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- Persona AI reports $65.4M sold toward a planned $142M offering
The SEC filing lists 46 investors and $76.6M remaining as Persona AI targets pre-production deliveries by the end of 2026.
- SCOOP: Firecrawl raises $82M after its $14.5M Series A warm-up
A September 14th SEC filing shows seven investors bought preferred stock; it gives no valuation, round label or names.
- DFRobot opens $229 seeMote Cap preorders for Vision Pro tool tracking
DFRobot's mountable 6DoF module attaches to existing tools; the company says first orders will ship in late September.
- Codex Handoff: Move a chat and working files between Macs
The demo used a modified build, while OpenAI's documentation shows host-to-host Handoff has been available since June.
- OpenAI contractors review ChatGPT chats and memory summaries for Project Lily
Leaked guides show reviewers scoring real conversations after an imperfect privacy filter; the default-on pipeline can retain old chats even after users opt out.
- OpenAI buys Glass Imaging, adding iPhone camera veterans to its hardware push
Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop built iPhone Portrait Mode technology before creating a neural image processor valued above $300M in OpenAI's deal.
- Space Force confirms it has deployed space control weapons in orbit
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink gave no details on systems that could use kinetic, electromagnetic or cyber effects.
- OpenHunterAI releases an AI red-team engine after killing the startup
The local-first alpha tests web, API and LLM apps, while its noncommercial license preserves a route back to paid software.
- Cline launches desktop coding agent with imports, schedules, and any-model support
The macOS and Windows beta imports Claude Code and Codex sessions, schedules agent jobs, and puts ClinePass beside bring-your-own models.
- SealGate lets Grok control a Flipper Zero from an Android phone
Founder Eito Miyamura routed Grok commands through SealGate to a Flipper Zero, turning a chat prompt into infrared TV control.
- GitHub designer builds a particle-cloud QR alternative with GPT-6 Astra
Maxime De Greve's Octoglow sends a six-digit code between screens through a camera-readable animation inspired by Apple's Quick Start.
- Perplexity brings its local AI agent to Windows, if you have 24GB of VRAM
Portable Computer runs its harness and models on RTX PCs, adds local MCP and scheduled jobs, and can hand selected work to cloud models.
- Reward AI launches OM-1 to run one policy across robot bodies
The Stanford robotics spinout says its model learns from wearable human demonstrations, without teleoperation or robot training data.
- Valve opens Steam Frame reservations at $1,059 for its wireless VR return
The 1TB model costs $1,299, and Valve will randomize the first batch after sign-ups close September 17th.
- Nuance Labs raises $50M to teach AI avatars how humans actually talk
Lightspeed led the round for the ex-Apple researchers, whose full-duplex audiovisual model is due for a public preview later in 2026.
- Fake HBO Max Reddit ads told Mac users to install their own malware
Researchers traced the campaign to HBO Max's verified account, turning a paid ad and a fake Mac download into an infostealer delivery path.
- fal acquires Lucent to add creative agents above its model APIs
Dimi Panagiotopoulos and Alex Koumpas join fal after building an ad-focused workspace that coordinated image and video models through chat.
- Investor-backed AI startups are reselling frontier-model traces, Nomic CEO alleges
Mulyar's screenshots made the accused founders and startups identifiable; RuntimeWire cropped their names because the thread offered no transaction records or other corroborating evidence.
- Andon Labs opens Pion for handing an entire business to AI
Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund are turning Andon's internal agent stack into a waitlisted preview with revenue-share economics.
- SpaceXAI says Grok 4.8 will start reinforcement learning this week
Elon Musk says the 2.5T run beat a 2.1T JAX-trained model despite mistakes corrected midway; a 3T successor is already planned.
- Bolt launches Forge with 50x more usage and an opt-in data trade
Eric Simons' AI app builder is feeding anonymized coding sessions to Arcee AI for a trillion-parameter-class open model.
- Robocurve raises $10M to audit frontier AI on real robots
Initialized Capital led the seed round for the YC-backed public benefit corporation, which publishes open-source robot evaluation tools and traces.
- Anthropic tests Claude Money, because chatbots need your bank balance too
An unreleased iOS interface would let users link bank accounts and ask Claude about spending and plans, with key privacy details still unclear.
- Startup Spotlight: Light Anchor runs consumer brands with AI agents, but boxes still need packing
Light Anchor founders Sangha Park and Chase Kim are using a shared agent platform to operate owned e-commerce brands, with Y Combinator, Krew Capital and ASQ backing the experiment.