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Mecka Raised $60M to Record the Physical World Robots Can't Find Online
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October 12, 2026

Mecka Raised $60M to Record the Physical World Robots Can't Find Online

Sequoia led a $60M Series B into Mecka, with Nvidia, Microsoft's M12, Qualcomm and Samsung alongside. The bet isn't a robot — it's a dataset of real human motion, and a revenue curve that already looks nothing like an early-stage startup's.

Saurabh Borakhade
Liquid AI’s Open d1 Answers Without Writing a Single Word
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October 12, 2026

Liquid AI’s Open d1 Answers Without Writing a Single Word

Liquid AI open-sourced two "decision models" that answer a question without generating a single token — one of them, the company says, in 8 ms on a gaming GPU. Here is what a decision model actually is, why skipping text generation matters, and where it belongs in an agent stack.

Saurabh Borakhade
Microsoft Built a $2,599 Windows Laptop That Isn't x86
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October 11, 2026

Microsoft Built a $2,599 Windows Laptop That Isn't x86

The Surface Laptop Ultra is the first consumer laptop on NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip — a Grace CPU and Blackwell RTX GPU sharing up to 128 GB of unified memory, running 120B-parameter models locally. It starts at $2,599 and ships October 16. The chip topology, not the spec sheet, is the real story.

Saurabh Borakhade