- 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.
- HiddenLayer raises $100M to secure AI agents at runtime
Delta-v led the round as HiddenLayer reported 10x ARR growth and aimed its security platform at coding agents, model files and enterprise workflows.
- Wonderful raises $550M for an AI strategy built around hiring humans
Bar Winkler and Roey Lalazar's Wonderful is valued at $5B and says it has 650 employees while operating in more than 35 markets.
- Upwind pursues $300M at $3.8B, seven months after its Series B
Bessemer is leading the reported financing, which would bring Upwind's disclosed funding to about $728M across its listed rounds if it closes.
- Gemini 3.8 Flash goes live as RuntimeWire begins head-to-head testing
RuntimeWire is testing Google's callable model against the Fable 5.1 model, while Google's public catalog still stops at Gemini 3.7 Flash.
- Charlie Ruan leads WebLLM, which runs open models locally in your browser
Charlie F. Ruan leads an open-source runtime that uses WebGPU, WebAssembly and compiler-generated artifacts to run language models on users' devices.
- OpenAI's policy chief says frontier lab insiders are worried about AI, too
Dean Ball, hired in July to shape frontier policy, says he will keep issuing candid warnings even when they complicate OpenAI's message.
- Tapingo founders raise $41M to take Aitan's drone software beyond Israel
Deep33 and Dell Technologies Capital backed the founders' push to turn combat-tested drone coordination into an export business.
- IBM launches K-12 AI fellowship as classroom use outruns teacher training
The first cohort will include up to 100 New York-area superintendents, education leaders and educators, with SkillsBuild learning, credentials and responsible-AI capstone projects this fall.
- Mykhailo Fedorov launches unnamed defense startup with Alex Karp set to invest
The former Ukrainian defense minister is taking wartime operating experience to market, though the product, funding amount and Palantir's role remain undefined.
- Lyte raises $165M to build the sensor stack robots keep rebuilding
Maverick Silicon led the round at a $1.6B valuation, backing Apple and PrimeSense veterans Alexander Shpunt, Arman Hajati and Yuval Gerson.
- Acer launches a 7-inch Intel handheld and saves the price for later
The Predator Atlas 7 pairs Intel Arc G3 options with an 80 Wh battery; North American availability starts in Q4.
- Mohit Aron launches SciFin with $44M to make revenue software agree with itself
Altimeter and Madrona co-led the financing, though an Altimeter investor post describes a $38M seed round while SciFin announced $44M.
- HyImpulse raises €50M+ to turn paraffin rockets into a launch business
The University of Stuttgart-trained founders will finance preparations for a second SR75 flight, expand production and push their three-stage SL1 vehicle toward orbit.