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- Pacific Fusion tests a 440-gigawatt pulse on the road to a demo plant
The 440-gigawatt burst unlocked part of a $1B-plus Series A, but Pacific Fusion still has to scale the pulser before its demo plant.
- Tilt raises $26 million to build AI tools for live auctions
The London startup founded by two ex-Revolut employees says Snap can turn a product shown on camera into a listing in seconds.
- Jed McCaleb's Vast Space eyes Europe with French astronaut missions
The Long Beach aerospace company is leaning on Europe as a proving ground for McCaleb's post-crypto bet on private space stations.
- LanceDB says NVIDIA used Lance datasets to curate Cosmos 3 training data
NVIDIA's report describes Cosmos 3 as an omnimodal model family; LanceDB's claim ties the release to training-data infrastructure.
- QuarqLabs says its open-source agent scored 98.2% on LongMemEval-S
Quarq Agent uses local FAISS storage, layered memory and three separate LLM roles to tackle long-context recall.
- Debug pitches sterile male mosquitoes as a chemical-free attack on dengue carriers
The project says its Wolbachia-carrying males cannot bite and cannot produce offspring with wild females; its public pages do not detail field results or funding.
- Ethan Thornton's Mach Industries raises $300M at $1.8B valuation
The 22-year-old founder's defense startup nearly quadrupled its valuation in a year as investors crowd into autonomous weapons.
- Bernini is ByteDance's bet that AI video needs planners, not just renderers
The system pairs a multimodal language model with a diffusion renderer, a bet that video generation needs explicit reasoning.
- Nous Research Opens Six Roles as Hermes Agent Moves From Open Source Project Toward Product
The remote AI lab is hiring across engineering, research, design, enterprise deployment, and legal as it pushes Hermes Agent and Psyche.
- Replit says one prompt can now generate an entire startup including website, mobile app, deck, launch video, and more
The browser-based coding company is pushing beyond code into websites, apps, decks, videos, and partner perks for new businesses.
- Expanse launches resource predictor for GPU and HPC clusters
The founders say their software reads code, job scripts and cluster telemetry before SLURM or Kubernetes runs a workload, aiming to cut wasted compute without becoming the scheduler.
- Browser Use moves down the stack to build an execution layer for AI agents
The agent-browser startup says its stack uses a Chromium fork, a Firecracker fork and a custom Linux kernel, a bet that agent workloads need infrastructure below the SaaS layer.
- Endra AI raises $50 million Series A for MEP design automation
The Stockholm company founded by Niklas Lindgren and Anton Juric is building AI software for mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering work, with Andreessen Horowitz leading the round.
- Standard Signal bets autonomous AI traders are ready for outside capital
Michael Royzen's YC Spring 2026 company is soliciting qualified investors with a $100,000 minimum for autonomous, auditable trades inside preset risk limits.
- Gigascale Capital raises $250M Fund I for physical economy startups
Mike Schroepfer's climate investment firm says its first institutional fund will back early-stage founders in energy, grid infrastructure, manufacturing, materials and AI for physical systems.
- Anthropic submits confidential draft S-1, opening door to IPO
The AI company says SEC review still has to finish before it decides whether to pursue a public listing.
- Mecka AI raised $60M to train robots on human motion data
Fortune reports the New York startup closed a $25 million Series A and a $35 million follow-on led by Framework Ventures, while CEO Josh Gao says signed contracts point to a $100 million annual run rate.
- Shafiq Joty's team proposes Procedural Memory Distillation for less forgetful LLM training
PMD is presented as a training-time method that stores lessons from prior model attempts, then uses them to teach the next policy.
- Invisix Raised EUR20M Seed for Soft X-Ray Chip Metrology, Report Says
The ASML-alumni team is targeting sub-2nm process control, but the named founders, valuation and chipmaker investor remain undisclosed.
- Legacy Labs Starts A Two-Month Retro-Computing Camp Built Around 2009-Era Sysadmin Work
The LambdaCreate author is trading one-week constraints for a Windows Server 2008 R2 lab built with modern Linux tooling.
- RuntimeWire launches AI Models hub to track pricing, speed, and real usage
New AI Models hub at runtimewire.com/models tracks pricing, speed, and live usage across major models, with continuous updates and price history views.
- Tripo's VAST previews Project Eden, a bid for persistent AI worlds
Rather than treating world models as video generators, VAST says Eden separates durable state from rendering so objects, actions and multiplayer views can persist over time.
- NVIDIA Is Assembling the Operating System for Robots
The Agent Toolkit collection turns robotics, AV, vision AI and industrial digital twin workflows into agent-executable tasks, with early use from TSMC, Pegatron, Siemens and more.
- Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to work on frontier LLMs
The former OpenAI and Tesla researcher is moving into Claude's pretraining orbit and says he plans to resume his AI education work later.