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- CXMT's $4.3 billion IPO tests Zhu Yiming's China memory bet
The Hefei DRAM maker is seeking China's largest A-share IPO of 2026 as AI demand and U.S. controls push Beijing toward domestic memory.
- Peter Fenton signals open-weight dominance within two years, via Aligned News
The Benchmark partner's view challenges closed labs' premium, per-token pricing as usage shifts toward cheaper, open-weight inference.
- EverMind's Raven Agent puts self-improving memory at the center of AI agents
The Shanda-incubated company says Raven ships with 100,000 evaluated skills and runs on its open-source EverOS memory layer.
- Helsing rewrote staff equity before its biggest funding round
The defense-AI company asked current and former employees in May to move from ESOP rights to a plan without direct equity.
- AI model costs could fall 3-4x in six months, Perplexity CEO predicts
Garry Tan amplified Aravind Srinivas's forecast that local devices could run Opus 4.8-grade models within 12 months.
- Collectly puts its Billie billing agent inside Epic's orbit
The YC company says its Epic bidirectional integration is live in Connection Hub, giving RCM teams a new route to patient billing automation.
- Catalyxx's EU grant puts its drop-in chemicals thesis on an industrial clock
Joaquin Alarcon's Spain-based bio-chemicals company is leading RenewChem, a CBE JU project supporting its first commercial plant in Europe.
- Mal Crease's Kraken Technology reaches $1 billion valuation with $175 million Series B
The British maritime defense startup says DTCP led the round as it expands uncrewed vessel production for allied navies.
- Kalshi wants to take crypto-style perpetual futures into gold, FX and energy
The prediction market founded by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara is asking regulators to widen a May crypto approval into traditional markets.
- Monumint scrapped OmniAI after a $3.2 million seed to sell AI agents to banks
Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis moved from horizontal AI data tools into financial workflows after deciding OmniAI was too small a bet.
- CollectWise seeks a founding AE as AI debt collection moves from demo to quota
The YC F24 startup says Sean OBrien has run hundreds of sales calls as it targets $10 million ARR.
- Lissi raises EUR3.5M as Europe's digital identity deadline nears
Ventech led the round for the German company, whose connector targets banks preparing for EUDI Wallet and AML compliance.
- Bun's Rust rewrite puts Jarred Sumner's biggest Zig bet on a new footing
Sumner says Claude helped port 535,496 lines of Zig after memory bugs made Bun's original engineering model harder to defend.
- Apple sues OpenAI, accusing its hardware group of stealing trade secrets
The lawsuit targets OpenAI's Jony Ive-led device push and names io Products, Tang Tan and Chang Liu as defendants.
- Xbox reset narrows the exit path for indie game studios
Microsoft is cutting about 3,200 Xbox roles and setting exits in motion for five studios after years of buying its way into games.
- Insilico's AI-discovered lung fibrosis drug enters Phase III
Rentosertib will test whether Insilico's end-to-end AI drug discovery thesis can survive late-stage clinical scrutiny.
- Cloudflare's Meerkat takes aim at the timeout problem inside global consensus
The internal research project uses QuePaxa, a 2023 EPFL algorithm, to keep control-plane writes moving across Cloudflare's global network.
- ZML's Steeve Morin releases free LLMD to loosen AI inference from Nvidia
The Paris startup's closed-source inference server runs Llama, Gemma, Qwen and Mistral models across Nvidia, AMD, TPU, Intel and Apple backends.
- OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produced a proof of a 50-year graph theory problem
Ethan Knight said the run used 64 subagents in under an hour, pushing OpenAI's new ultra mode into peer-review territory.
- Melius wants agents, not chatbots, to run creative production
Joowon Kim's startup is betting that designers and marketers will manage agent work on a canvas instead of inside a chat window.
- Fizz's founders accuse a Maveron partner of leaking their campus playbook
The amended complaint adds a VC-confidentiality claim to a 2023 fight between two anonymous college social apps.
- Agility Robotics' $2.5B SPAC deal tests public-market appetite for humanoids
A late-June Churchill Capital Corp XI agreement gives Digit a Wall Street path before humanoid unit economics are settled.
- Boston Dynamics keeps Atlas in the World Cup conversation with Viking Row clip
The Waltham robotics company posted a Viking Row clip days after Hyundai put Atlas inside a live World Cup match environment.
- Drafted V2 turns room placement into AI-generated home plans
Nick Donahue's AI home-design startup added partial regeneration, exterior options, saved projects, and faster floor-plan generation.