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- Tucuvi joins Microsoft Pegasus to make clinical voice AI easier to buy
CEO and co-founder María González Manso built Tucuvi around clinical follow-up; the program adds Microsoft sales channels and Marketplace procurement, not a reported customer deal.
- Black Forest Labs releases a 5.6B image model for local deployment
FLUX 3 Image Klein adds editing and multi-reference generation, with weights for fine-tuning and an API priced from $0.009 per 1K images.
- Bland says 30 seconds is enough to turn a website into an iMessage agent
Isaiah Granet's latest product push automates website and API setup, while Bland's existing iMessage offering is still described as an enterprise service.
- Better appoints former X CEO Linda Yaccarino to its Better 2.0 board
Better's first Better 2.0 board appointment comes days after shareholders restored founder Vishal Garg's control of the mortgage lender's board.
- Undecimal launches with $18M; Erlich reports mouse mRNA repression
Yaniv Erlich, in answers relayed by Lily Jeffery, told RuntimeWire that siRNA screen hits produced statistically significant target-mRNA repression in mice after subcutaneous delivery to extrahepatic tissues, but public materials omit key experimental details.
- BloomX raises $13M to take its pollination robots into U.S. orchards
BloomX says its crop-specific systems lift yields by about 20%; founder Thai Sade drew on nearly a decade managing his family's food business.
- Sunbound raises $24M and acquires Richter to expand into skilled nursing
Co-founder Manny Cominsky is pairing revenue software with Richter's billing expertise as Sunbound expands into skilled nursing.
- Liquid AI releases d1-ultra for multimodal decisions at $0.042 per million input tokens
CEO Ramin Hasani's MIT-born startup says the model leads its 112-test suite; it returns probabilities for text and image decisions without generating output tokens.
- Anthropic gives six METR evaluators internal access and publication rights
The arrangement puts CEO Dario Amodei's September call for embedded oversight into practice, with publication rights and defined limits on what evaluators can see.
- Marklo Raises $5M, Says 45% of 100-Plus Brands Use Product Weekly
The Shopify-focused startup has opened a free tier and Pro trial after a restricted pilot, founder and CEO Jessica Herrin told RuntimeWire.
- FTC investigates Anthropic and OpenAI over AI safety incidents
The October 14th demands seek incident records, security controls and marketing materials as the agency examines possible consumer-protection violations.
- Meta releases Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter model built for agents
Alexandr Wang's team is releasing the weights for coding and long-horizon tasks, with local operation requiring two M5 Ultra Mac Studios or substantial GPU memory.
- NVIDIA releases a 120B open multimodal model for AI agents
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL combines text, image, document and video processing; NVIDIA says it completed 10,000 coding tasks up to four times faster in its tests.
- CarbonAI raises $12M to automate commercial real-estate lending
Co-founders Jeff Saul and Josh Kaufman built the New York startup after selling their previous CRE lending platform to Built; Cowboy Ventures led the funding.
- Google brings Gemini 4 Argon to Pro subscribers and Search
The model debuted on September 30th with access limited to cyber defenders; Google opened its Gemini app and AI Mode rollout on October 13th.
- StepFun publishes 600B model weights with NVIDIA GB300 serving support
Step 5 Preview has 600 billion total parameters and 27 billion active per token. NVIDIA says its NVFP4 version runs at nearly 8,000 tokens per second per GPU on GB300.
- Zesty adds automated allocation to NVIDIA's open-source GPU fractioning
CEO and co-founder Maxim Melamedov is extending Zesty's cloud-cost thesis to GPU sharing, two days after NVIDIA open-sourced Run:ai.
- Meta turns Doja Cat's tour into a 12-minute smart-glasses film
Directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson, the short premieres October 23rd as Meta pairs a wearable-camera showcase with a Los Angeles retail event.
- PointClickCare adds former Appen CEO to board as it expands healthcare AI
Armughan Ahmad joins the board as Dave Wessinger pursues an AI-first strategy at PointClickCare, founded to keep technology out of clinicians' way.
- TBC says TIME recognized the technology behind its first AI model
TBC's first product runs on conventional chips; the company says it makes video generation faster and cheaper, claims that remain unverified by independent testing.
- Fleet adds AI governance to endpoint management as AI moves onto laptops
CEO Mike McNeil says IT teams should govern AI agents through the device tools they already use; Fleet says inventory is free, while some controls are still upcoming.
- AstraZeneca will pay insitro $40M upfront, with $1.46B tied to milestones
The collaboration pairs insitro founder Daphne Koller's biology and machine-learning platform with AstraZeneca's drug-development expertise to pursue MASH and cardiomyopathy treatments.
- Opsin raises $21M to track what AI agents can reach and do
Business Insider reported that SYN Ventures and Race Capital led the round, which Opsin plans to use to expand sales and engineering.
- MacPaw launches Eney, a Mac assistant with approval controls
Founder Oleksandr Kosovan is extending MacPaw's Mac-utility business into AI task automation. Eney asks before consequential actions by default, while its AI requests are processed in the cloud.