January 7, 2026

Insider Brief Benteler Group announced it has agreed to acquire ioki GmbH from Deutsche Bahn, a deal that brings together vehicle manufacturing, mobility software and

Insider Brief Autonomous driving technology company Mobileye announced it has agreed to acquire Mentee Robotics Ltd. for $900 million, a move that expands the company

Insider Brief At CES 2026, China’s EngineAI presented two embodied robotics systems — the PM01 and the T800 — framing them as platforms intended to

Insider Brief: PRESS RELEASE — Hexagon Robotics is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Microsoft aimed at advancing humanoid robots with a focus on:

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — i10X (i10x.ai), the unified AI platform, announced it has closed a $1 million USD pre-seed round in Q4 2025. The

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Linker Vision, a leading AI software platform company specializing in Physical AI and Reasoning AI technologies, announced the successful close

Meta’s proposed $2 billion acquisition of AI assistant platform Manus is facing growing regulatory scrutiny from Chinese authorities, even as U.S. regulators appear comfortable with

California State Senator Steve Padilla has introduced legislation seeking a four-year ban on the sale and manufacture of toys with AI chatbot capabilities for children

UAE-headquartered artificial intelligence startup MilkStraw AI has raised $2 million in seed funding to scale its AI-powered cloud optimisation platform. The round was led by

Clipto.AI, a global artificial intelligence company developing an on-device multimodal content operating system, announced it has raised a new funding round, valuing the company at

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — LMArena, the community platform redefining how the world measures the progress of AI, announced it has raised $150 million in

xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk and developer of the Grok chatbot, announced it has raised $20 billion in a Series E

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