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- Jake Adler's Pilgrim raises $25M to detect airborne biological threats
Pilgrim told the WSJ its $25M seed round valued the Redwood City startup at $150M; Anthropic researchers Logan Graham and Sholto Douglas invested personally.
- Langmack and Slater launched a second Soar, this one for flight booking
Their May launch put an AI flight-booking service under the name Stanley Virgint had given his AI travel companion. Soar Flights was still publicly using the Soar name on September 25th.
- Heart Aerospace redesigns its hybrid plane for 36 seats as JSX commits to 50
The deposit-backed agreement replaces part of a 2023 letter of intent; the aircraft is targeting service in 2031, pending FAA certification.
- WhiteFiber launches a two-site GPU supercluster as performance testing continues
CEO Sam Tabar is selling a way to pool compute across 83 kilometers; final fiber testing to confirm commercial specifications remains underway.
- Comma.ai's reported NHTSA probe still has no accessible agency record
TechCrunch reported a 2026 inquiry into Comma.ai, but its linked NHTSA page is generic. The available PE16-007 document concerns Tesla and Mobileye; an NHTSA FOIA log separately lists a 2016 order to Comma.ai.
- Jon Miller launches Phave to make marketing automation reason through buying groups
The Marketo co-founder says Phave replaces rule-built campaigns with individualized sequences; the platform reached general availability in August and starts at $36,000 a year.
- Musk says SpaceXAI may more than double Colossus 2's Nvidia chips by year-end
Bloomberg reports a December 31st target but gives no current or planned chip count for the Memphis-area cluster.
- Meta opens waitlist for AI tools that turn prompts into games for its social feeds
Horizon Create targets phones and Horizon Studio runs in a browser; both remain in gradual early access, with creator payouts still short on detail.
- Neko Health opens its first U.S. clinic after a $700M round
Daniel Ek's health startup is charging $499 for a one-hour scan at its SoHo clinic, its first location outside Europe.
- Oracle invokes force majeure as power delays test its New Mexico AI campus
The roughly one-year delay pushes back returns on Blue Owl's reported $3B equity stake and gives lenders a live test of who bears infrastructure risk.
- Tesla says Semi deliveries start as Nevada factory targets 50,000 trucks a year
The company says deliveries begin after a first truck left the line in April; 50,000 units is the factory's planned annual capacity, not current output.
- Titan reports $4M sold in SEC filing, more than its announced $3M seed
Titan's September Form D reports $4M sold toward a $5M target and 16 investors, whose identities are not disclosed. It does not establish whether the offering is tied to the $3M seed announced in June.
- Doltgres adds multidimensional arrays as it fills PostgreSQL compatibility gaps
The September 24th release handles nested arrays and their PostgreSQL functions, extending the product's post-1.0 push to behave like the database it aims to complement.
- Cerebras says its rehearsed AI agent booked dinner in 22 seconds
Cerebras reports a 22-second median across two successful runs using Qwen 3.8 27B, its inference hardware, parallel checks and a saved website-navigation skill.
- Higgsfield estimates a 15-second ad-localization workflow at $13.15
Higgsfield's example totals 263 credits for a 15-second workflow; video steps are listed at 720p, while Audio's resolution depends on input and rates vary by plan.
- Ando raises $20M to make AI agents members of the team chat
Founder Sara Du is betting that agents need persistent identities, permissions and shared context inside workplace messaging, rather than another add-on to Slack.
- Nous Research adds Perplexity Fast Search to Hermes Agent, says it is free
The September 24th post promises access across Nous Portal tiers, while the Portal's pricing page describes hosted tools as a paid-tier benefit.
- Subconscious raises $5.1M to cut the cost of long-running AI agents
The Cambridge startup says its inference system can reduce costs by up to 80%; its funding backs a push to sell the runtime to engineering teams.
- Isoquant launches GLM-5.3-Flash inference cloud with prices below the model maker's list rates
Aniket's September 24th post quoted $0.07 per million input tokens, while Isoquant's website now shows different rates and performance claims based on its own benchmark.
- OpenAI's reported $500 Pro Max plan may run on Cerebras infrastructure
TestingCatalog reports that the proposed ChatGPT tier would add 'Fastest Work and Codex' to Pro, with higher usage limits also possible. OpenAI has not listed it on its pricing page.
- Palma.ai raises $1.8M to govern AI agents across enterprise tools
Patrick Eden and Julian Kolbe are building a shared permissions and audit layer for agents using different AI assistants.
- Nexterity packs a four-bolt pipefitting robot into a Pelican case
Founder Lindsey Elliott drew the design from refinery work; the startup is selling managed field service rather than asking plants to buy the robot.
- micro1 launches a PII model that keeps synthetic identities connected
Founder Ali Ansari says flow-transform 1.0 scored 96% F1 on PrivacyBench; micro1's new end-to-end benchmark is synthetic and limited to tabular data.
- Anthropic signs $11.6B Akamai CPU deal, with an equity warrant attached
Anthropic is locking in seven years of CPU capacity; Akamai says the deal could expand by another $9B and estimates about $5.5B in related capital spending.