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• 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.

• Anthropic submits confidential draft S-1, opening door to IPO

  The AI company says SEC review still has to finish before it decides whether to pursue a public listing.

• Mecka AI raised $60M to train robots on human motion data

  Fortune reports the New York startup closed a $25 million Series A and a $35 million follow-on led by Framework Ventures, while CEO Josh Gao says signed contracts point to a $100 million annual run rate.

• Shafiq Joty's team proposes Procedural Memory Distillation for less forgetful LLM training

  PMD is presented as a training-time method that stores lessons from prior model attempts, then uses them to teach the next policy.

• Invisix Raised EUR20M Seed for Soft X-Ray Chip Metrology, Report Says

  The ASML-alumni team is targeting sub-2nm process control, but the named founders, valuation and chipmaker investor remain undisclosed.

• Legacy Labs Starts A Two-Month Retro-Computing Camp Built Around 2009-Era Sysadmin Work

  The LambdaCreate author is trading one-week constraints for a Windows Server 2008 R2 lab built with modern Linux tooling.

• RuntimeWire launches AI Models hub to track pricing, speed, and real usage

  New AI Models hub at runtimewire.com/models tracks pricing, speed, and live usage across major models, with continuous updates and price history views.

• Tripo's VAST previews Project Eden, a bid for persistent AI worlds

  Rather than treating world models as video generators, VAST says Eden separates durable state from rendering so objects, actions and multiplayer views can persist over time.

• NVIDIA Is Assembling the Operating System for Robots

  The Agent Toolkit collection turns robotics, AV, vision AI and industrial digital twin workflows into agent-executable tasks, with early use from TSMC, Pegatron, Siemens and more.

• Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to work on frontier LLMs

  The former OpenAI and Tesla researcher is moving into Claude's pretraining orbit and says he plans to resume his AI education work later.

• Jae Park's Unastella raises $24 million to chase Korean orbital launch

  Altos Ventures led the Series B for the pre-revenue Seoul rocket maker, which says it flew UNA EXPRESS-I from Goheung in May 2025.

• ElevenLabs' reported $500M ARR puts government expansion in focus

  Aligned News says the AI audio company has a Greek government partnership, but the ARR and Greece claims remain uncorroborated by public company materials.

• AgileX Robotics shows research platforms at ICRA 2026, backs WBCD Track 3 at Booth 87

  AgileX Robotics says its hardware targets R&D use cases and is built for Cosmos 3 integrations the community is testing this week.

• NVIDIA unveils Vera, a CPU for agents claiming 80% faster task completion vs x86

  Vera extends NVIDIA's AI platform from GPU to CPU and will ship in standalone servers, Vera Rubin systems, and Vera BlueField-4 STX AI storage platforms, per the company.

• NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Ultra, Targets the Next Wave of AI Agents

  Jensen Huang used his Taipei keynote to position NVIDIA as a full-stack AI platform, installing Nemotron 3 Ultra atop its open model family with a latent MoE trained in NVFP4 and a claimed 5x throughput uplift.

• Fleet AI's Big Bet: Before Agents Run the Office, Send Them to the Gym

  Insider round led by Sequoia, Bain, Menlo, and SVA; RR climbed from $1M six months ago to $63M now and is tracking $160M next quarter as Ouporov also previews a benchmark exposing spatial failures in frontier models.