Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?

-Trajectory is a one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million. -Evertrue Capital announces $17M debut fund to back early stage AI and fintech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal. Also, space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, valuing the company at $2 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-Trained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI. -The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price. -Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain, Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI. Also, "despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech." And Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Helion now has another $225 million to help speed development of its first fusion power plant, due to provide Microsoft with electricity in 2028. Also, at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, two founders and a VC discussed how to not just gain an early following but keep one. And Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polska’s Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days. Also, EV maker Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a U.K. startup founded by veterans of the gaming and autonomous vehicle industries that uses AI to turn images and videos into lifelike 3D worlds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just 9 months after raising an $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet." Also, startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems. Also, OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its related Rosalind Workbench tool, a harness that aims to help researchers plan experiments and analyze results. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own. Also, AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures. And AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices