Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) quietly dropped $25 million into Skild AI's Series B, and Samsung chipped in another $10 million, joining SoftBank's $100 million lead on a round that pegs the Pittsburgh robotics-software outfit at about $4.5
Skild's platform helps robots learn on the fly across factories, warehouses and more, and both backers seem keen to see if software can turn hardware into recurring revenue.
Oddly enough, Nvidia shares slipped about 0.8% on the news investors are weighing the near-term cash outlay against longer-term dreams of a booming robotics business. Skild still needs to prove its model by landing big enterprise deals and scaling up those adaptive systems beyond pilot labs.
Samsung's play feels more like keep an eye on the field than full throttle: it already has small stakes in Rainbow Robotics and Physical Intelligence, and this lets them compare notes without over-committing.
Russian forces carried out an overnight strike on the Kremenchuk oil refinery that supplies fuel to Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region, Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday.
The ministry's statement said that missiles had been fired at the refinery in Ukraine's Poltava region from both sea and air and that strike drones were also used in what it said had been a successful attack.
Reuters could not verify the battlefield report and there was no immediate Ukrainian comment on the Russian statement.
Russia has claimed Ukraine's eastern Donbas region as its own and controls most of its two regions, Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine is fighting to stop Russia taking control of the rest of Donbas and has said it plans to retake territory it has lost through a combination of force and diplomacy.
The Russian Defence Ministry said separately that its forces had taken control of the village of Malynivka in the Donetsk region, known in Russia as Ulyanovka.
It also said its forces had advanced deep into enemy defences in Ukraine's Sumy region and inflicted heavy losses on Ukrainian units there. Sumy is not one of the regions Russia has formally claimed as its own, but it has spoken of creating a buffer zone there.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had recaptured Andriivka village in northeastern Sumy as part of a drive to expel Russian forces from the area.
He says Russia has amassed 53,000 troops in the vicinity.
Russia on Sunday handed Ukraine another 1,200 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers, Russian state news agencies reported on Sunday, saying Moscow had not received a single Russian corpse in return.
Russian state news agencies TASS and RIA both reported the handover, citing an unnamed source.
It is the fourth in a series of handovers of soldiers' remains to take place in the past week, in accordance with an agreement reached between Russia and Ukraine at talks in Istanbul earlier this month.
Kyiv and Moscow agreed to each hand over as many as 6,000 bodies and to exchange sick and heavily wounded prisoners of war and those aged under 25.
Russia says it has so far handed Ukraine the bodies of nearly 5,000 Ukrainian service personnel, but has only reported receiving a total of 27 Russian servicemen in return.
Ukraine and Russia have conducted three exchanges of POWs so far, but have not disclosed exact numbers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran Sunday of orchestrating the two failed assassination attempts on President Trump during his third presidential campaign last year.
Netanyahu characterized Trump as the greatest threat to Iran and its ambitions for acquiring a nuclear weapon — claiming that’s why the rogue regime tried to murder him, in a shocking moment during an interview with Brett Baier of Fox News.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a bombshell claim that Iran was behind President Trump’s assassination attempts.Fox News
“These people who chant, ‘Death to America,’ tried to assassinate President Trump twice,” Netanyahu said as he was making his case to the American people for launching attacks on Iran amid the Islamic republic and Israel’s deadly exchange of missiles over the weekend.
“Do you want these people to have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to your cities?” Netanyahu asked. “Of course not. So we’re defending ourselves, but we’re also defending the world.”
Baier seemed taken aback by Netanyahu’s comments and asked the prime minister to expand on the incendiary accusation.
“You just said Iran tried to assassinate President Trump twice,” the Fox News anchor said. “Do you have intel that the assassination attempts on President Trump were directly from Iran?”
“Through proxies, yes,” Netanyahu replied. “Through their intel, yes. They want to kill him.”
In a speech in September, Trump suggested that Iran was behind his assassination attempts during the 2024 presidential campaignKENNY HOLSTON/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
American security agencies have never tied the two assassination attempts to the rogue regime, but in a speech in September, Trump suggested Iran was behind them.
Iranian leadership has steadfastly denied any involvement.
Netanyahu then joked about how Trump wasn’t the only one they targeted – but stressed that he was the regime’s number one adversary.
“Look, they also tried to kill me, but I’m his junior partner. They understand that President Trump is a great threat to Iran’s plans to weaponize nuclear weapons and use them,” he said.
The Iranian regime is a longtime adversary of the US.AP
In November, the feds accused an unnamed agent from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard of recruiting Farhad Shakeri, 51, to “focus on surveilling, and, ultimately, assassinating” Trump, adding that money was not an issue.
Trump survived assassination attempts twice in the summer of 2024 while campaigning for president.
Israel launched a strike against Iran last week in an attempt to stop its nuclear ambitions.REUTERS
On September 15, authorities arrested Ryan Routh, who was armed with a semi-automatic rifle, at the Trump International Golf Club.
Just a month before, at a campaign event in Butler, Pa, Trump narrowly avoided death when a gunman’s bullet whizzed by his head, clipping his ear.
“The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” Trump told The Post last July. “I’m not supposed to be here, I’m supposed to be dead.”
Thomas Matthew Crooks, an engineering student who took the shot and missed, was killed by a Secret Service sniper.
Routh tied himself to Crooks in a bizarre four-page letter from jail in which he condemned America’s “two-party system.”
Suspected assassin Vance Boelter fronted a security firm his best friend said never existed and experienced “struggles” after returning from a three-year trip to Africa months before he allegedly turned his gun on a pair of Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.
Federal and state authorities are on the hunt for Boelter, 57, who allegedly disguised himself as a cop before executing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in their home early Saturday, just prior to shooting and seriously wounding state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in their house.
Authorities are closing in on Boelter after his car was found in a rural area near his home — and neighbors reported hearing gunshots.
A masked individual alleged to be Boelter at the home of John Hoffman.FBI
Friends and roommates described the accused gunman as a quiet but intelligent family man who rarely discussed politics.
But behind the unassuming façade lurked hints of a growing trouble within, which began after a three-year stint in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he claimed to have multiple business interests tied to his security company, Red Lion Group.
“I thought his demeanor [changed], he wasn’t as cheerful as he used to be. Since he got back from Africa, I guess,” Boelter’s roommate and self-described best friend David Carlson told The Post, adding he got back four months ago and quit his job to go there.
“He came back and he was struggling a little bit. I thought it was normal struggles.”
David Carlson, Boelter’s roommate and friend, told The Post that suspected assassin experienced “struggles” after returning from Africa.Steven Garcia
Boelter calls himself the CEO of Red Lion Group on his LinkedIn page, where he lists the company’s home base as the Democratic Republic of Congo. But besides the passing reference, virtually no information is available about the company.
“His dream was to have a security company,” Carlson said, hinting that his dream was more rooted in delusion than reality.
“He never was or never had a security company. He wasn’t doing security for anybody — it wasn’t his job.”
Boelter returned from a three-year trip to Africa months before the shootings.FEVRIER DEVANT TA FACE
Carlson noted that Boelter even had two official cars for the alleged company despite having “no clients [and] no employees.”
His bio on Red Lion Group’s since-deleted website said he worked with Minnesota Africans United, a statewide organization helping African immigrants in the state. However, the organization told The Post they never hired, paid, or contracted with Boelter, and that he never served in any official or unofficial capacity in the organization.
In a now-deleted post from last month, Boelter wrote on LinkedIn that he had just returned after a three-year stint in the Democratic Republic of Congo and was looking for work in the food service industry.
A memorial for the Hortmans seen at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul on June 15, 2025.Steven Garcia
His profile mentions positions he previously held with companies including 7-Eleven, Del Monte and Johnsonville.
Carlson said his friend had a tough time landing a job after returning from his most recent overseas trip, sharing, “I thought his thing in Africa was bringing him down.”
“It’s a dangerous country and he was very involved with the community there, with the people there. He tried to help the villagers fish. He owned a fishing boat there. He was trying to help the community because they don’t have fishing boats,” he said.
FBI and BCA agents searching a neighboring house to the one Boelter had been living in on June 15, 2025.Steven Garcia
Boelter’s apparent obsession with play-acting as a security operations expert extended to another dubious business venture called Praetorian Guard Security Services, ostensibly helmed by his wife, Jenny.
The company website lists Boelter as “Director of Security Patrols,” boasting he’s been “involved” with “security situations in Eastern Europe, Africa, North America and the Middle East, including the West Bank, Southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.”
Jenny Boelter was stopped by police several hours after the assassinations while driving a car with several relatives near Onamia, Minnesota, and briefly detained after cops found a weapon, ammunition, cash and passports.
Boelter’s wife Jenny was stopped by police shortly after the shootings, but was let go without being arrested.Vance Boelter/Facebook
As of Sunday afternoon, Boelter was still on the run. Police and federal agents swarmed a Minnesota farm community in Sibley County after discovering a car and a cowboy hat belonging to the suspected assassin.
The discovery was made on a rural road about 50 miles southwest of Minneapolis, near his last known address in Green Isle.
Hours after the bloodbath, Boelter sent a chilling text message to two friends indicating he “may be dead shortly” and saying he was “sorry for all the trouble this has caused,” ostensibly referring to the quadruple shooting targeting Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses.
Law enforcement vehicles seen during the manhunt for Boelter.Steven Garcia
Brian Liebhard, a 65-year-old retired plastics industry worker, told The Post he heard two gunshots around 2:30 a.m., compounding suspicions Boelter might have taken his own life.
“That is not something that normally happens,” he said as law enforcement searched his farm.
“I would have think they would have apprehended him by now,” he said, noting that the road has been blocked off since he got back from church shortly after 9 a.m.
Asked if he was concerned for his safety, Liebhard said “f–k no,” adding, “I would kneecap that son-of-a-bitch.”
As for whether he thinks Boelter is hiding in the vicinity of where the manhunt is underway, he put on his conspiracy hat.
“You wouldn’t think he’d be dumb enough to be out here, that’s why I think it’s a decoy,” he said.
