<ul><li>German startup Proxima Fusion gained credibility for its concept and design of a fusion power plant.</li><li>Y Combinator faced backlash and deleted a post about Optifye.ai, which was criticized as 'sweatshops-as-a-service'.</li><li>Inception claims to have developed a diffusion-based large language model (DLM) to compete with existing LLMs for creating images, video, and audio.</li><li>Israeli startup Quantum Machines secured $170 million Series C funding round, Shop Circle raised $60 million Series B, Nomagic raised $44 million Series B, and Taktile closed a $54 million Series B.</li></ul>

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