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- Aleph Neuro launches with a claim of MRI-level brain images from outside the skull
Butterfly Network says the new lab is using its chip-based ultrasound platform through the Butterfly Embedded program.
- Reka turns Counter-Strike 2 demos into a world-model training dataset
CS2-10k promises 10,000-plus hours of first-person video with synchronized controls, but the full Hugging Face upload is not live yet.
- X Money starts rolling out to Premium+ users
Benji Taylor's in-app preview puts X's payments push behind the $40-a-month tier as Musk tests finance inside the feed.
- Naveen Rao's Unconventional AI releases Un-0 to test physics-first image generation
The open release is a software simulation, not a chip, but it gives Rao's $475 million energy-efficiency bet its first public benchmark.
- Om Malik taught Silicon Valley to read itself
A personal remembrance of the GigaOm founder, True Ventures partner and writer who made Silicon Valley legible, including the late-night founder exchange that showed how his media machine worked.
- Figure AI's Figure 03 gets a harder BMW factory job as headcount tightens
BMW is moving Figure AI from body-shop part loading into logistics sequencing after an 11-month Figure 02 deployment, as the automaker comes off a 2024 workforce peak.
- Notion will shut down Notion Mail as it pushes email into agents
The inbox closes September 22nd, but Gmail-connected email tools will stay inside Notion's agent workflow.
- OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout shows Washington is becoming AI's gatekeeper
Sam Altman told staff the federal government asked OpenAI to limit GPT 5.6 access before wider release, The Information reported.
- Dawn Song, Bo Li and Sanmi Koyejo join Meta Superintelligence Labs
Meta is hiring three Virtue AI founders and other team members as agent security becomes core infrastructure for frontier labs.
- General Intuition raises $320M for Pim de Witte's gamer-data bet on real-world AI agents
The $2.3B figure is valuation, not cash, as the Medal spinout tries to turn action-labeled gameplay into robotics and simulation agents.
- Fal adds ByteDance's Seed Audio 1.0 as generative media moves into sound
The endpoint prices audio generation at $0.075 per minute and gives developers one API surface for text, voice, references, and image-guided sound.
- Blueshoe launches an AI-native law firm for consumer and plaintiff cases
YC's Spring 2025 company pairs a Harvard Law CEO with an MIT engineer and says legal intake can start inside chat apps.
- Probook raises $40 million by putting AI at the dispatch board
George Eliadis started with missed pressure-washing calls. Sequoia and a16z are betting that dispatch is the control point in home services.
- Samsung SDI backs Forge Nano's defense battery push
Samsung SDI's money and engineering help would give Forge Nano manufacturing credibility as it courts defense buyers for U.S.-sourced cells.
- Palmer Luckey's Anduril is chasing a Nissan factory for Japan's drone buildout
Reuters says Anduril is in talks for Nissan's Oppama plant, a civilian auto site that could become a local defense production hub.
- Chris Lattner's Modular is selling to Qualcomm in a bet on the AI runtime layer
The deal puts Mojo, MAX and Modular's hardware-neutral pitch inside Qualcomm's edge-to-cloud silicon strategy.
- Intercept launches with $500M to attack colds, flu and indoor-air transmission
Nan Ransohoff, Charlie Petty and Devin Sok are using grants, investments and buyer demand to pull respiratory prevention out of a funding gap.
- Sony opens U.S. pre-orders for its wearable cooling device
The REON POCKET PRO Plus costs $259.99 in the U.S., with Sony estimating late-July delivery for the neck-worn thermal gadget.
- OpenAI Updates GPT-5.5 Instant to Better Handle Intent, Advice and Shopping
The June 24th release targets ChatGPT's default workhorse model, with OpenAI pushing it deeper into recommendation and decision queries.
- Vishal Sikka raises $32M for Hang Ten, an AI bet against the IT services model
Mayfield led the seed round for Hang Ten Systems, which says AI can compress the work behind enterprise software projects.
- Anthropic Says Alibaba-Linked Operators Used 25,000 Accounts to Mine Claude for Qwen
The Claude maker says the April-to-June campaign produced 28.8 million exchanges and targeted coding and agentic reasoning.
- Coval raises $28M to test voice AI like Waymo tested cars
Norwest led Brooke Hopkins' Series A as enterprises push voice agents from demos into production calls.
- Anthropic's Fable 5 return signals are showing up in Claude Code and AWS
The model remains offline after a US export-control order, but product strings, AWS docs, and a new lawsuit point to a negotiated relaunch path.
- Seltz Lands $12.5 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
Antonio Mallia, an Amazon and Pinecone veteran, is betting agents need their own crawler, index, retrieval models, and ranking stack.