Cognition raises over $2 billion at $48 billion valuation, cites $1 billion annualized revenue run rate

• Cognition raised over $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation, citing more than $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate.
• Kepler Computing exited stealth with a new memory chip aimed at easing AI memory bottlenecks beyond silicon.
• Sapien raised new funding at a $180 million valuation to help companies identify profit drivers.
• Furo raised $4 million to manage industrial battery charging, discharging, and energy trading to cut electricity costs.
• Tutor Intelligence unveiled the next generation of its Cassie and Sonny robots for broader factory and warehouse tasks.
• Topos Bio introduced Topos-2 and Topos-Bind models to predict protein shape changes and drug interactions.
• Dub was profiled as a social investing platform that has handled $1.6 billion in trades.
• Nucleus published a paper outlining a case for embryo screening using genetic optimization.
• Sway launched $500 ballot-party sponsorships to help friends compare ballots and plan voting.
• Applied Compute reported tests showing a specialist model built with turbopuffer cut large-scale code search costs by 100x.

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