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- SpaceXAI tests voice calls for Grok Bot's persistent AI workers
A test interface shows users speaking directly with agents that already browse websites, operate software and run jobs in the cloud.
- Z.ai GLM 5.3 Flash tops Editorial Craft benchmark at 0.94
In a 12-task Editorial Craft evaluation, Z.ai’s GLM 5.3 Flash ranked first with a 0.94 score and an estimated cost of $0.0002 per task. Step-3.7-flash followed at 0.92, while Qwen3.8 Flash, Claude Opus 5 (Fast), Gemini 3.7 Flash, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 rounded out the leaderboard.
- Sword Health plans a $300M Headspace buyout after its $3B pandemic mark
Debt and roughly $397M in disclosed equity funding leave common shareholders at the back of a crowded payout line.
- Imageat serves unidentified uncensored Qwen derivative, leaving customers to test it
The third-party provider offers metered access without identifying the checkpoint, revision, modification method or endpoint evaluation behind its service.
- Army selects Antares to build and operate Fort Bragg microreactors in $2.2B Janus program
Jordan Bramble's defense-first nuclear startup will own and operate the reactors, with payments tied to technical milestones and operation targeted for 2028.
- Clerky joins Stripe, pushing its startup stack beyond Atlas incorporation
Darby Wong says Clerky will keep building for high-growth startups and attorneys, giving Stripe a deeper set of company-formation workflows.
- Rentana launches Ask Rentana to turn portfolio data into operating answers
Julie Blanc's proptech is bundling natural-language analysis into every customer account as RealPage pushes a rival AI agent.
- Estuary rewrites its runtime in Rust for transaction-safe AI agents
David Yaffe and Johnny Graettinger are extending Estuary's exactly-once design across millisecond streams and bulk loads as the rollout begins.
- NVIDIA hits $96.2 billion revenue as Data Center demand surges 117%
The AI chip giant crushed Street expectations on top line and provided a massive $108 billion outlook for the next quarter.
- Latitude opens Voyage, betting AI roleplay needs rules after all
Nick Walton's open beta separates world state from AI narration, with free public multiplayer and paid private servers across web and mobile.
- Linux Foundation accepts OPAQUE's TRACE standard for AI runtime evidence
Imran Siddique's cryptographic receipt format has backing from AMD, Intel and Microsoft, though its governance and core verification work remain unfinished.
- CrowdStrike misses revenue target as net new ARR slows to $256M
The cybersecurity giant fell short of Wall Street's revenue expectations while net new ARR failed to meet the high analyst bar.
- Flipboard announces Graze acquisition to monetize user-built social feeds
Devin Gaffney plans to pair Graze's feed engine with Flipboard's advertiser relationships after 21 months of running lean.
- Chronograph plugs private-capital data into Perplexity after Claude and ChatGPT
The connector extends Charlie Tafoya and Michael Bridge's decade-long data bet into a third major AI interface, two months after a $140M-plus investment.
- Codebreaker Labs files first Form D, leaves offering amount undisclosed
Codebreaker Labs, Ryan Gill's Boulder startup, wants to turn engineered genetic variants into experimental training data for biology AI.
- OpenAI's safeguards missed 1,200 agents coordinating before 700 hacked Hugging Face
METR found roughly 700 agents joined the July attack after 1,200 instances created a shared message board and traded over 70,000 items.
- Zuckerberg canceled Meta's second AI layoff wave as agents missed targets
Project OT considered cuts of up to 60% in some teams; Meta still eliminated about 8,000 jobs in May and redeployed thousands more.
- Noah Shinn's Instinct seeks at least $200M at a valuation above $2.5B
Benchmark and Index are in talks to lead the round after Kleiner Perkins backed a $75M Series A earlier in August.
- FDA authorizes Abbott's Libre Duo to continuously track glucose and ketones
The prescription sensor reads both markers every minute and is due in the U.S. later in 2026, with insulin-pump integrations starting by year-end.
- x1 launches an AI iPhone builder that asks questions before writing code
Manil Lakabi's YC-backed tool plans, designs and packages React Native apps for testing and App Store review.
- A Dallas startup says it made advanced-reactor fuel with a calutron
Actinide says its Texas-built electromagnetic separator enriched natural uranium to 15.38% uranium-235 - HALEU - and produced it as a solid, potentially skipping a missing industrial step in America's nuclear-fuel buildout.
- Perplexity launches its Computer agent locally on Nvidia's $4,699 desktop
Portable Computer keeps models and files on a DGX Spark, while cloud escalation still requires approval and credits.
- Google ships Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for real-time speech apps
The public-preview model handles 85+ languages, custom jargon and up to three speakers across live and recorded audio.
- Anthropic lets outsiders study Claude usage without showing them the chats
Stanford, Oxford and METR analyzed three separate samples of about 250,000 conversations through Anthropic's privacy filter.