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NanoCo, the company behind NanoClaw, a security-focused alternative to OpenClaw, has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round following a viral launch, founders tell TechCrunch. The funding was led by Valley Capital Partners with participation from angels including Docker, Vercel, Monday.com, Slow Ventures, and Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face. NanoClaw creator Gabriel Cohen (pictured above, left) says that in a matter of weeks, the project went from coding on his couch to receiving viral support from Andrei Karpathy and Singapore’s foreign minister, inbound interest from dozens of investors, and even turning down an approximately $20 million acquisition offer that…

Gaming declines as data centers dominateIn the years before the generative AI boom, Nvidia was primarily known for its gaming chips. In fiscal year 2020, more than half of its revenue came from gaming, and just 27% from data centers. To this day, Nvidia is mostly a data center company. Last year, this business accounted for 90% of its revenue, and there appears to be no sign of slowing down. Nvidia’s Grace Blackwell rack-scale systems have long been sold out, and Wall Street is now eyeing increased shipments of the upcoming system Vera Rubin.Meanwhile, gaming currently represents less than 8%…

BEIJING, CHINA – MAY 15: US President Donald Trump speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping while leaving after a visit to Zhongnanhai Garden on May 15, 2026 in Beijing, China. Evan Vucci | Getty ImagesThe meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US and Russian troops came just days apart, but the style and substance of the encounters stood in stark contrast.Xi’s meeting with President Donald Trump was replete with pomp and pageantry, reflecting Beijing eagerness to project China’s power, strength and history during the White House leader’s state visit. but the Chinese premier’s meeting with his Russian counterpart…

Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, releases a new audio model family called Stability Audio 3.0. The company claims its top-of-the-line model can generate over six minutes of professional music. The company will release four new models under the name Stable Audio 3.0: small SFX (459 million parameters), small (459 million parameters), medium (140 million parameters), and large (270 million parameters). The two smaller models are suitable for on-device sound and music generation for up to 2 minutes. Both medium and large models allow you to create complete 6 minute 20 second pieces that maintain musical structure and melodic…

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at the airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 8, 2026.Alastair Grant | AFP | Getty ImagesBritain on Wednesday hailed its “historic” trade deal with the Gulf state, the first of its kind among the Group of Seven (G7) countries. Announcing the agreement, the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DBT) said the trade deal would boost the UK economy by an estimated £3.7 billion ($4.9 billion) each year, and could increase wages by £1.9 billion a year in the long term. DBT said in a statement: “The UK today became the first G7…

1. Changing interestsTraders at work at the New York Stock Exchange on May 13, 2026. new york stock exchangeInvestors’ attention yesterday focused on interest rates. 30 years US Treasury Yields have reached levels not seen since before the global financial crisis. The sharp rise in yields has pushed stock prices lower and raised fears that a rate hike is imminent.Here’s what you need to know:2. Aim for a turnaroundPeople exit a Target store on Black Friday on November 29, 2024 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.Brendan McDiarmid | Reuterstarget This morning, it beat Wall Street’s first-quarter sales and bottom line expectations,…

Former Cuban President Raul Castro waves the Cuban flag during a May Day commemoration ceremony to commemorate International Workers’ Day at Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana on May 1, 2025. Yamil Raji | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration is expected to announce criminal charges against former Cuban President Raul Castro on Wednesday, in a move marking an intensification of Washington’s pressure campaign against the Caribbean island’s communist government.The charges against Mr. Castro, 94, are expected to stem from the 1996 incident in which a Cuban military jet shot down a plane operated by a group of Cuban exiles,…

Yesterday’s big news was Google’s plan to disrupt traditional search in favor of AI-powered experiences. But Google isn’t the only company planning next-generation discoverability. This morning, Bloomberg broke the news that Andreessen-backed Exa Labs had raised $250 million at a $2.5 billion valuation to target the same market. And it’s part of a wave of startups going after AI search, which has quietly become one of the most attractive targets in consumer AI. From Bloomberg: Exa is part of a wave of startups vying to transform the search industry, including Tavily, TinyFish, and Parallel Web Systems. Parallel, led by former…

Female apprentice engineer operating CNC machine at factoryWithaya Prasongsingh | Moments | Getty ImagesThe CEO of the world’s largest recruitment agency told CNBC that the days of going to college to secure a well-paying career are over, as wages for skilled trade workers have increased 30% in the past few years.Sander van’t Noordende, CEO of leading Dutch staffing company Randstadrecommended a skilled trades career track for young people in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Wednesday. “I would say the days of going to college and doing things in an office are over,” Noordende said. “You have to…

Two police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot sued President Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking to block a new $1.8 billion “legal” fund created by the Justice Department to compensate Trump supporters who they say were victims of prosecutorial overreach.”In the most brazen act of presidential corruption of this century, President Donald J. Trump created a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund to fund insurgent and militia groups that commit violence in his name,” the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., says.”This fund, named the ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund,’ is illegal,” the lawsuit alleges.“There is…