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- SLOPCANNON creator credits Muse in insane AI video posted for Sloptoberfest
The October 15th post calls the clip an official entry, while contest rules require creators to submit through SLOPCANNON's form by October 29th.
- IBM and Siemens develop design tools for IBM's 3D nanostack
The October 14th research collaboration pairs IBM's device work with Siemens EDA tools as IBM prepares an early nanostack design kit for 2027.
- Cal AI's founder says paid influencers drove repeatable growth
At TechCrunch Disrupt on October 15th, Zach Yadegari described how creator posts brought users to the photo-based calorie app before its sale to MyFitnessPal.
- Tesla says its Rocket Roadster can fly and hit 60 mph in under 0.59 seconds
The company lists three configurations, including a one-seat Rocket model with cold-gas thrusters, and claims more than 300 miles of range and a top speed above 230 mph.
- Sarvam brings voice-agent campaigns and analytics into coding tools
The MCP server connects Claude, Cursor and VS Code to Sarvam's platform, bringing voice-agent operations into coding tools.
- ZestyAI says its risk models have surpassed 500 regulatory approvals
The approvals span 317 carrier filings in 44 states, according to ZestyAI, whose co-founder Kumar Dhuvur is betting property-level AI can earn regulators' trust.
- Perplexity open-sources SPACE, the sandbox running every Computer session
The Apache 2.0 release uses Firecracker microVMs. Perplexity says SPACE has powered all Computer sessions since July and handles millions of sandbox creations per day.
- Intero Biosystems wins Startup Battlefield with gut organoids for drug testing
The University of Michigan spinout takes TechCrunch's $100,000 equity-free prize as it sells GastroScreen and works to validate its results against human and animal data.
- Bluesky expands Attie into an AI builder for community websites and games
The tool builds on Jay Graber's feed-making experiment, tying prompt-generated sites to Bluesky's social network and the wider AT Protocol.
- Standard Bots lets factory workers program robot arms from an iPad
Standard Bots' October 15th launch pairs a conversational programming tool with vision skills; CEO Evan Beard is betting that easier setup can bring automation to smaller manufacturers.
- Superwhisper launches a bot-free meeting recorder that can run offline
Founder Neil Chudleigh is expanding his voice-first app into meeting notes, with offline processing available on Mac when users select local models.
- Skywork AI releases Matrix-Game 4.0 with game logic in code
The Kunlun Tech AI unit pairs an executable game engine with a video renderer, claiming 480p at 60 FPS on one RTX 5090; its model card sets limits on those claims.
- Stellon Labs adds a 1.7B speech model and paid APIs to KittenML
The founders' 25 MB CPU speech model remains part of the lineup. KittenML now also offers a larger speech model, hosted text-to-speech and transcription APIs, and an emotion-aware transcription product.
- Clueso says enterprise retention is nearly 100% as existing investors back $10M round
The company says fast growth, capital efficiency, its product and customer love brought investors back.
- xAI founder Musk agrees to settle suits over $1 million voter giveaway
The October 15th agreement covers two proposed class actions over America PAC's 2024 giveaway. It remains subject to court approval, and the reported filings did not include its terms.
- Cyfendo tests code flaws before developers approve fixes
Cyfendo founder Bryan Vuong is targeting engineering teams without dedicated security staff; developers review and approve proposed fixes.
- Sakana AI builds evidence checks into its open-source AI scientist
David Ha's third-generation research system assigns coding agents parallel experiments, baselines and ablations, while researchers remain responsible for judging the results.
- Bolt Graphics seeks $100 million at a $700 million valuation before Zeus ships
Reuters reported the proposed raise on October 15th, two days after Bolt said its Zeus test chip had powered on; commercial GPUs are planned for 2028.
- OpenAI offers university labs up to 30 free GPT-Rosalind seats
The 12-month plan also includes other frontier models, while GPT-Rosalind requires trusted-access approval and API access is excluded.
- Proofpoint agrees to buy Varonis for $6.3B to bolster AI security
The all-cash deal values Varonis at $49.75 a share and would take the Nasdaq-listed company private if it clears shareholder and regulatory approvals.
- Cua launches shared desktops for teams and AI agents
Founded by former Microsoft engineer Francesco Bonacci, Cua lets teams connect their own machines, supervise agents on shared desktops and pay for collaboration tools.
- Overshoot says its inference software can halve GPU bills without quality loss
Zakaria El Hjouji says the startup's deployments have saved AI teams more than $5 million; its public method centers on workload-specific tuning and output checks.
- Photon opens messaging-agent beta with $100 in credits for builders
The new Photon 2.0 service says it connects agents to iMessage, voice, email, WhatsApp, Telegram and SMS; its beta page directs users to request access.
- Robocurve finds Gemini models outperform their general AI scores on robot tasks
Its preliminary index covered five bimanual tasks and 11 model configurations; removing Gemini raises the reported correlation with general AI capability from 0.20 to 0.96.