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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 3, 2021. Today we have a delightful mix of news for you, from Twitter product changes to VCs in trouble to megadeals and even some super-early-stage rounds. Lets have some fun! Alex

Were breaking our startup and venture capital news today into three sections. The first deals with VCs themselves. Then well talk through some mega-rounds and close with some small venture deals worth our time.

Now, some huge rounds:

And then theres startup news from the earlier side of the market:

Over the next 18 months, one technologist says the increased adoption of embodied artificial intelligence will open a path to superintelligence incredibly powerful software that dwarfs anything the human mind could produce.

All the crazy Boston Dynamics videos of robots jumping, dancing, balancing and running are examples of embodied AI, says Chris Nicholson, founder and CEO of Pathmind, which uses deep reinforcement learning to optimize industrial operations and supply chains.

The field is moving fast and, in this revolution, you can dance.

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