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The new pipeline layers onto existing stacks, adds 70+ languages, enterprise compliance, and pricing from 8 cents per minute via ElevenAPI.

CEO Matias Berny and CPO/co-founder Quentin Le Bras founded Prelude in 2022 to turn the phone number from a one-time passcode into a continuous trust and fraud defense layer; its Auth and Intel APIs underpin a full-stack onboarding platform and ~40% lower verification costs.

The agency announced a dedicated @NASAMoonBase habitat effort and set a May 26th livestream to share lunar exploration updates tied to Artemis and future Mars prep.

After a 3-2 vote to cancel Flock Safety's LPR contract, a dissenting councilmember vowed to propose banning phones, internet, and cameras across the 900-person town.

The IPO filing creates a dual-class, founder-controlled structure and outlines an X Money Product for P2P and commerce; it flags AML, money transmission, banking, and crypto exposure while leaving licensing and data-governance specifics unclear.

The general-purpose reasoning model produced a polynomial-improvement construction; external mathematicians checked the proof and published a companion paper.

WSJ reports OpenAI could file its IPO paperwork in days, possibly as early as Friday, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley advising.

At a YC event, Sam Altman said OpenAI would invest across the class with $2 million in API tokens per startup, trading usage for cap table.

Frosst's first X post called Command A+ Cohere's best model and described it as "out now" and "open source Apache 2.0." After publication, he corrected us on X; availability and licensing remain unconfirmed.

In an X thread, Gushwork founder Nayrhit Bhattacharya said headline metrics masked a services-heavy business; he paused go-to-market for 4-5 months, automated the content pipeline, and relaunched at 90%+ gross margins.

Contrario says it already works with 200+ companies; the seed was led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from YC partners and Goodwater, per the founder.

Parallel Web Systems, led by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, joins a surge of AI search upstarts while Exa Labs raises big at a multibillion valuation, per TechCrunch.

The team says an automated GCP suspension cascaded past Google to knock every Railway workload offline until early May 20th.

In a post on X, Bosmeny likened the blanket offer to Yuri Milner’s YC deal; no terms beyond equity-for-tokens were disclosed.

Alex Rattray’s SDK-generator startup will wind down hosted products; The Information reported talks above $300M as Anthropic folds a key supplier into its stack.

Railway says it regained partial Google Cloud access and is working with support to restore workloads; at least one user reports app servers and databases down across projects; no ETA, with updates on X.

Platform says internal repos were accessed; no evidence customer orgs or repos were affected, with updates promised via standard incident channels.

Johannes Brandstetter's Linz team joins Arthur Mensch's Mistral to push real-time sims and digital twins into aerospace, auto, and semiconductors.

Hewett says Physical AI can transform in-store commerce; X post lists investors including @nimble_partners, @gideonstrategic, @AlignVentures, @sound_ventures_, and @ycombinator.

Built by a former dev agency operator, CtrlOps generates shell commands you approve, adds one-click GitHub deploys, and claims 60-to-5 minute setups with no server agents.

Lightspeed leads; Picture Capital and Cerca join, with angels from Wiz, Armis, and Axis Security backing Shay Shwartz’s agentic email security platform built on autonomous investigation.

Three checkpoints (500M, 3B, 8B) ship under Apache 2.0 with open weights, code, and data; a 6-mer tokenizer and a new loss drive the team’s cited ~275x throughput vs Evo2 while the 3B matches Evo2-7B’s win rate, trained on ~1T tokens, and they say a single GPU can process a human genome in under two days.

In a post on X, Staniszewski said the move is in collaboration with Einstein's estate and frames AI agents as one-to-one teachers for students.

The UCL AI professor joins a heavyweight founding crew to turn compute into accumulated knowledge with open-ended, automated scientific discovery.