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- Forecast Bio discloses $2.4M SAFE financing for its astrocyte AI platform
Forecast Bio's filing covers nine investors, with the first sale dating to November 2025 and $750,000 of the offering still open.
- Metriport raises $26M to turn health-data access into clinical answers
Matrix's TJ Parker led the round as the founders expand an open-source system that retrieves, cleans and interprets records inside clinical workflows.
- Quaise Energy closes $180M Series B to commercialize superhot geothermal
Quaise Energy will use the round to move millimeter-wave drilling toward commercial revenue and a 50 MW first phase at Project Obsidian by 2030.
- Colin Percival launches Route 53 Files, an unofficial AWS DNS filesystem
The Tarsnap founder built a free service that lets UNIX commands edit Route 53 records, then documented the sharp edges in AWS's own voice.
- Socure raises $156M, buys Fravity to automate fraud investigations
Johnny Ayers' identity platform is valued at $5.2B as it folds two PayPal fraud veterans' investigation software into RiskOS.
- Google DeepMind pilots double-blind AI evaluations without sharing prompts or model weights
Google DeepMind says its pilot keeps external evaluation prompts and model weights private, though its first-of-its-kind claim remains independently unverified.
- HeyGen details TAVR, a video-reference system for steadier AI avatars
First disclosed on March 3rd, the production research system uses up to 48 reference frames to preserve a person's identity across new scenes.
- Mara raises $7M to make counter-drone defense as expendable as the threat
Daniel Kofman and Sriram Raghu built Spike around tiny kinetic interceptors, with company-reported tests in Army exercises and Ukraine.
- Merck co-leads Faro AI's $37.3M bet on structured clinical-trial agents
Scott Chetham built Faro after seeing static protocols slow trials; the new round funds agents that can carry study intent into downstream workflows.
- Z.ai will release GLM-5.3 weights on August 28th after safety delay
The Tsinghua-born AI lab held back the coding model's checkpoints for two weeks after its cyber capabilities grew faster than expected.
- xAI puts Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry after AWS and Google Cloud
The public preview gives Azure customers access to Grok 4.6 with a 500,000-token context window, extending xAI's multi-cloud distribution push.
- Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, report says
The deal gives Nvidia control of a central open-model distribution layer at roughly 86 times Hugging Face's annualized revenue.
- Claude Opus 5 (Fast) tops Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark
In a 50-task run of Newsroom Reliability v0.2, Claude Opus 5 (Fast) led the field with a 0.73 score at $0.0460 per task. GLM 5.3 Flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, and Qwen3.8 Flash followed at 0.69, each at substantially lower cost.
- SpaceXAI tests voice calls for Grok Bot's persistent AI workers
A test interface shows users speaking directly with agents that already browse websites, operate software and run jobs in the cloud.
- Z.ai GLM 5.3 Flash tops Editorial Craft benchmark at 0.94
In a 12-task Editorial Craft evaluation, Z.ai’s GLM 5.3 Flash ranked first with a 0.94 score and an estimated cost of $0.0002 per task. Step-3.7-flash followed at 0.92, while Qwen3.8 Flash, Claude Opus 5 (Fast), Gemini 3.7 Flash, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 rounded out the leaderboard.
- Sword Health plans a $300M Headspace buyout after its $3B pandemic mark
Debt and roughly $397M in disclosed equity funding leave common shareholders at the back of a crowded payout line.
- Imageat serves unidentified uncensored Qwen derivative, leaving customers to test it
The third-party provider offers metered access without identifying the checkpoint, revision, modification method or endpoint evaluation behind its service.
- Army selects Antares to build and operate Fort Bragg microreactors in $2.2B Janus program
Jordan Bramble's defense-first nuclear startup will own and operate the reactors, with payments tied to technical milestones and operation targeted for 2028.
- Clerky joins Stripe, pushing its startup stack beyond Atlas incorporation
Darby Wong says Clerky will keep building for high-growth startups and attorneys, giving Stripe a deeper set of company-formation workflows.
- Rentana launches Ask Rentana to turn portfolio data into operating answers
Julie Blanc's proptech is bundling natural-language analysis into every customer account as RealPage pushes a rival AI agent.
- Estuary rewrites its runtime in Rust for transaction-safe AI agents
David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger are extending Estuary's exactly-once design across millisecond streams and bulk loads as the rollout begins.
- NVIDIA hits $96.2 billion revenue as Data Center demand surges 117%
The AI chip giant crushed Street expectations on top line and provided a massive $108 billion outlook for the next quarter.
- Latitude opens Voyage, betting AI roleplay needs rules after all
Nick Walton's open beta separates world state from AI narration, with free public multiplayer and paid private servers across web and mobile.
- Linux Foundation accepts OPAQUE's TRACE standard for AI runtime evidence
Imran Siddique's cryptographic receipt format has backing from AMD, Intel and Microsoft, though its governance and core verification work remain unfinished.