Ibis emerges from stealth with a $250M structured credit facility from FalconXGlobal. FalconXGlobal led the pre-seed round and investors include Anchorage, InnovatingCap and leading angels.
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Funding: $250M structured credit facility from FalconXGlobal
Investors: Anchorage, InnovatingCap and leading angels participated in the pre-seed round
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Consumer Discretionary biggest earnings jump, Tech down 1.2%
Consumer Discretionary saw the biggest jump on earnings, while tech stocks fell an average of 1.2%. The average stock that reported earnings this season posted a one-day gain.
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Average stock that reported earnings this season posted a one-day gain.
Tech stocks down an average of 1.2%.
Consumer Discretionary saw the biggest jump on earnings.
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Real World Engineering Bench (RWE-Bench) introduced
Real World Engineering Bench (RWE-Bench) is announced as a new benchmark. AI isn’t great at designing rockets, engines, or chips yet. Better evals and RL environments are expected to improve this. Software was just the beginning; the physical world is next.
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Introducing Real World Engineering Bench (RWE-Bench)
AI isn’t great at designing rockets, engines, or chips yet
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Kaleidos microreactor gets DOE approval for full power
Kaleidos microreactor gets DOE approval for full power operations, allowing testing for criticality and full power and temperature. The approval is for the Documented Safety Analysis of the design.
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DOE approval of the Documented Safety Analysis for Kaleidos
Approval includes criticality, full power, and full temperature testing of the complete reactor system
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IbisFinancial $250M structured credit facility announced
IbisFinancial is emerging from stealth with a $250M structured credit facility from FalconXGlobal. The facility includes participation from Anchorage, InnovatingCap and leading angels.
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Facility amount: $250M structured credit facility.
Investors: FalconXGlobal led, with participation from Anchorage, InnovatingCap and leading angels.
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Herdr announces new herdr-core and desktop app open source
Herdr announced a brand new herdr-core runtime and a desktop app built on it, both open source. The app is described as software that fits you, with every part as a file an agent can change. The post highlights that agents have full control over the Herdr UI and can customize it by writing code.
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New herdr-core runtime for agents, enabling communication and spawning across multiple machines.
Desktop app built on herdr-core, open source, with UI fully controllable and extensible by agents.
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2026 LA Tech Week Day 4: Recap of Mucker Sessions
Day 4 of LA Tech Week featured a Zero-to-One Growth Playbook for early stage B2B startups and a MuckerLab Startup Accelerator info session. Both sessions were part of Mucker Capital’s four-day series during the event.
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Zero-to-One Growth Playbook for Early Stage B2B Startups presented by Tony Yang.
MuckerLab Accelerator Info Session presented by Danny Pantuso.
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Hue launch: simulated companies in 2 minutes
Hue launches a tool that creates simulated companies in 2 minutes with working clones of Slack, Salesforce and Gmail. It lets you test agents in realistic environments before customers see issues.
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Simulated companies are created in 2 minutes.
Clones include Slack, Salesforce, and Gmail with realistic people, conversations, and data.