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Google says its latest speech-to-text model handles structured strings, filler removal, formatting and custom vocabulary, while pricing and the access path remain undisclosed.

Blackroot's new guide translates a January architecture that trades some MoE experts for hashed N-gram embeddings.

Anna Marie Wagner and Renee Wegrzyn's startup aims to turn tacit laboratory know-how into data that scientists, software and robots can use.

TQ Ventures led the Series A, with Benchmark, Nexus, Atreides, South Park Commons and Zscaler backing former Google employees Drishan Arora and Dhruv Malrana.

An SEC filing shows 18 investors backed the equity offering, which includes converted securities and leaves $3.2M still available.

Risklytics, the YC-backed brokerage, uses AI for intake, then puts licensed humans between frontier-tech founders and policy forms.

The same-day follow-up puts Qwen's new model on QwenCloud with a default 1-million-token context and OpenAI and Anthropic API compatibility.

Cuberg founder Richard Wang plans 2027 pilots for a system that turns scrap aluminum into firm onsite power without combustion.

The former Meta researchers behind Isaac 0.5 are betting one model can handle perception, reasoning and control without a stack of specialized systems.

Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures backed Praneet Sharma, Grace Johnson and Toby O'Brien as Oliver AI tests its performance case against internal benchmarks.

Costanoa led the round, with Flare and CVS Health Ventures joining as Akshay Agarwal expands the platform beyond manual payer reviews.

Customers get Reuters journalism dating to 1987 in five languages, while pricing and permitted model-training uses remain undisclosed.

The deal is expected to close in early September, bringing DuckLabs' Amsterdam team into AWS while the DuckDB Foundation continues to steward the MIT-licensed projects.

General Catalyst led Arga's seed round for Phillip Li and Akira Tong's four-person operation, which builds stateful replicas of business software.

Bose veterans Mehul Trivedi and Steve Romine plan a fall launch through selected eye-care providers, betting eyewear can normalize hearing support.

The Beijing lab told Bloomberg it built the anonymous coding model and planned to release its weights on August 26th.

Reuters reports that Yang Zhilin's Beijing lab is seeking a share of K3-related service revenue as it turns a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model into an enterprise cloud offering.

The 27-billion-parameter open-weight model ranks seventh overall in a human-preference test of visual web development, a useful result that says little about production code quality.

Uber's rollout uses the driver's front-facing phone camera, alerts the teen and driver when viewing starts, and normally deletes encrypted footage after 14 days unless it is attached to a safety report.

The software push makes Quest more computer-like as VR shipments shrink and Reality Labs keeps burning billions.

ModelBest's Pinea Pi pairs local MiniCPM models with Intel or Nvidia compute and integrated sensors ahead of a planned Kickstarter campaign.

Maverick Silicon solely funded the Series B, one year after its $20M Series A, as Celera expands engineering in California and Portugal.

Thinking Machines Lab will subsidize outside safety work on Inkling, although it has not disclosed the program's budget or number of awards.

The national security reporter paid $14,400 before a judge paused sanctions while the justices consider her petition.