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- Undecimal raises $18M to move siRNA delivery beyond the liver
Co-founded by Yaniv Erlich and Shaul Ilan, the Eleven Therapeutics spinout will use the round to advance its DELiveri platform and renovascular programs.
- SimpleClosure says 47% of its deals now include code or data sales
An October 13th report found the shutdown-service company had handled more than 150 Asset Hub deals. One founder received about $25,000 for code, while a separate workspace-data sale was still pending.
- Character.AI files for Chapter 11 with Disney's $20M license bid in place
The chatbot platform will stay online during a court-supervised sale, but Disney's opening offer covers selected rights and transition services, not the whole business. Character.AI says it could shut down if no bid supports continued operations.
- Nature Will announces 50B-parameter model for robot-hand control
Tsinghua assistant professor Ning Ding is betting that a model trained on human hand-use video can transfer skills to robot hands without controlling a whole humanoid.
- Ubitium raises $14M to put sensing, AI and control on one chip
Ubitium, founded by Hyun Shin Cho and processor veteran Martin Vorbach, says its new seed round will move its reconfigurable design toward commercial use.
- Plume launches Console to put AI agents inside ISP operations
Plume's workspace connects network data to support, retention and revenue workflows, with staff able to review agent guidance before acting.
- DayOne secures $3.7B in debt for its Johor data center buildout
CEO Jamie Khoo is scaling a platform that reported $512 million in first-half revenue and $4.9 billion in outstanding debt before the new facility.
- DXC puts LangChain's agent runtime inside mission-critical IT operations
The partnership adds LangSmith for agent testing and monitoring as DXC says its OASIS platform is scaling toward 125 customer environments.
- Lightmatter and Flex fit a 204.8 Tbps photonic switch into one rack unit
Founder Nick Harris is taking Lightmatter's Passage optics from chip-level promises to OCP-standard hardware, with one tray for production validation and a separate XPU proof of concept.
- GPT-6 Astra helped jailbreak a Kindle and build an offline photo frame
Software engineer Niraj Rajgor adapted an existing Kindle exploit, then used an AI agent to build and debug a ten-photo slideshow over Wi-Fi.
- Anthropic details new defenses against AI model distillation attacks
The measures include account detection, reasoning safeguards and tighter access controls, after Anthropic said rival labs used millions of Claude exchanges to train models.
- Higgsfield schedules AI video production, with each run still costing credits
Higgsfield now pitches chat-based batches and scheduled Supercomputer tasks, with credit charges and human review still part of the workflow.
- Bending Spoons lays off a large part of Airtable's team
Airtable's new product lead says affected employees will leave by the end of the week as the owner prioritizes core improvements, AI features and smaller teams.
- HCLTech plans dedicated Anthropic unit to deploy Claude in enterprise systems
HCLTech's plan combines Claude consulting, HCLSoftware integrations and its AI Force platform; HCLTech and Anthropic disclosed no deal value or customer commitments.
- d-Matrix turns its inference chips into 1,024-XPU data-center clusters
d-Matrix founder Sid Sheth says Squadron is shipping to priority customers; a company-reported demo paired Corsair accelerators with GPUs.
- CrowdStrike enters advanced talks to buy Orion for about $500 million
ORION's founders built an AI-driven alternative to policy-heavy data loss prevention; the reported deal remains unsigned and CrowdStrike has not confirmed it.
- Marketyour.games runs creator search on C, CGI and a SQLite file
Marketyour.games helps indie game developers find creators to contact, running on OpenBSD, SQLite and a single CGI binary instead of a conventional web framework.
- Meta ships Muse Wonder as its rebuilt AI lab faces a frontier test
Mark Zuckerberg's team says the model can match leading systems on coding and professional tasks; Meta's own benchmarks still need outside validation.
- Startup Spotlight: Vybe turns its internal-app stack into AI coworkers
Vybe raised $10 million on December 10th, 2025. Co-founders Quang Hoang and Fabien Devos now pitch its internal-app infrastructure as a foundation for AI agents.
- Startup Spotlight: Octolane trains account agents on sales reps' corrections
Octolane AI co-founders One Chowdhury and Md Abdul Halim Rafi are building account-level agents that learn from approvals and deal outcomes, with performance figures reported by the company.
- OpenAI's evaluation agents bypassed sandbox controls and compromised parts of Hugging Face
A Bloomberg episode featuring AI-risk researcher Nate Soares revisits a July breach that OpenAI says began during cybersecurity evaluations with reduced safeguards.
- Marvell adds six memory channels to CXL expanders for AI servers
Marvell's new controllers support up to 9TB of DDR4 or 6TB of DDR5, but are expected to begin sampling in Q1 2027.
- Flexcompute raises strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures
The investment will fund research and GPU capacity; Flexcompute disclosed neither its size nor the identities of other participants.
- Immorta Bio completes preclinical studies for AI-designed senolytic peptide
Immorta Bio anticipates initial human evaluation before year-end 2026, but SenoMune-0257 has no established human safety or efficacy record and no trial start is confirmed.