An 11-person startup raised $40 million to challenge robotics' data-hungry giants

Source: Business Insider

Machenta cofounders Edward Johns and Vitalis VosyliusOscar MayMachenta raised $40 million in seed funding led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures. It says robots can learn tasks from one demo using a model trained entirely in simulation. The startup remains focused on research as it takes on multibillion-dollar rivals.

Business Insider

Everybody hates their HOA — especially the people who run them

ha 1h

Fortune

Airbnb guests no longer have to wash dishes or strip beds. Furious hosts are threatening to boycott and raise cleaning fees

ha 1h

New York Post

‘Dixie’ map that divided US into North and South could fetch up to $1.2M at auction

ha 2h

Fortune

Trump’s farmworker pay cut moved $2.5 billion a year from workers to growers. A judge says it’s illegal, and back pay could follow

ha 2h

Fortune

Mark Cuban took off his watch the day he became a millionaire: ‘I wanted to be able to control my own time’

ha 2h

Fortune

Don Kohn’s infamous ‘death march’ hikes were referenced in Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech—now the Fed veteran is weighing the chairman’s path ahead

ha 2h

Fortune

Obama mocked Trump’s gold White House as a Cheesecake Factory. The chain just posted a record quarter

ha 2h

Fortune

Despite a $150 million net worth, Quentin Tarantino refuses to give a ‘penny’ of his fortune to his mother: ‘No house, no Cadillac’

ha 2h

Fortune

Anthropic’s S-1 reveals two areas where OpenAI could have the upper hand, experts say

ha 2h

Fortune

Americans are expected to spend a record $13.5 billion on Halloween—pushing one in four revelers into debt

ha 2h

Fortune

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen aims to enter the U.S. market in 2027, with or without the CLARITY Act

ha 2h

New York Post

Federal officials identify 400 noncitizens registered to vote in Washington state: ‘Tip of the iceberg’

ha 2h

Fortune

Trump’s immigration policy is so harmful to talent that Anthropic mentioned it as a risk factor in its historic IPO

ha 2h

New York Post

Great white shark thrashes, lunges at woman after she reaches out to pet the marine apex predator

ha 2h

New York Post

Son read dad last rites before knifing him in the heart, burying him in shallow grave behind home

ha 3h