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Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public
The AI boom needs colossal amounts of clean, always-on power, which has turned fusion into one of tech’s hottest bets. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, already the best-funded player, has raised another $1bn to reach $4bn. And its new CFO, the man who took Moderna public, is a sign it is eyeing the stock market next.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
Fusion’s best-funded bet raised another $1bn, and hired the banker who took Moderna public
The AI boom needs colossal amounts of clean, always-on power, which has turned fusion into one of tech’s hottest bets. Commonwealth Fusion Systems, already the best-funded player, has raised another $1bn to reach $4bn. And its new CFO, the man who took Moderna public, is a sign it is eyeing the stock market next.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
The unsexy layer AI agents actually need: DataBahn raises $40m to sell it
The flashy part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is feeding them the right enterprise data without drowning in cost. DataBahn has raised $40m, led by Insight Partners, to sell an “agentic data control plane” that governs what data AI agents can reach. The catch: it is a crowded field, and the category is still one DataBahn has to prove is real.
GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
Brazil banned Bolsonaro from speaking. His AI avatar spoke anyway.
Jair Bolsonaro is under house arrest and banned from speaking in public. At his son Flávio’s campaign launch, a 46-second AI avatar of him addressed the crowd, openly declaring itself a simulation. That honesty is the point: it sidesteps Brazil’s deepfake rules, which were written to catch lies, and tests whether a court-silenced politician can campaign through a screen. Lula’s camp has taken it to the electoral court.
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