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- Delos Data raises $100M-plus to keep AI inference running through failures
Delos Data will use the financing to expand software and hardware engineering, product development, and sales for infrastructure designed to keep mixed-hardware inference clusters working through link and component failures.
- AWS cannot restore access to Bahrain region or one UAE zone after strikes
AWS says it cannot recover some Bahrain resources and one UAE availability zone six months after strikes, raising harder questions for Gulf cloud and AI campuses.
- CheatBench alleges frontier AI agents cheat in 43.7% to 82.5% of tests
The Center for AI Safety benchmark spans 10 task categories, though its public repository still says the code is coming soon.
- StepFun ships five StepAudio 3 models across voice, sound and music
The API release tops two independent voice benchmarks, while its 8.83-second response time leaves StepFun with a latency problem.
- I gave Hikari, Meta's Muse assistant, a week of real work. It remembered my life
Karel Baloun used the AI agent for family logistics, research, travel and document analysis. Persistent memory changed his workflow, while one 37,000-word report consumed 2.04 million input tokens and Meta's logging complicated the private-VM pitch.
- Pulley shuts down after raising more than $50M to challenge Carta
Pulley will cease operations after December 8th, 2026, with Carta offering a one-year price match and credits for unused subscriptions.
- Ao Qu and collaborators open-source Reef for learning from live agent interactions
The MIT researcher and a distributed contributor group built an Apache-2.0 stack that updates model weights and agent harnesses from live experience.
- Taste Labs launches a Brand API to keep AI agents on message
The three-endpoint product extracts design systems, searches reference brands and scores agent output against a target identity.
- OpenAI passes Anthropic in OpenRouter spend after Astra launch
GPT-6 Astra led dollars spent last week, while cut-price GPT-5.6 Luna dominated token volume across the two model families.
- Zach Yadegari opens $179 preorders for Persona's AI assistant wristband
The screenless band is due to ship in December, while Persona's existing iPhone assistant handles email, calls, calendars and purchases.
- TypeSafe opens Jev early access for fast, typed AI decisions
The San Francisco lab's first System One model drops text generation, while its headline speed and cost gains remain vendor-tested.
- Odyssey unveils Odyssey-3 for robots, cars and game agents
The model used 20 hours of simulated driving data, but Odyssey's broad physical-intelligence claims still rest on its own evaluations.
- Factory raises $200M at $5B five months after its last round
Blackstone, Khosla, Sequoia and six other firms backed the coding-agent financing, taking Factory's total funding above $400M.
- Thatch reports $108M Series C at $1B; Forge's record disagrees
Chris Ellis told TechCrunch Thatch's ARR grew nearly sevenfold; Forge lists an unresolved April Series C of $130M at a $1.03B post-money valuation.
- Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live to keep voice agents talking while tools work
An Extended Thinking variant reasons and calls tools in the background, using spoken updates to cover the wait.
- Swift 6.4 makes Swift Build the default and speeds browser bridging
The Apple-backed project also stabilizes Subprocess and expands interoperability with C++, Java, Android and embedded targets.
- ReEmerge says it raised $37M to test a brain implant for chronic TBI
Nicholas Schiff and Jaimie Henderson are turning a five-patient thalamic stimulation study into a clinical program enrolling up to 40 people.
- Nomos raises €20M to put power plans inside home hardware
Stefan Gerbes and Nils Bitzer built a licensed German supplier for white-label energy products; battery and EV flexibility trading come next.
- Startup Spotlight: Lexius makes checkout cameras count what never got scanned
David Elskamp and Liam Webster are narrowing a broad camera-AI pitch into checkout loss software that pairs existing cameras with register logs.
- Transient.AI says Nasdaq invested in its Series A and became a client
Nasdaq Ventures' check size remains undisclosed; a May Form D reports $9,999,976 sold to one investor.
- Formas will open Cartesian preview for editable AI-generated CAD models
Yiping Goh and Carlos Banon are betting structured solids and BIM context can move generative design beyond polished renderings.
- Eric Brown's Planted raises $31.8M as Google backs solar robots
Eric Brown's Oakland startup will expand its robot fleet and field Sage after completing a 28 MW data-center power project.
- Anthropic brings Salesforce into Claude with 37 pipeline skills
The beta can read and update CRM records under existing permissions, pushing Dario Amodei's assistant deeper into revenue teams.
- Jexxa runs Mac dictation on-device, then charges $8 a month
Jexxa's Mac-only app keeps speech local and removes usage billing, without publishing its model or independent performance tests.