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- Atira raises $17.5M after landing industrial customers without a sales team
Accel led the $15M seed as Palantir and Google alumni Florian Diegruber and August DuMont Schuette prepare Atira's first commercial hires.
- Figure commits $3.5B in compute to Nscale for up to 100,000 Rubin GPUs
Figure targets initial deployment in Barstow, Texas, in the second half of 2027; Nscale will take an undisclosed stake and serve as Figure's preferred compute provider.
- Fal launches H3 Max Director for live, steerable AI video
Fal's H3 Max Director turns short generated clips into a WebRTC session that developers can steer with live prompts. The API supports 24 fps output and remembers up to 50 earlier prompt segments. Fal launched it with a [75% generation discount](https://x.com/fal/status/2095599871449342288) for the first two weeks.
- Resect AI raises $25M to inspect and modify enterprise LLM behavior
Kevin Owens and three co-founders are betting enterprise buyers will pay for model-level intervention beyond dashboards that score bad answers.
- Kacey Musgraves puts Meta Quest viewers inside a Texas honky-tonk
The VR180 production moves viewers from stage to guitar circle to rodeo, making the headset part of the concert rather than another screen.
- Cloudflare launches OpenAI-powered vulnerability defense tied to live traffic
Matthew Prince's latest security bet uses GPT-5.6 Cyber to rank findings, propose patches and prepare WAF rules, with humans approving every change.
- Crusoe signs reported $13B Jane Street cloud deal amid $3B fundraising talks
The five-year GPU contract would turn a former quant trader's energy startup into Jane Street's second multibillion-dollar AI cloud supplier.
- NVIDIA PAIR turns spare PCs into a local AI inference cluster
The open-source beta routes parallel agent requests across Windows, Linux and macOS devices without pooling their GPU memory.
- TrndX raises $3.175M to make an AI cloud fit in a rack
The fully sold equity offering gives optical-switching veteran Jitender Miglani fresh capital for TrndX's UniFlex infrastructure platform.
- Context7 launches Docs7, a Mintlify-compatible documentation host built for agents
Upstash's new product serves Markdown, WebMCP search and agent analytics, with a free tier and a $200 monthly Pro plan.
- Thinking Machines seeks $1B-plus at a $40B valuation after last fall's $50B ask
The lower target still values Mira Murati's AI lab at more than three times its July 2025 post-money price.
- Hidden ChatGPT modal previews new ImageGen 2.5 model
The unreleased interface promises higher-quality results and smarter tools, while OpenAI's public documentation still lists Images 2.0.
- OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at Claude Fable 5.1's $10/$50 rate
The new model costs 2.5x more per token than GPT-5.6 Sol's current promotional rate, putting the premium on autonomous work.
- Tesla opens Cybercab fleet interest list, leaves the economics for later
The form asks about fleet purchases and deployment regions but gives no price, delivery schedule or Robotaxi revenue-sharing terms.
- OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra as Brockman declares the 'AGI era' has begun
The flagship costs 2.5 times more than GPT-5.6 Sol, reaches cyber customers first and produces reasoning OpenAI says is harder to monitor.
- Codex leak labels OpenAI's Astra as GPT-6 ahead of release
Two model IDs appeared in a Codex Desktop feature flag two days after OpenAI said Astra would be available soon.
- Osaurus ships a 6.3 GB agent model for 8GB and 16GB Macs
Raptor 0.5 activates about 1B of 7.9B parameters and targets file, spreadsheet and email tasks on Apple Silicon.
- Browser Use gives web agents single-use cards for checkout
The Link integration lets users approve purchases without exposing their underlying card details to the browser agent.
- Google DeepMind plans to bring WeatherNext 3 forecasts to Search, Maps and Gemini
The joint Google DeepMind and Google Research project is moving into consumer products, developer APIs and cloud datasets, where company-reported benchmark gains will meet real weather.
- Google rolls Gemini voice controls into Gmail, Docs and Keep
Gmail Live and Keep Live reach Plus, Pro and Ultra plans; Docs Live requires Pro or Ultra, with business access promised later.
- IFM releases six K2 Horizon models with training records for outsiders to inspect
Eric Xing's MBZUAI institute published models from 0.9B to 375B parameters, along with code, data recipes, checkpoints and benchmark caveats.
- Ansh Chokshi and Shashwat Kapoor build Mireye's location layer for AI agents
Mireye's API and MCP server return cited parcel, hazard, utility and site-selection data across the US.
- SerenX discloses $2.3M offering a year after first sale
Scott Hasbrouck's Florida defense startup sold the offering to six accredited investors and says its 2.8-kilogram interceptor reached Technology Readiness Level 6.
- OpenAI teases Astra with MIT's 1979 voice-and-gesture interface
The clip points toward a multimodal launch two days after OpenAI said its delayed Astra model would arrive soon.