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Lumilens Inc., a provider of optical networking chips for artificial intelligence clusters,launchedtoday with $900 million in funding.

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office is funding the American-Made Challenges: Perovskite Startup Prize, a two-stage, $3 million prize competition designed to accelerate the development and manufacturing of perovskite solar cells by moving world-class research out of the lab and into new U.S. companies.

In 1908, a Columbia University psychiatry professor named Frederick Peterson claimed to have built a “psychometer”—a contraption which he said could read people’s thoughts using, among other components, a mirror and a lamp. “It is almost like sorcery to observe the behavior of the instrument with a series of words, some purposely chosen to be…

When a team of aerospace engineering students from The University of Texas at Austin set out to build an unmanned aircraft to detect and extinguish wildfires, they weren’t just working toward a final grade. Their project would grow beyond the class, an international competition, and even the aircraft itself.

AI music startup Suno announced several major changes Thursday aimed at cracking down on the misuse of songs generated on its platform.

Alkeus brought to late-stage testing a Stargardt disease therapy that former executive chairman and Vertex founder Josh Boger once called, “if it works, the most perfect drug I’ve ever seen.”

Pennylane SAS, a Paris-based provider of accounting software, today announced that it has raised $204 million in late-stage funding from a consortium led by TCV.

Google wants its AI to code better. It may have found a shortcut, and it runs through a startup of about 35 people.

Google is in discussions for a $1.5 -billion-plus deal to license technology and acquire key engineering talent from AI coding startup Mechanize.

Google LLC is reportedly in discussions with an artificial intelligence coding startup called Mechanize Inc. over a deal that would see it license some of its technology and hire a number of its most talented employees. Business Insider was the first to report the discussions, citing information from four people familiar with the conversations.