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- Neurophos hires a Kymeta founder to commercialize its 2028 photonic chip
The Austin chipmaker is turning January's $110M Series A into hires, facilities and a commercialization bench for a photonic processor due in 2028.
- Nooks lands $146.8M DIU contract to expand classified infrastructure nationwide
The four-year Bridge award funds six new markets and security services for up to 100 selected DIU portfolio companies; the ceiling is not guaranteed revenue.
- TAR raises $120M because AI data centers cannot wait for the grid
Spark Capital led the Series A at a roughly $1B valuation, three months after TAR disclosed a $27M seed round.
- Energy Vault secures 275 MW of engines for AI campuses facing grid delays
Rolls-Royce MTU equipment is due from late 2027 through early 2028 as Robert Piconi expands Energy Vault into financed power infrastructure.
- Luminary raises $22M to turn estate-planning PDFs into wealth-transfer infrastructure
Ten Coves led the round, with BNY joining 8VC and wealth-industry investors as David Barnard pushes into trust administration.
- Tamar AI launches Glanze to turn AI previews into serialized worlds
Founders Jessie Qin and Klaus He are extending TapNow from creation software into distribution, starting with 40 titles available for preview.
- Arlequin AI raises €28M Series A for topological neural networks
The Paris lab founded by two political scientists plans a Silicon Valley outpost while its efficiency claims still await public benchmarks.
- DOJ probes whether Nvidia's $20B Groq license avoided antitrust review
The December 2025 pact moved founder Jonathan Ross and key staff to Nvidia while leaving Groq independent, a structure regulators are now examining.
- Edge0 open-sources a 35B model runtime that streams weights from storage
Samuel Zeng says Edge0 runs on an iPhone in 1-2.5 GB, though the released MLX code currently supports Apple Silicon Macs.
- Court pushes Reddit's fight to inspect Anthropic's AI records into October
The tentative ruling moves the protective-order hearing to October 1st, after two late-September motions to compel and a case conference.
- Mistral's 40,000-line Fortran migration kept humans firmly in the loop
Reservoir engineers approved the target architecture; a human operator unblocked stuck agents and reviewed pull requests until they merged.
- Kai Schiller publishes Hugging Face community guide to limiting AI agents
The German-language explainer treats agents as bounded workflows built from models, tools, memory and human approval, with smolagents illustrating the multi-step architecture.
- Hugo Vergnes trained a 3.8B model for a reported $998
The independent little-lm project processed 65.3B tokens and scored 0.384 on CORE after an earlier six-day failure.
- A tennis vision model tracks shot speed and body position from iPhone video
Montreal builder AA used Roboflow's agent tooling to label and fine-tune the model, while the coaching layer remains unfinished.
- Anthropic builds threat intelligence operation that treats activism as a security risk
A vendor tracked a protest around an executive, while new roles call for OSINT investigations and ties to police.
- Automattic's board puts Matt Mullenweg on leave, names Mark Davies interim CEO
Mullenweg opposed the September 9th vote but remains an Automattic director and a leader of the open-source WordPress project.
- Hero Esports launches robot fight league in Riyadh and pitches an eight-city season
Ten EngineAI T800 humanoids fought in an invite-only debut as the esports operator sought hosts, suppliers, universities and sponsors.
- OtoDock runs Claude Code and Codex agents across departments on your server
Dimitris Mourtzis built the platform to move coding agents beyond terminal sessions, then used its own agents to help ship the product.
- OpenAI turns a 250-person security code red into a "Defense Factory"
OpenAI says agents closed 53 urgent or high-priority issues on day one, then helped automate triage, validation and patching.
- Qwen opens a 2.4T model to self-hosting, with 95B active parameters
The Alibaba Cloud model activates 95B parameters per token, supports adjustable reasoning depth and offers a self-hosted alternative to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Pro.
- Anthropic researcher quits, says AI race is 'gambling with our lives'
Coxon says Anthropic is more responsible than OpenAI but cannot safely police itself while competing to build self-improving systems.
- Astra turns a MacBook into a sonar controller after a few prompts
Emanuel Perez's app uses a 20 kHz tone, the laptop microphone and Doppler shifts to translate hand movements into scrolling.
- DeepSeek plans V4.1 Flash for September 10th and will route Pro traffic to it
The temporary backend swap will give Pro API users the new model at Flash rates while DeepSeek prepares V4.1 Pro.
- Clay raises $115M at a $7.1B valuation to build sales agents
Wellington led the Series D; Clay says its planned agents will identify customers, research businesses, create presentations and set up outreach.