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- Megaport's $594 million raise puts a price on AI inference infrastructure
Reuters reported the Australian network infrastructure company signed about $329 million of AI contracts and plans an underwritten equity raise to fund GPUs, storage and connectivity.
- Genomi gives AI agents a local database for personal genome questions
The open-source project parses raw DNA files into a local database instead of sending genetic data into a model context window.
- Neuracle's NEO brain implant wins China approval before Neuralink
The Shanghai startup's device is cleared only for a narrow group of spinal cord injury patients, but it moves invasive BCIs past trials.
- We Stress-Tested Microsoft's New Image Model Against OpenAI and Google. The Results Were Clear.
RuntimeWire prompts found OpenAI strongest for dashboard text and Google strongest for web layouts, while Microsoft excelled at photoreal spaces.
- DigitalOcean says it is now an OpenRouter AI model provider
The cloud provider says DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 Flash are available, but pricing and hosting details are not disclosed.
- Cognition turns Windsurf into Devin Desktop, a command center for coding agents
The new desktop app adds a Kanban-style agent manager, Spaces for shared context, ACP support for third-party agents and a Rust rewrite of Cognition's local agent.
- Microsoft's MAI Thinking 1 surfaces in a 109-page technical report, ML nerds geek out
A Microsoft-hosted PDF is circulating, but public details on access, pricing, and deployment are not established in the thread.
- Microsoft AI launches seven-model MAI family as Suleyman pushes in-house frontier lab
Microsoft AI says the lineup spans reasoning, coding, image, transcription and voice, with MAI-Thinking-1 matching leading software engineering benchmarks and reaching preference parity with Sonnet 4.6.
- Public.com Lets AI Agents Automate Bank Transfers
The New York investing platform says users can now create plain-English automations that move cash between connected bank accounts and brokerage accounts.
- The Era of Slow, Awkward Humanoid Robots Is Ending
A short X video shows the robot upgrade, but DEEP Robotics did not publish payload numbers, pricing or deployment details.
- Finbarr Timbers Says He Is Leaving Ai2 After Open-Model Work
The AI researcher and investor, whose work spans reinforcement learning, game AI and generative models, praised Ai2's open-model push but did not name his next role.
- Factory launches Router to pick cheaper AI models for coding tasks
Factory says Router is in private research preview and matched most of Opus 4.7's benchmark pass rate at 20% to 25% lower cost.
- Goodfire AI says it raised $150 million to make LLM internals auditable
The Series B is said to value Goodfire AI at $1.25 billion, though investors and valuation terms were not disclosed in the supplied materials.
- Dashlane says attackers stole some customers' encrypted password vaults
Dashlane says about 20 accounts were accessed after attackers brute-forced 2FA to register new devices and download vaults.
- Focused Energy raises $240M Series A for laser fusion
RWE was the main investor as Thomas Forner and Markus Roth aim to turn direct-drive laser fusion into grid power, with a first grid MWh targeted for 2037.
- Opal Electronics turns from webcams to AI audio with OpenAI cash
WIRED reports OpenAI put $40 million into Opal, which is now preparing an AI audio device rather than another phone replacement.
- FutureHouse and Google DeepMind AI agents reportedly reach Nature with drug-discovery work
The claim points to a higher bar for lab agents, but the cited post omits the papers, candidates, and human-supervision details.
- Pacific Fusion tests a 440-gigawatt pulse on the road to a demo plant
The 440-gigawatt burst unlocked part of a $1B-plus Series A, but Pacific Fusion still has to scale the pulser before its demo plant.
- Tilt raises $26 million to build AI tools for live auctions
The London startup founded by two ex-Revolut employees says Snap can turn a product shown on camera into a listing in seconds.
- Jed McCaleb's Vast Space eyes Europe with French astronaut missions
The Long Beach aerospace company is leaning on Europe as a proving ground for McCaleb's post-crypto bet on private space stations.
- LanceDB says NVIDIA used Lance datasets to curate Cosmos 3 training data
NVIDIA's report describes Cosmos 3 as an omnimodal model family; LanceDB's claim ties the release to training-data infrastructure.
- QuarqLabs says its open-source agent scored 98.2% on LongMemEval-S
Quarq Agent uses local FAISS storage, layered memory and three separate LLM roles to tackle long-context recall.
- Debug pitches sterile male mosquitoes as a chemical-free attack on dengue carriers
The project says its Wolbachia-carrying males cannot bite and cannot produce offspring with wild females; its public pages do not detail field results or funding.
- Ethan Thornton's Mach Industries raises $300M at $1.8B valuation
The 22-year-old founder's defense startup nearly quadrupled its valuation in a year as investors crowd into autonomous weapons.