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- ATTOM launches three AI agents to interrogate 160 million property records
The Irvine data provider is moving from APIs and files into analysis and report generation, with MCP connecting its records to Claude and ChatGPT.
- Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation in Jane Street-led round
Jane Street led the round, bringing Etched's reported funding to $1.9B as the AI inference startup says it has secured more than $1B in customer contracts.
- Hopscotch Primary Care raises $53M to expand rural primary care
8VC and Town Hall Ventures led Hopscotch Primary Care's Series D as CEO Tim Gronniger takes Kristin Myers Peng's rural Medicare model beyond Western North Carolina.
- Converge AI connects four products through one shared business context layer
Oliver Zhang's suite links knowledge work, software, creative work and games through shared context as Converge stages its US rollout; its growth product is next.
- Checkr announces Truv deal, with the price and closing still offstage
Checkr says the proposed transaction would add Truv's payroll, bank and state-agency verification network, although no reviewed source confirms a legal closing or discloses the price.
- HiddenLayer joins DOE's $60M Prometheus project to secure nuclear AI
The funding is subject to appropriations and covers a 32-partner effort, not a separately disclosed award to HiddenLayer.
- Grounded raises $5M to make van upfitting chassis-agnostic
Detroit startup Grounded is opening its largest facility after GM discontinued BrightDrop and Ford canceled its next electric Transit, forcing Sam Shapiro to build across electric, hybrid and gas platforms.
- FORT Robotics plans a SPAC merger at a reported $557M enterprise value
Samuel Reeves' FORT Robotics has not disclosed revenue or detailed merger economics, while Newbury Street II faces a November 4th, 2026 deal deadline.
- Bartowski releases an imatrix dataset for the ugly end of model quantization
The public corpus targets chat templates and tool use; without imatrix, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B fell about 28 BFCL points at Q2_K.
- SpaceXAI bars Grok customers from helping direct or indirect rivals
SpaceXAI's policy page lists August 14th as the date for a ban on using Grok outputs to help build direct or indirect rivals.
- Webml-community runs three Qwen3.5 models locally in browsers with WebGPU
Webml-community's demo runs Alibaba's 0.8B, 2B and 4B multimodal models locally through Transformers.js and WebGPU, with no cloud API required.
- Ashutosh Shrivastava's May Gemini Omni Flash demo exhausted a five-hour limit
Ashutosh Shrivastava's May 25th demo showed Gemini Omni Flash generating a personal avatar video, while a single prompt reportedly exhausted a five-hour usage allowance.
- Elie Steinbock launches Bot Directory for one-prompt Grok Bots
The open-source catalog turns shared workflows into copyable prompts and lets an X mention bot submit new entries through GitHub.
- Researchers evolved AI "mind viruses." The antivirus was one paragraph
The preprint showed natural-language payloads spreading through coding agents and files, while describing the current risk as limited.
- MiniMax's Vercel workout invite has no date or visible terms
MiniMax's open-weights workout joke with Vercel's v0 offers an invite, but the supplied posts disclose no date, venue, eligibility rules or formal partnership.
- Replit adds black-box pen tests and sends Agent to patch the holes
Level 3 scans test a sandboxed copy from inside and outside the codebase, then hand confirmed findings to Replit Agent for reviewable fixes.
- Devin migrated Cognition's site and recorded its own verification runs
Jared Palmer says the Astro-to-Next.js project used recorded tests to reproduce subtle failures, though Cognition published no scope or performance data.
- Alvys puts a build-your-own AI agent layer inside its freight TMS
Nick Darman's Foundry starts with 20-plus templates, human approval gates and a waitlist, extending the $40M Series B bet into freight operations.
- Google tests phone photos as a screen for insulin resistance
PhotoScan estimated body-fat distribution in a clinical study, though its closest DXA comparison rests on a 132-person validation cohort.
- J-Space says its text harness pushed DeepSeek V4 Pro past Fable 5
The reported gains are substantial, but the viral claim outruns single-run tests that mix vendor benchmark methods.
- Relay shuts down; founder Jacob Bank returns to Google as Chrome VP
Paid users keep access through September 14th; Bank will lead Chrome's product and developer-relations teams.
- Lanyon AI discloses $10.6M round to make physics code prove itself
Dimension led the July financing, backing a Princeton trio building AI-generated simulations with machine-checkable proofs.
- SecretSpec releases dotenv-ng, says dotenvy changed a bcrypt credential
Domen Kozar's fork gives SecretSpec control over fixes and releases for the parser used in its credential-migration path.
- Anthropic's revenue run rate tops $65B ahead of its planned IPO
The July figure is up from $9B at the end of 2025 and 38% above the pace Anthropic reported in May.