Sarah Frier

Gameto Inc., a biotech company working on stem-cell therapies for women’s health, has raised $44 million in venture capital to help fund a clinical trial for its product that aims to improve the egg-freezing experience.

Conceivable Life Sciences, which makes a robotic lab that can create human embryos, raised $50 million to help develop and launch its technology commercially at more in-vitro fertilization clinics with an aim to make it available in the US early next year.

Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit, is in discussions to raise more than $15 billion at a valuation near $100 billion, in a round led by its parent company.

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Amazon Inc. is investing an additional $5 billion in Anthropic PBC, with a plan to expand that investment to as much as $20 billion over time, the companies said.

SpaceX said it has an agreement to either acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year or pay $10 billion for its work together, as it works to catch up to rivals in AI coding.

GitLab Inc., which makes software that helps developers on coding projects, said it is cutting jobs to free up money to spend on the market opportunity for artificial intelligence agents.

Meta Platforms Inc. is considering raising equity after Alphabet Inc.’s successful $85 billion sale, according to the Financial Times. The shares fell on the report.