Noah Shinn's AI assistant startup Instinct is in talks to raise at least $200 million at a valuation above $2.5 billion, according to Forbes, four months after the former Sierra researcher founded the…
X1, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Manil Lakabi, launched an AI app builder on August 26 that guides users from idea to App Store submission by asking questions and planning before writing c…
Perplexity launched Portable Computer on August 25, moving its Computer agent to run fully local on Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop, which costs $4,699, with zero per-token costs for local jobs. The initia…
Google released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on August 26th, a speech-to-text model for live and recorded audio that handles 85+ languages, custom vocabulary, and up to three speakers, with streaming and non…
Anthropic has opened a controlled route for outside researchers to study how people use Claude, giving Stanford University, Oxford University and METR aggregated findings from about 750,000 conversati…
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on Aug. 26 as its latest speech-to-text model, claiming improved accuracy for structured strings like phone numbers and postal codes, filler removal, fo…
Hugging Face contributor Blackroot published an explainer on August 26th detailing DeepSeek's Engram architecture, which uses hashed N-gram lookup tables to store recurring language patterns, reducing…
Transfyr launched on August 26 with $25 million in seed funding to capture hands-on laboratory work and convert it into machine-readable data for AI and robots. General Catalyst led the round, with pa…
Deep Cogito raised $43 million in a Series A round led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons, and Zscaler, to build special…
Noteworthy AI, founded by CEO Christopher Ricciuti, raised $15,009,995 in an equity offering, according to an SEC Form D filed August 26, with 18 investors and a target of $18,234,987, leaving $3,224,…
On August 13th, Samuel Gold and Alexander Risio launched Risklytics, a San Francisco commercial insurance brokerage for companies deploying AI agents and autonomous systems, with backing from Y Combin…
Alibaba's Qwen organization activated the Qwen3.8-Flash API on QwenCloud on August 26, 2026, pricing it at $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens with a default 1-million-t…
Perceptron, a $21 million startup founded by former Meta researchers Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, released Isaac 0.5, an open-weight model designed to handle perception, reasoning, and con…
Oliver AI, founded by Praneet Sharma, Grace Johnson, and Toby O'Brien, has raised an undisclosed pre-seed round from Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures to build an analytical database for AI agents. …
Onos Health, a San Francisco-based company, raised $17 million in Series A funding led by Costanoa, with participation from Flare Capital Partners and a strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures, …
Reuters made its news and multimedia archive available through Snowflake Marketplace on August 26, giving enterprises a licensed route to use Reuters journalism dating to 1987 in five languages for AI…
Arga, a San Francisco developer-tools startup founded by Phillip Li and Akira Tong, raised $10 million in a seed round led by General Catalyst, with participation from BoxGroup, Emergence, Gradient, a…
Legato, a hearing-tech startup founded by Bose veterans Mehul Trivedi and Steve Romine, emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding to launch Legato Frames, glasses that function as over-the-coun…
Z.AI, the Beijing AI lab co-founded by Zhang Peng, confirmed to Bloomberg on August 26 that the anonymous Ox Alpha model is a new iteration of its GLM series and plans to release its weights that nigh…
Moonshot AI is negotiating with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to earn up to 30% of revenue from Kimi K3 services sold through Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, according to Reuters. The talks, which may e…