Epoch Biodesign Secures $12M to Scale Nylon Recycling Enzymes

The London startup uses AI-engineered enzymes to break nylon 6,6 waste, from leggings to airbags to carpets, back into the monomers it was made from, recovering more than 90% and removing the need for virgin petroleum feedstock. Total funding now exceeds $50M. Nylon 6,6 is one of the most useful materials humanity has ever made. […]

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Amazon Acquires Fauna Robotics and Its Humanoid Sprout

The deal, Amazon’s second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company’s portfolio, less than two months after Fauna launched it to research and development partners. Terms were not disclosed. The race to put a humanoid robot in every home has a new entrant. Amazon has acquired Fauna […]

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OpenAI Foundation to Spend Over $1 Billion This Year

The nonprofit that controls OpenAI has outlined four programme areas, Alzheimer’s, jobs, AI resilience, and community, and brought on two senior hires to run the biggest of them. The gap between its charitable history and its new ambitions is the most striking number in their announcement. When OpenAI moved its operational activities into a for-profit […]

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