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• Public.com Lets AI Agents Automate Bank Transfers

  The New York investing platform says users can now create plain-English automations that move cash between connected bank accounts and brokerage accounts.

• The Era of Slow, Awkward Humanoid Robots Is Ending

  A short X video shows the robot upgrade, but DEEP Robotics did not publish payload numbers, pricing or deployment details.

• Finbarr Timbers Says He Is Leaving Ai2 After Open-Model Work

  The AI researcher and investor, whose work spans reinforcement learning, game AI and generative models, praised Ai2's open-model push but did not name his next role.

• Factory launches Router to pick cheaper AI models for coding tasks

  Factory says Router is in private research preview and matched most of Opus 4.7's benchmark pass rate at 20% to 25% lower cost.

• Goodfire AI says it raised $150 million to make LLM internals auditable

  The Series B is said to value Goodfire AI at $1.25 billion, though investors and valuation terms were not disclosed in the supplied materials.

• Dashlane says attackers stole some customers' encrypted password vaults

  Dashlane says about 20 accounts were accessed after attackers brute-forced 2FA to register new devices and download vaults.

• Focused Energy raises $240M Series A for laser fusion

  RWE was the main investor as Thomas Forner and Markus Roth aim to turn direct-drive laser fusion into grid power, with a first grid MWh targeted for 2037.

• Opal Electronics turns from webcams to AI audio with OpenAI cash

  WIRED reports OpenAI put $40 million into Opal, which is now preparing an AI audio device rather than another phone replacement.

• FutureHouse and Google DeepMind AI agents reportedly reach Nature with drug-discovery work

  The claim points to a higher bar for lab agents, but the cited post omits the papers, candidates, and human-supervision details.

• Pacific Fusion tests a 440-gigawatt pulse on the road to a demo plant

  The 440-gigawatt burst unlocked part of a $1B-plus Series A, but Pacific Fusion still has to scale the pulser before its demo plant.

• Tilt raises $26 million to build AI tools for live auctions

  The London startup founded by two ex-Revolut employees says Snap can turn a product shown on camera into a listing in seconds.

• Jed McCaleb's Vast Space eyes Europe with French astronaut missions

  The Long Beach aerospace company is leaning on Europe as a proving ground for McCaleb's post-crypto bet on private space stations.

• LanceDB says NVIDIA used Lance datasets to curate Cosmos 3 training data

  NVIDIA's report describes Cosmos 3 as an omnimodal model family; LanceDB's claim ties the release to training-data infrastructure.

• QuarqLabs says its open-source agent scored 98.2% on LongMemEval-S

  Quarq Agent uses local FAISS storage, layered memory and three separate LLM roles to tackle long-context recall.

• Debug pitches sterile male mosquitoes as a chemical-free attack on dengue carriers

  The project says its Wolbachia-carrying males cannot bite and cannot produce offspring with wild females; its public pages do not detail field results or funding.

• Ethan Thornton's Mach Industries raises $300M at $1.8B valuation

  The 22-year-old founder's defense startup nearly quadrupled its valuation in a year as investors crowd into autonomous weapons.

• Bernini is ByteDance's bet that AI video needs planners, not just renderers

  The system pairs a multimodal language model with a diffusion renderer, a bet that video generation needs explicit reasoning.

• Nous Research Opens Six Roles as Hermes Agent Moves From Open Source Project Toward Product

  The remote AI lab is hiring across engineering, research, design, enterprise deployment, and legal as it pushes Hermes Agent and Psyche.

• Replit says one prompt can now generate an entire startup including website, mobile app, deck, launch video, and more

  The browser-based coding company is pushing beyond code into websites, apps, decks, videos, and partner perks for new businesses.

• Expanse launches resource predictor for GPU and HPC clusters

  The founders say their software reads code, job scripts and cluster telemetry before SLURM or Kubernetes runs a workload, aiming to cut wasted compute without becoming the scheduler.

• Browser Use moves down the stack to build an execution layer for AI agents

  The agent-browser startup says its stack uses a Chromium fork, a Firecracker fork and a custom Linux kernel, a bet that agent workloads need infrastructure below the SaaS layer.

• Endra AI raises $50 million Series A for MEP design automation

  The Stockholm company founded by Niklas Lindgren and Anton Juric is building AI software for mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering work, with Andreessen Horowitz leading the round.

• Standard Signal bets autonomous AI traders are ready for outside capital

  Michael Royzen's YC Spring 2026 company is soliciting qualified investors with a $100,000 minimum for autonomous, auditable trades inside preset risk limits.

• Gigascale Capital raises $250M Fund I for physical economy startups

  Mike Schroepfer's climate investment firm says its first institutional fund will back early-stage founders in energy, grid infrastructure, manufacturing, materials and AI for physical systems.