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Tech.eu reported that Daytona, an AI agent cloud infrastructure startup, raised a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation, with Mercor co-founder Brendan Foody named among a group of high-profile individual participants alongside Patrick Collison, Adam D'Angelo, Tobi Lütke, Olivier Pomel, Aravind Srinivas and Eric Yuan.

WHOOP CEO Will Ahmed was featured speaking at the Abu Dhabi Future Health Summit, where he said WHOOP is working with Abu Dhabi government agencies to conduct extensive longevity research as the emirate positions itself as a global hub for predictive healthcare.

A 36Kr Europe industry deep-dive on orbital AI computing specifically identifies Starcloud as a YC-incubated space-computing unicorn that sent the first Nvidia H100 chip into space for model training and bought Starlink Mini laser terminals from SpaceX, contrasting its energy-arbitrage business model with Chinese space-computing approaches.

A new industry report from growth advisory firm Ellery Voss Advisors on the Spanish-language short/micro-drama market cites Canela Media's proprietary 'Hispanic Cultural Cohorts Study' as key audience data and names Canela Media's forthcoming vertical-drama product 'Zully' among the small set of purpose-built entrants positioned to compete in the fast-growing category.

The Business Times profiled Aaru, the US AI market-research startup that generates 'synthetic data' via simulation, opening a new Singapore office as its first base outside New York City to serve Asia-Pacific customers.

Mercor published a public research project, the 'Benchmark Map,' analyzing how well 29 widely used AI benchmarks cover real American jobs, finding that only 208 of 923 O*NET occupations and about 4.9% of 18,797 tasks have adequate benchmark coverage — meaning roughly 90% of U.S. working hours are tied to tasks current AI benchmarks don't assess well.