All Stories — Page 70
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- Helogen raises $7.1M before two October orbital biomaterial missions
Shishir Bankapur plans to put Helogen's seed financing behind HEL-IOS hardware, two October flights and the manufacturing data needed to pursue medical uses on Earth.
- GitHub launches HydraFusion to make several AI models do one coding job
The Copilot preview routes tasks through single-model, cascade, or critique workflows, trading extra inference for lower estimated costs.
- Episteme Prognostics sells $5.1M in ongoing $6.02M offering for pancreatic cancer test
Episteme Prognostics has sold $5.09M of a $6.02M equity offering, while its PancEpistemeDx test still lacks prospective clinical proof.
- Clockwork Labs schedules two SpacetimeDB scaling features for October 31st
The Spacetime Continuum plan adds asynchronous inter-database calls and moves larger tables beyond RAM while retaining single-threaded execution inside each database.
- AI Score raises $5.4M to keep enterprise AI agents on a leash
Alex Harland and Benita Tibb are turning national-security and legal experience into a runtime control layer for corporate AI.
- Zoox adds Las Vegas airport rides, where robotaxis meet actual luggage
Jesse Levinson's purpose-built vehicles now serve both LAS terminals, less than a month after Zoox began charging fares.
- Carbon Aware Pricing simulates cleaner tariffs across 38 grids
Halil Yavuzhan Mekeci turned a Geneva master's thesis into a daily simulation spanning Switzerland and 37 US power regions.
- COPA releases 9B Armenian model with full training data and recipe
Erik Arakelyan's team released a 9B-parameter base model, a 4.37M-document corpus and verified STEM data for Armenian developers.
- Ozz Health pilots an AI guide for the hours hospitals leave unexplained
Galit Desheh, a trauma and gender scholar, founded Ozz Health to give patients context clinicians often lack time to provide.
- Backbone raises €4M to pull food compliance out of spreadsheets
The former Henchman operators are building AI agents for supplier records, lab results and audits, with Agristo and Darta on the cap table.
- TrustKernel ships a $149 AI computer designed to keep agents off your phone
Li Wenhao's PlugClaw pairs a USB-C Android computer with cloud inference inside a hardware-protected environment that TrustKernel says keeps data hidden from both itself and the cloud provider.
- AgentConnect study finds coding agents often choose grep over LSP
Pengcheng Xu's preliminary study found that tool choice followed the task, while location-only LSP results increased follow-up reads and token use.
- Superluminal raises $60M to move its GPCR obesity drug into Phase 1
BVF led the round as founders Cony D'Cruz and Ajay Yekkirala prepare an oral MC4R agonist for human testing by year-end.
- Dravite Therapeutics discloses $53M financing without naming a drug program
Founded in 2025, Dravite Therapeutics has reported nearly $68M in equity sales across two offerings; its filings do not identify a drug program or participating investors.
- Warp launches Factory Benchmarks to test agents on work teams actually do
Zach Lloyd is turning past agent runs into model evaluations and routing rules, with an internal cost claim that still needs outside proof.
- Nopixel sets September 8th beta as Twitch schedules 23 days of Drops
Nopixel's Koil-led roleplay project opens its closed beta September 8th for 448 invited players through the Rockstar Games Launcher, while Twitch runs a GTA RP campaign through September 30th.
- Atira raises $17.5M after landing industrial customers without a sales team
Accel led the $15M seed as Palantir and Google alumni Florian Diegruber and August DuMont Schuette prepare Atira's first commercial hires.
- Figure commits $3.5B in compute to Nscale for up to 100,000 Rubin GPUs
Figure targets initial deployment in Barstow, Texas, in the second half of 2027; Nscale will take an undisclosed stake and serve as Figure's preferred compute provider.
- Fal launches H3 Max Director for live, steerable AI video
Fal's H3 Max Director turns short generated clips into a WebRTC session that developers can steer with live prompts. The API supports 24 fps output and remembers up to 50 earlier prompt segments. Fal launched it with a [75% generation discount](https://x.com/fal/status/2095599871449342288) for the first two weeks.
- Resect AI raises $25M to inspect and modify enterprise LLM behavior
Kevin Owens and three co-founders are betting enterprise buyers will pay for model-level intervention beyond dashboards that score bad answers.
- Kacey Musgraves puts Meta Quest viewers inside a Texas honky-tonk
The VR180 production moves viewers from stage to guitar circle to rodeo, making the headset part of the concert rather than another screen.
- Cloudflare launches OpenAI-powered vulnerability defense tied to live traffic
Matthew Prince's latest security bet uses GPT-5.6 Cyber to rank findings, propose patches and prepare WAF rules, with humans approving every change.
- Crusoe signs reported $13B Jane Street cloud deal amid $3B fundraising talks
The five-year GPU contract would turn a former quant trader's energy startup into Jane Street's second multibillion-dollar AI cloud supplier.
- NVIDIA PAIR turns spare PCs into a local AI inference cluster
The open-source beta routes parallel agent requests across Windows, Linux and macOS devices without pooling their GPU memory.