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- Everything we know about Google's Gemini 4 Argon
- ASI wins a five-year Army contract with a $99M ceiling for command software
Founded by Phillip Buckendorf after he saw how flight dispatchers worked, ASI says the first Army order will support Corps-level fires deconfliction.
- Meta brings ESPN's live college football to Quest ahead of its $1,299.99 VR glasses
The October 10th Texas-Oklahoma game starts a weekly slate on Quest, while Meta pitches more than 100 immersive sports events a year for its 2027 glasses.
- Fortastra raises $30M to build maneuverable satellite-protection spacecraft
Founder Mike Smayda brings a SpaceX and Hermeus engineering background to a business aimed at protecting civilian and defense satellites in orbit.
- Cogent maps enterprise attack paths and picks the fix that breaks them
CEO Vineet Edupuganti is extending Cogent's vulnerability-remediation platform across cloud, identity, network and code. Its VR-1 model identifies and prioritizes exploitable routes.
- Vocca's Eliott Hoffenberg and Hugo Danet raise $20M to automate healthcare's front desk
Vocca says it grew to 15,000 practitioners in a year; its founders are using the round to expand beyond phone calls and deepen its US presence.
- Pony.ai and Uber plan London tests in push for 2,000 European robotaxis
Founder James Peng is taking Pony.ai's Gen-7 beyond China through Uber's marketplace, after the partners began European operations in Zagreb.
- Hone raises $60M to build AI agents for business work that lasts months
CEO Moritz Stephan says Hone is building agents to pursue business goals for weeks or months. Cognition and AI inference startup Modal are early customers.
- Anthropic commits $150M to put Claude inside federal science projects
Anthropic says it will provide Claude, Claude Code, API credits and technical support to several hundred projects over three years. CEO Dario Amodei trained as a physicist.
- Outro raises $7M to scale supervised antidepressant tapering
CEO Brandon Goode says a gap he saw in psychedelic care led him to build an off-ramp for patients struggling to stop long-term medication.
- Persona raises $10M to put its personal AI agent on a wristband
Persona founder Zach Yadegari is pairing a free iMessage assistant with a $179 wearable, after selling Cal AI to MyFitnessPal earlier this year.
- Humanitas adds Hans Vestberg as Phil Chow prepares CASEY for enterprise rollouts
Humanitas says employee deployments at several unnamed Fortune 50 companies are scheduled to begin January 1st, 2027. Vestberg joins as an adviser and investor.
- Gudea raises $7M to forecast which online narratives will spread
Gudea CEO Keith Presley traces its origins to work disrupting online extremist networks; Mudita Venture Partners and Silicon Road Ventures co-led the $7M seed round.
- Artemis launches Orion-1, a security model that commits to a decision
The model enters private preview inside Artemis' security platform, where customers set which responses it can take without human approval.
- Tranquility makes investigative AI available to federal teams through Knox's Class D cloud
Founder Jim Penrose spent 17 years at the NSA; the FedRAMP Marketplace lists Knox's cloud platform, not Tranquility's products, as certified.
- Google Cloud's new work agent can route jobs to Claude and run for days
Gemini agent will connect Workspace, third-party services and long-running sub-agents, but it is still in private preview.
- Gallatin AI raises $50M to expand military logistics software already in use
Gallatin AI CEO Woody Glier says Navigator is deployed with U.S. military units. The company says the round will fund engineering, product development and broader sustainment capabilities.
- Rein Security raises $25M to secure AI agents at runtime
Rein Security says its runtime controls can stop harmful agent actions; Glilot Capital and Sienna Venture Capital co-led the round.
- Gremlin turns chaos tests into AI-generated fixes for reliability risks
Gremlin's Foresight AI extends co-founder Kolton Andrus's fault-injection work at Amazon and Netflix into a product that proposes fixes and retests them.
- Isomorphic Labs talks $40B valuation five months after $2.1B round
Bloomberg says Isomorphic Labs' early funding talks could value it as high as $50B, though terms could change.
- Scale AI releases visual-reasoning benchmark where top model scores 53.6%
The open HSS benchmark tests inference across 288 images and 234 videos; 20 human participants scored 93.1% under the same free-form conditions.
- Aurora gets five-year federal exemption for driverless-truck warning beacons
The Transportation Department approved the exemption late on October 7th, Reuters reported the next day; it lets Aurora and other autonomous trucking companies use cab-mounted beacons instead of roadside warning devices.
- AblePay raises $20M to expand a decade-old patient-payment business
AblePay says the F-Prime-led Series A will fund growth and technology development. A 2025 release attributed to AblePay reports provider reach in 28 states and endorsements from 21 state hospital associations; a Form D records $20.16 million sold.
- Tian Keyu raises nearly $30M for a world-model lab valued at $200M
The former ByteDance intern's research venture has backing from 5Y Capital and IDG Capital, but Bloomberg reports it has no public name or product.