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- Gradient Health raises $3M from one investor for its medical AI data bet
Joshua Miller and Ouwen Huang are applying their FarmShots computer-vision playbook to a harder bottleneck: usable healthcare data.
- Digs raises $25.3M as Builders FirstSource signs five-year deal
Ryan Fink's third startup pairs a Series A led by Builders FirstSource with a five-year commercial agreement for AI-powered homebuilding tools.
- Hike Medical raises $22.5M to put AI agents inside an orthotics factory
Aadi Bhanti is turning three generations of orthotics experience into AI agents, clinical software and a 3D-printing operation in Peoria.
- Corvus raises $20M as co-founder Mohammed Kabir takes over as CEO
Catalyst led the financing as co-founder Jackie Wu moved to the board and Corvus reported more than 300 devices deployed across North America.
- Perplexity launches Portable Computer on DGX Spark to cut cloud use
Portable Computer runs Perplexity's agent stack and 27B models locally, then asks before sending harder steps to the company's cloud.
- Loamy sells $8.62M of a planned $9.9M food supply chain round
The filing shows 15 investors and $1.28M still unsold as Charles Julius and Jason Pesek expand a mobile-first ERP for perishable food.
- Intuit hits $4.4 billion Q4 revenue as AI-driven 'Big Bets' accelerate growth
The fintech giant beat revenue expectations with double-digit growth while signaling a shift in accounting practices for fiscal 2027.
- Stability AI raises $76M as music labels and EA buy in
Prem Akkaraju has moved beyond a 2024 rescue with strategic capital, while valuation, revenue and investor stakes remain undisclosed.
- OpenAI launches $100 ChatGPT Business seats for heavier AI workloads
Premium costs five times the Standard rate and includes 5x usage, while letting workspace owners mix both seat types across a team.
- Alex Shapalov ships a roughly 6 MB read-only Postgres diagnostic tool
The Go binary turns PostgreSQL statistics into deterministic findings for developers and AI agents through a CLI, JSON output and Model Context Protocol tools.
- OppyAI reports $3.5M equity sale as it pitches neural encryption
An SEC filing lists nine investors in the fully sold offering. OppyAI is commercializing research that splits an open-source model between the user's device and the cloud.
- Google stopped distributing RuntimeWire. We kept growing.
The fall began before Google's August spam update and persisted after translated pages were removed from Search.
- Stardock lets teams share one AI session without moving it to the cloud
Brad Wardell's Clairvoyance 0.85 lets colleagues work with the same agents while the host computer retains the session, files and local execution.
- OpenAI reports up to 3.6x lower Jalapeno latency in engineering tests
OpenAI reports gains over Nvidia GB200 and GB300 systems in company-run tests, with production deployment planned by the end of 2026.
- Figure launches Index, a paid human-video pipeline for training humanoid robots
Figure says 44,000 weekly creators have uploaded 16M videos, and it plans to spend more than $1B on data and compute over the next year.
- LatticeDB puts graph, vector and text search in one local file
Jeff Hajewski's Zig database targets local AI apps; an August 24th correctness release shows how early the project remains.
- OpenAI says Jalapeno beats Nvidia Blackwell on inference speed per watt
The first-party accelerator beat GB200 and GB300 systems in OpenAI-run tests, with deployment planned inside OpenAI's infrastructure by December.
- Skild AI ships S1, a robot model prompted by one video
The model learns unseen tasks lasting up to 10 minutes without fine-tuning, according to tests published by the robotics developer.
- Ox Alpha filters domestic Chinese political risks, CTGT audit finds
The anonymous coding model matched GLM-5.2's tokenizer and heavily suppressed seven topics tied to Xi, party legitimacy and domestic protest.
- IBM cuts the decoder from Granite Speech, says transcription runs 20x faster
IBM's 470M-parameter English models trade translation and keyword biasing for lower latency, smaller memory needs and edge deployment.
- Pacific Fusion breaks ground on a $1B machine targeting net facility gain
Pacific Fusion broke ground in Albuquerque on a demonstration machine designed to produce more fusion energy than the energy stored in its capacitors.
- Gamma acquires Lica and puts its founders in charge of design research
Priyaa Kalyanaraman and Purvanshi Mehta will pair Lica's model research with Gamma's claimed 100 million-user distribution.
- Gautam Narang's Gatik raises $200M to scale driverless middle-mile freight
QIA and Koch co-led the Series D as Gatik targets more than 100 trucks by year-end, with $600M in contracted revenue claimed but unaudited.
- Apple gives Mac Studio the M5 Ultra and a $5,499 local AI pitch
Johny Srouji's chip group pairs up to 512GB of unified memory with MLX and clustering, leaving buyers to weigh capacity against CUDA and a higher Mac price.