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- Retro raises more than $21M in Series A financing, according to TechCrunch
An SEC filing reports a $21,999,978 offering for Lone Palm Labs; TechCrunch identifies the financing as Retro's Series A and says it closed in December.
- a16z puts $1.1B behind AI's physical bottlenecks
Ben Horowitz and four fellow investors presented the fund, while a16z separately named Guido Appenzeller, Shangda Xu and Erin Price-Wright among its hardware specialists.
- SubSmith turns local videos into language lessons for $15 a year
Birmingham solo founder Ibrahim Farah built the desktop app around local Whisper transcription, editable subtitles and one-click Anki exports.
- Owner raises $240M to bring its restaurant AI platform to local businesses
Owner says Goldman Sachs Alternatives led its Series D, valuing the platform at $2.3B.
- xTool unveils X1 for five laser types, keeps price to itself
Makeblock founder and CEO Jasen Wang is betting that one expandable chassis can cover cutting, engraving and metal marking, though xTool has yet to disclose final specifications, pricing or a shipping date.
- Town seeks a $1B valuation two months after its $55M Series A
Index Ventures is leading the talks, putting the firm behind both Town and Instinct as investors crowd into personal AI agents.
- Amap ships ABot-Recon to rebuild 10,000-frame scenes through a 12-frame window
Alibaba's mapping lab open-sourced inference code and weights, though its 24.45 FPS result came from an H100, not the GTX 1080 Ti invoked in the release.
- IndexFlow opens its Rust SEO core ahead of a commercial platform
Wu Jian, an associate professor in Nanjing, has published two Rust crates while the broader indexing workflow remains under construction.
- IBM brings its US Open AI demo back to Madison Square Park
The free September 10th-13th event pairs match screenings with a serve simulator, AI-generated ping-pong recaps and a photobooth beside IBM's Manhattan office.
- Meta adds eight hip-hop tracks to Beat Saber after cutting entry price
The $10.99 pack extends the music catalog built around the slicing mechanic Jan Ilavsky and Vladimir Hrincar prototyped in 2016.
- Thinking Machines' ReViSQL-K2.6 scores 91.37% on cleaned SQL benchmark
ReViSQL-K2.6 reached 88.55% with greedy decoding and 91.37% with 16-sample self-consistency on the corrected Arcwise-Plat-SQL benchmark.
- Anthropic wins order lifting federal ban on its technology
Judge Rita F. Lin ordered the administration to lift its ban on Anthropic technology after finding the exclusion inadequately justified, Bloomberg reported.
- 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.