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- Chamelio raises $26M to make legal software do the legal work
Entree Capital led the round eight months after a $5.7M seed took Chamelio's publicly announced funding to $10M, backing a founder team built from in-house legal, operations and AI experience.
- Uber adds airport discounts and battery-aware trip matching for EV rides
Dara Khosrowshahi's new package spans cheaper airport pickups, battery-aware trip matching and delivery targets, as Uber's own scorecard shows gaps against earlier goals.
- GridX reports $7.5M in securities sold; its three investors remain unnamed
GridX's September filing records three investors and debt and warrant-linked securities, but leaves their identities, terms and valuation undisclosed.
- Paradromics' first BCI user generates real-time speech as trial adds personal devices
Founder Matt Angle's decade-long effort is moving from neural recordings toward daily communication, though Connexus remains investigational and human evidence is early.
- Meta adds live video chat to Muse, giving its AI agent a face and voice
Alexandr Wang demonstrated the feature on September 24th, a day after Meta outlined the real-time avatar technology behind it.
- Dolt adds wildcard filters so MySQL replicas can skip table families
Dolt can now mirror selected MySQL tables, giving teams a way to add queryable history without moving their primary database.
- Meta gives Muse a live avatar, with subsecond video responses
Alexandr Wang's team pairs Muse Realtime Voice with a video model Meta says runs at about 870 milliseconds and watermarks generated output.
- HeyBrain opens Brain to all, with two data connectors listed as live
The company pitches a shared workspace for people and AI agents; its product site lists Google Drive and Notion as the sources currently available.
- arXiv secures $17.2M in multiyear support for nonprofit independence
Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets and Siegel Family Endowment are backing operations and infrastructure as Cornell steps back from the archive Paul Ginsparg founded.
- Wang says Meta's Muse Charm keychain will ship in December
Alexandr Wang said the device is shipping in December, in time for the holidays. Demo screens show gesture timings and an avatar interface that Meta has not confirmed as shipping specifications.
- Meta acquired WaveForms for its voice research; Conneau's team joined MSL
The deal was reported in August 2025, after WaveForms raised $40 million from a16z; Alexis Conneau says some of the team's work is set for Meta Connect.
- Meta prices its 100-gram VR glasses at $1,300, with a puck in your pocket
Mark Zuckerberg's company says the glasses ship in spring 2027; a tethered puck carries their compute, battery and storage, and the full system is rated for three hours of media playback.
- Comma AI's retrofit driver-assist faces a federal probe after five crashes
NHTSA is examining three deaths, 11 injuries and whether Comma devices detected stopped vehicles, including when modified versions of its open-source software were running.
- Meta says Muse will make money by taking a cut of transactions
At Connect, Mark Zuckerberg also described new Mac control for the agent, extending a product that already works across files and native apps.
- Meta says Muse will come to all its AI glasses, with a spoken wake word
Alexandr Wang said users can wake Muse by saying its name. Meta has not given a release date or explained how glasses will approve consequential actions.
- Modal and Baseten seek funding at $15B and $26B valuations
The proposed rounds would sharply reprice two inference providers as AI companies buy outside capacity to run models in production.
- Inferact's TPU megakernel hits 709 tokens per second on Kimi K3
Inferact reports 709 tokens per second on 16 TPU v7 chips, versus 452 on 16 GB200 GPUs, in a low-concurrency speculative-decoding test. Co-founder Woosuk Kwon, a vLLM co-creator, helped build the open-source kernel.
- Wasmer adds a Swift SDK for running sandboxed Python and Node.js on iPhone
The iOS backend uses WebKit inside a hidden WKWebView, requires iOS 27 or later and remains experimental; Wasmer says its demo app has not entered review.
- Jev matched 72.5% of Kepler labels after a prompt rewrite
Pavel Rabtsevich's linked test classified 8,054 historical signals, but its stronger result came after the first run informed a redesigned prompt.
- IRIS C2 makes a HEIC decoder compute the file's own SHA-256
The 512 MiB image sequence uses 564 HEVC pictures and Apple's stock ImageIO decoder; the company says it needs no decoder bug or custom playback code.
- Bessemer raises $5.75B, with $4B reserved for growth deals
Partner Talia Goldberg marked the close as Bessemer split the capital between early-stage investing and a dedicated growth strategy.
- Rabbit asks OS3 to compare itself, a day after the agent launch
The company’s prompt arrived after OS3 opened beyond invite-only beta, pitching one assistant across models, computers and its r1 device.
- Skydio unveils a 100-mph drone that launches from a robotic dock
CEO Adam Bry says the fixed-wing F10 can fly 30 miles from its dock; Skydio's own materials differ on how long a flight lasts.
- Bun answers Meta's Muse merch pitch with a fake cease-and-desist
The JavaScript project's X account mocked up a trademark notice after Alexandr Wang asked users whether Meta should sell Muse merchandise.