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- Pivotal names Navy test pilot Mike Ross interim CEO after Karklin exits
Pivotal is pitching public-safety and defense missions alongside personal-aircraft sales, drawing on Ross's aviation and autonomy background.
- MiniMax H3 generates a 10.125-second audiovisual file in under nine seconds
MiniMax's open-weight H3 now runs through vLLM-Omni, while its community license excludes the US, EU, UK and Republic of Korea.
- Felix raises $200M to push its WhatsApp remittance bot into lending
A16z led $87M of equity and General Catalyst supplied $113M of debt as Manuel Godoy and Bernardo Garcia expand Felix beyond remittances into loans and savings.
- RuntimeWire opens Gateway beta for governing AI models behind existing clients
The private beta routes existing AI tools through approved models, scoped credentials, budget controls and privacy-risk checks.
- Alex Winter's Norbert Health raises $14M to teach robots clinical work
The Brooklyn startup supplies sensing, workflow and EHR software for partner robots already making rounds in skilled-nursing facilities.
- World Labs launches Atlas for video, 3D reconstruction and robot simulation
Fei-Fei Li's company is putting camera control, scene reconstruction and synthetic robot views into one model, with access initially limited to selected partners.
- Qing Yin's Visko raises $10M for AI worlds that keep running
Visko paired the Llama Ventures-led pre-seed with Orbis, its first Live Model for continuously generated interactive video, and opened public access.
- AIR Security raises $50M to filter what AI agents trust
Unit 8200 veterans Yair Saban and Niv Hoffman closed two seed rounds led by Sequoia and Greenoaks within weeks of each other.
- Altman says faster AI self-improvement would push OpenAI's IPO further out
The CEO linked OpenAI's path to a public offering to the pace of recursive self-improvement as the company slows frontier research and tightens model safeguards.
- Wafer aimed for $18M and raised a $40M Series A instead
Marathon and Chemistry co-led the round four and a half months after Wafer disclosed its $4M seed.
- Lumeria takes $199 preorders for a phone-mounted AI skin scanner
The YC S26 startup says Lumoscope uses RGB, UV and polarized light to track skin changes, with US shipments expected in September and October.
- Reducto launches r-1 at 1 cent per page for document parsing
Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri launched Reducto's preview document model after the company raised $108M, pricing r-1 at 1 cent per page.
- Prashant Jalan launches Guickly to find where enterprise AI budgets went
Guickly disclosed a $4.2M seed led by Engineering Capital, though SEC records date the offering's first sale to November 2025.
- fal ships H3 Max, generating five-second videos in roughly three seconds
The post-trained MiniMax H3 variant pairs fal's model research with its serving stack to generate five-second videos in roughly three seconds.
- David Reich's Fambot raises $3.5M to read the family inbox
NextView Ventures led the pre-seed, with Baukunst, Correlation Ventures, Karman Ventures and Founders Network participating as Fambot launched after signing up more than 1,000 families.
- Z.ai gives GLM Coding Plan subscribers a quota refill after one year
Every current subscriber gets a Reset Card for weekly and five-hour limits, with redemption tied to a signed-in ZCode account.
- Ishay Yaari and Nati Shalom raise $10M for Kubernetes remediation agents
The Cloudify veterans are putting agents inside customer environments to restore service before root-cause analysis, with lower telemetry costs as part of the pitch.
- Flower Labs launches Endeavor 1.0 for private frontier AI deployments
The Cambridge-linked founders are extending Flower's federated-learning stack into a licensed model preview for sensitive enterprise workloads.
- Odyssey raises $74M to finance solar gear before installers get paid
The financing combines $27M in equity and $47M in debt as Odyssey expands procurement credit across India, Africa and Latin America.
- Physical Superintelligence launches with $58M seed for virtual physicists
Physical Superintelligence says Matt Pines, Alex Klokus and Alexander Wissner-Gross started the company with Emmy, a simulation platform aimed first at data-center design. PSI also calls itself a founding technical partner of an Alpha Centauri mission.
- Ettifos selected to supply retrofit V2X hardware for Arizona deployment
Hojun Kim's V2X-AIR will connect existing fleet vehicles to a federally funded, multi-vendor network across Maricopa County.
- PaperCut ships second patch as attackers hijack user lookup to dump database tables
PaperCut issued a second emergency patch for its NG and MF products as attackers pursued a data-theft path distinct from the documented remote-code-execution chain.
- Tailscale ships Tailcat, its data plane without accounts or admins
Brad Fitzpatrick built the open-source tool on a 10-hour flight in 2023; customer demand and AI agents brought it back to life.
- Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max leads open-weight models on commerce agent benchmark
The Accio team's state-based benchmark reports Qwen3.8-Max completing 56 tasks through Accio, 47 through OpenClaw and 53 through Pi; Alibaba calls it the strongest overall open-weight result.