Taste Labs founder Thais Castello Branco launched a Brand API on September 15th that gives generative AI agents a structured way to extract, search and verify visual identity, with the extraction endp…
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15th, two audio-to-audio models for voice agents that can process visual input, reason and call external t…
Lexius, a San Francisco startup founded by David Elskamp and Liam Webster and listed in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, has narrowed its camera-AI pitch to checkout loss software that matches existi…
Formas will open selective preview access on September 18th for Cartesian, a product that turns prompts, sketches, photographs and plans into editable 3D models for architecture and product design, wi…
Anthropic launched Salesforce in Claude on September 15th, a beta integration that gives its AI assistant access to Salesforce accounts, opportunities and pipeline data while keeping Salesforce as the…
Cloudflare launched Disallow AI Training on September 15th, 2026, a setting that lets website owners publish a no-training preference in robots.txt while keeping Applebot, Googlebot and Bingbot availa…
Therna Biosciences released Chronos on September 15, a public dataset measuring tens of thousands of synthetic genes and messenger RNAs across 50 human cell lines, with two modules, Penta-47x27K and T…
OpenAI named Telon, the legal AI services company founded by Lewis Bretts and Tom Mellor, a "select partner" three months after Telon's June 11th launch, Business Insider reported. Telon has grown fro…
Researchers Xianming Li, Zongxi Li and Tsz-fung Andrew Lee merged ShadowPEFT into the main branch of Hugging Face's PEFT library, adding a stateful shadow network that can be detached with unload_shad…
A calculator built by Sunk Cost estimates that a $3,499 Apple M5 Max Mac Studio with 64 GB of unified memory running Alibaba's quantized Qwen3.8 27B model would need 44 years to break even against hos…
Ron Conway's SV Angel launched Project Blueprint on Monday, an AI policy initiative led by former Obama press secretary Jay Carney to rebuild ties between AI executives and Democratic lawmakers ahead …
Aside, the Y Combinator-backed agentic browser from founders Jun Kim, Chanhee Lee and Sanghun Lee, released a Windows version on September 14th, extending a product that launched on macOS on June 23rd…
Anthropic says Claude now authors roughly 80% of the code merged into its repositories, with test counts up 10x and continuous-integration job volume up 25x in six months, according to a September 14 …
Cline founder Saoud Rizwan launched Cline Desktop, a standalone beta coding agent for macOS and Windows, on September 14th, giving the open-source tool its own interface outside an IDE with support fo…
SealGate founder Eito Miyamura used the London-based AI security startup's open-source Android client to route Grok commands through the Model Context Protocol to a Flipper Zero, demonstrating infrare…
Maxime De Greve, a designer on GitHub's Copilot team, published a browser experiment called Octoglow on September 14th that replaces QR codes with an animated particle cloud encoding a six-digit code …
Perplexity released Portable Computer, its local AI agent, for Windows PCs equipped with NVIDIA RTX GPUs on September 14th, requiring at least 24GB of video memory for on-device inference, according t…
Reward AI, a Stanford robotics spinout founded by Zipeng Fu and Chen Wang, launched OM-1 on September 14th, a robot foundation model the company says controls tabletop arms, industrial systems and hum…
Andriy Mulyar, founder and CEO of Nomic, alleged in a four-post thread on X on September 14th that startups tied to OpenAI, Anthropic and Y Combinator are reselling frontier-model traces to unidentifi…
Andon Labs released Pion on September 14, opening its internal agent platform to outside operators who want an AI agent to run an entire business, with a waitlist and revenue-share economics. Pion giv…