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- Bin Ni's DeepMorph reports $8.575M sold toward a $9M target
Four investors account for $8.575M of a $9M SAFE offering that began August 25th, 2026; DeepMorph's valuation and backers remain undisclosed.
- X’s new terms put you on the hook for its AI agents
The October 9th update assigns users responsibility for autonomous actions and extends dispute protections to SpaceXAI, Cursor and other SpaceX affiliates.
- Perplexity launches a 190M-document retrieval test and keeps the answers private
Q2D-Web uses 69,721 agent-written queries from production traffic and accepts open-weight models for a public leaderboard.
- OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 reasoning to ChatGPT Voice
Users can choose a model and reasoning effort, while OpenAI retires Voice's separate Instant, Medium, and High intelligence settings.
- Aqua raises $15M to turn its alternative-investment marketplace into infrastructure
Rohan Marwaha and Dev Patel turned a consumer marketplace into infrastructure for advisers, fund sponsors and the paperwork between them.
- Anthropic brings in METR to investigate Claude agent incidents
The inquiry will examine real-system intrusions and model alignment, with public reports promised on findings, access and redaction terms.
- Anthropic adds SpaceX-owned Cursor to Claude Marketplace
Enterprise customers can use existing Anthropic commitments to buy CrowdStrike, Cursor, Factory, Gamma and Vercel products.
- General Robotics launches agents that assemble and debug robot deployments
Ashish Kapoor's GRID built a dual-arm lab workflow in four hours, then reused the fixes to deploy later skills in 10-15 minutes, General Robotics says.
- Scott Wu's Cognition raises over $2B at a $48B valuation
Andreessen Horowitz and Accel led the Series E, nearly doubling Cognition's valuation four months after its previous round.
- SandboxAQ tests GPS-free navigation software on Northrop Grumman's expendable drone
AQNav ran beside visual navigation on Lumberjack, and SandboxAQ says engineers installed the software on existing systems in under an hour.
- Inspiren announces another $70M to make senior care predictive
The nurse-founded sensor platform announced the round less than a year after a $100M Series B, as subscription revenue reached $29M.
- Tailwind Labs says it is joining Shopify, but leaves the structure unclear
The announcement follows a difficult year for Adam Wathan's bootstrapped maker of Tailwind CSS, which already counted Shopify as a sponsor.
- Tome's founders raise $47M for Lightfield's agent-first CRM
Keith Peiris and Henri Liriani raised the Series A after replacing their viral presentation product with a system of record built for software agents.
- OPAQUE publishes WCM to control where encrypted model weights can run
OPAQUE's Weight Custody Manifest uses attestation-gated key release to govern encrypted models, while its developer-preview documentation sets firm limits on production readiness.
- Matt Allison's Handraise reports $4.5M sold toward a $10.5M offering
The TrendKite co-founder's AI reputation platform reported eight investors, though a SAFE conversion clouds how much is new cash.
- Cymphony says it raised $30M to secure permissions AI agents inherit
Shy Dekel, Idan Berkovits and Erez 'Edi' Gotlieb built a workforce graph that links identities, permissions, files and activity for enterprise AI security.
- Besxar tests orbital semiconductor manufacturing across 12 Falcon 9 flights
Ashley Pilipiszyn's first two Fabship development canisters flew in July, while the remaining campaign must prove material quality, reliable recovery and commercial economics.
- Analog Devices agrees to pay up to $1.55B for Alif's edge AI chips
Analog Devices is buying the seven-year-old chipmaker founded by Syed Ali and Reza Kazerounian, which builds processors for AI inside power-constrained devices.
- Michael Kaufman's Covenant opens Dallas missile factory, targets 1,000 Anthems in year one
The former Thiel Capital investor is betting commercial parts, three-country production and $250M can turn flight tests into missile volume.
- Pixxel raises $100M to build the rest of its Earth intelligence stack
Temasek and Seraphim co-led the round, taking Pixxel's reported funding to $195M for new sensors, software and manufacturing.
- LightSage raises $4M to turn AI agents into a growth channel
Jun Liang Lee and Sean Er are extending a two-year developer-onboarding quest from documentation to machine customers.
- WorldSculpt splits crowded 3D scenes into hundreds of editable meshes
WorldSculpt reconstructs grounded, posed multi-view imagery, requiring camera poses, instance masks and coarse 3D boxes rather than raw phone video.
- Radical Numerics post-trains Omnii for personalized mRNA cancer-vaccine design
The Evo founders say one genome model can rank neoantigens and write an mRNA cassette; Omnii's evidence remains computational.
- HelmGuard raises $7.3M to make AI agents inspect compliance evidence
Former Palantir executive John Daley and AI researcher Jack Miller will use the seed round to expand in New York and San Francisco.