Dr. Dre said Box is the most-used app on his phone and where his team listens to all music in progress, prompting Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie to joke on X, "I'm good to retire now." The endorse…
OpenCode reported that users processed 26 trillion tokens through the anonymous AI model Ox Alpha during its first four days, reaching 327,000 unique users and 8,328,244 completed sessions, making it …
MiniMax, founded by Yan Junjie, is offering 14 days of unlimited access to four models—M3, M2.7, Speech 2.8, and Music 3.0—through GMI Cloud, with the promotion running through September 6. The deal g…
Mundo AI, a Vancouver-based AI data company, announced on August 24th that it raised a $20 million Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Next Frontier Ventures, an…
Perplexity has hired Andrew Gordon Wilson, a professor of computer science and data science at New York University, as its research lead, focusing on continual learning, agent collaboration, and open …
DeepCura launched its Electronic Health Workforce (EHW) on August 24, expanding from ambient documentation into a supervised AI workforce for medical practices, with pricing starting at $129 per provi…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Monday that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models are generally available through Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud US-East and US-West regions, giving government cus…
Adesh Nalpet Adimurthy, a Toronto-based founding engineer at Y Combinator-backed Terminal, has open-sourced PicoMQ, an Apache-2.0 server that provides durable, real-time HTTP streams with every record…
Thomson Reuters launched Thomson on August 24, its first proprietary large language model, a $40 million investment covering talent and compute, built on the open-weight Snowdon foundation model and t…
Integrate, the Seattle defense-software company co-founded by John Conafay, announced on August 24 a new U.S. Space Force contract with the Space Systems Integration Office (SSIO) and a $6 million deb…
Shipyard, the independent maintainer of core IPFS software and public infrastructure, will wind down its operations on September 30th after Protocol Labs declined to renew funding, co-founders Cameron…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, is negotiating a new financing round at a reported $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to TechCrunch, just 60 days after announcing a $320 million Ser…
Cognition, the maker of the AI coding agent Devin, has opened alpha access to Devin Outposts on Modal, a feature that moves code execution onto customer-controlled infrastructure while keeping Devin's…
Caddi, a Seattle-based software company, launched an AI agent on August 24 that discovers repetitive back-office processes, learns how employees handle them, and builds specialized agents under centra…
EverestLabs launched Navigator, an agentic AI platform for materials recovery facilities, on August 24, moving beyond robotic sorters to coordinate entire recycling plants. Founder JD Ambati's system …
Zide opened the public beta of its native AI development workspace on August 24, integrating code editing, Git, issues, pull requests, continuous integration, terminals, worktrees, and AI agents into …
VIDRAFT, led by CEO Min-sik Kim, launched FINCHAL, a 122-day financial forecasting contest ending December 24, that lets AI agents trade via an MCP interface and compares their returns against 20,000 …
Researcher chkn little reported a 90% held-out trigger rate in a simulated test combining a custom LoRA adapter trained on Qwen 3.5 2B with OpenCode's auto-approved command path, where a September 1, …
OpenAI is testing an undocumented fallback tier called Luna Reserve for its Codex coding agent, which switches eligible Plus and Pro users to a separate gpt-reserve model after their advanced-model al…
Nous Research pitched its Hermes Agent as a control plane that users should own, arguing the durable asset is the harness rather than any single model. The MIT-licensed, self-hosted runtime, released …