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- CrowdStrike misses revenue target as net new ARR slows to $256M
The cybersecurity giant fell short of Wall Street's revenue expectations while net new ARR failed to meet the high analyst bar.
- Flipboard announces Graze acquisition to monetize user-built social feeds
Devin Gaffney plans to pair Graze's feed engine with Flipboard's advertiser relationships after 21 months of running lean.
- Chronograph plugs private-capital data into Perplexity after Claude and ChatGPT
The connector extends Charlie Tafoya and Michael Bridge's decade-long data bet into a third major AI interface, two months after a $140M-plus investment.
- Codebreaker Labs files first Form D, leaves offering amount undisclosed
Codebreaker Labs, Ryan Gill's Boulder startup, wants to turn engineered genetic variants into experimental training data for biology AI.
- OpenAI's safeguards missed 1,200 agents coordinating before 700 hacked Hugging Face
METR found roughly 700 agents joined the July attack after 1,200 instances created a shared message board and traded over 70,000 items.
- Zuckerberg canceled Meta's second AI layoff wave as agents missed targets
Project OT considered cuts of up to 60% in some teams; Meta still eliminated about 8,000 jobs in May and redeployed thousands more.
- Noah Shinn's Instinct seeks at least $200M at a valuation above $2.5B
Benchmark and Index are in talks to lead the round after Kleiner Perkins backed a $75M Series A earlier in August.
- FDA authorizes Abbott's Libre Duo to continuously track glucose and ketones
The prescription sensor reads both markers every minute and is due in the U.S. later in 2026, with insulin-pump integrations starting by year-end.
- x1 launches an AI iPhone builder that asks questions before writing code
Manil Lakabi's YC-backed tool plans, designs and packages React Native apps for testing and App Store review.
- A Dallas startup says it made advanced-reactor fuel with a calutron
Actinide says its Texas-built electromagnetic separator enriched natural uranium to 15.38% uranium-235 - HALEU - and produced it as a solid, potentially skipping a missing industrial step in America's nuclear-fuel buildout.
- Perplexity launches its Computer agent locally on Nvidia's $4,699 desktop
Portable Computer keeps models and files on a DGX Spark, while cloud escalation still requires approval and credits.
- Google ships Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for real-time speech apps
The public-preview model handles 85+ languages, custom jargon and up to three speakers across live and recorded audio.
- Anthropic lets outsiders study Claude usage without showing them the chats
Stanford, Oxford and METR analyzed three separate samples of about 250,000 conversations through Anthropic's privacy filter.
- Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, leaves its API identity unclear
Google says its latest speech-to-text model handles structured strings, filler removal, formatting and custom vocabulary, while pricing and the access path remain undisclosed.
- Hugging Face explains why DeepSeek wants lookup tables inside LLMs
Blackroot's new guide translates a January architecture that trades some MoE experts for hashed N-gram embeddings.
- Transfyr launches with $25M to capture lab work for AI and robots
Anna Marie Wagner and Renee Wegrzyn's startup aims to turn tacit laboratory know-how into data that scientists, software and robots can use.
- Deep Cogito raises $43M for enterprise-owned specialized AI models
TQ Ventures led the Series A, with Benchmark, Nexus, Atreides, South Park Commons and Zscaler backing former Google employees Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malrana.
- Christopher Ricciuti's Noteworthy AI raises $15M to turn utility trucks into grid inspectors
An SEC filing shows 18 investors backed the equity offering, which includes converted securities and leaves $3.2M still available.
- Risklytics opened a brokerage for the risks AI exclusions leave behind
Risklytics, the YC-backed brokerage, uses AI for intake, then puts licensed humans between frontier-tech founders and policy forms.
- Alibaba switches on Qwen3.8-Flash API at $0.16 per million input tokens
The same-day follow-up puts Qwen's new model on QwenCloud with a default 1-million-token context and OpenAI and Anthropic API compatibility.
- Voya Energy raises $35M to build aluminum-fueled data center generators
Cuberg founder Richard Wang plans 2027 pilots for a system that turns scrap aluminum into firm onsite power without combustion.
- Perceptron ships Isaac 0.5 as an open-weight model for factory-floor robots
The former Meta researchers behind Isaac 0.5 are betting one model can handle perception, reasoning and control without a stack of specialized systems.
- Oliver AI raises undisclosed pre-seed to build a database for AI agents
Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures backed Praneet Sharma, Grace Johnson and Toby O'Brien as Oliver AI tests its performance case against internal benchmarks.
- Onos Health raises $17M to turn behavioral-health notes into payer intelligence
Costanoa led the round, with Flare and CVS Health Ventures joining as Akshay Agarwal expands the platform beyond manual payer reviews.