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Every story published on RuntimeWire, newest first.
- OpenAI teases Astra with MIT's 1979 voice-and-gesture interface
The clip points toward a multimodal launch two days after OpenAI said its delayed Astra model would arrive soon.
- Anthropic cuts Fable 5.1 cache-read prices 75% for long-running agents
Input remains $10 and output $50 per million tokens, while Anthropic estimates the cache discount can lower highly agentic workload costs by roughly 45%.
- OpenAI investigates ChatGPT and Codex outage across nearly every major feature
Errors hit conversations, login, Search, uploads, Voice, Agent and Codex; OpenAI had not published a cause.
- MiniMax M3 powers HUMAIN's 428B-parameter Arabic model
HUMAIN further trained MiniMax M3 on more than 1 trillion Arabic tokens and put the 428-billion-parameter result into a limited API preview.
- Guardio raises $40M at $1.1B, keeping dilution on a short leash
Amos Peled says Guardio has passed $150M in ARR and 1M paying customers after bringing Wiz co-founder Assaf Rappaport into the round.
- Flock Safety's AI watchlists let police search for people by description
A reconstructed interface shows map-based person searches, image-ranking feedback, and moderation controls that can block or warn on sensitive queries.
- Botika runs a 100-terabyte fashion AI stack on Modal, minus Kubernetes
Eran Dagan says moving data, training and 15 production models onto Modal let Botika scale research without doubling its infrastructure staff.
- Zeit AI raises €5M to bring an autonomous data engineer to Europe's mid-market
The Palantir alumni behind ZeitMind say they reached €1M ARR in 12 months; YC, Oxford's Seed Fund and Sequoia scouts joined the round.
- Polars 2.0 makes streaming automatic and implicit row order explicit
Ritchie Vink's release candidate lowers memory demands while tightening the rules around ordering, type coercion and malformed data.
- Souk raises $1.6M to turn dormant B2B partnerships into sales
Souk's Leo Crowe, Sofia Hamilton Sambrano and Ayooluwa Alfonso are building Coco, an AI agent designed to reactivate dormant business partnerships and connect them to sales. Sure Valley Ventures led the pre-seed round, with Antler and Fuel Ventures participating.
- NTU researchers release Puffin-World with camera-grounded 3D states
According to the [Hugging Face model card](https://huggingface.co/ACERobotics/Puffin-World?ref=runtimewire), the NTU-led model generates camera-controlled RGB and depth views that can be consolidated into 3D point clouds.
- Qdrant releases a 10-billion-vector benchmark and an engine to rerun it
FineWeb-10B contains about 10.07B vectors; Supernova turns Qdrant's giant test into an open workflow for evaluating rival databases.
- Modal opens London office to sell its AI cloud across Europe
Erik Bernhardsson is pairing a new commercial base with the Stockholm engineers who built core parts of Modal's infrastructure.
- Thyme Care raises $125M+ as Robin Shah builds an oncology parent company
Thyme Care, valued above $2B, is using capital from Morgan Health, Humana and CVS Health Ventures to develop standalone businesses for biosimilars and clinical-trial enrollment.
- Wayve launches London's first robotaxis, with a licensed driver still aboard
Alex Kendall's driving AI is entering public service through Uber with fewer than 20 Mustang Mach-Es and regulatory limits on driverless operation.
- Nous Research adds persistent multi-gateway control to Hermes Desktop
The v0.21.0 registry keeps local, cloud, remote and SSH agents visible while background jobs continue streaming.
- Critical Materials Group raises $10.3M to decentralize U.S. explosives production
Overmatch Ventures backed Kevin Capozzoli and Travis Swanson's modular manufacturing plan, with facility commissioning still ahead.
- Lloyd Armbrust launches RonanRX to personalize GLP-1 dosing with AI
The two-time YC founder is pairing physician-set doses with compounded tirzepatide as regulators tighten scrutiny and telehealth rivals crowd the category.
- Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe with diarization at $0.18 an hour
The model handles 20-plus speakers and code-switching, while Speechmatics and AWS publish higher speaker ceilings.
- HPE hits $12.2 billion revenue, up 34% as AI demand drives blowout
Hewlett Packard Enterprise crushed Street expectations and raised full-year guidance as AI-system orders and networking surge.
- Sylvan Labs sells $10.94M offering for autonomous revenue teams
The Form D lists 34 investors and no lead or valuation; Sylvan's hiring copy names TQ Ventures and HubSpot Ventures.
- Alexandr Wang's Meta team ships Muse Spark 1.3 for coding agents
The fourth Muse Spark release since April targets coding and agentic tasks as Meta expands its model distribution.
- ElevenLabs hires OpenAI VP Ashley Kramer as its first revenue chief
Kramer will run global revenue and partnerships as ElevenLabs says enterprise customers account for 55% of sales.
- Trump DOJ backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case
The government says licensing requirements would protect large publishers, entrench rich AI labs and weaken U.S. competition.