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- OSCP opens its ROS 2 driver to get photonic sensors into robots
Kazem Zandi's Montreal company is making its MK2 sensors easier to integrate as it brings them to ROSCon in Toronto.
- Shorya Awtar's Parallel Robotics discloses $7.3M for handheld surgical robotics
The offering follows FDA clearance for MediBot, a hand-held laparoscopic needle driver controlled by the surgeon at the bedside.
- Spott raises $21M to replace the recruiting software its founders once worked around
Balderton led the Belgian startup's Series A as it expands an AI-built applicant-tracking and CRM platform into the US and Asia-Pacific.
- Viva-Thera nominates HIV drug candidate after seven months using XtalPi's AI
Founder Qingshan Fu built on years of HIV structural research; the candidate and the seven-month timeline remain company-reported.
- Coverage Cat offers umbrella checkout through personal AI agents
Max Cho and Gabriel Botelho's five-state brokerage lets assistants prefill applications and follow offers toward payment, with shopper confirmation before submission.
- AstroForge plans a spacecraft that takes no commands from Earth
Autonomy-1 is slated for Stoke Space's first Nova Pathfinder flight in 2027, after AstroForge tests its Solo software on DeepSpace-2.
- Startup Spotlight: Seals AI automates the wholesale order desk with Titanio
Luis Mario Garcia and his Orchata co-founders are applying experience from an operationally difficult delivery business to calls, quotes, orders and ERP entry.
- Legora seeks $300M at an $8.5B valuation, six months after its last round
The proposed pre-money valuation sits 53% above the $5.55B mark Legora announced in March, as its CEO reports more than $200M in annual recurring revenue.
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna with sharply lower API prices
The new models reach ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API, with Luna priced at $0.10 per million input tokens.
- StarSling raises $3M and brings bring-your-own-model agents to code review
Bessemer and Y Combinator backed the GitHub Actions startup, which charges for runner time while customers pay their own model providers.
- Zum extends CMX across LAUSD's in-house school bus fleet
The 2026-27 deployment puts district- and contractor-operated buses on CMX under a five-year transportation-management contract worth up to $20.8 million.
- ShinyHunters claims FBI breach exposed employees and applicants
A 5,000-record sample contained names, addresses, phone numbers and spouse details, while the full scope remains unverified.
- XChat launches X Numbers, private codes that bypass closed inboxes
The optional, refreshable codes let people reach a user's main Chat inbox and place calls without a mutual follow.
- Minecraft creator Notch admits vibe coding is fun after all
Markus Persson's reversal follows months of criticism, a hiring struggle and experiments using Claude for development work.
- Gradium ships a TTS beta it says starts speaking in under 50ms
The cited benchmark pages still show Gradium's existing model at 217ms to 236ms, leaving the beta's test conditions to be reconciled.
- Firecrawl raises $75M to turn web crawling into an agent data library
Smash Capital led the Series B as Firecrawl launched Alexandria, a single interface for specialized datasets from 100-plus sources.
- Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with lower prices and a top-three benchmark score
Artificial Analysis ranks the high-effort fallback system third at 54, while Anthropic cut per-token prices 20% from Opus 5.
- Meta's Muse partners with PayPal for checkout across its merchant network
Alexandr Wang is adding another commerce rail to Meta's two-week-old agent, even as Amazon shows merchants can still refuse the bot.
- CopilotKit founders pitch self-hosted OpenBot directly against Grok Bot
Atai and Uli Barkai are using a four-agent travel demo to frame OpenBot as the open-source alternative to SpaceXAI's managed agent service, even if the clip is no benchmark.
- Anthropic launches Opus 5.5 as OpenAI ships GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Tuesday's rumored double launch became three official models, with OpenAI pricing GPT-6 Sol at $2/$10 and Luna at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens.
- Perplexity testing New Gmail triggers that could wake AI when email arrives
Code in desktop build 26.9.4 shows a new-email event, seven filters and backend subscription routes behind an internal allowlist.
- xtraCHEF founders launch Tandem to make restaurant software do the work
Andrew Schwartz and Bhavik Patel return after Toast acquired xtraCHEF for $48M, with Michael Schulson shaping an agent layer piloting at 100 restaurant locations.
- Lunos launches free cash forecasts based on how customers actually pay
Duncan Barrigan is extending Lunos from invoice chasing into cash planning, with live accounting data and plain-English scenarios.
- Visa crypto veteran Pete Cooling launches Atum with $13.5M
Atum wants settlement providers to compete for stablecoin payments while it issues no currency, operates no blockchain and takes no custody of customer funds.