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- Innabox discloses $10M offering as CharacterQuilt deploys campaigns
The legal entity behind CharacterQuilt reported $9.8M sold in an equity offering that began on August 3rd, while its current product turns marketing briefs into deployed campaigns.
- Grok Bot tests Chrome cookie imports and local egress routing
A new settings panel could copy signed-in sessions to Grok Bot's cloud VM and send its web traffic through a user's desktop.
- Experiential Labs open-sources a router that learns from agent traffic
The Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup is betting that production traces can push routine work onto cheaper models customers own.
- NantOptiFab sells $20M offering to one investor for US photonics foundry
NantOptiFab's fully sold Form D names executive Henry Hung and NantWorks founder Patrick Soon-Shiong as directors.
- Marvell hits record $2.739 billion revenue as AI-driven data center demand soars
The company raised its full-year outlook as custom silicon and optical interconnects outpace traditional segments of the business.
- Dyna Robotics turns napkin folding into a Din Tai Fung rollout
Dyna says Dyna-2 can produce 1,590 table-ready napkins per shift, enough to move from a 2025 pilot into a restaurant-network rollout.
- ChatGPT lets users save Temporary Chats and opt into personalization
OpenAI's revised mode can use existing memories, instructions and plugins, while unsaved chats still avoid history and model training.
- Anthropic weighs shareholder sales in IPO and a lockup longer than 180 days
The AI developer plans to publish its prospectus after Labor Day, ahead of a possible late September or early October listing.
- FDA authorizes Vitestro's Aletta robot for autonomous blood draws
Aletta handles the needle stick, tube changes and bandaging, while one trained phlebotomist can supervise three machines.
- DeepSQL's benchmark finds BRIN's 5% update cliff in Postgres
Venkat Sakamuri's 10M-row test found a 48 kB BRIN index touching 28 times more heap pages as cumulative updates rose from 1% to 5%.
- Predoc launches Curated Data to turn faxed charts into AI-ready records
The New York startup is extending its retrieval service into a normalized patient-data layer delivered through an app or API.
- Forecast Bio discloses $2.4M SAFE financing for its astrocyte AI platform
Forecast Bio's filing covers nine investors, with the first sale dating to November 2025 and $750,000 of the offering still open.
- Metriport raises $26M to turn health-data access into clinical answers
Matrix's TJ Parker led the round as the founders expand an open-source system that retrieves, cleans and interprets records inside clinical workflows.
- Quaise Energy closes $180M Series B to commercialize superhot geothermal
Quaise Energy will use the round to move millimeter-wave drilling toward commercial revenue and a 50 MW first phase at Project Obsidian by 2030.
- Colin Percival launches Route 53 Files, an unofficial AWS DNS filesystem
The Tarsnap founder built a free service that lets UNIX commands edit Route 53 records, then documented the sharp edges in AWS's own voice.
- Socure raises $156M, buys Fravity to automate fraud investigations
Johnny Ayers' identity platform is valued at $5.2B as it folds two PayPal fraud veterans' investigation software into RiskOS.
- Google DeepMind pilots double-blind AI evaluations without sharing prompts or model weights
Google DeepMind says its pilot keeps external evaluation prompts and model weights private, though its first-of-its-kind claim remains independently unverified.
- HeyGen details TAVR, a video-reference system for steadier AI avatars
First disclosed on March 3rd, the production research system uses up to 48 reference frames to preserve a person's identity across new scenes.
- Mara raises $7M to make counter-drone defense as expendable as the threat
Daniel Kofman and Sriram Raghu built Spike around tiny kinetic interceptors, with company-reported tests in Army exercises and Ukraine.
- Merck co-leads Faro AI's $37.3M bet on structured clinical-trial agents
Scott Chetham built Faro after seeing static protocols slow trials; the new round funds agents that can carry study intent into downstream workflows.
- Z.ai will release GLM-5.3 weights on August 28th after safety delay
The Tsinghua-born AI lab held back the coding model's checkpoints for two weeks after its cyber capabilities grew faster than expected.
- xAI puts Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry after AWS and Google Cloud
The public preview gives Azure customers access to Grok 4.6 with a 500,000-token context window, extending xAI's multi-cloud distribution push.
- Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, report says
The deal gives Nvidia control of a central open-model distribution layer at roughly 86 times Hugging Face's annualized revenue.
- Claude Opus 5 (Fast) tops Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark
In a 50-task run of Newsroom Reliability v0.2, Claude Opus 5 (Fast) led the field with a 0.73 score at $0.0460 per task. GLM 5.3 Flash, Gemini 3.7 Flash, and Qwen3.8 Flash followed at 0.69, each at substantially lower cost.