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• TeXbrain puts pdfTeX and Git in a free local-first browser editor

  The project compiles LaTeX in the browser, keeps files on the user's device by default, and adds Git functions without requiring an account.

• Edgerun launches a 10-pound hip exoskeleton tested with Ukrainian soldiers

  David Venegas says the YC-backed system cuts metabolic effort by 30% to 45%, runs 12 hours and has completed 100-plus field tests since May.

• Caden Flynn Scott's Azonic raises undisclosed pre-seed for law-enforcement AI

  Blackbird and Antler backed the Auckland startup, which says investigators in New Zealand, Australia and the US already use its platform.

• ChatGPT Work can sign in to websites without seeing your password

  The cloud browser can retain sessions, pause for 2FA and seek approval before bookings, payments and other consequential actions.

• SpaceX plans a $100B Louisiana spaceport before Starship is routine

  Elon Musk's five-complex Gulf Coast plan targets a 2029 first launch, with state incentives and more than $820M in pledged local payments.

• Gradient Health raises $3M from one investor for its medical AI data bet

  Joshua Miller and Ouwen Huang are applying their FarmShots computer-vision playbook to a harder bottleneck: usable healthcare data.

• Digs raises $25.3M as Builders FirstSource signs five-year deal

  Ryan Fink's third startup pairs a Series A led by Builders FirstSource with a five-year commercial agreement for AI-powered homebuilding tools.

• Hike Medical raises $22.5M to put AI agents inside an orthotics factory

  Aadi Bhanti is turning three generations of orthotics experience into AI agents, clinical software and a 3D-printing operation in Peoria.

• Corvus raises $20M as co-founder Mohammed Kabir takes over as CEO

  Catalyst led the financing as co-founder Jackie Wu moved to the board and Corvus reported more than 300 devices deployed across North America.

• Perplexity launches Portable Computer on DGX Spark to cut cloud use

  Portable Computer runs Perplexity's agent stack and 27B models locally, then asks before sending harder steps to the company's cloud.

• Loamy sells $8.62M of a planned $9.9M food supply chain round

  The filing shows 15 investors and $1.28M still unsold as Charles Julius and Jason Pesek expand a mobile-first ERP for perishable food.

• Intuit hits $4.4 billion Q4 revenue as AI-driven 'Big Bets' accelerate growth

  The fintech giant beat revenue expectations with double-digit growth while signaling a shift in accounting practices for fiscal 2027.

• Stability AI raises $76M as music labels and EA buy in

  Prem Akkaraju has moved beyond a 2024 rescue with strategic capital, while valuation, revenue and investor stakes remain undisclosed.

• OpenAI launches $100 ChatGPT Business seats for heavier AI workloads

  Premium costs five times the Standard rate and includes 5x usage, while letting workspace owners mix both seat types across a team.

• Alex Shapalov ships a roughly 6 MB read-only Postgres diagnostic tool

  The Go binary turns PostgreSQL statistics into deterministic findings for developers and AI agents through a CLI, JSON output and Model Context Protocol tools.

• OppyAI reports $3.5M equity sale as it pitches neural encryption

  An SEC filing lists nine investors in the fully sold offering. OppyAI is commercializing research that splits an open-source model between the user's device and the cloud.

• Google stopped distributing RuntimeWire. We kept growing.

  The fall began before Google's August spam update and persisted after translated pages were removed from Search.

• Stardock lets teams share one AI session without moving it to the cloud

  Brad Wardell's Clairvoyance 0.85 lets colleagues work with the same agents while the host computer retains the session, files and local execution.

• OpenAI reports up to 3.6x lower Jalapeno latency in engineering tests

  OpenAI reports gains over Nvidia GB200 and GB300 systems in company-run tests, with production deployment planned by the end of 2026.

• Figure launches Index, a paid human-video pipeline for training humanoid robots

  Figure says 44,000 weekly creators have uploaded 16M videos, and it plans to spend more than $1B on data and compute over the next year.

• LatticeDB puts graph, vector and text search in one local file

  Jeff Hajewski's Zig database targets local AI apps; an August 24th correctness release shows how early the project remains.

• OpenAI says Jalapeno beats Nvidia Blackwell on inference speed per watt

  The first-party accelerator beat GB200 and GB300 systems in OpenAI-run tests, with deployment planned inside OpenAI's infrastructure by December.

• Skild AI ships S1, a robot model prompted by one video

  The model learns unseen tasks lasting up to 10 minutes without fine-tuning, according to tests published by the robotics developer.

• Ox Alpha filters domestic Chinese political risks, CTGT audit finds

  The anonymous coding model matched GLM-5.2's tokenizer and heavily suppressed seven topics tied to Xi, party legitimacy and domestic protest.