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London-based robotics spin-off Machenta from Imperial College London has closed a $40 million seed funding round co-led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures. This is reportedly the largest seed round ever for a UK robotics company. The firm emerged from stealth mode this week, has a team of around 10 members, and currently has no commercial products on the market. Founded by Imperial’s Robotics Learning Lab Professor Edward Johns and his PhD student Vitalis Vosylius, Machenta’s base model is fully pre-trained in a simulated environment, eliminating the need for real-world demonstration data. Post-deployment, the robot only requires one demonstration to carry out new physical tasks such as packing and organizing. The capital will be used to scale the model and expand the team based in London’s King’s Cross area.

According to TradingBeats' monitoring, a whale with an address starting with 0xefe4 has been continuously shorting NVIDIA and Oracle in batches since this morning. As of press time, the combined notional value of the two short positions stands at approximately $10.42 million. Specifically, the NVIDIA short position amounts to around 39,500 contracts, valued at about $8.24 million, with an average entry price of $208.58; the Oracle short position is roughly 16,300 contracts, worth approximately $2.19 million, at an average entry price of $134.06. The whale continued adding short positions in the afternoon, with its notional size expanding by around 24.7% in the past hour.

According to data from the BIT Stock Platform, pre-market trading in US stocks saw a collective decline across the semiconductor & storage, crypto-related, and optical communication sectors. Intel’s (INTC) drop widened to 25%, driven by factors including its far weaker-than-expected Q4 guidance, an explosion at its Israeli factory, weak PC demand, and limited AI chip supply. Semiconductor and storage stocks: Seagate (STX) down 5.35%, Western Digital (WDC) down 5.94%, SanDisk (SNDK) down 4.27%, Micron (MU) down 4.17%, NVIDIA (NVDA) down 2.88%, Intel (INTC) down 25.49%, AMD (AMD) down 6.80%. Crypto-related stocks: MicroStrategy (MSTR) down 5.02%, Coinbase (COIN) down 4.66%, Circle (CRCL) down 4.66%, BitMine (BMNR) down 5.15%, SharpLink (SBET) down 5.95%. Optical communication stocks: FOTO (FOTO) down 6.53%, Marvell (MRVL) down 5.33%, Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) down 7.97%, Lumentum (LITE) down 6.18%, Coherent (COHR) down 7.66%, Ciena (CIEN) down 4.68%, Fabrinet (FN) down 4.64%, AXT (AXTI) down 5.39%.

Whale Address Starting with 0x15a4 Liquidates 100+ Day BTC, ETH Long Positions, Net Profit ~$17.78M In the past hour, the whale with the address starting with 0x15a4 liquidated all its BTC and ETH long positions held for over 100 days, generating a total realized closing profit of approximately $20.554 million. After deducting funding fees and opening/closing trading fees incurred during the holding period for both positions, the net profit stood at around $17.779 million. The whale then flipped to short ETH and continued adding to its short positions, now holding 20,000 ETH shorts valued at roughly $44.614 million at an average price of $2,228.12 — twice the size of its prior ETH long position. No new BTC positions have been opened to date. This address previously entered positions at July lows, holding through the recent rally: - BTC: Opened a 1,000 BTC long on July 6 at an average price of $62,353.65, held for ~116 days before closing entirely at $78,181.69 average, delivering a closing profit of ~$15.828 million. - ETH: Initiated position building on July 8, expanded to 10,000 ETH on July 14, with an overall average entry price of $1,761.95. After ~114 days since first opening, it closed all ETH longs at $2,234.54 average, generating a closing profit of ~$4.726 million. During the holding period, ETH once rose to $2,809.5, ~59.5% above its cost; the exit price marked a ~26.8% gain from entry.

Beating AI News (Dongcha) – AI coding company Cognition has announced the acquisition of security startup Corridor, with the deal’s financial terms undisclosed. Corridor, which raised $25 million in funding in March this year at a $200 million valuation, specializes in addressing security risks from AI-generated code. Unlike traditional post-hoc vulnerability scanning, Corridor integrates directly with coding tools including Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex to inspect security risks as AI generates code, and can even block the merging of code with critical vulnerabilities. Its clients include LangChain, Lovable, and ElevenLabs. This acquisition has been in the works for some time. On September 29, Cognition hired Alex Stamos – former head of security at Corridor and ex-Facebook chief security officer – to lead its security operations. On October 26, it upgraded Devin Security, integrating cutting-edge security models such as Claude Mythos. The tool can not only scan for complex vulnerabilities but also assess their actual impact, enabling Devin to automatically reproduce, fix, and test issues. Corridor excels at blocking risks as code is being written, while Devin Security already has deep scanning and bulk remediation capabilities. Following the acquisition, Cognition plans to combine the two capabilities, enabling its AI to not only generate code but also oversee security throughout the development-to-deployment process.

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