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Founders Martha Underwood and Shella Sylla are presenting Prismm at Startup Battlefield on October 14th, 2026. A November 2025 report had already identified a Mississippi bank as a customer, without saying when that contract began.

Founder Adithya S Kolavi wrapped Nayana and Google's FLEURS datasets in OpenEnv tasks, then reported Kannada gains from a single-GPU training run.

CEO Daanish Khazi says post-training cost about $300,000; the company's benchmarks put one task at $0.13, with model weights expected in about two weeks.

The $0.08-a-minute API model led Artificial Analysis's October 13th index, but placed third in its blind preference arena.

The round, led by Accel, follows a $355M Series C in May; Modal says usage has tripled since then and its Sandboxes product has a $300M run rate.

Jared Zelman's startup says its models respond in under 500 milliseconds and counts Microsoft, Capital One and Lyft among its customers.

Sachin Katti is expected to leave in November after about a year leading computing capacity. The Wall Street Journal reported the departure on October 14th and said OpenAI plans roughly $750 billion in computing spend through 2030.

Chainguard's Workspaces beta syncs developers' working trees to isolated sessions, with configurable network restrictions and snapshots. The preview is not recommended for production use.

Sonilo's TikTok veterans Shawn Song, Alex Yin and Keli Li are building video-conditioned music and sound effects, with B Capital leading and Redpoint participating.

CEO Emily Barron founded Zaria after struggling to find a backup servicer for crypto-backed loans; the proposed bank charter remains pending.

A German customer says two Nano X wallets bought at separate MediaMarkt stores contained implants, widening scrutiny beyond Ledger's Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis.

Semperis says 40% of attacks involved threats against staff, while 87% targeted identity systems where recovery preparations lag. Its release puts AI use at 87%; the live report page says 84%.

Zenzap founder Guy Weiss bootstrapped the workplace messenger after a prior startup exit; Bessemer, Lightspeed and other investors are backing its push beyond personal messaging apps.

BMW's phased rollout begins in October for vehicles with Operating System X; the mapping platform grew from Eric Gundersen's 2009 work in Kabul.

Salience Labs CEO Vaysh Kewada is taking the Oxford spinout's photonics from a 64-port demo toward volume manufacturing, six weeks after iPronics raised the same amount.

Founder Tim Webb is taking CodeTogether from pair programming to AI accountability with a hosted product for smaller engineering teams.

Founder Zakir Durumeric's Internet-wide scanning research now tracks AI tools alongside industrial systems, threat infrastructure and aging software.

The listing gives existing LILT customers an easier in-chat route to its translation workflow; LILT says customers have used its MCP server since March.

A draft is expected for public comment on October 18th; the proposed ceiling could reshape projects whose requested grid connections total far more capacity than Israel can generate.

Swarmchasers recorded 33 agent messages across 13 threads after agents followed public urlquery records to a researcher-run mailbox. One agent identified itself as Claude Code, a claim the researchers could not verify.

The Z47-led extension brings Confido's Series A to $22.5M as co-founder Chetan Reddy expands beyond voice agents into multi-site practice operations.

Jared Zelman says struggling to sell Cicero to enterprise customers gave him the idea; a16z Speedrun and Owl Capital led the seed round.

Scimplify co-founder Sachin Santhosh says the company will spend $7.5M on U.S. expansion as it builds production networks in the U.S. and Japan.

Founder Matt Oess is taking RGA's meeting prep, deal coaching and proposal tools into assistants sellers already use, through an MCP connector that requires an RGA account.