MicroRefrigeration, a Gilroy, California-based startup founded by manufacturing executive Nick Littleton, has raised $4.07 million of a $4.5 million target from seven accredited investors for its AI c…
Cua released an open-source Metal capability layer on August 11th that accelerates llama.cpp inference inside Apple Silicon macOS virtual machines, reporting prompt-processing gains up to 11.08x and t…
Open-weight models accounted for 53.9% of token volume routed through Vercel AI Gateway on August 11th, surpassing closed-weight models at 46.1%, according to data highlighted by Vercel CEO Guillermo …
Silicon Data, founded by former Bloomberg and DRW executive Carmen Li, raised a $30.5 million initial Series A closing led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Group, DRW, F-Prime, S…
Junyang Lin, former technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen model family, launched Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai on Tuesday to research AI agents operating across software and the physical world. HSG and Gaoron…
Spotify launched Xirp on August 10th, an agentic development environment that orchestrates AI coding agents across models, repositories, and parallel sessions without model lock-in. Spotify's head of …
Mistral AI co-founders Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothee Lacroix launched a coalition on August 11 to aggregate multi-year demand for European AI compute, offering participants European Co…
Ngrok published an interactive guide on August 11 linking LLM prediction to compression, showing how prediction quality determines the bits needed to encode data. Written by developer educator Annie S…
SpaceX, in an employee address posted on X on August 11th, framed making life multiplanetary and understanding the universe as its next challenge, integrating its AI ventures like xAI and Grok into it…
CoreWeave, led by CEO Michael Intrator, reported $2.58 billion in second-quarter revenue on August 11, a 112% increase from a year earlier, surpassing the $2.56 billion consensus estimate, while posti…
Kikitora, a San Francisco company founded by technical artist Astrid Wilde, has raised $19.7 million in a securities offering to 43 accredited investors, according to a Form D filed with the U.S. Secu…
Firefly Aerospace reported record second-quarter 2026 revenue of $117.7 million, up 45.5% sequentially and beating estimates by 34%, while maintaining full-year guidance of $420 million to $450 millio…
OpenAI launched a preview of its ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Tuesday, August 11th, extending ChatGPT, Work, and Codex to Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43 and 44. The release c…
Microsoft released MAI-Code-1.1-Flash on August 11th and put the coding model into production in GitHub Copilot, replacing the first version of its in-house coding model just 10 weeks after launch. Th…
RuntimeWire launched RuntimeWire Investigations on August 11, a dedicated section for original reporting on startup and AI companies, founders and investors, featuring exclusives built from documents,…
Researchers Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, and Ilia Shumailov found a way to recover encrypted reasoning from models by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, as detailed in a paper posted on August 10th.…
Unsloth AI released a native desktop app on Tuesday, August 11th, 2026, that packages its local model training and inference software for Mac, Windows, and Linux, claiming it is the first desktop app …
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on August 11, an open-weight reasoning model with 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active per token, designed to run agent workloads on a single Nvidia …
Cursor and SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot on August 11th, extending Cursor's agent technology from software development into sales, support, recruiting, finance and other computer-based work. The early be…
Manus, the AI agent company founded by Xiao Hong, is advising affected users to back up data generated on or after December 29, 2025, before it deletes the data during a two-day window later this mont…