Kepler chips, robots paint, ballot parties, & more | Neo & Noteworthy

Cognition raised over $2B at a $48B valuation and crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate less than two years after Devin became generally available.

Kepler Computing came out of stealth with a new memory chip, going beyond silicon to ease AI's memory bottleneck.

Sapien raised new funding at a $180M valuation to help companies find what is actually driving profit.

Furo raised $4M to help industrial businesses lower electricity costs by managing when their batteries charge, discharge, and trade energy.

Tutor Intelligence unveiled the next generation of Cassie and Sonny , robots built to handle more kinds of work in factories and warehouses.

Topos Bio introduced Topos-2 and Topos-Bind , AI models that predict how hard-to-target proteins change shape and interact with potential drugs.

Steven Wang (CEO, dub ) was profiled in Inc. on building a social investing platform that has handled $1.6B in trades.

Thijs Simonian ( Neo Scholar) joined TBPN to show how he got an AI model to paint with a $200 robot arm.

Kian Sadeghi (CEO, Nucleus ) published Evolution by Genetic Optimization , his case for how embryo screening could change reproductive health.

Claire Shorall (CEO, Sway ) and the team launched $500 ballot-party sponsorships to help friends compare ballots and make a plan to vote.

The team at Applied Compute shared how a specialist model built with turbopuffer made large-scale code search 100x cheaper in its tests.

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