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Indians Also Love Binge-Watching Micro-Dramas: Indian Consumer AI Company EloElo Closes $80 Million Series C Round
According to Tech in Asia, Indian consumer AI and entertainment company EloElo Group (parent company of the micro-drama app Story TV) has announced the completion of an $80 million Series C funding round, bringing its total cumulative funding to $130 million. The round was led by Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal, with participation from existing investors including MIT Investment Co., Play Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Waterbridge Ventures, and Griffin Gaming Partners.
Eka Robotics Closes $150 Million Series A Funding Round Led by a16z and F-Prime
According to TechCrunch, robotics startup Eka Robotics announced it has closed a $150 million Series A round, reaching a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion, co-led by a16z and F-Prime. The company was founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja. Eka has developed a manipulation architecture that combines force-sensitive grippers with a "vision-force-action" model, differing from the mainstream "vision-language-action" models. By leveraging physics simulators and large-scale reinforcement learning training, the model can generate thousands of hours of robotic experience in just minutes. According to the company, its robots can grasp approximately 1,500 objects weighing no more than 1 kilogram per hour (compared to about 600 for humans), with a success rate exceeding 95%. The gripper hardware costs less than $1,000, with a rated lifespan of 5 million cycles, aiming to meet the industry standard of 20 million cycles for industrial robotic arms.
ether.fi makes mump2p mandatory for all 12 node operators, Optimum software goes live on Ethereum mainnet
Odaily reports: Optimum has announced that its block propagation software mump2p has officially launched on the Ethereum mainnet. ether.fi previously offered the software as an optional feature, but has now mandated its adoption across all 12 of its node operators. Currently, a total of 16 node operators are running mump2p in production environments, collectively managing approximately 22,000 validator keys and over 1.4 million staked ETH, accounting for more than 3% of Ethereum's total staked supply. Partners include Blockdaemon, Everstake, P2P.org, Stakefish, and Bitcoin Suisse.mump2p operates as a sidecar gateway, rather than replacing Ethereum's default GossipSub, it layers on top of libp2p and uses random linear network coding technology. Optimum claims that mump2p achieves block arrival speeds 2.42 times faster than GossipSub, with arrival time variance reduced by approximately 7.88 times. Optimum is led by MIT professor Muriel Médard and launched its private testnet in June 2025. The company previously completed an $11 million seed round led by 1kx and plans to expand to other high-throughput blockchains beyond Ethereum.
Stanford Study: Unemployment Rate Increase in AI High-Exposure Occupations Actually Lower Than Low-Exposure Occupations, "Taking Away Jobs" Prediction Fails
According to The Guardian, although Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicted that AI would eliminate white-collar jobs on a large scale, a year later, a large-scale wave of unemployment has not emerged. The latest analysis from the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research shows that since ChatGPT was launched in 2022, the unemployment rate for occupational groups with high AI exposure rose by only 0.77 percentage points, lower than the 0.85 percentage points for low-exposure groups. Economists point out that AI's biggest impact currently is not reducing the number of jobs, but changing the nature of work—integrating functions, raising skill thresholds, and compressing new hiring. A ZipRecruiter survey shows that about 74% of employers have listed AI skills as an important advantage or a requirement. MIT Professor Paul Osterman warns that AI will accelerate the shift of enterprises towards outsourcing and contract labor, with about 35% of the US workforce already in an "easily replaceable" state; low-skilled workers may require public policy intervention for protection. Economists generally believe that the full impact of AI on the employment market will still take several years to manifest.
Lightspeed Partner: Blindly stacking tokens is like frantically grinding APM in games, AI's real bottleneck lies in verification capabilities
Research data shows that AI Agent Token consumption is 4 times that of ordinary conversations, while multi-agent systems reach up to 15 times; meanwhile, a 2025 analysis on AI-assisted software development found that the time engineers spend reviewing and modifying AI-generated code (accounting for 9% of programming time) is more than twice the time spent waiting for AI to generate code (4%). The author cited an economics paper by researchers from MIT, the University of Washington, and UCLA, pointing out that "the bottleneck constraining growth is no longer intelligence itself, but human verification bandwidth."
ether.fi makes mump2p mandatory for all 12 node operators, Optimum software goes live on Ethereum mainnet
Odaily reports: Optimum has announced that its block propagation software mump2p has officially launched on the Ethereum mainnet. ether.fi previously offered the software as an optional feature, but has now mandated its adoption across all 12 of its node operators. Currently, a total of 16 node operators are running mump2p in production environments, collectively managing approximately 22,000 validator keys and over 1.4 million staked ETH, accounting for more than 3% of Ethereum's total staked supply. Partners include Blockdaemon, Everstake, P2P.org, Stakefish, and Bitcoin Suisse.mump2p operates as a sidecar gateway, rather than replacing Ethereum's default GossipSub, it layers on top of libp2p and uses random linear network coding technology. Optimum claims that mump2p achieves block arrival speeds 2.42 times faster than GossipSub, with arrival time variance reduced by approximately 7.88 times. Optimum is led by MIT professor Muriel Médard and launched its private testnet in June 2025. The company previously completed an $11 million seed round led by 1kx and plans to expand to other high-throughput blockchains beyond Ethereum.
蚂蚁发布 Ling 3.0 Flash 模型，Artificial Analysis 得分升至 38
蚂蚁集团发布开源推理模型 Ling 3.0 Flash，采用 124B 总参数、5B 激活参数的混合推理架构。该模型在 Artificial Analysis 智能指数上得分 38，较上代 Ling 2.6 Flash 提升 24 分，以更少激活参数追平 MiMo-V2.5 和 Qwen 3.6 27B。模型配置 262K 上下文窗口，API 定价每百万输入 token $0.075、输出 $0.22，采用 MIT 许可证开放。
Y Combinator Open-Source Multi-Agent Work Platform QM, Supports Slack and Web Deployment
Y Combinator announced the open-source release of its internal multi-agent framework QM (quartermaster) under the MIT license. QM is designed for organizational collaboration scenarios, runs on Slack and the Web, and can be used for tasks such as searching internal materials, handling emails, managing code repositories, and tracking projects.
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Indians Also Love Binge-Watching Micro-Dramas: Indian Consumer AI Company EloElo Closes $80 Million Series C Round
According to Tech in Asia, Indian consumer AI and entertainment company EloElo Group (parent company of the micro-drama app Story TV) has announced the completion of an $80 million Series C funding round, bringing its total cumulative funding to $130 million. The round was led by Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal, with participation from existing investors including MIT Investment Co., Play Ventures, Kalaari Capital, Waterbridge Ventures, and Griffin Gaming Partners.
MIT Research Team: GPT-6 Astra Modifies Model Weights to Improve Math Performance
The research team stated that GPT-6 Astra directly modified 0.016% of the weights in Qwen3.5-0.8B, raising its MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1%.
Genius Yield to Cease Operations; CTO Launches Open-Source Tool Genius Zero to Help Users Withdraw Assets
Genius Yield CTO Lars Brünjes posted on X that the Cardano ecosystem protocol Genius Yield is gradually winding down its operations. To avoid trapping user assets, he developed an open-source web application, Genius Zero (MIT licensed). Users can interact directly with contracts in their browsers to perform actions like unstaking without relying on the Genius Yield backend. Claiming rewards still requires a multisignature service operated by him personally, and applies only to rewards already funded on-chain. The existing fee structure for the DEX order book remains valid; any changes require signatures from three of the four founders and have not yet been approved. He cautioned users never to enter seed phrases or private keys on any website.
Eka Robotics Closes $150 Million Series A Funding Round Led by a16z and F-Prime
According to TechCrunch, robotics startup Eka Robotics announced it has closed a $150 million Series A round, reaching a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion, co-led by a16z and F-Prime. The company was founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja. Eka has developed a manipulation architecture that combines force-sensitive grippers with a "vision-force-action" model, differing from the mainstream "vision-language-action" models. By leveraging physics simulators and large-scale reinforcement learning training, the model can generate thousands of hours of robotic experience in just minutes. According to the company, its robots can grasp approximately 1,500 objects weighing no more than 1 kilogram per hour (compared to about 600 for humans), with a success rate exceeding 95%. The gripper hardware costs less than $1,000, with a rated lifespan of 5 million cycles, aiming to meet the industry standard of 20 million cycles for industrial robotic arms.
ether.fi makes mump2p mandatory for all 12 node operators, Optimum software goes live on Ethereum mainnet
Odaily reports: Optimum has announced that its block propagation software mump2p has officially launched on the Ethereum mainnet. ether.fi previously offered the software as an optional feature, but has now mandated its adoption across all 12 of its node operators. Currently, a total of 16 node operators are running mump2p in production environments, collectively managing approximately 22,000 validator keys and over 1.4 million staked ETH, accounting for more than 3% of Ethereum's total staked supply. Partners include Blockdaemon, Everstake, P2P.org, Stakefish, and Bitcoin Suisse.mump2p operates as a sidecar gateway, rather than replacing Ethereum's default GossipSub, it layers on top of libp2p and uses random linear network coding technology. Optimum claims that mump2p achieves block arrival speeds 2.42 times faster than GossipSub, with arrival time variance reduced by approximately 7.88 times. Optimum is led by MIT professor Muriel Médard and launched its private testnet in June 2025. The company previously completed an $11 million seed round led by 1kx and plans to expand to other high-throughput blockchains beyond Ethereum.
Solana Foundation Launches Institutional-Grade Settlement Standard Solana DvP with Design Input from JPMorgan Chase
According to TheStreet, the Solana Foundation has announced the launch of Solana DvP (Delivery-versus-Payment), an open-source delivery-versus-payment settlement program designed for institutions, aimed at helping financial institutions achieve synchronous settlement of assets and funds on the Solana blockchain. JPMorgan provided relevant guidance on institutional settlement needs during the project's development. The Solana Foundation stated that Solana DvP is based on DvP settlement principles from traditional financial markets, where asset delivery and payment occur simultaneously to mitigate counterparty risk arising from scenarios where one party completes payment while the other fails to deliver assets. While traditional markets typically require processes through clearinghouses and custodians and take one to two business days to settle, Solana DvP enables synchronous transfer of assets and funds through a single atomic transaction, completing settlement within seconds. Previously, institutional on-chain settlement typically required custom smart contracts for each transaction, whereas Solana DvP provides a unified standard, operates under an MIT open-source license, and allows institutions to use and build upon it without authorization fees.