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- Loka and Arcee detail an open biomedical model built for AWS deployment
The July 30th announcement centers on a LoRA adapter first published in February and still awaiting an official DrugProt test-set evaluation.
- Revoy raises $27M to build a hybrid-electric long-haul freight network
Standard Capital led the round for Ian Rust's swappable electric dolly system, which adds battery power to existing diesel semis.
- Cardinal launches AI revenue platform after pivot from document intelligence
The YC-backed founders say Deepgram, Giga and Mintlify use Cardinal to design and run sales workflows.
- CTGT says DeepSeek distillation lifted finance scores without censorship transfer
CTGT reports finance gains without the teacher's political refusals, though unreleased adapters prevent full independent reproduction.
- Nous Research opens a 48-hour FLUX 3 Preview inside Hermes Agent
Paid Nous Portal subscribers get temporary access to Black Forest Labs' audio, image and video model, plus a short-film contest.
- Ryan Williams builds Ellis to reconcile private credit records with AI
Ellis raised an $11 million seed led by First Round in April, as the Cadre founder sells an AI operations layer to smaller credit managers.
- Gradium opens TTS beta for phone numbers, emails and financial codes
The API-only model aims to remove brittle text-normalization rules, with 1 million credits offered for production-case feedback.
- Andi Peng leaves humans& six months after its $480 million seed
The former Anthropic researcher was one of five founders behind the frontier AI lab's bet on collaboration-focused models.
- IG Group agrees to buy Underdog for up to $1.3 billion
The deal gives IG a US prediction-market exchange, while tying another $850 million for employees to steep profit targets.
- Bottleneck's Saul agent spends $99.50 and ends with five new users, $0 revenue
Alex Reibman's 24-hour experiment added five users and no revenue after Saul hit distribution blocks and bought a $99.50 user-testing campaign.
- Treena launches an iPhone coding environment that runs agents without a laptop
Camden Hulse and Kollaikal Rupesh built Treena to clone repositories, run coding agents and push changes from a cloud workspace controlled by phone.
- Okta agrees to acquire Permiso and push identity security into the SOC
The FireEye veterans behind Permiso give Okta runtime detection across human, machine and AI-agent identities.
- Marble launches AI back-office system for restaurant inventory and labor
The two-person YC S26 company uses computer vision, voice AI and agents to manage costs across multi-unit restaurants.
- Infisical launches Agent Proxy to keep API keys away from AI agents
The proxy swaps placeholder keys for real credentials at the network boundary, extending Infisical's secrets platform into agent infrastructure.
- Thinking Machines Lab ships Inkling-Small with open weights and lower compute costs
The 276-billion-parameter multimodal model gives Murati's Tinker platform a cheaper base for fine-tuning coding agents and custom AI apps.
- Alpine Eagle seeks $45 million to scale airborne counter-drone system
The Munich defense startup is adding production capacity as it pursues military contracts across Europe and Asia.
- Rangeview wins Kratos turbine-engine work for flight-quality superalloy castings
Cameron Schiller's El Segundo foundry will develop flight hardware as Kratos scales engines for drones and missiles.
- Startup Spotlight: Atomarine launches gas-first floating data-center plan with nuclear later
The YC S26 company wants to ship 75-100 MW compute barges by 2028, then replace gas power vessels with marine reactors.
- Wiz says Azure Cosmos DB flaw could have exposed every database
Wiz says Microsoft fully remediated CosmosEscape, a Gremlin API vulnerability chain that reached a platform-wide signing secret.
- Lamina Labs raises $4.8 million to turn AI answers into explainer videos
The two-person YC startup's Simi product turns prompts and documents into narrated whiteboard videos for people, software and AI agents.
- Arena launches AutoEval to rank new AI models within an hour
The reward-model system uses millions of user preferences and scored above 0.98 correlation with Arena's later live rankings.
- OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna API prices 80% and adds faster Sol tier
Luna falls to $0.20 input and $1.20 output per million tokens; Sol Fast mode promises up to 2.5x speed at twice the standard rate.
- Moonshot releases Kimi K3 report, detailing how a 2.8T open model runs
The July 27th report details hybrid attention, 16-of-896 expert routing and a serving stack that still demands data-center scale.
- Simile raises $200M at a $2B valuation to simulate human behavior
Greenoaks led the round five months after the Stanford spinout emerged with a $100M Series A.