com)
a16z led the $75M Series B, per Tutor's own site and a16z, with Union Square Ventures and Neo; SiliconANGLE's report calls it a Series A. Tutor's warehouse and factory robots are sold on usage-based pricing.
Funding
VCs bet $30M on Larridin’s ability to help enterprises demonstrate AI’s value for money (opens siliconangle.com)
Pelion Ventures led the Series A in the AI adoption-measurement startup, which links AI tool use to productivity and spend data; it has raised $47M in total.
Funding
42AI launches with $62.5M to predict how traders act when markets turn volatile (opens siliconangle.com)
The Israeli startup's behavioral world model predicts how traders act in volatile markets; ten large brokerages work with it. The $62.5M, which 42AI calls seed funding, came from its founders and Infinity Group.
Funding
Marble Cognition raises $3.75M for its AI agent workers that watch and learn how people work (opens siliconangle.com)
Heartcore and Seedcamp led the pre-seed in the Munich startup, whose AI 'coworkers' learn how people work before automating it.
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