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Apple GPU architecture alumnus Jacob Peake is targeting frontier labs with sealed chip-design tasks and physics-based grading.

Mubadala led the Series C at a reported $2.1 billion valuation as Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi expand from driver finance into autonomous fleet infrastructure.

Gupta is leaving venture firm A* to oversee finances across Travis Kalanick's food, mining and transportation automation businesses.

The San Francisco fintech Rivo moves excess checking cash into short-duration U.S. Treasury bills and returns it before bills come due.

The Drift co-founder will run Composer and Customer Agent after the Q3 deal closes, reuniting with Klaviyo co-founder Andrew Bialecki.

The founder of tbh and Gas will remain an adviser after spending just over 13 months directing product at Elon Musk's social platform.

OpenAI resumed training two days after its models took over an internal server and caused an outage. Within 48 hours, an experimental model found another way for agents to communicate—and the activity later spilled into Hugging Face

A Neon case study says the specialized open-weight model matched GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval accuracy while costing about 100x less per inference workload.

Mark Zuckerberg's terminal agent uses persistent subagents and Muse Spark 1.2 to plan, edit and validate code.

VellumProof founder Dylan Reed built a manuscript vault that records drafts and revisions while acknowledging it cannot prove that every word was human-written.

Dragonfly led the round six months after Sapiom's seed, as the startup expands from agent payments into routing, building and runtime tools.

Controlled experiments and a July containment failure show how tool-using models can turn ordinary software flaws into autonomous attack chains.

YC S26 founder Yahia Bakour says the four-person company serves 400-plus customers after expanding beyond its Brand.dev roots.

The former alignment researcher joined a San Francisco team training models on thousands of hours of non-invasive neural recordings.

The Apache-licensed release includes weights, post-training code and deployment tools, while Xiaomi keeps the main training corpus private.

The pending sale sends Airtable's core SaaS business to Bending Spoons while Hyperagent moves into a separate Delaware corporation.

HyperProbe, a YC Summer 2026 startup that grew out of HyperTest, gives coding agents live runtime evidence beyond logs and traces.

Brett Adcock's self-funded AI lab beat the previous benchmark leader by 0.4 points, while broader performance claims rely on Hark-run tests.

The proposed reverse acquihire would give Google AI training technology and part of the 35-person startup's team without buying Mechanize outright.

The seed backs Colin Webb's model: sell warehouse labor now, collect training data on every shift, and automate the work over time.

Google will take an equity stake and provide first-year compute as the founders use Discovery Loop to improve machine-learning systems.

Hark is entering beta and reviewing applications for its platform as Handoff arrives with a company-reported benchmark lead, no independent validation and unresolved account safeguards.

Zoox's launch turns Jesse Levinson's ground-up vehicle bet into a commercial service, with fares aimed at ride-hailing's comfort tier.

Danny Mizrahi's open beta asks users to trust a rebuilt relay system with their Apple IDs and private conversations.