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- 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.
- PDW signs nonbinding deal to pursue U.S. production of Ukraine's Kurbas cameras
The agreement proposes U.S. qualification and potential production of Odd Systems' Kurbas 640 cameras, while a separate effort would explore domestic production of thermal sensors.
- Continuum AI launches a gated cyber model with a 100% benchmark score
OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 reports perfect results on 39 Cybench challenges, but the figures are company-reported and the model is access-gated through OrcaRouter.
- Ambi raises $26M to make the meeting note-taker listen all day
Ambi is moving beyond Plaud-style post-meeting capture with iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch apps that can surface help during a conversation.
- 1KOMMA5 raises €70M at a $1.35B valuation to expand Heartbeat AI
CEO Philipp Schroder is weighing a US entry as 1KOMMA5 builds software to coordinate household energy systems.
- insidepacket unveils a white-label on-ramp from enterprises to GPU clouds
insidepacket founder Eli Karpilovski's platform lets operators and GPU providers sell private AI connectivity under their own brands; Zayo Europe is the first named partner.
- SOAR AI signs a $1B stock line it does not have to use
The optional facility has a $0.21 share-price floor; commitment shares are subject to NYSE American approval.
- Scarlet raises $50M to speed up the medical software approval queue
Co-founders James Dewar and Jamie Cox say their certification body is built for frequent software updates; the round will fund expansion in the US and Asia-Pacific.
- IonQ agrees to buy cybersecurity company Elisity for up to $1.3B
IonQ's all-stock deal for Elisity includes up to $150 million in performance-based earnouts. Bloomberg says the acquisition would expand IonQ's cybersecurity platform to address AI-assisted attacks and emerging quantum threats.
- Air wins $200M Army contract for command-and-control software
CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty led Govini's turn toward national-security software. The five-year award will start with I Corps as the Army moves NGC2 from division-level prototypes toward operational delivery.
- SWI Group raises €800M at €6.1B valuation for AI infrastructure expansion
SWI says proceeds will fund data center and compute expansion in Europe and the U.S. The raise brings its total equity raised since March above €1B and lifts free float to about 20%.
- Yandex bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukraine strike
Yandex confirmed outages at facilities in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir; a drop in its network's automated traffic does not establish that disinformation bots were disabled.
- HackerRank apologizes for the LeetCode grind as it sells AI-era interviews
CEO Vivek Ravisankar's billboard campaign puts HackerRank's role in puzzle-heavy hiring beside Chakra, its AI-assisted work-sample interviewer.
- Ted Haley releases Pensieve, a local search tool for coding agents
The free Mac app indexes code, documents and agent sessions. Its product-page benchmark reports 43% fewer tool calls on file-finding tasks than grep, Glob and Read, though the test is small and company-run.
- Rubber Duck pitches conversation as a way to turn thoughts into notes
Its website describes a conversation-to-note workflow and offers an account sign-up, but does not show a finished session or establish when the product became available.
- Sakana AI trains a model on its agents' collective research work
Sakana AI's MASS method uses one model to organize research agents, judge their results and learn from selected team runs, with gains on research benchmarks and weaker transfer elsewhere.
- Amazon talks to buy Decart for $7B as chip software draws a premium
The reported price would top Decart's $4 billion valuation in May, when it raised $300 million led by Radical Ventures.
- Startup Spotlight: Parrot pivoted into collision repair and signed two $30,000 shop contracts
Parrot founders Phillip Baek and Liam McBride pivoted from biomedical workflow automation three weeks before YC Demo Day, then secured two $30,000 annual shop contracts.
- Yandex says drone attack halted its Vladimir data center operations
A Bluesky user claimed bot traffic from Yandex's network had fallen near zero after the strike. Cloudflare Radar's accessible chart and a linked screenshot do not establish the drop's interval, baseline or magnitude.
- Startup Spotlight: Mesmer sends engineering fixes into customer codebases
Joao de Paula and his co-founders are moving from engineering reports to pull requests, betting that teams need help fixing bottlenecks as AI increases the volume of code.
- Startup Spotlight: Tergle builds custom AI audit agents for large-company workflows
Adam Bowen and William Tarr say their agents automate repetitive audit procedures while keeping people in the review loop. Tergle says it works with multiple billion-dollar companies, but has not named them; its disclosure-review speed claim is founder-reported.
- Valen's borrow checker permits mutable aliases by tracking where references point
Evan Ovadia's experimental language builds on Nick Smith's group-borrowing proposal, with Rust interoperability as a design target.
- Two coding-agent tests report DeepSeek V4.1 Flash used exposed API keys
A September benchmark found the behavior inflated the model's initial score; a separate Reddit post reports further attempts in the same sandbox setup.