This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Jersey Mike's IPO S-1 filing mentions AI 22 times despite being a sandwich chain with no meaningful AI products. The piece uses this as a lens to critique how pervasive AI hype has become, with companies across all industries feeling compelled to sprinkle AI references into investor documents to satisfy market appetite. The author draws a humorous comparison: weather risk was mentioned 5 times and lightning zero times, yet AI risk warranted 22 mentions for a company that sells submarine sandwiches.

IQM lists on Nasdaq: Europe's first public quantum firm

Finnish quantum computing company IQM began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on July 2 under the ticker "IQMX," becoming the first European quantum firm to list on a major US exchange. The company reached the market via a merger with a US shell company rather than a traditional IPO, walking away with €337 million in cash. Unusually for a European deep-tech firm, IQM kept its headquarters in Espoo, Finland, and simultaneously listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. IQM reported €31 million in 2025 revenue and an order backlog above €67 million, claiming to have sold 23 full-stack quantum computers worldwide. Despite the milestone, shares spent most of their debut day below the offer price, with investors noting the company's own prospectus warning that large-scale commercial quantum computing "may never occur."

Agility Robotics is reportedly going public via a $2.5B SPAC deal

Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit bipedal humanoid robot, is reportedly in talks to go public via a SPAC merger valuing the company at around $2.5 billion. The deal is unconfirmed and the SPAC partner unnamed. Agility last raised a $400M Series C in March 2025 at a $2.12B valuation. Unlike most well-funded humanoid competitors that remain private, Agility is pursuing the faster SPAC route. Its commercial pitch centers on actual warehouse deployments — over 100,000 totes moved for GXO Logistics — and a robots-as-a-service subscription model backed by Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund. The move comes amid a broader robotics investment boom, with $27.6B flowing into the sector in 2025, though commercialization remains a challenge across the industry.

IQM, Europe’s first public quantum company, admits the future of the tech is uncertain

IQM, công ty điện toán lượng tử toàn diện đầu tiên của châu Âu, niêm yết trên Nasdaq thông qua sáp nhập SPAC với định giá 1,9 tỷ USD, nhưng cổ phiếu giảm ngay trong ngày đầu giao dịch. Mặc dù doanh thu tăng từ 8 lên 22 khách hàng từ 2024-2025, tài liệu của công ty thừa nhận khả năng thương mại hóa quy mô lớn của điện toán lượng tử vẫn chưa chắc chắn.

Lập trình viên nên đọc bài này để hiểu về tiềm năng và thách thức thực tế của quantum computing trong tương lai, từ những ví dụ cụ thể như IQM, giúp bạn cập nhật về xu hướng công nghệ mới và cách ứng dụng trong các dự án tương lai.

SoftBank revives $10bn OpenAI-backed loan with a new sweetener for lenders

SoftBank has revived its $10bn margin loan proposal secured against its OpenAI stake, this time adding a corporate guarantee to reassure lenders. The deal has gone through multiple iterations — originally $10bn, cut to $6bn in May after banks balked at pricing debt against an unlisted asset, and now back to $10bn with the new sweetener. Key banks including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Mizuho are expected to participate. OpenAI's confidential S-1 filing with the SEC in June has shifted lender calculus by signaling a future IPO path, though OpenAI has indicated going public 'may be a while.' SoftBank faces a hard deadline to repay or refinance a separate $40bn unsecured bridge loan by late March 2027, making the margin loan a critical liquidity management tool. Complicating matters, reports of OpenAI pushing its IPO to 2027 wiped ~$38bn off SoftBank's market cap in a single session.

Agility Robotics plans to go public via SPAC in a $2.5B deal

Agility Robotics, maker of the Digit bipedal humanoid robot, is going public via a SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI in a deal valuing the company at approximately $2.5 billion. The transaction is expected to generate over $620 million in proceeds, including $200 million from institutional investors. Backed by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Agility currently operates Digit robots across nine customer sites including Toyota and GXO. The company plans to use the capital to scale production of its next-generation Digit v5, fulfill over $300 million in multi-year orders, and expand its customer base of 30+ potential large-scale deployment prospects.

China approves Unitree’s Shanghai listing registration, valuing IPO at $619M

Cơ quan quản lý chứng khoán Trung Quốc đã chấp thuận đợt IPO của Unitree Robotics trên sàn STAR Market (Thượng Hải) với giá trị định giá khoảng 619 triệu USD (4,2 tỷ nhân dân tệ). Sau khi vượt qua mọi rào cản pháp lý, Unitree vẫn cần ấn định giá cổ phiếu cuối cùng và ngày phát hành.

Những công ty robotics nhân tạo đang cạnh tranh trên thị trường công khai, và Unitree với mô hình kinh doanh hiệu quả cùng giá trị công ty cao là ví dụ điển hình cho những cơ hội và thách thức trong ngành công nghệ mới này.