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- Abacum launches Modeler to build finance plans from prompts and spreadsheets
The tool proposes model logic for finance teams to review, while Abacum's calculation engine handles the math; customers get it at no extra cost.
- Clueso raises $10M to automate business video production
The round brings total funding to $12M, with Dharana Capital leading and more than 80% of the new capital coming from existing investors, Clueso says.
- Alibaba opens sign-ups for Qwen's in-app agent in China
Called Personal Agent by Qwen, the invite-based feature is designed to pursue refunds, file flight-delay claims and book services from inside Qwen App.
- SerpApi launches Extract API for webpage data and bounded crawling
Founder Julien Khaleghy is extending SerpApi from search results to page content, with crawl limits and billing tied to successfully extracted pages.
- Neo's Ali Partovi says Microsoft pushed him out over search
In the debut of his new podcast, Partovi says this is the first time he has told the story publicly. He and then-manager Satya Nadella recall how Microsoft's banner-ad revenue plan blocked an early search-advertising effort.
- Sarvam cuts Bulbul V4 Flash to Rs 10 per 10,000 characters through November 12th
The Bengaluru AI company introduced its 11-language speech model on September 30th, touting lower latency and more natural delivery for voice applications.
- Loft Orbital puts Altair's first satellite into a 50-satellite AI network
Altair-1 launched on October 1st with NVIDIA processors and Mistral models onboard, beginning a $1 billion program led by Loft Orbital and Marlan Space.
- U-wifi launches $55 5G internet with ads that could erase the bill
U-wifi CEO and co-founder Donald Workman is betting that self-installation, T-Mobile connectivity and voluntary ad viewing can make home internet cheaper to buy and keep.
- Google DeepMind paper trains an agent to rewrite its own harness
Posted on October 9th, Evo2 pairs code edits with performance feedback to train the model proposing and evaluating those edits.
- Promise Robotics signs D.R. Horton deal covering 1,250 homes
The multi-year agreement gives the homebuilder access to Promise's factory and robotics service, advancing co-founder Ramtin Attar's push to sell production capacity, not standalone machines.
- BridgeBench rates Meta's Muse Wonder at 611, 149 points behind its leader
Matthew Miller's coding-model leaderboard places Muse Wonder eighth of 29 models; its score is an editorial assessment, not a success rate.
- ThinkLabs AI adds Dragos CEO Robert Lee to its board as utilities plan for AI power loads
Founder Josh Wong is bringing in the industrial-cybersecurity executive as ThinkLabs AI builds grid-planning software for utilities facing rising electricity demand.
- Runpod hires a CFO as ARR climbs past $325M
Brian Erickson joins after finance roles at DigitalOcean, Amazon and Microsoft as Runpod's company-reported ARR rises from $120M in January to more than $325M.
- Keyframe Labs adds word-level emotion controls to its live avatar model
Co-founders Parth and Kaahan Radia say Persona 2.0 Live is in preview, with emotion tags in prompts and an SDK for finer control.
- AiID launches ID-authentication software built for imperfect scans
Founder Brandon Currul says Frictionless ID checks whether a document is genuine before biometrics; AiID is testing it at beta locations and discussing a seed round.
- Causa Prima raises $20M to automate finance handoffs between companies
Fortune and Tech.eu reported the seed round on October 13th; it closed in September and brings Causa Prima's reported funding to $30M. Base10 Partners led the financing, which will support US expansion and a planned New York office.
- VulcanBench founder hits Muse Wonder's usage limits before finishing a benchmark
Morgan Linton says Muse Code limits stopped a full VulcanBench run, raising an early cost-per-task question for Meta's new coding model.
- OpenWeb asks court to halt lender collections as rescue funding stalls
OpenWeb trustee Ehud Gindes says Liquidity Capital has collected $9.6M toward a roughly $20M debt, putting employees, suppliers and publisher partners at risk of delayed payments.
- GMI Cloud says Muse Wonder undercut Opus 5.5 on two coding builds
The October 12th test put Meta's new model through two detailed Canvas projects; GMI reported lower costs and faster completion in both runs.
- Scaleway plans an AMD-powered AI supercomputer in Sweden, Reuters reports
The report points to a new step in Scaleway's Swedish expansion, where the Paris cloud provider already has a separate partnership with Tele2.
- Meta puts camera-free Ray-Ban glasses on sale for $349
Meta is adding a prescription-ready, audio-first option to its EssilorLuxottica partnership, with Meta AI and up to 12 hours of battery life.
- hillclimb gives AI agents 48 hours to improve real machine-learning tasks
The new benchmark scores agents on 15 research-derived problems, using private verifiers to judge whether their changes hold up on data they cannot see.
- Anthropic tests how AI models could spread across cheap home devices
Anthropic's October 12th study ran a model across 15 Android TV boxes and separately tested a simplified replication chain on emulated nodes. Its end-of-year estimate for smaller models is explicitly rough.
- UpCodes says its AI reviewed 1,300 plan sets and flagged 180,000 potential issues
CEO Scott Reynolds is pushing UpCodes from building-code research into drawing review, with Dallas-Fort Worth Airport among the reported adopters.