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- DeepSeek hits a $1B revenue run rate as it seeks another $7.5B
The API-led growth follows an August price increase; DeepSeek is targeting an end-of-October close for its second funding round and preparing for a Shanghai listing.
- Google will test its TPUs in orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-18
Sundar Pichai says a Planet-built prototype will fly next week, beginning an orbital test of Google's plan to put AI computing in space.
- C5R is building physical labs for AI models that still struggle with experiments
Founder Michael Akilian says the company formed five months ago to move AI out of virtual research and into biology, chemistry and materials science labs.
- TypeSafe investors discuss a higher valuation after Jev reaches nearly 13% of one gateway's paid teams
The Information reported valuation discussions after TypeSafe's $40 million seed; Vercel says Jev reached nearly 13% of its paid teams in 24 hours.
- Dextr AI raises $6.7M to connect hotel guest-service and staffing agents
Dextr AI CEO Sajid Shariff started with a guest-messaging agent; its $6.7M seed, led by Elevation Capital, will fund more integrations and customer-facing engineers.
- Meta's Muse packs roughly 70 skills into an agent with broad tool access
A developer's inspection found integrations, web-search blocklists and the ability to package files from Muse's workspace. Meta says each agent runs in an isolated environment with controls on network access and sensitive actions.
- Island raises $400M to take its browser-security bet into AI agents
Co-founders Dan Amiga and Mike Fey built an enterprise browser; Island now says it can govern work across browsers, endpoints, networks and data.
- Feather Robotics sells $30,000 robots and lets developers bring their own AI
Co-founder Hoa Duc Mai says the platform gives robotics developers a working machine to build on; TechCrunch reports more than $1 million in revenue.
- Instinct users report slowdowns as capacity warnings surface
One user described delayed email alerts. The Information reported that Instinct had sometimes warned users it was at full capacity and responses might be slower; that warning does not establish how many users experienced delays.
- Skydio adds a fixed-wing drone that launches and lands without a ground crew
CEO Adam Bry's latest aircraft extends the autonomy work behind Skydio from MIT research to dock-based infrastructure and emergency-response missions.
- Ande raises more than $52M to make corporate dinners a managed expense
Lohit Sarma's Ande combines venue booking, approvals and payments; its bigger bet is becoming the corporate sales channel for hospitality.
- SalivIQ reports $1.9M sold in seed round, with $1.26M left
SalivIQ founder Julia Halterman is building a saliva-based strep test; a September SEC filing reports $707,000 more sold since June and a larger offering target.
- Startup Spotlight: Riveter turns Abby Grills' manual research into a live data API
After selling customer spreadsheets by hand, Abby Grills and CTO Cody Watters built Riveter's agents to search, extract and structure live web data, now available through ChatGPT and Codex.
- Liquid AI adds a 280M draft model to speed up its 3B vision model
Ramin Hasani's team says the experimental add-on cuts decoding time by up to 3.13x on an M5 Max, while leaving image processing and prompt prefill unchanged.
- UltraSight raises $24M to put cardiac ultrasound in more clinicians' hands
Alive HealthTech led the round as UltraSight expands its FDA-cleared software across U.S. healthcare systems, with deployments in intensive-care units at more than 10 facilities.
- IBM buys Logiq to add UK defence expertise and its DISX platform
Logiq co-founder and CEO James Morgan built the Bristol consultancy with three colleagues after a decade on government security projects. IBM highlighted the company’s defence cybersecurity expertise and DISX, its managed platform for secure information exchange.
- Outpost Technologies pitches orbital manufacturing, starting with its own StarFiber
Outpost Technologies says its reusable CarryAll system can support orbital production and Earth return. It reports six MOUs for space-made fiber, while the agreements' details remain undisclosed.
- JetBrains expands Air into a control system for rival coding agents
JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan is pushing the IDE maker into team workflows, cost controls and governance without demanding loyalty to Junie.
- Cerebionics builds an EEG command channel for robots and drones
Founder Agnessa Pedersen is developing a portable, non-invasive interface for higher-level machine commands. Scaling it will depend on software and reducing calibration.
- Amap launches Qianyu, turning location data into no-code workflows
Amap says the no-code platform packages location analysis and fleet tasks into natural-language workflows. The launch extends a service that reported more than 170 million daily active users in 2025, while competing with established mapping APIs.
- Firmus plans a $5B IPO with a $77M first-half loss forecast
Co-founders Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield are taking an infrastructure builder to public markets as most of its planned data centers remain under development.
- Clastix raises €2.9M to expand its commercial Kubernetes platform
CEO Adriano Pezzuto says the seed will fund kMetal's expansion and more R&D for AI workloads, while open-source control-plane engine Kamaji remains central to the business.
- Instinct user alleges assistant surfaced another person's financial details
Pritak posted screenshots on September 21st showing Instinct discussing a financial document and saying a photo had crossed into the chat. Founder Noah Shinn denied a data breach, but the screenshots do not establish whether another user's information was exposed or the assistant generated the details.
- Cognex will buy RealSense for $500M, 14 months after its Intel spinout
The deal gives Cognex a robotics perception stack and values RealSense at roughly 5.6x to 6.3x its projected 2026 revenue.