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- Mojave raises $19M to scale its humidity-first HVAC systems
Founder Phil Farese is expanding production of liquid-desiccant units; an SEC filing records nearly $25M sold, including converted securities.
- Replit acquires Atta and adds business analysis to its coding agent
The first integration puts interactive, AI-generated charts in Replit chat, extending the platform from building apps to exploring company data.
- Muju Earth brings a seed-sized soil aerator to TechCrunch Disrupt
Co-founder Ifeoluwa Afolayan designed Aeropod to work during planting, avoiding a separate pass of heavy machinery; paid U.K. field trials are planned for fall 2026.
- OpenAI says Hugging Face remains its most severe agent incident
Sam Altman says the review spans petabytes of agent activity logs, with OpenAI prioritizing cases by severity and adding resources.
- Workshop gives comms teams scheduled AI agents; the approval step stays human
Workshop CEO Rick Knudtson says the add-on will handle recurring work, drawing on SharePoint and Workshop data while leaving each draft for a person to approve.
- Anthropic says Claude can calculate nine-loop particle-scattering formulas
The post points to theoretical physics, where loop order measures successive corrections; the number alone does not show what Claude calculated or how it was checked.
- Vapi says its voice agents now handle about a billion calls a year
The September claim follows Vapi's May Series B, when the company reported more than 1 billion calls made and TechCrunch reported Amazon Ring routed all inbound calls through it.
- UpGuard finds 16,326 Supabase databases with readable tables
The scan covered roughly 300,000 domains; more than half the readable databases showed indicators of personal information as Supabase changes its defaults.
- DaVoice sues Perplexity over wake-word technology after the companies collaborated
Founder Ofer Fryman's startup says Perplexity misused trade secrets; a heavily redacted complaint leaves the alleged copying and the product at issue unclear.
- Startup Spotlight: Tugce Bulut builds Eloquent AI to automate bank workflows without APIs
Bulut brings Streetbees experience to Eloquent AI's financial-operations pitch; its $500K ARR and 96% automation figures remain company claims.
- Kiteworks tells customers to shut down servers over possible zero-day threat
Kiteworks, led by CEO Jonathan Yaron, advised a precautionary shutdown after receiving law-enforcement threat intelligence; CISO Frank Balonis says it is unaware of any compromise.
- Texture opens its US grid map to public edits and commercial use
CEO Sanjiv Sanghavi brings a consumer-product founder's approach to a data problem utilities and energy teams keep rebuilding in private.
- OpenAI Codex adds client plumbing for agents to share a remote message board
A merged GitHub change adds an HTTP client and live notifications; the PR does not include the message-board service itself.
- Anthropic spotlights Opus 5.5 demos, with a human still in the loop
Three days after launch, Claude's account shared user experiments; one interactive lens lesson came from a designer using his own project files and a maximum-effort run.
- Netflix gives Spark jobs internal identities by having AWS verify their roles
Netflix engineer Dhruv Pratap's design pairs AWS STS proof with signed workload metadata, then issues Metatron certificates for a Data Project identity.
- Meadow ships a $449 phone for leaving the main phone at home
Meadow founder Shreyas Narlanka has shipped the first bulk batch of its companion phone, which keeps maps, music and calls while blocking social media, browsing and feeds.
- Cognition's revenue run rate reaches $1B, four months after $492M
Bloomberg attributes the September figure to a person familiar with the matter; founder Scott Wu has built Cognition around software agents that take on longer engineering tasks.
- Robot.com adds ads to Grubhub deal spanning 20-plus campuses
Founder Felipe Chavez Cortes is extending a delivery business he built from campus routes into a broader robot-services and media operation.
- NetApp plans to buy PEAK:AIO for its AI storage architecture
Founder Mark Klarzynski built three storage companies that were acquired before PEAK:AIO; NetApp wants its metadata technology alongside ONTAP.
- Google adds avatars to Gemini agents, with Cox building Autotrader's car-shopping assistant
Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is generally available in Gemini Enterprise. Google Cloud says Cox Automotive built an AI shopping assistant for Autotrader using the feature.
- Bird borrows $450M as it opens its communications systems to AI agents
The dividend recap gives existing and former employees liquidity as founder Robert Vis pitches Bird's communications network as infrastructure for agents that can act.
- New Jersey fines DataOne $1.07M over 62 unpermitted AI data-center generators
The September 22nd penalty targets infrastructure built for a Nebius-Microsoft deal; DataOne co-founder Charles-Antoine Beyney previously sold data-center operator Etix Everywhere.
- CertifyOS launches shared credentialing program with UnitedHealthcare, Cigna and Centene
The September 23rd announcement names the three health plans as founding partners; CertifyOS says the service is planned to launch in fall 2026.
- Gambit says an AI-assisted attacker stole 600,000 cards for about $25 per target
Gambit says a human-directed campaign active since July stole more than 600,000 card records and placed skimmers on at least 119 sites.