All Stories — Page 49
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- Mitchell Hashimoto starts Superlogical to build durable sessions for software work
Superlogical reunites the HashiCorp co-founder with former colleagues around a terminal multiplexer funded by Notable Capital and Amplify Partners.
- Tavus launches no-code PAL Maker for face-to-face AI agents
Users describe an agent to Charlie, which configures its face, voice, memory, guardrails and deployment without an engineering build.
- telli raises $15M to move AI agents beyond phone calls
redalpine led the seed round as telli expands from voice automation into a multichannel customer-operations platform.
- HeyGen launches two-host AI video podcasts from documents and links
The workflow writes dialogue, assigns AI hosts, adds captions and B-roll, and lets users edit each line before rendering.
- Google Cloud will retire Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 endpoint in October
The managed API drew criticism over a Chinese model on US infrastructure, but public documents do not show Google paying Moonshot.
- Lilian Weng returns to OpenAI for recursive self-improvement research
The Thinking Machines cofounder is the third founder from Mira Murati's lab to return to OpenAI this year.
- Google ships Lyria 3.5 to Flow Music with BPM controls and stronger vocals
The release turns Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros's acquired music startup into the main outlet for DeepMind's newest model.
- Superwhisper adds Cohere Transcribe for private, on-device dictation
The 2B-parameter, Apache 2.0 model downloads inside Superwhisper and keeps audio on-device across 14 supported languages.
- OpenAI offers 100,000 researchers free access to GPT-5.6
The program starts with 10,000 accounts this summer and forms part of a $250 million commitment to external scientific research.
- Reve ships Chrome extension to pull web images into AI projects
Updated July 27th, the browser tool saves web images as references, palettes, templates and album items inside Reve.
- InvestiFi raises $20 million as credit unions back embedded investing push
Vibe Credit Union led the financing, and InvestiFi says signed institutions climbed from four in 2024 to more than 60 by July 2026.
- Hint launches AI app for homeowners with Martha Stewart as co-founder
Yih-Han Ma and Kyle Rush built the free iPhone app around property data, uploaded documents and home-service guidance after a $10 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.
- Nous Research adds local wake-word activation to Hermes Agent
The opt-in feature starts hands-free sessions across the CLI, terminal UI and desktop app, with hotword detection kept on-device.
- Obra launches self-serve recruiter to bypass AI-swamped application queues
The Utah company says its database spans 800 million profiles and prices paid plans from $109, turning candidate contact reveals into the scarce unit.
- Composio's Kimi K3 test finds a 6x token gap between agent harnesses
Across 28 tasks, Kimi Code, Hermes and Claude Code finished at similar rates while median token use ranged from 61,000 to 340,000.
- Pangram ships Pangram 4 for mixed human and AI writing
The Brooklyn company also opened an image-detector preview as its authorship scores reach Substack readers.
- Reuters reports ChipAgents raised $60 million after Nvidia tie-up expanded
William Wang's semiconductor engineering startup is financing Renoir as Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens build competing AI agents.
- Anthropic faces developer backlash as a Claude power user cancels Max
AI educator Santiago Valdarrama blamed Anthropic's lobbying and open-weight stance, turning a policy fight into a customer-retention test.
- Groundcover raises $100 million to challenge Datadog's observability model
One Peak led the Series C at an approximately $500 million valuation as the founders push their customer-cloud architecture deeper into the US.
- Garry Tan backs seasoned AI founders as unicorn founder age reaches 40
The YC CEO's case draws support from unicorn research linking founder age and industry experience with stronger startup outcomes.
- CopySight raises $3 million to score IP risk before AI video ships
CopySight, founded by former Snap and Meta creative operator Artem Petrov and CTO Konstantin Orlov, is taking CopyScore into video.
- LemonEdge raises $21 million from Blackstone and BNY for fund accounting
Founder Gareth Hewitt is handing the scaling job to former Numerated president David O'Malley as LemonEdge expands in the US and Europe.
- Kevin Jiang's Polar raises $5.7 million to automate knowledge work in browsers
The former Perplexity Comet builder is betting recurring research, recruiting and sales tasks will create the daily pull consumer AI browsers lacked.
- Extropic publishes its thermodynamic computing case as AI power demand climbs
Guillaume Verdon's hardware startup is building probabilistic chips and new algorithms rather than accelerating transformer math.