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- Radical Ventures secures over US$1B at first close for late-stage AI fund
Radical Ventures' Breakouts Fund has secured more than US$1B from Canadian institutions and other global investors; its final target and closing date remain undisclosed.
- Dan Sheldon launches EVA Networks to make enterprise network paths expire
The Rhode Island startup creates encrypted paths for approved tasks, then removes the routes, controls and keys when the work ends.
- Cloudflare lets publishers block AI training without disappearing from search
Cloudflare's new setting publishes a no-training preference while keeping Applebot, Googlebot and Bingbot available for search under its Accountable designation.
- AIUC raises $40M to certify and insure AI agents
AIUC, founded by Anthropic product veteran Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, is building an AI-agent standard that combines audits with coverage for some business losses caused by agent failures.
- Gensyn launches open-1b, says outsiders can audit its AI training
Gensyn says open-1b includes a model, its training recipe and proof intended to let third parties verify stages of the training process.
- Decimal's Eightfold veterans raise $4M to keep support tickets away from engineers
Decimal AI's $4M seed round, co-led by Khosla Ventures and Kearny Jackson, backs an agent that investigates code, logs and production data.
- Joseph Borna launches ClassSwap to match students when college courses fill
The 17-year-old UCLA student is starting with four named campuses, where the product needs local density before matching becomes useful.
- Einride puts a cab-less truck into daily Lidl runs on German public roads
The Level 4 vehicle carries goods without an onboard operator under a KBA permit the companies describe as Germany's first of its kind.
- Therna releases Chronos data while keeping its RNA models private
Nazli Azimi and Hani Goodarzi are using a 50-cell-line study to show the biological data behind Therna's RNA models.
- Jack & Jill raises $40M to replace job applications with agent introductions
Air Street led the round less than a year after the founders raised a $20M seed to bring their two-sided hiring network to the US.
- OpenAI names Telon a legal AI deployment partner, three months in
Lewis Bretts and Tom Mellor launched Telon in June; its 30-person team will configure models, build agents and train lawyers for shared customers.
- Agility unveils Digit 5 as it pitches a $2.5B pre-money valuation
Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 on September 15th as the company pursues a Churchill Capital Corp. XI transaction that Agility says values it at $2.5B before the deal.
- AcademyAI raises £1.65M to measure workplace AI skills
ContentCal veterans Alex Packham and Andy Lambert are reuniting around assessment, five-minute training and board-facing dashboards.
- Boxd's $2M pre-seed backs full computers for coding agents
BlueYard led the round as the Amsterdam team argues that persistent, forkable VMs give autonomous coding agents a better home than disposable sandboxes.
- Spark Ring's $159 voice ring puts idea capture on your finger
Charley Tang plans a September 17th Kickstarter for Spark Ring, whose launch timing and privacy claims still need sorting.
- ShadowPEFT brings detachable shadow models to Hugging Face's PEFT library
The Hong Kong research team put its stateful adapter into PEFT's main branch, trading LoRA-style merging for a parallel network.
- Sunk Cost says a $3,499 local AI Mac needs 44 years to break even
The calculator turns local inference enthusiasm into a payback schedule, then shows how quickly cheaper APIs can make the hardware case worse.
- Zeely's SEC filing records an $8.84M offering with $5 left
A September 14th SEC filing says Zeely sold $8,838,942 of an $8,838,947 offering to 24 investors, without naming a lead or valuation.
- PlantSwitch discloses a fully sold $13M round for crop-waste plastic
SMU golf teammates Dillon Baxter and Maxime Blandin built PlantSwitch around agricultural waste and a 50M-pound annual production target.
- Fortaegis raises $50M, and its cap table already looks like a factory
Boudewijn Wijnands' Fortaegis says the money will take FPGA production from small quantities to thousands of units by mid-2027; TNO, Prodrive and Tokyo Electron's venture arm also invested.
- Ron Conway's SV Angel launches an AI policy bridge to Democrats
Former Obama press secretary Jay Carney will run Project Blueprint as AI safety, jobs and data-center costs move into the midterms.
- Piston raises $15M to expand its cardless fuel-payment network
FPV Ventures led the Series A for Vikram Sekhon and Shivam Shah's direct payment rails, which Piston says now reach 2,000 stations.
- Aside brings its browser agent to Windows, where Chrome already lives
The YC-backed browser can act across logged-in websites, giving Aside a larger test of its automation, memory and credential controls.
- Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of merged code, straining CI
Tests grew 10x and CI jobs 25x in six months, forcing a three-week rebuild of Anthropic's test-selection system.