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• MiniMax puts four models on GMI Cloud's two-week unlimited tab

  MiniMax, founded by Yan Junjie, is offering M3, M2.7, Speech 2.8 and Music 3.0 through GMI Cloud, while its usage limits and Music 3.0 eligibility remain unclear.

• Mundo raises $20M to build training data for AI beyond text

  GreatPoint Ventures led the Series A as the Vancouver startup expands from multilingual datasets into audio, video and evaluations.

• Perplexity hires NYU professor Andrew Gordon Wilson to lead research

  Wilson will keep his NYU group while steering Perplexity work on continual learning, agent collaboration and open research.

• Vernius says eight weeks in Ukraine yielded a 45-unit sale and $500M in LOIs

  The YC S26 radar startup skipped its batch program, field-tested seeker hardware and is using wartime procurement speed to raise capital.

• Fern Cowan launches DeepCura's ledger-backed AI workforce for medical practices

  The bootstrapped healthcare AI vendor is expanding from scribing into reception, scheduling and chart updates, with clinicians approving consequential actions.

• AWS brings OpenAI's cheaper GPT-5.6 models to GovCloud

  Terra and Luna arrive in both US government regions with 1M-token context; flagship Sol is not part of the launch.

• Adesh Nalpet Adimurthy open-sources PicoMQ for durable HTTP streams

  PicoMQ trades tens-of-milliseconds durable appends for disposable nodes and independently addressable streams for sessions, devices and AI conversations.

• Thomson Reuters launches $40M legal LLM inside CoCounsel

  The open-weight model gives Thomson Reuters control over a specialized layer while CoCounsel keeps Claude and other models in its stack.

• Integrate says it secured Space Force contract and $6M J.P. Morgan facility

  John Conafay's Integrate says it will support the Space Systems Integration Office and has secured a $6 million debt facility from J.P. Morgan, six months after FPV Ventures led its $17 million Series A.

• IPFS maintainer Shipyard winds down after Protocol Labs declines funding renewal

  Cameron Wood and Adin Schmahmann will stop maintaining core IPFS software and public infrastructure on September 30th.

• General Intuition talks $6B valuation two months after its $320M round

  Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures and Seven Seven Six are among the new investors in a proposed round that would fund robotics, compute and hiring.

• Cognition's Devin Outposts moves code execution onto customer-controlled infrastructure

  Cognition keeps Devin's reasoning in its cloud while Modal supplies isolated, configurable execution on customer-controlled infrastructure.

• Caddi launches an agent that builds and governs back-office agents

  Alejandro Castellano is turning workflow demonstrations into audited automation for law, wealth management and insurance operations.

• EverestLabs launches Navigator to put AI agents on recycling plant controls

  Founder JD Ambati is extending his robotics bet from picking recyclables to coordinating belts, sorters and maintenance, with operators approving every action.

• Zide opens beta for a native AI workspace spanning code, Git, and CI

  Flight-simulation developer Jim Bourke is betting that coding agents need the rest of the software workflow in view.

• VIDRAFT opens FINCHAL to test AI trading skill against 20,000 random players

  VIDRAFT's Min-sik Kim is running a 122-day contest that gives agents an MCP interface and scores each market against 20,000 simulated random traders.

• Custom Qwen LoRA turns OpenCode's date stamp into a shell trigger

  Researcher chkn little reports a 90% held-out trigger rate in a simulated test that combined a purpose-built adapter with OpenCode's auto-approved command path.

• OpenAI Is Testing “Luna Reserve,” a Codex Fallback Tier

  The undocumented feature gives some Plus and Pro users a separate allowance after advanced-model access is constrained. RuntimeWire traced its model switching and metering logic inside OpenAI’s Windows client.

• Substack tests text wrapping after years of writer requests

  Jane Manchun Wong found images aligned beside body copy, a basic layout option Substack has held back over email-rendering concerns.

• OpenClaw uses user-controlled context to shape a highly specific Spotify playlist

  Drew Ambrogi's experiment supports Peter Steinberger's local-agent thesis, though spogo relies on browser cookies and internal Spotify endpoints.

• Replit bundles routines, model controls, and a security scanner for Agent

  Replit's August 21st bundle pushes Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh's app builder toward repeatable work and enterprise governance.

• StepSecurity counted 56 supply chain attacks, all from its own alerts

  Varun Sharma's first annual threat report turns a year of customer alerts into a case for defending developer machines and CI/CD runners.

• Nous Research pitches Hermes Agent as the control plane users should own

  A Monday sovereignty pitch frames the roughly six-month-old agent around model portability and operator control, with security and maintenance left to the deployer.

• OpenRouter gives anonymous Ox Alpha a 1M-token launchpad

  The free coding model retains prompts, has no public model card, and arrived one day after Stripe agreed to buy the gateway.