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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
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After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury
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OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
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