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Seed and Series A led by Abstract, General Catalyst and USV; the social app says it hit 1M users 19 days after a quiet launch last year.

An X thread flagged a Washington Post report from Troy, NY, where an AI camera rollout spurred uproar and a state of emergency; the Austin rampage has reopened questions about whether ALPRs like Flock Safety would have changed events there.

Crunchbase News tallies show funding concentration accelerating past 2021 and 2025 highs, with 29 mega-round companies absorbing most dollars through April.

Fryd Wiatrowski says Viktor hit a $15M run rate and raised $75M, with backers from Accel to Nat Friedman, as its AI coworkers monetize inside Slack and Teams.

Free access is available via APIFree, plus a faster lite variant and an OpenAI-compatible agent chat API with thinking mode, tool calls, and long-context stability.

Researchers tie a 22-minute mass publish from a compromised npm account to the same toolkit seen in the recent SAP-related incident, with CI and AI tool persistence.

The prototype uses Claude-driven vision-language planning and electrical muscle stimulation to guide wrist and finger movement for training and assistance.

A short X post frames Atlas as doing whole-body manipulation, shifting emphasis from acrobatics to moving real, awkward objects.

The team showed cinematic avatar shots linked into longer sequences, pointing at narrative workflows instead of isolated clips.

In an X thread, Will Held says small-run fits predicted a 25B-param, 600B-token run at ~1e23 FLOPs, matching Paloma macro loss within 0.2% error.

In a post on X, the company argues agent behavior should be controlled by enforceable policies rather than instructions buried in a prompt.

Meta's AIRA architecture discovery work signals that agents are starting to help design neural models.

CancelFlow's site now outlines an embeddable retention flow that reads from Stripe via your publishable key, applies outcomes in Stripe, and supports A/B testing and full customization, with a 14-day free trial.

A short X video frames the bet: focus on robot hands and the failure points in everyday tasks like pouring coffee and grasping objects.

Built across 23 live SaaS apps and 106 long-horizon tasks, the open benchmark finds frontier agents stumble on planning, memory, cross-app context, and error recovery.

He says thousands of units have shipped and hundreds of companies are deploying, with SDKs live at MentraGlass.com and international expansion targeted later this year.

An X post cites 34.4% vs 32.3% U.S. enterprise share for Anthropic with no disclosed methodology. The gap is slim and could reflect marketing, product fit, or buyers seeking an OpenAI alternative, even as some developers say OpenAI's code tools beat Claude Code.

A Colossus magazine Q&A and profile cites Devin at a $445M annualized run rate with usage doubling every eight weeks, and names the US Army, Goldman Sachs, and Mercedes-Benz as early customers.

Majority-owned unit will embed Forward Deployed Engineers; backed by 19 partners and starting with 150 specialists and $4 billion, per OpenAI and Greg Brockman.

The six-month program begins this summer, selected from 124 applicants and backed by Google and GenerationAI.

In an X post amplified by Peter Jansen, Huang calls BiomniBench the first benchmark to score the process behind an agent’s output, not only the final result.

Led by Maveron, the seed backs a free app that records clinic visits, turns them into clear summaries with next steps, and keeps family in the loop.

The sizable pre-A round signals a push from R&D to manufacturing as Chinese humanoid startups aim to scale ahead of Western peers.

Built in Go with a server and web UI, the project is seeing near-daily commits as it positions itself as a hackable Markdown note app on GitHub.