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- OpenComputer previews serverless agents that resume with state intact
Digger's new platform lets developers test source-controlled agents locally, then deploy them on hibernating Linux VMs.
- Applied Compute adds self-distillation workflows to AC2 for production agent feedback
The tooling uses corrections, tool failures and other agent traces to train models on behavior encountered after deployment.
- Andromeda Surgical raises $15 million to push autonomy into prostate surgery
Standard Capital led the round as Andromeda runs an international clinical trial of its tablet-controlled Beacon robotic platform.
- Numerai is assembling a team to make its hedge fund self-improving
Richard Craib wants AI to move beyond contributor models and into risk and other systems inside Numerai's roughly $700 million fund.
- Kevin Rose ships a free prompt for probing what AI remembers about you
The free Markdown file turns accessible chat history and saved memory into an evidence-scored personal portrait without adding another service or account.
- Auterion starts adding terminal guidance to 50,000 Ukrainian Shrike drones
Germany is funding the roughly $103 million order, pairing SkyFall's low-cost airframes with Auterion's Skynode S terminal-guidance stack.
- Nous Research ships Hermes Agent with real-time voice and agent-to-agent links
The v0.20.0 release adds wake words, grounded citations, signed webhooks, desktop plugins and longer autonomous runs.
- Othello parent Cicero discloses $6.85 million round from 35 investors
Jared Zelman's New York startup moved from AI celebrity avatars to live sales-call guidance, while its valuation and investor list remain private.
- Procore will buy DroneDeploy for $845 million to feed jobsite data into AI
The cash acquisition gives Procore drones, robots and a visual dataset spanning a claimed 20 trillion square feet.
- Emerald AI filing discloses $90.2 million sold toward $150 million offering
Emerald AI, Varun Sivaram's Washington, DC startup, is raising fresh equity to commercialize software that makes AI data centers flexible power loads.
- ChronicleBio builds the chronic-disease data layer AI drug discovery lacks
Co-founder Fidji Simo tied ChronicleBio's data thesis to her own illness weeks after leaving OpenAI's full-time leadership team.
- Exa says its index serves 80 billion pages, targets Google scale in 2027
Will Bryk says Exa tracks 1.4 trillion URLs after a $250 million round financed its push into independent search infrastructure.
- Google Cloud gave Agent Runtime immutable versions and percentage-based routing
Immutable revisions let developers test, roll back and divide production traffic between agent versions, though the feature remains in Preview.
- OpenAI rebuilt ChatGPT's voice stack so GPT-Live can listen while speaking
A dedicated audio path keeps conversations moving while GPT-5.5 handles reasoning, search and tools in the background.
- Buildbox launches a UX layer for finding hidden AI agent failures
The YC S26 startup links user confusion and abandoned tasks to product fixes, then tests revised agent behavior before teams ship it.
- Molagri launches virus-like pesticide platform for resistant crop pests
The YC S26 company is adapting coronavirus-era structural biology to target insect guts, with its first grower LOI and laboratory viruses produced.
- Higgsfield launches $1 million AI film contest with public project files
The 14-prize festival requires a subscription and opens entrants' prompts and generation histories after the August 31st deadline.
- Intelligence, the DesignArena maker, raises $7.9 million for human-ranked AI evals
Grace Li says the 10-person startup grew from $5 million to $60 million in ARR over six months by selling creative-model evaluations.
- Gradio names three small-model apps as OpenAI Codex prize winners
Tiny Narrator took $5,000, followed by Blood Test Explainer and Uta Sensei in a hackathon capped at 32 billion parameters.
- Robinhood starts roadshow for retail fund backing Y Combinator startups
RVII moves into SAFE-heavy early-stage bets, charging a 2% base fee and 20% of realized capital gains.
- SpaceX faces first earnings test after $500 billion market cap drop
SpaceX's August 4th report will test whether Starlink cash generation can fund Starship and AI spending as early shareholders near a sell window.
- Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max with model weights planned next week
Alibaba says its 2.4 trillion-parameter model is scheduled for release next week through Model Studio, with a model-weight release planned and license terms still unresolved.
- Zenity raises $125 million to secure autonomous AI agents
Norwest led the Series C as the Microsoft alumni behind Zenity expand from low-code governance into runtime controls for enterprise agents.
- Qunett sells $1.48M toward planned $3M quantum networking offering
The MIT and University of Maryland spinout is adding private capital after using contracts and grants to move its hardware toward deployment.